Look out Jennifer Lopez - there's a new actress-turned-singer in town. Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow is officially a recording artist.
Brad Pitt's ex and Ben Affleck's occasional flame has cut three songs for the soundtrack of her next movie, Duets, in which she plays an amateur singer competing in a national karaokecontest. Her father, Bruce, wrote and directed the film.
Though she has never taken a voice lesson in her life, Paltrow says she has been singing duets with her mother, actress Blythe Danner, since childhood.
"My mother and I would always sing and harmonise together. I was like 3 years old, imitating her jazz-singer way."
For the film, the 27-year-old star does a sultry rendition of Smokey Robinson's Cruisin', the Temptations classic Just My Imagination and a version of Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes.
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His film career might have screeched to a halt five years ago, but the laughs keep coming for ageing comic Jerry Lewis. The 74-year-old funnyman has signed a 20-year contract (yes, 20) with the Orleans hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
At a news conference, Lewis joked that the contract comes "with the provision that when I'm 94 I can work with a walker."
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After four months, Billy Joel and girlfriend Trish Bergin are calling it quits. Friends of Bergin, 29, a reporter-anchor for a Long Island news show, said it was her idea to leave the Piano Man.
"She wanted to be alone for a while," one source told the New York Post. "It has been a difficult year and she needs time by herself. It just wasn't working out."
Though Joel, 51, and Bergin just returned from a romantic trip to northern Italy, his rep confirmed, "They are no longer dating."
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Posh Spice Victoria Beckham has admitted it's a game of two halves when she and footballer husband David want to hear music - they can never agree on what to play.
The 26-year-old singer said that, while Manchester United ace David chooses heavy underground gangsta rap, she prefers listening to country and western.
