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Last Updated: Monday, 12 May, 2003, 16:12 GMT 17:12 UK
Douglases 'set for West End'

Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones are to star together in a London production of Private Lives, it has been reported in the US.

The Hollywood couple will appear in a West End version of the Noel Coward play next year, according to Newsday.

They will play divorcees who are reunited while honeymooning in the same hotel with their new spouses.

The couple, who married in 2000 have previously worked together in the film Traffic, and they recently announced their second joint film project, the Stephen Frears-directed Monkeyface, which will start filming this autumn.


Model wins US Survivor

Model Jenna Morasca has become the surprise $1m winner of US TV's Survivor reality adventure show.

Morasca, 21, from Pittsburgh, was declared winner over Matthew Von Ertfelda, 33, in a 6-1 vote by a jury of former Survivor castaways.

She beat 15 competitors in the 39-day competition, filmed last autumn in the remote Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Morasca's victory was something of an upset. She was the youngest contestant and had gained an image of being spoiled and lazy.


Tonight Show stint for Today host

US daytime TV presenter Katie Couric will become the first person to guest-host Jay Leno's The Tonight Show when she takes over for one night on Monday.

In turn, Leno is swapping places with Couric to co-present NBC's morning news programme Today.

Couric will deliver Tonight's regular monologue and interview guests including actor Mike Myers and American Idol judge Simon Cowell.

The show will end with a performance by singer Robbie Williams.


Bumfights producers plead guilty

Three men have pleaded guilty to paying homeless men to be filmed fighting each other for the controversial Bumfights video.

Ryan McPherson, 19, Daniel Tanner, 21, and Zachary Bubeck, 24, face up to a year in jail.

A fourth defendant, 21-year-old Michael Slyman, pleaded guilty to the same charge of conspiracy to promote illegal fighting in March and is expected to be sentenced next week.

More than 300,000 copies of the video - for which homeless people fought in exchange for money, food and alcohol - have been sold over the internet for $20 (�12.50) each.


Bond voted top action hero

James Bond has emerged victorious in a battle with Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to be voted the best action hero of all time.

Bond, whose 20th movie was released in 2002, came top of the poll for a new BBC magazine, Action Hero.

Two stars of other blockbuster films, Superman and Spider-Man, were in second and third places respectively.

Robin Hood, Thunderbirds, Flash Gordon, Captain Scarlet, Zorro and the Incredible Hulk made up the rest of the top 10.





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