Driver, 33, is talking to US label Rounder Records about releasing it, a Rounder spokesman said.

The actress, who also starred in Grosse Pointe Blank and Hope Springs, was in Nashville recently at the CMTV Flame Worthy Video Music Awards.

She has apparently described the record as an "alternative country" album.

Lennon musical 'opens next year'

A musical based on the life of Beatle John Lennon will open on Broadway next year, it is reported.

The play, Lennon, follows the songwriter's life from growing up in working class Merseyside to his assassination in New York in 1980.

The musical has the blessing of Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, and will use songs he wrote as a solo artist.

Trade daily Variety said the show will open in San Francisco on 1 February before moving to New York a week later.

Radiohead top best concert poll

Radiohead's appeareance at Glastonbury in 1997 has been voted the top gig of all time by rock magazine Q.

It beat Nirvana's appearance at Reading in 1992 and Oasis' 1996 Knebworth shows into second and third place.

Q readers and writers rated Coldplay's show at V2003 in Staffordshire as the fourth-best, while Brian Wilson's recent London show came fifth.

The top 10 of shows in the UK and Ireland also included performances by Madonna, REM, Queen and Pink Floyd.

Spielberg film to show at Venice

Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal, about a would-be immigrant trapped by bureaucracy at a New York airport, will open September's Venice Film Festival.

Festival director Marco Mueller announced his plans for the event on Wednesday, a month after he took up the post as head of the Italian event.

He promised several world premieres of US and Japanese films, and a new season of cinema from around the world.

Mr Mueller said he also wanted to attract more young people to the event.

Blake witness 'cannot be quizzed'

The judge in the Robert Blake murder trial has told prosecutors they cannot question an elderly witness under oath in case he dies before the trial opens.

The witness, former police officer and private detective William Jordan, 77, reportedly investigated Mr Blake's wife, Bonny Bakley, for the actor.

Mr Blake has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife, who was shot in Los Angeles in May 2001.