Fans watched as the pair put their hands and paws in cement to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the hit comedy.

Other stars of the series, including Robert Wagner, Robert Loggia, Harvey Korman and Richard Mulligan also attended the ceremony.

The original 1964 Pink Panther film starred Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau and was followed by five sequels.

Peter Sellers died in 1980 but the pink craze has continued, with a new Pink Panther movie on the cards for the year 2000.

BBC DJ escapes crash

Radio DJ Steve Wright and his six-year-old daughter escaped unhurt from their blazing car after it was hit by a motorbike.

The 44-year-old BBC Radio 2 star was forced to brake suddenly as he was driving daughter Lucy home to Henley-on-Thames.

He was hit from behind by a motorcyclist, who was catapulted into a ditch as his bike slid under the rear of the DJ's car.

Mr Wright fled the scene with his daughter just before the bike's ruptured fuel tank caused both vehicles to explode.

"I'm just grateful nobody was injured," he told The Sun newspaper.

Hopkins 'announces' return as Lecter

Sir Anthony Hopkins has reportedly let slip that he will return to the role of Dr Lecter in Hannibal, the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs.

Sources including Empire magazine claim the star broke his silence on US TV show Access Hollywood and admitted he has finally signed to do the film.

He and Lambs co-star Jodie Foster had been waiting for a new screenplay.

Hopkins says David Mamet's script is due in three weeks and Foster is to discuss her appearance after that.

'The toys are back in town' says Disney

Details of the forthcoming movie Toy Story 2 have now been released on the Disney website along with downloadable excerpts from the film.

The site says the movie sequel is about Woody (Tom Hanks) being stolen by an obsessive toy collector.

"It's now up to Buzz Lightyear to spring into action and save their pal," says the site disney.go.com.

The film is expected to be released in the UK next February.

Scorsese 'moved' by Branagh's musical

Kenneth Branagh's latest film - a musical version of Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost - won warm praise from Martin Scorsese at an LA screening.

The acclaimed Hollywood director said Branagh's use of songs by Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin in the film "really worked".

"It has the spirit of the old MGM and RKO musicals - very moving," he said.

Special praise also went to stars Alicia Silverstone and Timothy Spall.

Director accused of 'racist' hiring

Black stunt artists are calling for a boycott of Paramount productions after a white stunt coordinator was hired for its remake of the 1970s film Shaft.

They claim the decision made by producer and director John Singleton - who is also black - for the film, starring Samuel L Jackson, was racist.

Singleton has defended his actions saying he hired "the best people possible" for the film and that all decisions were based on work, not race.

Error found in Jakob film posters

Posters for Robin Williams' new film about the Holocaust are on display showing him with a five-pointed star instead of a six-pointed Star of David.

Ten thousand posters for Jakob The Liar containing the error were put up across the US before film studio Columbia realised its error.

In the movie, which opened last weekend in the US, Williams plays a Jewish cafe owner who spreads lies to boost the morale of his fellow Poles.

Sightless actor explores world on stage

Blind actor Ryan Kelly is set to star in his first professional one-man show.

The 23-year-old graduate from Bristol's Old Vic Theatre School will play the role of a 19th century sailor, James Holman, who went blind in his 20s but continued to travel the world.

Until now, the Glaswegian actor - who was born blind - has only played sighted characters.

The play, Travelling Light, opens at the Bristol Old Vic's Basement Theatre.

Sopranos star Marchand fights cancer

Actress Nancy Marchand is battling lung cancer and wants her character in The Sopranos to have the same condition.

According to the New York Post, an unnamed source says: "She and the producers have known for quite some time that she has the disease.

"Her attitude is, 'Whatever happens, use it in the show,' and I think that's the way they'll go."

Marchand, 71, was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the series. She's previously won four Emmys for Lou Grant

BBC 'devolves' Newsnight in new revamp

Newsnight is to have separate news for viewers in Scotland from Monday.

Viewers in England will see practically the same programme but for four nights a week BBC Scotland viewers will get a dedicated news segment from 2300.

Mark Thompson, BBC director of national and regional broadcasting, says now is the perfect time because of "the new reality of a devolved United Kingdom".