Meg Ryan will be a presenter at the 75th annual Academy Awards.

It will be the second Oscar show appearance for the actress whose film credits include Hanging Up and You've Got Mail.

Two films starring Ryan - Against the Ropes and In the Cut - are due for release later this year.

The awards ceremony will take place at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre on Sunday 23 March.

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US Pop Idol contestant kicked off show

A finalist on hit US reality show American Idol has been kicked off the programme after it was found she posed topless on a porn website which claimed to feature underage girls.

Frenchie Davis, 23, had been tipped as a possible winner of the TV talent quiz, based on the British Pop Idol format.

"Issues arose from her background check that the producers and the network felt forced them to disqualify her," a Fox spokesman.

Viewers will see her replaced by an alternative contestant from 25 February.

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Baxendale may 'quit acting'

Cold Feet star Helen Baxendale says she is considering quitting acting to devote more time to her family.

The 33-year-old, who starred in Friends in 1997 as Ross' girlfriend Emily, says she has reached "an impasse" in her career after finishing filming the final series of Cold Feet.

She says being an actress keeps her away from home and her two children Eric, 18 months, and Nell, four, she has by partner David Elliot.

"I really don't feel much of a pull to go back to work," she told Now magazine.

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Berlinale honours French star Aimee

French movie legend Anouk Aimee is being honoured on Thursday by the Berlin Film Festival for a career which has spanned 70 films and more than a half-century.

Festival director Dieter Kosslick said the 70-year-old merited an honorary Golden Bear for being "one of the great European stars to whom we owe so many unforgettable moments on the screen".

Born into a French theatrical family, Anouk is most well-known for her roles in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2.

US director Robert Altman gave her a role in his 1994 satire Fashion satire Pret A Porter.

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Coogan set for Hollywood

Comedian Steve Coogan is to play adventurer Phileas Fogg for a remake of Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, it has emerged.

The Alan Partridge star - who recently revived his Paul and Pauline Calf characters for the launch of the BBC Three channel - is to begin filming next month.

Action star Jackie Chan features alongside Coogan as sidekick Passepartout.

The role of Fogg was made famous by David Niven in the 1956 Oscar-winning film. It also starred Sir John Gielgud, Noel Coward and Shirley MacLaine.