Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson says her 22-year-old adopted Rwandan son faced "racist taunts" at Britain's Exeter University - and suggests that the mostly white school would be more suitable for the British National Party. Speaking at a campus lecture on cultural awareness, Thompson said, "You're not going to get hundreds and hundreds of black students here overnight, but what you can do is make them more comfortable." (Telegraph)
Check out what you can get on eBay for five bucks: a lost Charlie Chaplin film that could be worth up to £40,000. (Telegraph)
The Guardian has "an exclusive first listen" of Dame Shirley Bassey's first new album in two decades.
The 10 best places to get a curry in the UK. (Guardian)
Sir Paul McCartney admits The Beatles just weren't that good in 1962, two years before they reached global domination. He's quoted in today's Sun: "You'd have turned us down if you were a record company. And they did - Decca turned us down!" For more on the Beatles, including top ten lists, please visit BBCAMERICA.com's new Tunes from the Thames site.
Stephen Frears and his High Fidelity screenwriter, D.V. DeVincentis, are working on adapting yet another book for the screen. (Hollywood Reporter)
Stephen Gately's widower, Andrew Cowles, has spoken publicly for the first time since his husband's tragic death. (The Sun)
Even Britain's Prime Minister hates those damned X Factor twins. (The Sun)
Is Benny Hill too politically incorrect to get his own postage stamp? (Telegraph)
A dispute with the IRS is keeping Echo and the Bunnymen out of the States. (BBC)
Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has found a solution for all of those people offended by his politically incorrect statements on the show: "One day we'll do an episode of Top Gear in which none of us speak. It's the only way they will have nothing to complain about. I don't think I've done anything naughty this year, though, have I?" Somehow I think Clarkson could still offend someone without the benefits of spoken language. (Telegraph)
Robert Pattinson says being chased by fans "excites" him. (Digital Spy)
Hex hunk Michael Fassbender will star opposite Forest Whitaker, William H. Macy, and Thomas Haden Church in the thriller, A Single Shot. According to Variety, "Fassbender plays a poacher who finds himself on the run from a gang of hardened killers."
Gerard Butler will star in actor Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut. (Hollywood Reporter)
The Bee Gees may have been the kings of disco, but don't expect them to dance. (Telegraph)
The Beatles' 14 remastered albums will be released on apple-shaped USB sticks in December. Methinks EMI is having a laugh at Steve Jobs' expense right now. (NME)
Wayne Rooney and wife Coleen McLoughlin are the parents of new baby boy, Kai. (Daily Mail)
It doesn't matter that Sharon Osbourne's face has been 
