Hollywood action man Steven Seagal is to take part in a new reality series which will chronicle his little-known role as a police officer in Louisiana.

The Under Siege star has been a fully commissioned deputy at the state’s Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office for the last 20 years.

As well as going out on patrol, Seagal is said to be an expert marksman, working with the force’s SWAT team, and has instructed officers in firearms and hand-to-hand combat.

Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is so determined to stay in character for his upcoming role in Nine - he can’t stop speaking Italian.

The Oscar-winner plays lady-loving director Guido Contini in the movie musical, opposite a star-studded cast including Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penelope Cruz.

And he’s left his famous co-stars tongue tied, refusing to speak anything but his character’s native language to those on set.

Ben Stiller was left red-faced at a celebrity roast in New York this week - when Robert De Niro told the A-list crowd the comedy star has a small penis.

De Niro, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Tom Cruise, Mike Myers and Judd Apatow all paid mocking tribute to the actor/director at the Museum of Moving Image on Wednesday night.

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is set to shock movie audiences once again after lining-up a pair of porn stars to appear alongside his fictional alter-ego Bruno in a new film.

The British funnyman is currently filming scenes for his new movie Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt - in which he plays a flamboyant Austrian fashion journalist.

Funnyman Rob Schneider has pulled the plug on his hilarious Deuce Bigalow movies, insisting there won’t be a third film.

The comic played the unlikely gigolo in two movies, but now insists the franchise is “done”.

Actor Josh Brolin sparred with his liberal step-mother Barbra Streisand - when she protested his role in new George W Bush biopic W.

The singer has been an outspoken opponent of Bush throughout his two terms in the White House.

And according to Brolin, Streisand freaked out when he told her he would be playing him in Oliver Stone’s movie.

Roman Polanski will be honoured at this month’s Turin Film Festival in Italy.

The event will feature a full retrospective of the Oscar winning filmmaker, including screenings of his movies and Marina Zenovich’s documentary about his 1977 statutory rape case, entitled Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.

Polanski will introduce the tribute, and meet with Zenovich for the first time at the event.

The 26th annual festival will run from 21-29 November.

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein is confident of legal victory if singer Sam Moore goes through with his threat of a lawsuit over new movie Soul Men - because he insists the film is not based on the legendary star’s life.

Soul Men stars Samuel L. Jackson and late comedian Bernie Mac as an estranged R+B duo who plot their chart comeback.