Screenwriter Patrick Marber says he would have preferred having advance notice of his Oscar nomination.

Marber, shortlisted for Best Adaptated Screenplay for Notes On A Scandal, is not as spontaneous as he would like to be, due to not having anybody to look after his children.

“My wife and I don’t have much time to celebrate tonight,” he said in reaction to his nomination. “It’s hard to get a babysitter on such short notice. We don’t get out much with our three kids (who are aged 1, 3 and 5).”

50 Cent producer David ‘Disco D’ Shayman committed suicide yesterday morning. He was 27.

Shayman, who collaborated with 50 Cent on the rapper’s The Massacre album, was found in his New York home.

As well as 50 Cent, Shayman, who was born in St Louis, worked with other artists including Kevin Federline and also wrote music for TV shows.

He had reportedly been suffering from manic depression and was diagnosed as bipolar.

Veteran movie composer Philip Glass is set to turn this year’s Tibet House benefit concert into a old punk reunion after asking Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Deborah Harry to join him onstage.

Glass is the artistic director of the 26 February New York concert - the 17th annual Tibet House benefit.

Proceeds from the charity show, to be held at Madison Square Garden, will benefit the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey and Farm Aid.

Mandy Moore and Nicole Richie’s ex-fiance, Adam ’DJ AM’ Goldstein, have gone public with their new romance after getting cosy for the cameras at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

The new couple was spotted kissing and cuddling in a Park City coffee shop yesterday, just two months after pop star-turned-actress Moore split from actor Zach Braff.

Sources close to the couple tell website TMZ.com, “They’re definitely a couple. They’re the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.”