Eleven Broadway theatre bosses are battling to have British actor Daniel Radcliffe bring his stage debut Equus to New York City.

However, Radcliffe’s commitments to the next Harry Potter movie - The Half Blood Prince - mean he wouldn’t be able to perform in the US until next autumn.

The film is due to start filming later this year and into 2008, and only then would Radcliffe, 17, have time to rehearse the Peter Schaffer play with co-star Richard Griffiths.

British actor Daniel Radcliffe’s representative has confirmed he has signed on to star in the final two films in the Harry Potter series.

The 17-year-old, who has won rave reviews for his performance in the provocative play Equus, will start filming again in September.

The then-unknown actor shot to fame in 2001 when he appeared as the boy wizard in the first Harry Potter film.

A painting by Norman Rockwell stolen in June 1973 has been found in the art collection of Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.

Rockwell’s Russian Schoolroom, which was commissioned in 1967 by Look magazine, shows children in a classroom with a bust of Vladimir Lenin went missing from a St. Louis gallery.

Kiss rocker Gene Simmons and longtime girlfriend Shannon Tweed are kicking off the second season of their reality show by having their face lifts filmed.

The half-hour reality series, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, features the couple, along with their two teenagers.

The Kiss frontman and the former Playboy Playmate will undergo the procedure on two episodes of the series airing 1 April in the US.