Rocker Leny Kravitz is to make his feature film debut - as a nurse.

The My Mama Said singer will star alongside comedienne Mo’Nique and actress Paula Patton in Push, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Sapphire - real name Ramona Lofton.

Kravitz will play a nurse who shows kindness to an overweight, illiterate African-American teenager, portrayed by newcomer Gabourey Sibide, in New York’s Harlem district.

The first exhibition of rocker Bob Dylan’s artwork took place in a German museum on Sunday.

The Drawn Blank Series event was held at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz museum in the city of Chemnitz, where 170 of Dylan’s drawings and paintings are on show.

All the work displayed was created between 1989 and 1992 for a book called Drawn Blank, which museum curator Ingris Moessinger saw on a recent visit to New York.

TV star Jerry Springer has ‘no passion’ for the job that made him famous.

The 63-year-old insists he never pursued a career in ‘confrontation TV’ - he really planned to run for president.

“I was assigned to do The Jerry Springer Show. ‘You’re going to host the show’. I did it,” he says. “I never had any great desire to be a talk-show host. It’s fun to do, it’s not a passion. I always say I never watch the show but I realise people do.”

The father of singer Amy Winehouse fears for his daughter’s health now more than ever, following the troubled star’s marriage to Blake Fielder-Civil.

Mitch Winehouse believes the Rehab hitmaker’s troubles really started following her shock wedding to Fielder-Civil last May.

Troubled jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has vowed to fight a ban preventing her from travelling to the United States - after she was “tricked” into confessing to possessing illegal drugs.

The Rehab star was arrested in Norway earlier this month along with husband Blake Fielder-Civil on suspicion of possessing marijuana. The 24-year-old was issued with a fine, but the incident may have thrown a possible American tour into doubt.

Actress Natalie Portman is encouraging children to enjoy studying arithmetic by guest editing the upcoming issue of American magazine Scholastic Math.

Portman loved learning about mathematics in her own school days, and she wants today’s kids to appreciate the importance it has in everyday life.

Foreigner founder Mick Jones is calling in a favour from his stepson Mark Ronson - the producer is helping the guitarist to help make a comeback album.

Jones married Ronson’s mother, Ann Dexter-Jones, when the beatmaker was a young child, and the 62-year-old axeman now plans to utilise his family ties to bring the 1970s rock band Foreigner’s sound up-to-date.

Stardust writer Neil Gaiman has hit back at rumours the movie was a troubled shoot.

There was has been recent speculation that director Matthew Vaughn was nearly sacked halfway through the making of the movie.

But Gaiman, who wrote the original book, insists he knows the stories are untrue because his daughter Holly was working on the production.

David Gest is enjoying life after marriage to Liza Minnelli by reliving his youth and hanging out with friends less than half his age.

The 54-year-old, who divorced Minnelli in 2006, has been frequenting trendy nightspots in London’s Camden town and insists he is better off single.

Carly Simon has revealed she grew up a stammering wreck, and she still can’t read in public without stuttering.

The music icon admits she had a stammering problem that plagued her childhood - and she conquered it by singing.

In an interview with Ladies Home Journal magazine, the You’re So Vain singer says: “In retrospect, my stammering was an opportunity… (Stutterers) can’t stammer when they sing. There’s something about the mind connecting differently to the vocal cords when you apply either rhythm or melody.”

Actress Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen have named their new baby daughter Olive.

The Wedding Crashers star, 31, and her funnyman fiance welcomed their first child last week in Los Angeles.

The couple have been engaged since 2004 but have yet to set a date for their wedding.

Veteran tough guy actor Harvey Keitel has signed up to star as chat show host Jerry Springer in a musical on the New York stage.

Keitel, best known for roles in movies including Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant and Reservoir Dogs, will play the TV star in Jerry Springer - The Opera In Concert for two nights only in January.

The musical will be staged at Carnegie Hall on 28 and 30 January.

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse credits husband Blake Fielder-Civil for saving her life after collapsing from a drug overdose.

The troubled star, 24, was rushed to a London hospital on August after a night of heavy partying.

And she insists she wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for her husband of five months, Fielder-Civil.

Actress Natalie Portman has compiled an album of 16 of her favourite songs to raise money for charity.

The Closer star has selected tracks by artists including Norah Jones, Devendra Banhart and The Shins for the disc, the proceeds from which will go to FINCA International, an organisation that provides financial services to low-income entrepreneurs.

The album, Big Change: Songs For FINCA, will be available to buy on website iTunes from October 30.

Jerry Springer says he is “embarrassed” by his long-running TV chat show, insisting he never would have made it if his mother was alive.

The former politician, 63, reveals he would have been deeply ashamed if his mum - a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany - had watched him on The Jerry Springer Show, which sees dysfunctional guests come to blows in front of a studio audience.

A US magazine has been forced to apologise to actress Natalie Portman after suggesting she’s far from happy with her performance in short film Hotel Chevalier.

Sunday supplement Parade stated Portman was talking about the movie, in which she appears nude, when she commented about an “uncomfortable” scene she shot in a forthcoming essay she wrote for the publication.

Legendary rocker Bob Dylan is fronting a new US TV advertising campaign for car manufacturer Cadillac.

The upcoming commercial features Dylan, wearing a cowboy hat and shades, driving a 2008 Cadillac Escalade SUV across the Antelope Valley desert in California.

During the 30-second ad, Dylan says just one line: “What’s life without taking a detour?”

Jazz songstress Amy Winehouse has promised fans she will keep away from booze - but only before she performs at concerts.

The Rehab hitmaker, who was recently arrested in Norway for marijuana possession, told her tour organiser on Monday she will stay away from alcohol until after her gigs.

Natalie Portman has turned essayist to pen an article for US magazine Parade about how she has managed to stay sane in Hollywood.

The actress reveals moving around as a kid helped her come to terms with early success.

“I got really good at figuring out a situation and diving in. I was the cool new kid; I never doubted myself. Actually, I was probably kind of arrogant,” she reveals.

Natalie Portman insists she’ll never bare all on the big screen again after regretting a saucy scene in new short film Hotel Chevalier.

The shots of the Israeli-born actress baring all in the film hit the internet earlier this year  - months before the movie hit festivals in September.

And Portman admits she’s rather upset about agreeing to do something she felt awkward about in the Wes Anderson-directed prelude to The Darjeeling Limited.