British funnyman Stephen Fry is annoyed when straight actors are congratulated for playing gay characters.

The star believes it is wrong to hail actors “brave” just because they can realistically kiss other men onscreen.

“I think the fact that I am so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen,” he says. “Straight actors can play gay people and they’re rather congratulated on it. People say, ‘Ooh how brave of you.’”

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his celebrity chef wife Jessica have been sued by Missy Chase Lapine, who has accused the pair of copyright infringement and defamation.

Chef and baby-products mogul Lapine claims the recipes in Jessica Seinfeld’s best selling cookbook Deceptively Delicious are “brazenly plagiarised” from those in her own book, The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies For Hiding Healthy Foods In Kids’ Favorite Meals, about hiding healthy ingredients in foods children will eat.

Ethan and Joel Coen’s movie No Country For Old Men has triumphed at the 2008 Critics’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles.

The film landed the coveted Best Picture award as well as the Best Supporting Actor accolade for Javier Bardem at the ceremony on Monday night.

The awards, which are given out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, are not covered by Writer’s Guild contracts so was not affected by the ongoing strike which has forced other events, including the prestigious Golden Globe Awards, to be cancelled.

Action man Steven Seagal and his former business partner Julius R Nasso have ended their bitter six-year legal battle, which at one point saw allegations of Mob extortion surface.

Nasso filed a $60 million lawsuit against Seagal in 2002, accusing the actor of reneging on a deal to develop and produce four movie projects with him. Seagal maintained no such agreement was ever made.

Steven Spielberg battles to stop his kids watching his movies, but is sometimes tricked into backing down.

The director is unsure when his youngest kids with second wife Kate Capshaw - Sawyer, 15; Mikaela Spielberg, 11, Destry, 11 - are old enough to check out his scarier movies, like Jaws and Indiana Jones.

“Kids, even in the same family, mature at different rates,” he says. “They usually ask me to see Indiana Jones, which I think is fine for my younger kids.”