Julia Roberts is preparing to make her return to acting by doing something she's never done before: starring on Broadway.

The 37-year-old actress plans to make her debut in a revival of Richard Greenberg's three-person play, Three Days of Rain, the New York Times reported Friday. This will be her first major acting gig since giving birth to twins late last year.

The production will begin a 12-week limited engagement next March at a theater yet to be named, and will be directed by Joe Mantello, one of Broadway's most sought-after directors. No other details, including other cast members, were announced.

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Eva Longoria is deeply ashamed of herself for wearing an "I'll have your baby, Brad" t-shirt, and has sent Brad Pitt's estranged wife Jennifer Aniston a written apology for the distress it caused.

The Desperate Housewives actress caused a media frenzy when she was photographed wearing the top while shopping, as it was seen to mock Aniston's alleged reluctance to have children with Pitt.

Longoria says, "I do regret wearing it and I have written to Jennifer Aniston to express my sympathies over her marriage."

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Green Day will bring their hugely successful album American Idiot to the big screen.

The trio have been approached by several Hollywood producers keen to make a big-budget movie-adaptation of the best-selling album. And while the rockers are keen to start filming American Idiot: The Motion Picture next year, they first want to secure complete control over the project.

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says, "There's a lot of strange people out there in Hollywood, so we have to stick to our guns." "We want to have control over everything that's on the album." "If we're going to look at a film, we have to think of it the same way as how important the record is to us."

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Nicole Kidman is to star in Invasion, a remake of the cult horror classic Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers.

According to Production Weekly Kidman will play Carol, a woman who uncovers a conspiracy in a small town where the inhabitants' personalities appear to be changing. Filming is due to begin in Baltimore in October with German director Oliver Hirschbiegel.

Kidman is also due to star in another remake in Wong Kar-wais' A Lady From Shanghai originally made in 1948 with Orson Welles who also directed the movie and Rita Hayworth.

The remake is due to be filmed in Russia later this year. Set in the 1950s the movie revolves around a glamorous woman in danger and in love with a spy.

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Saks Fifth Avenue announced on Monday that it would become the exclusive New York retailer to offer the Neil Lane jewelry collection. Located in the fine jewelry department on the first floor of SaksÂ’ flagship, the Neil Lane boutique will launch this October with a star-studded gala.

Known as the “Star Jeweler,” Lane’s creations are highly sought after in Hollywood for social occasions and red carpet events alike. A New York native, Lane moved to Paris after college to pursue a career in jewelry design, where he began the collection that informs his designs to this day. Upon returning to the states in 1982, he moved to Los Angeles and opened his now-renowned jewelry emporium on Beverly Boulevard.

Ronald Frasch, vice chairman and chief merchant for Saks said in a statement, “Everyone at Saks Fifth Avenue is thrilled to be hosting Neil’s first boutique in New York City, and we welcome him back to his New York roots. The partnership between Saks Fifth Avenue and Neil Lane will bring high fashion and Hollywood glamour to Manhattan.”

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Spiderman 3 Villain Announced:

The villain in the next installmemt of the Spiderman franchise is not Venom nor Sandman, as has been rumored, but The Chameleon, who "will use his powers of performance and identify theft to bridge a gap between MJ and Peter Parker in this film."

The report suggests that an official announcement won't be made until just after Thanksgiving, at which point we can expect the release of an animated Chameleon DVD.

Thomas Hayden Church has been cast as The Chameleon.

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Sheryl Lee Ralph showed up nearly two-and-a-half hours late to her own wedding to Pennsylvania Sen. Vincent Hughes at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles on Saturday..

The former Moesha star, 49, wore an off-the-shoulder champagne-colored silk charmeuse Tadashi gown with Swarovski crystal straps and a seven-foot train, topped by a light gold silk peu de soire brocaded coat. Completing her princess look: a $16,000 Mikimoto pearl-and-diamond tiara fastened to her updo.

Preceded by her 10 bridesmaids – including singer Patti LaBelle, Divorce Court judge Mablean Ephriam and actress Loretta Devine – Ralph held her Swarovski-crystal-studded bouquet of orchids, Casablancas, calla lilies, stephanotis, and roses as she walked down the aisle to the strains of an 82-person choir. The 48-year-old groom, a state senator from Philadelphia, wore a Jasper black tuxedo with a white tie, a stephanotis boutonniere, and $15,000 Mikimoto pearl-and-white gold cufflinks.

To celebrate the occasion, 425 guests were in attendance at the chapel, which was decorated in all-white flowers – including orchids and lilies – and white chiffon and pearls draped on the aisle.

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Astronomers announced Friday that an object they discovered in the distant reaches of the solar system is large enough to be the 10th planet -- a claim likely to reignite a debate over just how many objects should be called planets.

The object -- 96 times as far from the Earth as the Earth is from the sun, or nearly 9 billion miles away -- was first photographed in October 2003 by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory, north of San Diego.

While researchers say they aren't yet sure of its actual size, they have determined the object is bigger than Pluto, the smallest planet and the one most distant from the sun.

"If Pluto is a planet, it seems reasonable that something that's bigger than Pluto, and further away than Pluto, should be called a planet, too," said Mike Brown, a Cal Tech planetary scientist who made the discovery with colleagues Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale University.

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