Singer and actress Barbra Streisand and television actor James Brolin will tie the knot this week at her beachfront Malibu estate, a local television station reported.
Citing her publicist Dick Guttman, the station did not say when the wedding would take place but the publicist asked news helicopters not to fly over the entertainer's home after 2.00 p.m. on the day of the wedding.
"The wedding is a sacred event," he told NBC. "They want to hear the words."
Paula Yates, ex-wife of the singer Bob Geldof and former partner of Australian rock star Michael Hutchence, who hanged himself last November, was recovering in a private clinic yesterday after a friend found her at home in a distressed state.
Press reports variously said the 38-year-old mother-of-three had tried to kill herself with a drugs overdose, or by hanging like Hutchence.
An inquest found Hutchence had committed suicide, but Yates refused to believe it, saying he would never leave her and their child.
Modelling legend Twiggy has teamed up with a member of one of the world's most controversial rock bands to record a movie soundtrack. The 1960s star has linked up with Twiggy Ramirez, bass player of US shock band Marilyn Manson who revel in disturbing imagery and claim to be Satan worshippers.
The pair perform a version of the Dusty Springfield hit I Only Want To Be With You on the MTV-funded film Dead Man On Campus, the music paper NME reports.
Whistle Down The Wind, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's latest musical, opened yesterday in what almost amounts to another world premiere. The show was a near sell-out when it opened in Washington 18 months ago, but the perfectionist composer chose to rework it massively instead of sending it on its planned Broadway run.
Lord Lloyd-Webber (50) paid off American investors with £4 million of his own money, but afterwards said: "It was worth it. I haven't got to this stage of my career to settle for a musical of mine being `fine'."
Czech President Vaclav Havel is to undergo a new operation on July 27th to remove a temporary colostomy fitted during emergency surgery in Austria in April.
His chief medical adviser said the president had recovered satisfactorily from the operation to remove part of his large intestine.
The daughter of the former Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, Galina, died on Tuesday in a Moscow hospital at the age of 69, the ITAR-TASS news agency said.
A funeral service restricted to close family and friends took place yesterday.
Leonid Brezhnev, the former Soviet Communist Party leader, died in 1982.