Boxer and pitchman extraordinaire George Foreman is the latest heavyweight to jump into the ring with Sylvester Stallone and the rest of The Contender crew. Foreman has signed on to appear in the NBC reality series, which aims to do for boxing what American Idol has done for amateur singers.

Madonna is prepping for her re-Invention Tour, to take place this spring and summer. The queen of image refurbishment will perform the songs that catapulted her to fame, as well as her more recent hits.

Current Playboy covergirl Rachel Hunter will star with Burt Reynolds in Cloud Nine, about a has-been coach who launches a women's volleyball team with a difference, It's for strippers.

Frank Darabont, who recently saw his Indiana Jones 4 script thrown away, will be writing Mission: Impossible 3 for producers Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. Joe Carnahan (Narc) is set to direct the flick, which begins shooting this summer. Cruise and Ving Rhames are the only actors set to return so far.

The Apprentice star Donald Trump is asking the federal government to grant him trademarks on the oft-used phrase You're fired!, arguably most used these days by the mogul himself.

Shia LaBeouf is in talks to star in The Greatest Game Ever Played. The film is a true story based which tells the story of a 20-year-old golf amateur who shocked the world by defeating British champion Vardon, the inventor of what today is still considered the modern grip and swing.

Paul Reubens' legal woes over his questionable art collection are coming to an end. Prosecutors dropped a child-porn charge against Pee-wee Herman more than two years after the actor was booked on a misdemeanor count of possessing child pornography.

Britney Spears was forced to cut short an encore after her concert in Moline, Illinois, and cancel a performance in Chicago after she hurt herself during a complicated dance routine.

Paris Hilton was involved in a horseback riding accident while filming The Simple Life 2. Hilton was thrown from her horse and kicked in the stomach while riding on a ranch in rural Florida.

Jon Stewart, the star of Comedy Central's Emmy-winning The Daily Show, has agreed to a four-year contract extension that will keep him anchoring the mock newscast through 2008.

Brad Pitt has roped himself the role of outlaw Jesse James in a big screen version of the Robert Hansen book The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Gary Sinise, known for his film and TV movie work, has signed on for his first series, playing the lead in CSI: New York, the third installment in CBS' hit franchise.

McCambridge, whose pipes provided Linda Blair's demonic utterances in The Exorcist, died of natural causes in San Diego at the age of 87.

Electronic Arts, one of the world's leading makers of video games, is donating $8 million to USC's School of Cinema-Television to expand the university's interactive media program. The donation is to be used to fund an interactive entertainment program and an electronic arts faculty chair.

Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson are getting a full hour of wackiness and song. They'll star in a one-shot television special on ABC called The Nick and Jessica Variety Hour.

Producers of an upcoming movie on the life of country music singer Johnny Cash say they may start shooting in June. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as the Man in Black and Reese Witherspoon as his wife, June Carter Cash.

Paul Walker will star in Running Scared, an action thriller to be directed by Wayne Kramer (The Cooler). The film takes place over the course of one night and tells the story of two 10-year-old boys who get their hands on a mob gun with which a cop is shot. The father (Walker) of one the boys must locate the kids before the mob finds them first.

Shirley MacLaine and Michael Caine are in talks to join Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman in Bewitched, the big-screen movie version of the classic television series. MacClaine and Caine are set to play Samatha's (Kidman) parents.

Scarlett Johansson is set to star in Napoleon and Betsy for Lions Gate Films. The premise of the film involves a friendship Napoleon Bonaparte and a young British girl.