Hollywood heart-throbs Johnny Depp and John Travolta will reportedly join singer Julie Andrews to help launch Disneyland's new theme park in Hong Kong next month.
Andrews was official ambassador of the Disneyland 50th Anniversary Celebration last month. She will be at the ceremony when the House of Mouse opens the gates of the US$3.2 billion Hong Kong project on Sept. 12, the Apple Daily paper said.
Andrews famously played Mary Poppins in the classic children's fantasy movie of the same name.
Depp, starred in Disney films Pirates of the Caribbean and Finding Neverland, and Travolta featured in
1998's Oscar-nominated A Civil Action.
Apple Daily said all three would attend a glitzy, star-studded gala on the eve of the opening of the park, which Disney hopes will draw more than 5.5 million visitors annually.
Oasis, The Cure and other pop ve-terans will top the bill at Spain's foremost rock festival at Benicassim that, 11 years on, has become a rite of passage for bands playing Europe's summer festival circuit.
More than 110,000 spectators are expected to swell the tiny Spanish beach resort 100km up the coast from Valencia for an event that will keep the town jumping four days and four nights from Thursday to Monday.
In just over a decade, Benicassim has forged a solid reputation as a venue devoted as much to the alternative and independent -- or indie -- music scene as to the solid electronic artists who have made it into the mainstream.
But a 1980s ambiance will hold sway at this year's edition given the big names of the "anglo" rock world making up the lion's share of the lineup.
A car wash called Scrubbers was reprimanded yesterday by advertising watchdogs in Britain for circulating a leaflet that boasts "the best handjob in town."
Services offered by Scrubbers, based in Luton, northwest of London include an "In 'n' Out and a Polish Off." "The Quickie," "The Full Monty" and a "Personal Service".
The eye-popping phrases appeared in a leaflet -- intended for distribution on windshields of vehicles in company parking lots -- illustrated with Scrubbers' logo: a cartoon of a car-washing buxom blonde.
The Advertising Standards Agency, upholding a complaint from a member of the public who got the leaflet at home, said it was "likely to cause serious or widespread offence and was inappropriate to be viewed by children."
Maureen Gallagher, from Scrubbers, disagreed with the ruling, saying "you could see a whole of a lot worse" on the upper racks of newsstands where adult magazines are displayed.
"Some people are very small-minded and they can't take these things in fun, which is what the intention was."
Friends alumna Jennifer Aniston has lashed out at reports that her split from husband and Hollywood heart throb Brad Pitt was caused by her unwillingness to have children.
"That really pissed me off," Aniston said in an interview in the September issue of Vanity Fair.
"I've never in my life said I didn't want kids. I did and I do and I will. I want to have it all," she said.
In the interview, the Friends star spoke of her loneliness following the breakdown of her marriage, her enduring love for Pitt and her belief that she would one day meet the right man with whom to start a family.
Aniston, 36, and Pitt, 41, separated in January this year after four-and-a-half years of marriage. Three months later she filed for divorce.
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