BRAD Pitt rode into town yesterday as Jesse James, while Woody Allen and French director Claude Chabrol offered dark comedies out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.

The man with one of radio's most recognisable voices faces a sixth humiliating night behind bars tonight following an acrimonious break-up from the mother of his two children

At 15 months old, Shiloh Pitt arguably has her father's eyes - and there's absolutely no doubt that she has her mother's mouth. The little girl was pictured in New York making it clear she has inherited her mother's famous

Charles Spencer reviews Lone Star/Pvt Wars at King's Head, London N1.

The festival highlights include a complex legal drama and a melancholy Iraq war film, reports David Gritten.

She played Rizzo in Grease and the First Lady in The West Wing. Now Stockard Channing is forgoing glamour for the London stage. She talks to Jasper Rees .

Jo Brand found Prince to be an amazing performer- but she still doesn't like him.

Mick Brown enjoys a compendium of black music.

Geoffrey Norris reviews the BBS Symphony Orchestra under Belohlávek at Albert Hall.

Matthew Rye reviews Proms 64 and 65: the San Fransisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas at Albert Hall.

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By Tessa Gibbs, Clive Morgan, Simon Horsford, Clive Morgan and Patricia Wynn-Davies

AUSTRALIAN actor Heath Ledger and his American fiancee Michelle Williams have split.

IT'S set to be a battle of the babes as David Jones darlings Megan Gale and Kristy Hinze go face to perfect face for the hosting role on pay TV series Project Runway.

ANDREW O'Keefe has had the Midas touch since he first appeared on TV four years ago but has run into his first set back.

FORMER child star Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton in the TV comedy Family Ties, was given two years probation over an attack on his girlfriend.

DUAL Academy Award winner Jodie Foster may have slipped in and out of Australia undetected, but the Hollywood megastar warns she'll be back.

THE woman who took up with Olivier Martinez after he dumped Kylie Minogue says she didn't steal the French actor away from the Australian pop princess.