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Actor RYAN GOSLING is taking motorcycle stunt lessons so he can join the circus for a new film role.
The Blue Valentine star will play a steel cage rider in new movie The Place Behind the Pines and he’s keen to perform his own stunts.
Producer Jamie Patricoff tells Eonline.com, "He’ll take circus motorcycle lessons. I can guarantee you he’ll want to do his own stunts in the cages." The new film will reteam Gosling with his Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance.

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Veteran actor DONALD SUTHERLAND received his Hollywood Walk of Fame honour on Wednesday (26Jan11) - right next to his son KIEFER’s star.
The 75 year old was honoured with the 2,430th star in a ceremony attended by movie pals including his Horrible Bosses co-star Colin Farrell.
Sutherland’s son was unable to make it to the event because of work commitments, but Farrell read out a touching message the 24 star had sent his father.
It read, "I selfishly wanted to be there to simply tell you how proud I am to have you as my father and how even more proud I am to be your son." Visibly moved by the note, Sutherland added, "From the very bottom of my heart, I thank the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for letting this happen."

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PENELOPE CRUZ and JAVIER BARDEM are proud parents to a baby boy, a representative for the actress has confirmed.
Reports emerged late on Tuesday (25Jan11) suggesting the Spanish beauty had been admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles earlier this week (begs24Jan11) and gave birth on Tuesday.
But, according to Cruz’s spokeswoman, the actors actually welcomed a son last week (ends23Jan11).
She says, "Both parents and baby are doing great." No other details, including the tot’s name, were revealed.
The child is the couple’s first. They wed in a secret ceremony in July (10).

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Hollywood success sent GOLDIE HAWN into therapy for nine years - because she felt like a prisoner of Tinseltown.
The actress had no plans to become a film star when she first came to Los Angeles to work as a dancer - but movie executives liked her look and her spirit and she was on the fast-track to superstardom before she had the chance to catch her breath.
And, in a revealing TV chat with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday (26Jan11), Hawn opened up about her miserable start in Hollywood, explaining, "My whole life was turned upside down… I didn’t wanna be a star… I wanted to dance and have fun and travel and go home and open a dancing school. I had my life planned.
"When that (movie success) happened, something happened to my brain; I lost my smile, I became really depressed, I had anxiety attacks, I had panic attacks… I would go into a place and I had to leave because I’d get dizzy and feel like I wanted to throw up." So the actress turned to therapy to help her cope with overnight fame: "I had to find my smile again… It was probably the hardest time I ever had because it wasn’t me and it wasn’t what I wanted to be."

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British singer ADELE has discovered she has two very powerful fans in LINDSAY LOHAN and LILY ALLEN - the two stars have taken to Twitter.com to coo about the CHASING PAVEMENTS singer.
Adele’s new tune Rolling In The Deep is conquering pop charts all over the world and Lohan and Allen have joined those offering the singer high praise for her latest album.
In a tweet on Tuesday (25Jan11), Lohan wrote, "I love Adele’s Rumor Has It off her new record…. Such a good vibe to it… makes me happy." And Allen is a fan too: "So happy for Adele, So good when good things happen to nice people. CONGRATULATIONS ADELE on being No1EVERYF**KINGWHERE (sic)!"

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A fitness video featuring JESSICA SIMPSON is set to go public, despite the pop star’s efforts to keep it off shelves.
The singer fronted the project for exercise company Speedfit, but she didn’t like the finished result and filed legal papers to keep the DVD from being sold.
But now a Hollywood producer has bought the rights to the video - and he’s challenging Simpson and her handlers to stop him from making it public.
In a defiant letter to Simpson’s lawyers, obtained by WENN, the new owner, Ed Meyer, writes, "After much due diligence, I have purchased rights to distribute the as yet unreleased Jessica Simpson Exercise Video from Speedfit.
"While your client Jessica Simpson believes that she has a valid New York court order preventing such a contract, she actually does not." Meyer insists his contract with Speedfit is "valid", and he has threatened Simpson with legal action if she insists on moving forward with "any tortuous interference or restraint of trade".
The producer plans to re-edit the fitness film, which was shot in 2005, and release it. Simpson won an arbitration ruling to keep the exercise video from being distributed – a huge hurdle for Meyer.
She also won a ruling barring Speedfit from using her name and likeness to promote the video.

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THE DECEMBERISTS have debuted at the top of the U.S. album chart thanks to their best sales week ever.
The King Is Dead is the group’s first U.S. number one.
It debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 94,000 sales.
Last week’s (19Jan11) number one album, Cake’s Showroom of Compassion, drops to 25, scoring the biggest fall from the top in more than four years.
Compilation Kidz Bop 19 debuts at two on the new chart, while The Script’s Science & Faith enters high at three.
Veteran rockers Social Distortion land their first top 10 album at four with Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, while Gregg Allman’s new solo album Low Country Blues debuts at five.
This week (26Jan11) marks only the fifth time in Billboard 200 history that the top five is full of new entries.

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Punk icon PATTI SMITH is set to follow her recent U.S. National Book Awards success by penning a detective novel set in London.
The Because The Night singer announced her latest literary venture during a lecture at London’s Royal Geographic Society’s Intelligence Squared series on Wednesday night (25Nov11).
She explained, "I’ve been working on a detective story that starts at St. Giles in the Fields in London for the last two years." She revealed the idea for the book was inspired by her many visits to London and her childhood love of Sherlock Holmes.
Smith told fans the book is "68 per cent done".
The singer/writer’s memoir Just Kids, which chronicles her relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, was honoured at the National Book Awards in November (10).

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Veteran entertainer JIMMY BUFFETT is "doing well" and is expected to be discharged from hospital on Friday (28Jan11) after falling offstage during a concert in Australia.
The 64-year-old Margaritaville singer was performing at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on Wednesday (26Jan11) when he took a tumble during the show finale.
Paramedics tended to Buffett, who lay on the ground with his head bleeding, and placed him on a gurney as they transported him to the city’s St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Denise Coughlan, spokeswoman for the medical centre, confirmed he was in a stable condition four hours after he was admitted, although she refused to give details about his injuries.
A representative for Buffett has now assured fans he is fine and already on the road to recovery and will be released from doctors’ care soon.
A statement posted on his website Margaritaville.com reads: "As you probably know, Jimmy had an accident while performing in Sydney last night and was taken to the hospital. The doctors said he is doing well and will be released tomorrow."

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U2 star LARRY MULLEN has reportedly lost a seven-year-old civil battle with a South American promoter.
Website Spinner.com reports the drummer and two others have been ordered to pay $480,000 (£320,000) in damages after claiming Brazilian concert promoter Franco Bruni failed to pay U2 for two gigs in 1998.
Mullen went public with his remarks during an interview in 2000, prompting Bruni to sue him, insisting the rocker was mistaken.
Bruni stated he paid U2 the full amount and possessed the documentation to prove it.
Mullen’s bandmate Bono was acquitted of charges.
The journalist who conducted the charges, Mario Marques Pereira Neto, and Brazilian media company InfoGlobo were also found guilty.

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ROBERT REDFORD is keen to let Hollywood producers know he’s still an actor for hire, because he fears many casting chiefs think he’s retired.
The movie great admits he’s often perplexed when he approaches studios about roles he’d like to play - and executives are shocked he’s still interested in being in front of camera.
Redford, who has become a leading environmentalist, businessman and revered film director, tells ABC News, "I say, ‘Hey, I’d like to be (in that movie),’ and they say, ‘Would you? You’re kidding.’ "Something is happening over the years that makes a lot of people think that I don’t do this anymore, when the truth is, it’s what I enjoy most." Redford was actively considering a sequel to Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid before sidekick and pal Paul Newman passed away in 2008 and he has recently hinted he’s interested in revisiting classic romance The Way We Were with Barbra Streisand.
He’ll also take on a major role in an upcoming biopic about baseball legend Jackie Robinson, and star in a film adaptation of Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods.

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JAMES FRANCO showed off the comedy skills he hopes will win over Oscars viewers during a skit on America’s THE DAILY SHOW on Tuesday night (25Jan11).
The actor pretended to be trapped by a mini-refrigerator in the show’s green room in a send-up of his hit film 127 Hours, in which he played a trapped adventurer who has to cut his arm off to free himself from a boulder in a remote Utah canyon.
Screaming with mock pain, the movie star, who will co-host the Academy Awards next month (Feb11), explained, "I was trying to get a fun-size Snickers bar out of the mini-fridge and it came down on me. I can’t get my arm out.
"I can’t move… I’m all alone in here, man; I’m gonna die. Nobody knows I’m here… No one’s gonna find me here. This is the end." The Daily Show host Jon Stewart continued with his show, but returned to Franco’s mock dilemma as the actor was considering cutting his arm off with a machete.
Stewart offered, "Have you tried, James Franco, lifting the fridge off of your arm; it is a mini-fridge?" The actor did just that and managed to free himself, smiling, "That was easy."

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Actor CRAIG T. NELSON has sensationally revealed he turned down the patriarch role on TV comedy MODERN FAMILY for a similar part in PARENTHOOD - because he was offered more money.
Producers for both shows wanted the veteran to lead their casts but Nelson went for the best deal, leaving Ed O’Neill to replace him on Modern Family.
Asked why he turned the show down during an appearance on news programme Access Hollywood Live on Wednesday (26Jan11), the honest actor said, "Money… I’m old enough to say it, I guess. I really wanted to do Modern Family and I really liked the script and I liked the people… but we’re in the middle of a cut back in Hollywood and salaries have gone way, way down and I just felt disrespected.
"I really like Parenthood because it’s building and it wasn’t a hit out of the box. For me, that ensemble… is so incredible. I love going to work… You have to get up early but… you get good food and you can take a little nap."

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KELSEY GRAMMER’s February (11) marriage plans have taken a hit - a judge has continued his divorce battle with estranged wife CAMILLE.
The former Frasier star’s lawyer asked a judge to officially end his fourth marriage during a court hearing on Wednesday (26Jan11), so he could press ahead with plans to wed fiancee Kayte Walsh in February (11).
Reality TV star Camille opposed the bid, urging the judge to deny the actor’s request to dissolve their legal marital status while they continued to fight over finances.
Her lawyer, Neal Hersh, argued the actor had not met all of his wife’s conditions to land the quickie divorce, because he refused to put up a $10 million (£6.6 million) bond to ensure both sides remain open and honest as they negotiate a split settlement - the only outstanding request.
Camille wants Grammer to post the bond to protect her rights to his pension, which is estimated at between $5 million (£3.3 million) and $10 million (£6.6 million), in case Walsh attempts to claim all proceeds for herself in the event of the actor’s death.
The judge decided to carry the matter over until their next hearing on 7 February (11), reports TMZ.com.

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Movie mogul HARVEY WEINSTEIN is urging THE KING’S SPEECH director TOM HOOPER to return to the editing room and cut the ‘F’ word from his hit film - so the Oscar favourite can become a family favourite.
Weinstein is keen to boost the film’s box office following its 12 Oscar nominations on Tuesday (25Jan11) - and he’s asked Hooper to consider cutting the profanity that earned the period drama an ‘R’ rating in the U.S.
The producer is keen to re-release the film to cinemas with the language in one scene toned down - as part of a new marketing strategy he hopes will prompt young cinemagoers to see the movie, starring Colin Firth as stuttering British monarch King George VI.
Weinstein, whose studio the Weinstein Company released the film, has revealed he is in talks with the director about re-editing the film to attain a possible ‘PG’ rating.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "The British numbers are huge because the rating lets families see the movie together. Tom and I are trying to find a unique way to do this that keeps his vision of the movie." Ironically, Weinstein made waves late last year (10) when he contested film censors at the Motion Picture Association of America’s Classification and Rating Administration’s decision to give his film Blue Valentine a restrictive NC17 rating because of an oral sex scene.
The censors agreed to release the movie with an R rating after Weinstein’s challenge.
The movie mogul unsuccessfully appealed the MPAA in November (10) to lower the R rating given to The King’s Speech without any changes to the film.

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Singer TORI AMOS has written a musical that will be staged at the U.K. National Theatre next year (12).
The Crucify hitmaker has been working on the project for the past few months, basing the music and lyrics for the play on Scottish poet George MacDonald’s 19th century fairy tale, The Light Princess.
The stage show will debut at the prestigious London venue in early 2012.

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TAYLOR MOMSEN has opened up about working with MADONNA on her Material Girl clothing range, revealing she was a "bad influence" on the singer’s daughter LOURDES.
The Gossip Girl star became pals with the 14 year old when she signed on as the face of the label last year (10).
In an interview with British magazine Grazia, the singer/actress is asked whether she felt her provocative persona had an impact on the youngster, and she replies, "I probably am a bad influence." Momsen, 17, also admits she worries about younger girls trying to copy her controversial image.
She adds, "The other day, this reporter brought his 12-year-old daughter to an interview. She was looking at me open-mouthed, like: ‘I want stripper shoes, Daddy!’ He hated me! But I’m not saying, ‘Be like me.’ I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.
"They wouldn’t want to be like me. I’m crazy. I’m f**king out of my mind. I’ve been told I was out of my mind since I was 11."

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JAY-Z has confirmed he’s teaming up with Hollywood couple WILL and JADA PINKETT SMITH to re-imagine the ANNIE musical for the big screen.
The trio, who teamed up last year (10) to bring hit musical Fela! to the Broadway stage, will be working together on a new version of Annie, starring the Smiths’ daughter Willow, who Jay-Z signed to his Roc Nation label in 2010.
The three superstars will co-produce the film.
According to reports, the partnership began over dinner with the Smiths, Overbrook Entertainment executive James Lassiter and the rap mogul, where the quartet decided to co-invest in the now successful beauty products line Carol’s Daughter.
They continued the partnership as co-producers of Fela! Jay-Z has a little history with Annie - he sampled the musical’s It’s the Hard Knock Life in his hit Hard Knock Life.
Confirming the news, Jay-Z says, "The Overbrook Entertainment family and I have a unified vision. We’ve already produced a Tony Award-winning play and we’re developing a true superstar in Willow. This venture into film development and production is a perfect next step with teams that are accomplished, creative, and innovative."

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