1. Meg Ryan will lend her voice to Bart Simpson’s therapist in an episode of The Simpsons, which will debut in March.
2. Since pigs grow at a rate of approximately one pound per day, 47 pigs were recruited to play Wilbur in the new children’s movie Charlotte’s Web to keep the lead character looking the same.
3. Angelina Jolie and her The Good Shepherd co-star Matt Damon‘s wife, Luciana, had the same due date when they both became pregnant while the stars were making the new thriller.
4. Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher pours a glass of red wine into her bathwater to help keep her skin soft.
5. Martin Sheen had never used a computer before he started his English Literature degree at Galway’s National University of Ireland in September.
6. James Bond creator Ian Fleming is selling the secluded island where he wrote the first 007 novel, Casino Royale, and which inspired the hideout of his most famous villain, Dr. No. Goat Island, off the Caribbean island of Tobago, has a price tag of $2.94 million.
7. Hollywood star Samuel L. Jackson is splashing out $587,000 on a flashy new Maybach 57-S car, which is 19 feet long and has its own cocktail bar.
8. War of the Worlds star Dakota Fanning learned how to read when she was only two-and-a-half years old.
9. The attorney hired to defend troubled Prison Break actor Lane Garrison, who faces charges following a fatal car crash on Dec. 2, is Harland Braun–the same defense lawyer who fought to keep Robert Blake out of jail when he faced charges of murdering his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley.
10. The Price Is Right host Bob Barker has pledged $300,000 to help move an elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo to an animal sanctuary.
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