Britney to deliver baby on TV!

Britney Spears Pop star Britney Spears is reportedly planning to film the birth of her baby for the next series of her reality television show, Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. The star wants to donate the money raised to victims of hurricane Katrina in Louisiana.

American television networks are locked in a bidding war to raise a sum which could tempt Britney to share her most intimate moment, with some offers reportedly hitting $9 million.

Despite previously rejecting the idea, the singer is now reconsidering it.

'Britney has been horrified by what has happened in New Orleans. She's a good Louisiana girl, and she loves her home state. She's not particularly keen on filming the birth, but with all this talk of money, she had to stop and think about what she could do with it. All she's concerned about is that the programme is tastefully done and she gets her privacy,' a

source told The Daily Star.

Sean Penn to the rescue

Hollywood actor Sean Penn took a boat and launched a rescue effort for families stranded in New Orleans.

According to The New York Daily News, the Oscar-winning actor and political activist managed to reach several people who had been trapped in their homes since hurricane Katrina hit on Monday.

Penn, who was accompanied by his personal photographer and a crew of helpers, brought the victims to dry land -- and gave them cash too.

Johnnie Brown, 73, a retired custodian, called his sister on a cell phone after being plucked from his flooded house. 'Guess who came and got me out of the house? Sean Penn, the actor! The boys were really nice,' he said.

Penn later accompanied a few of them to a hospital.

Asked what he was doing in the disaster zone, Penn said, 'Whatever I can do to help. There's a lot of people out there. There's bodies everywhere. We could only do so many houses.'

Now, a macho Jackson

It seems that king of pop Michael Jackson is all set for an image makeover. The singer is reportedly shedding his effeminate image for a macho one.

According to the New York Post, Michael C Luckman, author of Alien Rock: The Rock 'n' Roll Connection, claims, 'Jacko, who just turned 47, is being overhauled in Bahrain and is in talks for a long-term deal to perform regularly at a Las Vegas casino/hotel.'

Besides lifting weights with a trainer, Jacko plans to wear shorter wigs, less make-up, and generally try to look more normal!

Jackson's parents, Joseph and Katherine, are reportedly spearheading the revamping.

Most successful movie of all-time

Gone With The Wind has been voted the most successful film of all-time in a new poll by Screen Digest film journal.

The 1939 classic, which last year topped a list of most successful films in UK movie history -- based on ticket sales and admission figures -- beat out the competition from 1977 epic Star Wars and all-time family hit, The Sound Of Music (1965).

'Leaving aside the exceptional nature of the 1930s, we can see a peak in the film industry's fortunes in the 1960s and 1970s, and a relative decline since then,' the BBC quoted David Hancock, author of the study, as saying.