Johnson angry with Press

Miami Vice star Don Johnson has lashed out at the press for treating him unfairly in reports about police allegations that he made lewd comments to a woman in a sushi bar.

The actor has slammed San Francisco Chronicle columnists Philip Matier and Andrew Ross on his Web site.

Phil Bronstein, the Chronicle's executive editor, said the columnists' reporting was solid.

Matier and Ross first reported that an unidentified woman told police Johnson grabbed her on 20 January and made sexually explicit comments.

Their 9 February column also reported that at least two other women described similar sexual advances.

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TV marriage couple meet one year on

The couple who met and wed on US TV show Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? have met to explain their actions on another TV show.

Darva Conger and Rick Rockwell's marriage was never consummated and they spent little time together either on or after their honeymoon.

Conger did apologise to Rockwell at the beginning but later said: "It was a bad TV show. That's all it was"

While Conger said it was a "lark", Rockwell said he had sincerely hoped to find a wife on the show.

"I thought somehow it was my destiny."

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Top TV award for Rebel Heart director

The controversial BBC One drama Rebel Heart set in the years which led up to Irish independence has landed its director a top international award.

John Strickland's drama won the Nymphe D'Or Award at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

The four-part series Rebel Heart, set in the years 1916 to 1922, was scripted by Ronan Bennett, who was criticised for his republican leanings.

Strickland's other series include BBC drama series Clocking Off and Undercover Heart.

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Donohue is new Mrs Robinson

Film star Amanda Donohoe has become the latest actress to bare all in the West End adaptation of the classic Sixties film The Graduate.

The 38-year-old star, best known for the TV series LA Law, follows Kathleen Turner and Jerry Hall in the role of seductress Mrs Robinson.

Stars in the audience praised Donohoe's debut. Cilla Black called it "fantastic".

The play, written by Terry Johnson, has taken £6m since opening last April.

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Dillon adds Euro stars to directorial debut

Gerard Depardieu and Stellen Skarsgard have joined the cast of Beneath The Banyan Trees, the directorial debut of actor Matt Dillon.

Dillon, who co-wrote the film, is also the star of the $17.5m (£10.9m) thriller which began shooting in Cambodia earlier this week.

Skarsgard - best known for roles in Good Will Hunting and Time Code - and French icon Depardieu join James Caan and British actress Natasha McElhone.