Bad guy Keanu tops US box office

The Watcher, starring Keanu Reeves in a rare bad-guy role, is the number one film at the American box-office.

The serial killer thriller took just over $9 million (£6.3m) at the weekend.

The film co-stars Marisa Tomei and James Spader as the FBI agent hunting Reeves.

Nurse Betty, the quirky comedy starring Renee Zellweger and Morgan Freeman, took second place with $7.3 million (£5.1m).

The previous number one, Jennifer Lopez's The Cell, fell to fourth place.

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Roslin's BBC deal

TV presenter Gaby Roslin has signed an exclusive deal with the BBC for the next two years.

The deal will see the 35-year-old presenting a range of entertainment and factual programmes.

Roslin who became a household name when she co-presented The Big Breakfast with Chris Evans signed her first two-year BBC deal in September 1998.

"I'm thrilled the BBC has put faith in me for another two years so I can continue doing a job I love," she said.

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Bowie's baby boom

David Bowie has revealed his delight at the birth of baby Alexandria, adding that he and wife Iman had been trying for a child for the past eight years.

Alexandria was born in New York in August weighing a healthy 7lb 4oz.

Bowie, who assisted at the birth, told Hello! magazine: "It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth."

"Everything falls into a feeling of rightness," added the 53-year-old singer.

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Charts in the mood for Modjo

Dance duo Modjo have become the first French band to have a number one single this side of the English Channel.

The track, Lady (Hear Me Tonight), uses a sample from Soup For One by 1980s disco sensations Chic.

The duo behind Modjo, 21-year-old Yann Destagnol and Roman Tranchart, 23, both studied classical music in Paris.

Other new entries in the Top Ten include Sonique's Sky at number two and It Doesn't Matter by Wyclef Jean at number three.

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'Mom' knows best for Spike

Controversial director Spike Lee has revealed that the greatest influence on his life was his mother.

"My mom made me read Dickens and Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston when I was 13," Lee told The New York Post.

"She gave me high standards, telling me 90% wasn't good enough. I had to be twice as good as my white classmates."

Lee's latest film, Bamboozled, which spoofs fame, fads, rap music and race, opens next month in New York.

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Breakfast welcome for Denise

TV presenter Denise Van Outen was given a red carpet welcome when she returned for a three-month stint fronting The Big Breakfast.

The first show of the week also marked the return of Johnny Vaughan, who missed several shows last week after pulling a muscle in his back.

The production team lined up along a red carpet and cheered the pair onto the set as the show began.

Van Outen agreed to step in as presenter until the end of the year after the departure of Liza Tarbuck.

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Girlfight packs festival punch

Director Karyn Kusama's debut film Girlfight - about a teenage girl who becomes a boxer - won the Grand Prize at the Deauville Festival of American Cinema on Sunday.

The film, which also won the top prize at the Sundance festival in January, stars Michelle Rodriguez as a young woman who channels her fierce temper into the ring.

The festival's Jury Prize was won jointly by Memento, by Christopher Nolan, and Boiler Room, a film from debut director Ben Younger about tyoung stockbrokers.

Novelist and director Neil Jordan presided over the awards ceremony.