No Nunnary for Natalie

He may be a Broadway veteran, but John Patrick Shanley might want to brush up on his rules of Hollywood etiquette

At the junket of his new film Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, we asked writer-director Shanley how Adams had been cast when originally there was another actor offered the role of the emotionally conflicted nun.

"I'm trying to think of what the etiquette is on this," Shanley chuckled, blushing a bit.

"Hit us with it," we said.

"Well, we asked Natalie Portman, and Natalie was very interested but kept saying she had a problem. And we finally nailed down as to what the problem was. She basically said she didn't understand celibacy," he revealed, erupting in laughter.

You heard it here first, kids.

Natalie Portman likes to do the do, and she can't imagine life without it!

We say Amen' to that!