Jodie Foster

Mel Gibson has signed up to appear in a new film called The Beaver, which Jodie Foster will direct.

Gibson, 53, will play the role of a depressed man who is comforted by wearing a hand-puppet of a beaver. Sounds perfect for him.

Foster, 46, will play the role of Gibson's wife in the movie as well as directing it.

This will be the third film that Foster has directed after she shot Little Man Tate in 1991 and Home for the Holidays in 1995.

For child stars, the road to adult fame is littered with the bodies of fallen compatriots who couldn’t make the transition. From Haley Joel Osment to Candace Cameron, Debbie Gibson to Jonathan Taylor Thomas, these days you’re most likely to find a former tween dream on some VH1 show about rehab or has-beens and the carnage stretches back to Hollywood’s silent era.

Only time will tell if the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus and their cohorts go the way of Jodie Foster or David Cassidy, but presently all eyes are on the stars of High School Musical.

Last night, Jodie Foster was among twelve stars introducing their classic or signature movies at the AFI Night at the Movies, presented by Target and benefiting the American Film Institute at the ArcLight Theater.

All Barbra Streisand has to do is open her mouth and millions start flowing.

Last night, she helped Barack Obama pull in a stunning $9 million by performing a rare show at a Democratic Party fundraiser. Tickets to the concert, at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, cost $2,500 a piece, a price happily paid. But those were the cheap seats.

If you’re a big baller with mad Barack love, you splashed down $28,500-a-head to attend a pre-concert dinner. That’s what Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Jamie Lee Curtis and Steven Spielberg did.

This is what welcomes you to Los Angeles when you’re Zac Efron: dozens of screaming paparazzi clamoring to take a photo of you…gasp! picking up your luggage at baggage claim.

Zac, who has an uncanny ability to handle this frenzied side of fame with a tremendous amount of grace and patience, even asked, “When did I get so popluar?” as photographers snapped away while he grabbed his bags and waited for his ride, girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens.

Dakota Fanning works it on the red carpet of First Star's Fifth Annual Celebration for Children's Rights held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles.

Dakota is growing in to a lovely, talented young woman.

We hope she goes the Jodie Foster route, not the Tatum O’Neal path.