Marlon Brando

Veteran Hollywood actor Karl Malden, 97, an Academy Award winner and died on Wednesday of natural causes.

"Karl lived a rich, full life," said Academy of Arts and Motion Pictures president Sid Ganis. "He has the greatest and most loving family, [and] a career that has spanned the spectrum of the arts from theatre to film and television, to some very famous commercial work."

C. David Heymann, author of the soon-to-be-released Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, alleges in the book that Jackie Kennedy slept with Marlon Brando twice about a year after her husband John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination.

Forty-six-year-old Hollywood gossip: you gotta love it.

In Johnny Depp’s recent Vanity Fair article, he talks about his own private island, Little Hall’s Pond Cay, located in the Bahamas, which features six different beaches.

According to Me and Marlon, a new book by Marlon Brando’s longtime personal assistant Alice Marchak, the acting legend battled the eating disorder bulimia for most of his adult life.

Marchak claims the star regularly gorged on food only to vomit it back up in secret. She writes, "We'd eat dinner and then Marlon would go to the bathroom - and come back and order another meal."

She alleges she discovered his bulimia when she found him passed out in a bathroom after having hemorrhaged.

Oliver Platt is returning to Broadway as Nathan Detroit in the 2009 revival of Guys and Dolls. Platt made his New York stage debut in 2006's Shining City, which earned him a nomination for the Best Actor Tony Award.

Platt is stepping into the role Frank Sinatra famously played alongside Marlon Brando in the 1955 movie.

The musical last appeared on Broadway in 1992 with Nathan Lane in Platt’s role, and is scheduled to begin previews on February 3rd at the Nederlander Theatre, the former home to Rent and it’s 12 year run.

Classic musical Guys and Dolls is being revived on Broadway in 2009, after a 17-year hiatus.

Anne Hathaway (as Sarah Brown) and Debra Messing (as Miss Adelaide) have been tipped to take on lead roles in the new production. Great casting. They are both perfect!

The musical is based on Damon Runyon's book The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown, which was made into a musical and a 1955 movie starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra.

Mike Judge (Beavis & Butt-Head, Office Space, King of the Hill) is a day late and a dollar short on this one but he's decided to bring Beavis and Butthead to the big screen as a live action film.

Get ready for it: "I am Cornholio! I need T.P. for my bunghole!"