Orson Welles

While many stars would never shill for ice cream, cars, coffee or liquor in America, plenty of them do it overseas, a la Bill Murray in Lost in Translation.

Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keanu Reeves, Ben Stiller and George Clooney have all done Japanese ads but never American ones.

Yesterday director Spike Jonze, Lost in Translation director Sophia Coppola’s ex-husband, was shooting a commercial for Japanese cell phone company Softbank with Brad Pitt in Midtown Manhattan.

How else can Brad afford six babies?

We were just telling our mother how "Santa Baby" is our favorite Christmas carol and then we heard this awful news; Eartha Kitt, one of the greatest voices on earth, died on Christmas Day in New York City.

The groundbreaking actress and sultry singer, who broke a major color barrier by stepping into the role of Catwoman on the 1960s Batman TV series after Julie Newmar left the show, had been battling colon cancer.

Warren Beatty arrives hand in hand with wife Annette Bening at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

Beatty was honored with the 36th AFI Life Achievement Award. Previous winners include Meryl Streep in 2004, Martin Scorsese in 1997, Bette Davis in 1977 and Orson Welles in 1975.

Beatty, formerly one of Hollywood’s most notorious bachelors, met Bening on the set of their film Bugsy in 1991. They married the following year and now have four children and, we’re guessing, a lot of sex.

Congratulations, Warren.