Jodie Foster, 47, is more straight-laced that one might think.

The actress and former owner of a movie production house likes to stick to linear storytelling, which these days seems “too boring” for independent movies.

She offered this up as an explanation for why she doesn’t act in the kinds of indie films she has produced.

“I don’t think I’m well suited for them. I like doing films that are about solitary characters. I like a singular journey, as an actress – I like a linear portrait, and those things aren’t hugely ‘indie movies’.”

Foster, best known as Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, founded a production company in 1992, Egg Pictures, that primarily made indie flicks. The company closed, however, in 2001.

Foster next stars opposite Mel Gibson in a black comedy titled The Beaver. Gibson, she told the Los Angeles Times, can do anything. She said: “He is crazy and wild, he has that wildness and the madness, but he is also an incredibly disciplined storyteller.”

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Star on the rise Rachel McAdams will join Owen Wilson and Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard for a yet-to-be-titled Woody Allen movie.

The Hollywood Reporter says McAdams’s success follows her role in Sherlock Holmes. The Canadian, who starred with Russell Crowe in State Of Play, is also signed on for a Terrence Malick movie with Christian Bale that is so far untitled.

The 31-year-old actress will appear with veteran actor Harrison Ford in the J.J. Abrams-produced Morning Glory later this year, THR reports.

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Hollywood actress Glenn Close has revealed that she knocked back a jug full of margaritas before filming the raunchy lift scene in Fatal Attraction.

The Damages star, 62, told how she ordered a jug full of booze before getting hot and steamy with co-star Michael Douglas.

She said: “There’s some scenes – like the elevator scene – where I asked for a pitcher of margaritas and I drank about half of it,” she said during a discussion about the movie with Douglas.

“You did pretty good,” he laughed.

“And you were happy,” she smiled back.

The pair were discussing their roles in the 1987 hit thriller for an Oprah Winfrey Oscar special, which is due to air on US TV this week.

Sitting closely together, the stars appeared relaxed as they laughed and joked about their on- and off-screen antics.

Reminiscing about the notorious lift scene, Douglas, 55, said: “I was a happy guy. I was a very happy guy.

“The elevator scene. That’ll be a good memory. That’s going to be one whole chapter in the book.”

Close added: “I felt I was in such a safe environment and you were a fantastic partner with that. I think we really believed it was extraordinary storytelling.”

Newcomer Mia Wasikowska has been panned for her portrayal of Alice in the Tim Burton 3-D fantasy Alice In Wonderland that debuted last week.

Media in Wasikowska’s homeland, Australia, reported the panning by a British movie critic who declared the 20-year-old looked like she was “on heroin”.

The movie stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, Burton’s wife. Robbie Collin, the critic from News of the World, did not spare his pen for the stars, either.

Depp’s Mad Hatter he called a “flailing, pointless idiot”. Depp gave “the worst role he’s played in his life”.

Collin found Bonham Carter, star of the Merchant Ivory flicks, lifeless. “Put some bloody EFFORT into it, woman,” he said of her portrayal of the Red Queen. Collin likened the performance to a “seventh-rate impression of Queenie from Blackadder II”.

For him, the movie was a “bona fide, bums-in-the-air fiasco that needs to be burned and the ashes hurtled off in the direction of the nearest black hole as soon as you can, NASA”.

He also said: “In fact, it’s Lesbian Vampire Killers bad – the kind of film that you don’t just dislike or even hate, but one that your body physically rejects like a dodgy organ transplant.”

Collin said of Wasikowska: “There’s not been a lead character this paper-flat since the South Park movie. The girl’s got all the warmth of a refrigerated trout, and a face you’d expect to see Blu-Tacked to the inside of a London phone box. She’s not a heroine – she looks like she’s ON heroin.”

Last year’s acting Oscar winners Kate Winslet, Sean Penn and Penelope Cruz will all return to the ceremony to present awards this year.

The three stars all won awards in the acting categories at the 2009 bash, along with Heath Ledger, who posthumously won the Best Supporting Actor gong for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Cruz, 35, picked up the Best Supporting Actress award for Vicky Cristina Barcelona at last year’s ceremony and has been nominated again this year for her supporting performance in Nine.

Penn, 49, won the Best Actor gong last year for his leading role in Milk and Kate Winslet, 34, picked up Best Actress for her part in The Reader.

The Academy’s telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced that the three stars will return to the ceremony on March 7 to present awards.

Cougar Town star Courteney Cox has said she loves having a younger husband as it makes her feel ‘gorgeous’.

The 45-year-old actress is eight years older than husband David Arquette and they have a five-year-old daughter Coco together.

She said: “I’m eight years older than David, and I love it! David likes older women, and I think younger men make you feel great about yourself.

“As women, we can really pick ourselves apart, and we see things that maybe no one else is seeing, but to us they are magnified.

“When a younger man is attracted to you, it makes you feel gorgeous and good about yourself.

“So if you didn’t try that yet, get on it!”

Troubled actor Charlie Sheen was woken up to shocking news that his SUV had been stolen and crashed down a 100-foot cliff.

Sheen first knew something had happened when he was woken at 4am on Friday by operators of his car alarm system telling him his car had crashed.

Sheen reportedly then alerted his own security team who discovered his BMW SUV had been stolen.

Officials later found the SUV at the bottom of a 100-foot cliff off Mulholland Drive.

Los Angeles Fire Department Erik Scott said 32 Los Angeles firefighters including two helicopters were involved in the search-and-rescue mission.

An infrared scanner was also used to search for any victims at the crash scene but so far none have been found. Police are still investigating and hunting for a suspect.

The theft is just the latest headache for the actor, who was arrested on Christmas Day in Aspen, Colorado, for allegedly attacking wife Brooke Mueller.

He was charged with two domestic violence-related felony charges and ordered to keep away from Brooke – who later dramatically fell ill and was rushed to hospital.

Invictus star Morgan Freeman believes there will be a third Batman movie but it’s ‘not carved in stone’ that he will appear in it.

Freeman, 72, played the role of Lucius Fox in the two recent Batman movies – Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – and said he thinks there will be a third film.

He told BBC Radio One: “Well… I always say, now I’ve been asked this question a number of times, and I don’t think that Warner Brothers… the board of directors… the chairman or the president… or any of those people are stupid.

“Which means there’s going to be another Batman movie.”

Asked if he will be part of that movie, he said: “Now that’s not carved in stone. We’ll only know that when the script is written and the same guy’s writing the third script, if there is to be one.”

British actress Tilda Swinton has revealed that she would “absolutely” like to play US talk show host Conan O’Brien in a movie about his life.

O’Brien, 46, said on his final night hosting the Tonight Show last week that if HBO ever decided to make a movie about him, he would want to be played by the Oscar-winning actress.

During a recent interview, Swinton, 49, said that she would be only too happy to take on the role if it were offered to her.

She said: “I’ve heard about Conan! I’m so thrilled. I would just be only too happy. Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.”

The I Am Love star then said she would like to see the TV host return the favour.

She said: “What I really would love to do is get him to do some of the things I get to do. It would be nice if he were here at Sundance [Film Festival] maybe, wearing this coat, talking about I Am Love.”

Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore will play former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady Hillary Clinton in an HBO television movie.

Quaid and Moore are preparing to star in The Special Relationship, a title which reflects the movie’s theme: the relationship shared by Clinton and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Michael Sheen is set to play Blair – again. He has played him in The Queen and The Deal. Blair and Clinton in their youth and idealism were seen as shining new lights in the progressive 90s.

HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker said the deal on the movie was near completed and indicated a co-production deal was in the works with the BBC.

Moore, who takes a stance on humane issues in real life, seems an ideal choice to play the scholarly yet urbane Clinton, who hails from a conservative background.