College frat boys in ''Borat'' movie sue filmmakers

LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Reuters) Two of the college fraternity brothers shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the ''Borat'' movie have sued the studio and producers for fraud, saying filmmakers duped them into appearing in the movie by getting them drunk. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, plaintiffs named as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, both from South Carolina, agreed to appear in the film after producers promised it would never be shown in the United States.

-X- Actress Denise Richards' tiff gets police probe VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Two elderly bystanders got caught in the middle of a confrontation between Hollywood actress Denise Richards and paparazzi, and the matter is under investigation, Canadian police said on Thursday.

Richards, 35, got angry at photographers trying to take her picture on the set of the movie ''Blonde and Blonder'' at a casino near Vancouver on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.

-X- Blanchett turns her back on Hollywood for theater SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett yesterday said she never planned to be a Hollywood movie star and is content to turn her back on tinseltown to pursue her first love, the theater. Blanchett, who along with her husband playwright Andrew Upton has been appointed a creative director of The Sydney Theater Company (STC), says she will now only allow three months a year for filming.

Daniel Baldwin arrested in car theft LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Daniel Baldwin, who co-starred on the television cop show ''Homicide: Life on the Street,'' has been arrested on suspicion of car theft and possession of illegal drugs, officials said on Thursday. The 46-year-old Baldwin, whose brothers Alec, William and Stephen also are actors, was accused of stealing a sports utility vehicle owned by a friend on Tuesday in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles.

Vandals desecrate Russian poet Pasternak's grave MOSCOW (Reuters) - Unknown vandals have desecrated the grave of dissident Russian poet Boris Pasternak whose novel ''Doctor Zhivago'' won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Russian television channels said yesterday. The modest tombstone, at a cemetery in the famed writers' retreat of Peredelkino outside Moscow, was covered with soot after vandals put wreathes around it and set them on fire last night, said TV reports, featuring the monument.

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