Forest Whitaker wants an on-screen "father-son relationship" with 50 Cent.

The Oscar-winning actor is in negotiations to star alongside the rapper-turned-actor in the modern-day adaptation of the 1886 novel 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'.

50 Cent doesn't regret being a pre-teen crack dealer. The "Candy Shop" rapper started selling drugs in Queens, New York, after his mother - also a dealer - was murdered.

He was just 12 years old, and would tell his grandmother he was at an after-school club while he roamed the streets pushing narcotics.

Bette Midler says 50 Cent has "made her life worth living". The "Wind Beneath My Wings" singer revealed the rapper, who has been helping Midler's group the New York Restoration Project build a public garden in his childhood neighborhood, has had a huge impact on her charity work.

She said: "He is one of the newest members of our tribe. He has really made my life worth living. 50 has been with me through thick and thin."

50 Cent spent the night with Ciara in an exclusive hotel. The 33-year-old U.S. rapper and 23-year-old singer recently retired to one of the penthouse suites at New York's AKA Times Square Hotel and Residences on West 44th Street.

A source told the New York Post newspaper: "There was only one bed in that penthouse."