Stars Richard Gere and Halle Berry will receive 2006's Hasty Pudding award for a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment". Harvard Universty's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the oldest undergraduate thespian club in the U.S., hands out the pudding award each year.

Actress Berry, who won an Oscar for her part in Monster's Ball, will lead a parade through Harvard next month. Gere won a Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical, for his performance in the Oscar-winning film Chicago.

Gwyneth Paltrow has accidentally revealed the due date of her new baby - during a conversation with British actor Anthony Hopkins.

The screen beauty - who is pregnant with her second child with Coldplay star husband Chris Martin - had been closely guarding the date her new arrival enters the world but let it slip during a cozy chat with the legendary actor after the Golden Globe awards.