Kate Beckinsale's nine-year-old daughter wants her to work with Marilyn Monroe.

The 35-year-old actress admits Lily, her child with ex-boyfriend Michael Sheen, would rather she teamed up with "retro" stars such as Marilyn and Joan Crawford instead of Hollywood heartthrobs including Ben Affleck and Hugh Jackman.

Sir Paul McCartney was deported from Germany for setting fire to condoms. The Beatles' former drummer Pete Best has revealed he and Paul returned to the U.K. after being accused of arson when they used the rubber contraceptives as emergency lighting.

Pete explained to Absolute Radio: "We were deported for burning condoms. We defected to another club who paid us more money to play. And we'd been staying in the back of the van."

Sir Paul McCartney feared his new album would ruin his career. The Beatles legend has just completed work on Electric Arguments, an ambient record with his side project The Fireman, which he says was recorded from entirely improvised sessions.

He said: "I had to make a disclaimer to the engineers. I said this could be the most embarrassing moment of my life. It was thrilling, but it could have been a terrible mistake. I could ruin my whole career."

Sir Paul McCartney has urged people to boycott McDonald's. The vegetarian singer is furious the fast food giant are displaying his picture - along with his former Beatles bandmates Ringo Starr and the late John Lennon and George Harrison - at one of their outlets in his home city of Liverpool to attract more customers.

The musician's spokesperson said: "What sort of morons do McDonald's think Beatles fans are?"

John Lennon had fantasies about Sir Paul McCartney, a new book claims.

Respected Beatles author Philip Norman alleges in new book John Lennon: The Life that the musician wanted a sexual relationship with his bandmate Paul and also fantasized about sleeping with his own mother Julia, leaving Paul and the late Beatle's wife Yoko Ono furious.