Kate Winslet is set to star in a new film about John Lennon. Filmmaker Sam Taylor-Wood is reportedly planning to direct a biopic focusing on the early life of the late Beatles legend and wants the "Titanic" actress to portray his mother, Julia.

John was brought up by Julia's step-sister Mimi, and it is believed the director wants Emily Watson to portray Mimi in the Liverpool-based movie.

Madonna has come under fire for comparing U.S. Presidential candidate John McCain to Adolf Hitler.

An image of McCain flashed on screen alongside images of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe at the first night of her "Sticky and Sweet" world tour in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, Wales, on Saturday.

Britney Spears' Mickey Mouse Club T-Shirt she owned is up for auction. A memorabilia site would be auctioning a piece of the pop princess' Mouseketeer past starting on July 21.

GottaHaveIt.com will be having a special online auction entitled "The Rock & Roll Pop Art Auction" from July 21 to August 6, which will feature original handwritten lyrics and letters and other rare items by the music industry's greatest living and dead legends.

Sir Paul McCartney says George Harrison was like his "baby brother." The 66-year-old music legend enjoyed such a close relationship with George, who died in 2001, he saw him as family.

Paul, who first met George in 1954, said: "He was my little baby brother, almost, because I'd known him that long."

"Underworld" star Kate Beckinsale is grateful to her native England for keeping the memory of her late actor father alive.

Richard Beckinsale, who died at the age of 31 from a heart attack, was best known for his role as Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom "Porridge" and as Alan Moore in "Rising Damp." Daughter Kate was just five years old when he passed away.

Yoko Ono and Stella McCartney kissed and embraced each other at the funeral of 'fifth Beatle' Neil Aspinall Monday.

Yoko, widow of John Lennon, and fashion designer Stella, whose father is Sir Paul McCartney, warmly greeted each other before the service at London's St. Mary-the-Virgin Church, in Twickenham.