Tom Cruise is reportedly desperate to make a film with fiancee Katie Holmes.

A source told Life and Style Weekly: “Tom is looking for a movie that will make the most of their chemistry.”

“He’s devoting himself to putting together a project that will not only make Katie a bona fide star, but will put him back in the good graces of the movie-going public.”

Tom is said to be “looking beyond the typical action roles” he’s focused on for the last few years and Katie is keen to shed her “girl next door” image from her Dawson’s Creek days.

Eyes Wide Shut 2 anyone?

Oliver Stone believes the current US government as “set America back [by] 10 years” because of its over-zealous security policies and its decision to go to war on Iraq.

Speaking at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain this week, Stone said: “We have destroyed the world in the name of security.

“From 12 September [2001] on, the [attacks were] politicised and it has polarised the entire world. It is a shame because it is a waste of energy to see that the entire world five years later is still convulsed in the grip of 9/11.”

“It’s a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others. Mr. Bush has set America back 10 years, maybe more.”

“This war on Iraq is a disaster. I’m disgraced. I’m ashamed for my country. I’m also ashamed that America has attacked itself with its constitutional breakdowns. I’m deeply ashamed.”

• Nicole Richie has said there is “no chance” that she’ll be best friends again with Paris Hilton, despite the pair speaking on the phone last week. Nicole told Tyra Banks: “We haven’t been friends in about three years. There was no falling out. We’re just not the same people.”
• Zoe Ball has revealed that she has spied on celebrity participants in the showers after filming football reality tv show The Match. With the third series set to start, Zoe revealed: “last year there was a hole you could peek through to see the boys. Me and the make-up girls were like: ‘Look, here comes Will Mellor, phwoargh! Ralph Little is my favourite. I’m looking forward to seeing him again.”
• Ashlee Simpson was apparently so nervous before her West End debut in Chicago on Monday that she asked sister Jessica Simpson to help her run through her lines in her dressing room beforehand. A source revealed the two “were in stitches as they were both hamming it up trying to upstage each other.”

Despite heading out to the US for six months next year to promote her album, Lily Allen has no plans to make friends with Hollywood’s socialite set - particularly the crew leader, Paris Hilton.

Lily told the Mirror recently: “People like her are useless. She thinks she can milk the world for what she’s worth. She’s taking money off people that haven’t got much.”

“Why doesn’t she do something worthwhile, like work for the UN?”

“She’s hideously untalented. Her music is auto-tuned. You can hear it. I know because my sister saw her in Ibiza and said it was the worst thing she had ever heard.”

“I worked for two and a half years writing my album… I find it hideous that she’s come in and not worked for it at all.”

Russell Brand has revealed he auditioned to be in the boy band 5ive before he turned to stand-up comedy and tv presenting.

He admitted recently: “I did audition for a boy band. That was pretty bad. I was only 20, I didn’t know what I was doing and I was on drugs. I did some pretty crazy things on those drugs.”

“I’d been in the toilet drinking to calm my nerves so I was probably all red and blustery and a little plump and rubbish.”

“I decided I’d be less self-conscious if I held a water bottle and pretended it was my mic. It really was terribly embarrassing.”

The New York Post has claimed trouble is brewing chez Jolie-Pitt.

According to the newspaper, with youngest daughter Shiloh hitting the four-month-old mark, Angelina Jolie has been telling friends that she’s ready to adopt another child but partner Brad Pitt wants them to have the baby themselves.

A source is quoted as saying: “Brad wants another child, preferably a boy - but he wants a biological boy.”

“He is adamant and wants her to get pregnant again right away.”