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Celebrity baby news - Celine Dion desperately wants another baby. The singer has one child, a son she has called her miracle baby and his name is René-Charles and the boy is nine years old.  She spoke about her attempt to get pregnant again on CNN.

She told talk show host Larry King: "We would love to have another child. We are trying. We have tried four times. “It didn’t work. The first time we had a miscarriage. The three other times it did not work, it’s common. “We were lucky with René but now we are trying for a fifth time.

More celebrity toddler news...The Lovely Bones star Rachel Weisz (pictured) has said that carrying her toddler son around is the key to her slim figure. Weisz, 39, is mum to three-year-old Henry Chance with director partner Darren Aronogsky, 41.
Talking about keeping a slim figure, she said to UK newspaper Daily Mirror: "Carrying a toddler around is incredible. "I've got in shape just from the baby, not from the gym, I'm pretty healthy but I don't have any fad diet or anything. "I eat meat and drink alcohol, but everything in moderation. I think happiness is the secret to health."
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Jude Law and Rachel Weisz have been named the Best Actor and Actress in a Play.

The British stars are just two famous names who have been honoured at the annual Whatsonstage.com Awards - which is voted for by theatregoers - for their outstanding work on the stage over the last 12 months.

The Oscar-nominated actor received 40 per cent of votes for his portrayal of the title character in the 2009 adaptation of the famous Shakespeare play 'Hamlet', while Rachel received the prize for her starring role in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' - both produced by the Donmar Warehouse group.

Rachel's performance also contributed to the production being named the Best Play Revival.

'Star Trek' actor Patrick Stewart won the Best Supporting Actor in a Play gong for his role as Claudius, in a rival production of 'Hamlet' by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).

The 69-year-old actor was also honoured alongside his 'X-Men' co-star Sir Ian McKellen, for their pairing in 'Waiting for Godot' at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket, which was praised as the Theatre Event of the Year.

A host of celebrities turned up to the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End theatre district last night (14.02.09) for the 10th anniversary of the annual awards.

Terri Paddock, editorial director of Whatsonstage.com, said: "What a fantastic night, my thanks to all the performers, nominees and, of course, the audience. It's been wonderful to see such amazing talent get the recognition they deserve - and what could be better than receiving an award chosen for by the ticket-buying public."

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Rachel Weisz has agreed to star in Universal’s new thriller Dream House, which already boasts Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts among its cast.

Jim Sheridan’s directing the film, which sees a publisher (Craig) deciding to quit the rat race in New York and relocate his wife (Weisz) and family to a charming New England town, only to discover all is not quite what it seems with the beautiful house they end up buying.

This being a thriller, they soon learn that a mother and her two children were horribly murdered in the place, which we’re sure the estate agent conveniently forgot to mention during the tour. We hate it when they do that.

Watts is playing a neighbour who will probably come in both useful and stalkery since she knew the victims.

David Loucka wrote the script and Sheridan starts the cameras cranking this weekend in Toronto.

Rachel Weisz's three-year-old son is obsessed with breasts.

The Oscar-winning actress has revealed Henry - whose father is 'The Wrestler' director Darren Aronofsky - is fascinated with ladies' chests, but thinks her boobs are the best.

She said: "He's really into firemen - and women's breasts! He just talks about them all the time. It's very sweet, he thinks that I have the biggest breasts in the world. That's a son's idolatry of his mother, that I'm the biggest and the best."

The 'Lovely Bones' star also revealed she hopes Henry won't follow in her thespian footsteps, despite catching the acting bug after seeing her perform in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' on the London stage last year.

She told Esquire magazine: "His dad brought him in after a matinee to watch the curtain call and he figured out bowing and getting claps. So, yesterday, he put on his policeman's outfit and bowed. That was the show. I hope he's not an actor - I'd dissuade him as hard as I could."

Rachel Weisz feels sexier now she is a mother.

The 39-year-old actress - who has a three-year-old son Henry with director fiancé Darren Aronofsky - says going through labour made her more aware and comfortable with her body.

She said: "I feel sexier after having a baby. It makes you feel a lot more confident and appreciative of your body and what it's capable of doing. I've got a lot more respect for it."

The 'Lovely Bones' star also said she has learned more about herself since entering her thirties.

She added to Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine: "My twenties were horrible. I felt I didn't know anything and worried about everything.

"As you get older, you learn to let go of a few things. You come to know your own mind, values and morality."

Rachel recently said she had "never been happier" since having Henry and claims he has improved her life in so many ways.

She said: "I find I can get a lot more done since I've had Henry. Suddenly, in 45 minutes, you can get twice as much done as you once did. I've become a lot more organised.

Rachel Weisz admits motherhood makes her want to "scream".

The 'Lovely Bones' actress - who is engaged to director Darren Aronofsky - says being a parent to three-year-old Henry is "delicious" but admits she needs her friends for support when family life gets too stressful.

She said: "I think one of the things that mothers aren't allowed to talk about enough to one another... is the times when you're pulling your hair out at home with the kids.

"Those moments when everything is crashing in and you feel like you're going to scream.

"It doesn't make us less good or less human, just real. I think there is sometimes too much pressure on us to be perfect parents, to be empathetic and loving all the time.

"Every woman needs a good girlfriend to be able to turn to and say, 'I just can't deal with it all today.'

"Because even though children are the most precious things in the world, they are also sent to test us. I think women are already stretched and pressured to be perfect, and it kind of drives me crazy."

Despite her confession, the 39-year-old star says she has "never been happier" since having Henry and claims he has improved her life in so many ways.

She added to Redbook magazine: "I find I can get a lot more done since I've had Henry. Suddenly, in 45 minutes, you can get twice as much done as you once did. I've become a lot more organised.

We've known for a few months that Rachel Weisz was attached to play the lead in the indie political drama The Whistleblower, but Variety now reports that Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Belluci and David Strathairn have joined the cast.

Based on a true story, its the directorial debut (at least at feature-length) of Larysa Kondracki, and sees Weisz as Kathryn Bolkovac, a UN International Police Force monitor hired by the US company DynCorp in Bosnia on a UN related contract. No details yet on the roles reserved for the newbies.

Bolkovac risked her own safety and lost her job (she sued) when she learned of and reported what Variety coyly describes as "a scandal" (it was a sex trafficking ring) within the company, which was contracted to hire and train police officers. Several Dyncorp employees were forced to resign, but were immune from prosecution in Bosnia.

The Canadian-German co-production has been co-written by Kondracki and Eilis Kirwan, and goes before the cameras in Romania later this month. 

Tending to her promotional duties, Rachel Weisz ventured out for the Spanish premiere of "Agora" in Madrid on Tuesday (October 6).

Joined by Alejandro Amenabar, Miss Weisz looked stunning in Marc Jacobs as she greeted fans waiting at the Biblioteca Nacional.

Aside from "Agora," Rachel recently revealed her desire to play a lesbian character while chatting with Vanity Fair.

After being named one of the most desirable actresses among lesbians, the 39-year-old said of the honor, "It's fantastic, don't you think? I love being a lesbian icon!"

The Natalie Portman-starring "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits," from writer-director Don Roos, and Rodrigo Garcia's "Mother and Child," a dramatic tale starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington, are to receive red carpet treatment as world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers said Thursday.

Garcia's drama also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jimmy Smits and Shareeka Epps, and will unspool at the Roy Thomson Hall in a gala slot.

In "Pursuits," Portman, who replaced Jennifer Lopez in the lead, plays a woman trying to save her marriage with the help of her precocious stepson.

Also getting high-profile North American premieres at the Toronto fest, which runs September 10-19, are Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," a thriller that stars George Clooney and Ewan McGregor; Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar's "Agora," which stars Rachel Weisz; and French director Jan Kounen's "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky."

There's also a gala world premiere for Carlos Saura's "I, Don Giovanni," a period drama about the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and an international premiere for "Phantom Pain," from German director Matthias Emcke and starring Til Schweiger.

Festival programmers also added to the Special Presentations sidebar the world premiere of French director Christian Carion's Cold War thriller "L'Affaire Farewell" and U.S. director Derrick Borte's "The Joneses," a comedic drama starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny as a picture-perfect American couple found wanting by their neighbors.

Also Toronto-bound is Werner Herzog's "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" and John Hillcoat's "The Road," a post-apocalyptic survival tale starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce.

There's also a world bow for Indian director Dev Benegal's "Road, Movie," and a North American bow for Tom Ford's "A Single Man," which features Colin Firth as a British professor in 1962 Los Angeles finding meaning in a friend's death. The picture also stars Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode.

Tony-winning choreographer Rob Ashford turns director here and brings out all the poetry and drama of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece set in sultry New Orleans just after World War II. Weisz has made herself alarmingly thin for the role of a woman whose vulnerability is as delicate as her needs are wanton and who is destroyed by a force that she can neither understand nor control.

Elliot Cowan is suitably muscular, loud and threatening as Stanley Kowalski, the husband of Blanche's lovestruck sister, Stella, played well by Ruth Wilson (TV's "Jane Eyre"), and Barnaby Kay makes her suitor Mitch appropriately stolid. From Blanche's arrival at her sister's dingy two-room apartment, rendered evocatively by set designer Christopher Oram using wrought iron and a spiral staircase, it's apparent that this dreamy lost waif will clash with her violently territorial and crude brother-in-law. Weisz is exactly the right age for Blanche, and though she can do nothing to make her radiant features appear faded, she conveys acutely the woman's sense of loss and desperate need for emotional nourishment. She increasingly is delusional, but her love of artifice and style is apparent, and it is clear why she is catnip to certain men.

Ashford brings in characters from Blanche's life to underline the grip the past has on her fragile imagination and cleverly uses the same actor (Jack Ashton) to play the delivery boy she toys with and her late husband in dream sequences. Blanche's sorrow is the result of seeing the boy she married blow his brains out after she caught him in the intimate embrace of an older man. With her home gone and her teaching career in tatters, she arrives to sponge from her sister with lies about her past and future, only to run into the immovable Stanley.

Weisz brilliantly succeeds in a role that was originated by Jessica Tandy on Broadway in 1947 and played in 1949 in the West End by Vivien Leigh, who went on to win her second Oscar for the Elia Kazan movie version opposite Marlon Brando.

Brando's shadow looms over any production of Williams' masterpiece, making life difficult for the actor playing Kowalski, and so it is for Cowan. He gets the strutting-thug part of Kowalksi right but misses the vulnerability and insolence and doesn't really succeed in showing why Stella loves him, nor why he finds Blanche such a threat.

It's a stalwart performance, though, in a terrific production, and Weisz makes it unforgettable.

(Editing by Dean Goodman at Reuters)