A chance to meet Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd is being auctioned off for charity. Producers of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rosslyn Chapel are auctioning 35 pairs of tickets for Tuesday’s performance, which it is hoped Boyd will introduce, with the highest bidder meeting the Scots star. Nonsense Room Productions are staging an online auction of the tickets on their website www.nonsenseroom.co.uk, with proceeds going to the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. [More]

Washington, May 29(ANI): Director Brett Ratner is hoping to persuade busy British thespian Sir Ian Mckellen to play the villain in his upcoming sequel ‘Rush Hour 3’ Ratner and McKellen have only just finished working together on the much anticipated action sequel ‘X-Men 3’, in which McKellen plays the notorious role of Magneto.

Orlando Bloom is planning to reward himself for undertaking extensive promotional work for the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequel this summer – by hiking up Mount Everest. The travel-hungry Brit has always dreamed of seeing how far up the world’s highest mountain he can climb. He says, “I’d love to go to the Everest Base Camp. I’m just looking forward to getting away from it.” [More]