News In Brief 28/7

ROCKY VI ON THE CARDS

Sylvester Stallone is pushing hard to make a sixth film in the Rocky franchise, if only to inspire the elderly.

Stallone, 57, said: "Everyone's very sceptical about doing Rocky VI.

"But when you reach a certain age and perhaps your skills diminish in every facet of your life, you sometimes develop a stronger will - will over skill.

"I don't expect to win, but I want to participate.

Eddie Izzard is to star in a new film version of a children's classic which sees five youngsters find a fairy that makes their dreams come true.

Izzard will voice the part of It, an 8,000 year-old sand fairy in E Nesbitt's story Five Children And It.

According to British women, Demi Moore and Cameron Diaz have got the right idea by dating toyboys.

In a poll for New Woman magazine, two-thirds of women who had flings with younger men say they are better in bed.

Diaz, 30, is said to be seeing Justin Timberlake, 22 and Moore, 40, is dating actor Ashton Kutcher who at 25 is 15 years her junior.

Joan Collins, the randy actress once desctribed by Joan Rivers as "the British Open" has been discussing her love life with Ruby Wax.

She talks candidly about her numerous husbands in the show to be broadcast next week and reveals she has never slept with a man older than 42.