Rebel Wilson This article is more than 2 years old‘Funny fat girl’: Rebel Wilson says her team was against her losing weightThis article is more than 2 years oldActor says she received ‘pushback’ from her management due to fears of the impact it could have on her career Rebel Wilson, one of Hollywood’s top comedy actors, has said her own team was opposed to her losing weight because she was “earning millions of dollars being the funny fat girl”.

Hear me outPlanet of the ApesThe latest in our series of writers standing up for loathed films is an impassioned defence of the 2001 take on the 60s classic Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes is a remake that has the forward momentum and expansive qualities of a sequel; a love letter assuming a familiarity with the 1968 sci-fi classic, counting on our expectations so that it could playfully thwart them.

BIRDS AND THE BEESI've heard a theory that a polar bear, when hunting, will place one of their front paws in front of their nose while stalking their prey, so that they are completely camouflaged. Is this true, and is the reality as funny as the mental image? Maria Lamle, London UK Its a great theory, but sadly untrue. Seals, which make up the bulk of polar bear diet, are very short-sighted on land, their eyes being better adapted to seeing underwater.

Matt Damon This article is more than 11 years oldMatt Damon to make bald cameo in Terry Gilliam filmThis article is more than 11 years oldThe former Python will take advantage of Damon's recently shaved head for a cameo in his new fantasy, The Zero TheoremMatt Damon is set to make a follically challenged appearance in Terry Gilliam's forthcoming dystopian fantasy The Zero Theorem, the actor has revealed. Speaking to the Vulture blog, Damon said he was looking forward to working with Gilliam for the first time in a decade.

Mafia This article is more than 2 months oldMore than 200 people convicted in Italian mafia ‘maxi trial’This article is more than 2 months oldSpecially built courtroom in Calabria heard evidence of ruthless tactics of ’Ndrangheta crime syndicate An Italian court has convicted and sentenced more than 200 people of crimes including criminal association, extortion and bribery in what has been described as Italy’s largest mafia trial in three decades.