• "just give me one kiss; give me one kiss, please!"

Keira Knightley has told how she begged the director of the new Pirates of the Caribbean to let her share a screen kiss with Johnny Depp.

The British star locks lips with Depp's character Captain Jack Sparrow as well as Orlando Bloom's Will Turner.

Knightley said she had pleaded with the movie's boss: "Come on, just give me one kiss, give me one kiss, please."

She told Entertainment Tonight the experience had been worth the wait. "It was good," a giggling Knightley said. "Really good."

She added: "It's like, wonderful. I can have feelings for both of these very beautiful men."

Knightley said she had done a lot of physical work in the action-packed adventure, but had not been injured thanks to an "amazing" stunt team.

"I've got this brililant stunt double - she's just sensational," she said.

"She talks me through everything step by step so I can do as much as I can, because I love it." back to the top

katherine heigl engaged

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• "we ate, drank and just started hanging out"

According to People, Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl and her boyfriend, musician Josh Kelley, are engaged.

No wedding date has been set.

The couple met last year when Heigl, 27, appeared in a video for Kelley's song 'Only You'.

"At the end of the shoot, I said, 'You're gonna go eat dinner with us, and you can't say no,'" Kelley, 25, said in October. "So we ate, drank and just started hanging out after that."

Music is still part of their relationship: Kelley wrote a tune, 'Katie's Song,' for Heigl. "There is really nothing more romantic that that," she said. "It was one of the most thrilling and romantic things that I've ever experienced, and it makes me really like him bad." back to the top

• she plays serial dater's true love

Jessica Alba is joining Dane Cook in the Lionsgate comedy Good Luck Chuck, directed by Mark Helfrich, reports Variety.

Cook plays a serial dater who gets a reputation that any woman dating him will rebound into meeting her soulmate. When the man meets his true love, he must find a way to end the streak and keep her. Alba will play that woman.

Josh Stolberg wrote the script, and Mike Karz is producing. Shooting begins next month.

Alba, who's currently filming the GreeneStreet Films comedy Bill opposite Aaron Eckhart, is poised for encores in sequels to Fantastic Four and Sin City. back to the top

• "fantastic 4" star replaces lindsay lohan in "bill"

Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba has snatched up Lindsday Lohan's role in the new movie Bill, after the teen actor abruptly quit the film because the first-time directors weren't well-known enough.

The movie, which also stars Aaron Eckhart and Amanda Peet, began production on Thursday.

Lohan pulled out of the film on Tuesday, claiming she wanted to work with only big-name directors. back to the top

• "buffy" actress in albania and kosovo

Eliza Dusku is taking a very particular souvenir from her visit to her father's homeland - a double-headed eagle, modelled after the one on Albania's flag.

Dushku had the tattoo done on her backduring her first visit to Albania and Kosovo. She said she was impressed by the welcome and the honours she received during the trip, which included meeting Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim Ceku.

"I'm flattered and taken aback, and yet it makes me want to be an even louder and prouder Albanian," Dushku said, as she sat for a lunch with family and friends accompanying her during the visit to the UN-administered province. She also laid a wreath at the grave of Kosovo's late president Ibrahim Rugova.

"It's very emotional," she said, displaying a rubber bracelet advocating independence for Kosovo. "There's so many emotions running through my soul, my mind and my heart."

Dushku, who said she always wanted to visit Kosovo, was there as part of a brief visit that took her to Albania as a guest in a song festival bringing together musicians from European countries. But she might be going back soon. During her three-day stay in Kosovo, she crossed paths with a South African filmmaker who is trying to put together a movie about the town of Djakovica, from which 1,000 people went missing during the 1998-99 war. "She said she went to bed and was thinking about it and that she envisioned me," Dushku said. "I think that will be amazing." back to the top