Williams accepts reduced salary for gay DJ role

Hollywood funnyman Robin Williams is to play a homosexual radio DJ in forthcoming movie The Night Listener - he's so keen for the role that he has accepted a dramatically reduced salary to play it.

The Mre Doubtfire star will receive just $65,000 (€49,500) to play a radio host who befriends his biggest fan over the telephone in the movie adaptation of Armistead Maupin's best-selling novel of the same name, reports US newspaper New York Daily News.