If you must re-make one of cinema's great classics - in this case the delicious Sharade, which was directed by Stanley Donen and starred the brilliant Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant - why make such a dismal hash of it?

FOR the first time since the Washington-area sniper slayings began, more than one witness saw a man fire and flee in a white van, but police said yesterday that none of the witnesses got a good enough look to yield a sketch.

The serial sniper stalking Washington used a Kalashnikov to kill his latest victim, a witness said today.

Coroners say US film director Ted Demme had cocaine in his system when he collapsed on a basketball court and died.

The director of the film Blow is dead after collapsing while playing basketball.