Quirky World ... Tourist mistakes Richard Gere for homeless beggar

USA: A French tourist listened to her heart when she offered her pizza to a man spotted rummaging through rubbish in the streets of New York, not realising it was Hollywood star Richard Gere making a movie-

Karine Valnais Gombeau, a 42-year-old Parisian, spotted the actor, a knit cap pulled down over his ears, sifting through rubbish as she came out of a pizzeria near Grand Central station in Manhattan, with her husband and 15-year-old son, the New York Post reported.

Without blinking, Gere, 64, asked her what was in the bag Gombeau offered him. “I tried to tell him in English, but it came out half in French,” she told the newspaper.