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0 Comments | Sunday Herald, The, Sep 16, 2001

US censors have awarded Ben Stiller's new comedy Zoolander a PG- 13 certificate, despite the inclusion of an intriguing-sounding orgy scene featuring Stiller, below, a Maori tribesman, a midget, Owen Wilson and Christine Taylor. The movie sees Stiller play a vain male model who's brainwashed into becoming an assassin.

More pottermania, but this time it's Lance Henriksen who's getting in on the act. The craggy-faced Aliens star has recently launched his own website - www.bylancehenriksen.com - where fans can purchase ceramic goods styled by the hand of the great man himself. Prices start at just a couple of hundred dollars.

In the wake of the World Trade Center attack, Hollywood has been reassessing the suitability of its output. Warner Brothers have quickly withdrawn John Travolta's terrorist-themed movie Swordfish from UK cinemas, while Collateral Damage - the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, which begins with an office building being bombed - has had its release in the US put back indefinitely. Additionally, a teaser trailer for one of 2002's most-anticipated blockbusters Spider-Man - which climaxed with an escaping helicopter becoming trapped between the twin towers of the World Trade Center by a huge web - has been removed from the official movie website.