LOS ANGELES, May 2 (UPI) -- Australian actress Nicole Kidman is planning to produce and star in a film about 1960s-era British pop star Dusty Springfield, Variety.com reported.

JERUSALEM, March 1 (UPI) -- Award-winning Israeli translator and author Aharon Amir has died at the age of 85.

UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 25, 2008.

PALMA, Spain, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Poet Paul Roche, one of the few surviving members of the noted Bloomsbury group, has died on the Spanish island of Majorca at the age of 91.

NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl is planning to star in the world premiere production of Edward Albee's "Occupant" next year in New York.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Actress Kathleen Turner will direct a new off-Broadway production of "Crimes of the Heart" in New York, said representatives for the show.

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Veteran film, television and stage actor George Grizzard has died at a New York City hospital of complications from lung cancer. He was 79.

STUDIO CITY, Calif., Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Al Viola, a guitarist known for working with Frank Sinatra and playing mandolin for "The Godfather," died of cancer at his Studio City, Calif., home at 87. Viola arrived in Los Angeles after World War II as a member of the Page Cavanaugh Trio abd eventual

UPI almanac for Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007.