Tempe, AZ -- Barbie could soon have a new boyfriend: Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash. McFarlane toys is making an action figure of the former Guns & Roses guitarist that will come with his trademark top hat and leather jacket. The Slash doll will be available in stores next summer.

HOLLYWOOD -- John Ritter's widow, Amy Yasbeck, is returning to TV after a six-year absence. Yasbeck will star in "Related By Family," a Fox sit-com about a blended family whose members work in a shopping mall. The show will debut in January.

CHICAGO -- Russell Crowe and Kris Kristofferson have teamed up -- for musical purposes, not theatrical ones. The sometime actor Kristofferson sat in with movie star Crowe's rock band, Thirty Odd Foot of Grunts, for a concert that will air on the PBS show "Soundstage" September 23. During the show, the two tough guys share the microphone for a duet of the Kristofferson-penned Janis Joplin hit, "Me and Bobby McGee."

SANGATTE, France -- Matt Damon's 70-year-old uncle is getting more press than his movie star nephew after becoming the oldest person to swim the English Channel. Retired airline pilot George Brunstad crossed the channel in just under 16 hours on Sunday (Sep. 29).

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