London, England -- Hannibal Lecter fans should eat up this news: The famous cannibal is making yet another return in a novel. Lecter creator Thomas Harris has just completed "Behind The Mask" (Random House), a novel which will be published next autumn, followed, of course, by a film version.

NEW YORK -- Not everyone emerged from the Boston Rex Sox' first World Series win in 86 years unscathed. According to the "New York Daily News, "California first lady Maria Shriver evidently was so excited over the victory that she leaped off a sofa and accidentally broke her foot.

LONDON -- Robert DeNiro has been named the greatest living movie star over the age of 50 by British film magazine "Empire." Al Pacino came in second, followed by Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman and Marlon Brando who was still alive during the polling process.

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