Taking Names

Cruise control

San Francisco Chronicle

Movie bosses are demanding that Tom Cruise lose weight for his starring role in the film sequel “Mission: Impossible III,” so they have put him on a strict diet.

Mr. Cruise’s managers have told the actor — who split with actress Penelope Cruz in January — to lose weight, and they have drawn up a special eating plan for him, according to the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost. The Hollywood actor is in Berlin scouting locations for the action movie.

The kitchen staff at the Four Seasons Hotel, where Mr. Cruise is staying, has been informed of the actor’s diet and has been given a full list of what to serve him when he gets hungry.

Altar call?

E! Online

Marilyn Manson may just have blown his street cred.

The raunchy rocker reportedly popped the question to his gal-pal, burlesque artist Dita Von Teese, on March 22, according to Us Weekly.

Mr. Manson (real name Brian Warner) even took the traditional route, reports the tab, getting down on bended knee to present her with a 7-carat round-cut diamond ring.

A call to his publicist was not returned, but Us expects the pair to tie the knot within a year. Previous reports, though, suggest the two may already be secretly hitched.

Royal row

Associated Press

A college student has sued Prince and his bodyguard for reportedly assaulting him after he took a picture of the rock star getting off a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Anthony Fitzgerald of Edina, Minn., filed the lawsuit Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court.

It states that Prince’s bodyguard, identified only as “Trevor,” lunged at Mr. Fitzgerald Dec. 29 “in an aggressive, threatening manner,” then grabbed his digital camera, leaving him “stunned and humiliated.”

The lawsuit claims assault and battery, loss of the camera and intentional infliction of emotional distress that left Mr. Fitzgerald anxious and unable to sleep.

Edina attorney Frank Berman said the lawsuit, dated Jan. 14, was filed Wednesday because Prince’s “people” wouldn’t accept a copy of it. Mr. Fitzgerald is asking the court for instructions on how to serve him with it.

Ronnie Lippin, a Prince spokeswoman, told the Star-Tribune newspaper she wasn’t familiar with the lawsuit.

’Kill’ continues

Associated Press

“Kill Bill: Vol. 2” isn’t even in theaters yet, but Quentin Tarantino says he’s already planning volume three.

“Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my ’Dollars’ trilogy. I was going to do a new one every 10 years. But I need at least 15 years before I do this again,” the director tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its April 16 issue.

Mr. Tarantino says Uma Thurman, who plays a bride out for revenge in the series that began last year, won’t be the star.

“The star will be Vernita Green’s (Vivica A. Fox’s) daughter, Nikki (Ambrosia Kelley). I’ve already got the whole mythology: Sofie Fatale (Julie Dreyfus) will get all of Bill’s money. She’ll raise Nikki, who’ll take on the Bride,” he says. “Nikki deserves her revenge every bit as much as the Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they’re this age.”

“Kill Bill: Vol. 2,” co-starring David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Daryl Hannah, opens Friday .

No end in sight

New York Post

The decade-long feud between Harold Ramis and Bill Murray isn’t ending anytime soon. They haven’t spoken in 11 years.

Mr. Murray recently turned down his “Stripes” co-star when Mr. Ramis asked him, through brother Brian Doyle Murray, to appear in “The Ice Harvest,” Tad Friend reports in the upcoming New Yorker. The relationship went sour during their last collaboration, “Groundhog Day.”

“Bill was just really irrationally mean and unavailable; he was constantly late on set,” Mr. Ramis told Mr. Friend. “What I’d want to say to him is just what we tell our children: ’You don’t have to throw a tantrum to get what you want.’”

Compiled by Robyn-Denise Yourse from Web and wire reports.