Michael Douglas may lose his voice to cancer

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Michael Douglas may lose his voice after the treatment for throat cancer, doctors have warned.

The 65-year-old is to begin an aggressive course of radiation and chemotherapy to destroy the tumour. Douglas, husband of British actress Catherine Zeta Jones, is said to be "optimistic" the treatment will succeed.

He will have eight weeks of radiation, and chemotherapy. But the treatment has been known to affect the larynx.

'You wouldn't treat a benign tumour with radiation, so most definitely this is a malignant tumour,' the Sun quoted Dr Eric Genden, chief of head and neck cancer surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Centre, as saying.

Years of smoking and drinking are thought to have caused the cancer. The Oscar-winner has cancelled all engagements for two months, including promoting new film Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.

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Producer of film and television entertainment Warner Brothers has for the first time released promotional pictures of part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on Twitter.

The hugely successful wizard franchise by author J K Rowling has seen the last instalment being split into two parts, with the first due for release in Australia on November 18, the Age reported.

The pictures, taken from part one, show Harry's intimacy with Ginny Weasely, and it also previews actor Rhys Ifans as Xenophilius Lovegood, the father of Potter's oddball friend Luna.

Fans, who have read about Potter's final confrontation with evil Lord Voldemort in the book released in 2007, will have to wait till mid-2011 to see it on the big screen when the second part is released.

The stars of television drama series True Blood Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard have ''bared it all'' for the latest issue of Rolling Stone.

Naked and covered in nothing but blood, Paquin, Moyer and Skarsgard have encapsulated hot and heavy vampire sex aptly, reports News.com.au.

Posing for the September cover of the magazine Paquin stands sandwiched between Moyer and Skarsgard with a tactically placed thigh and hand to cover any cheeky bits.

In contrast to the forbidden love story of Twilight, True Blood creator Alan Ball, said the idea of vampires chastity is ridiculous, 'To me, vampires are sex.'

'I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed,' Ball added.

Australian actor Hugh Jackman has backed out of a girlie role in the upcoming movie Avon Man to prepare for the next Wolverine blockbuster.

The 41-year-old actor had signed up to play an unemployed car dealer who swaps motors for cosmetics and becomes Avon's top selling door-to-door representative, reports the Daily Telegraph.

But he has now quit the project, which was due to start filming later in 2010, and will focus on preparing to reprise his role as a muscled mutant in a sequel to 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to Deadline.com.

Although, Jackman will still act as a producer on Avon Man as movie bosses search for a replacement.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton has decided to set up her own hotel chain.

The socialite said that she is ready to try her hand at being a hotelier after having conquered the rest of the entertainment industry, reports News.com.au.

'I've pretty much done all you can do, but my next project that I'd like to do is get more involved in real estate just from being in the business and growing up in it my whole life, it's always something I've been interested in,' Hilton said.

'And right now that I've done everything I've wanted to do, that would definitely be the next step, to open my own hotels,' she added.