New York, March 28, 2006 – Queen Latifah continues to scale new artistic heights. The hip-hopper turned talk-show host turned movie star now takes on a historical role – prehistoric, actually - as Ellie, a woolly mammoth who thinks she’s a possum, in Ice Age: The Meltdown. A lifelong dream fulfilled, “I get my woolly mammoth on”, she said at the premiere on Tuesday.

According to Denis Leary, one of the best things about being in an animated feature is having toys made of your character. “I’ve got a couple of really young nephews who think that’s the coolest thing.”

The boys in the English band McFly aren’t in Ice Age 2, but they appear with Lindsay Lohan in Just My Luck, shot in pre-Katrina New Orleans. While Lohan is hot in the U.K., “Over here it’s a bit more frantic. When we were filming the movie, it was like, paparazzi everywhere following her around. She just doesn’t get left alone.” We asked the guys which young British actresses are their favorites. “Keira Knightley. Sienna Miller; she’s English as well, isn’t she?”