BABY BOY FOR DOUGLAS, ZETA-JONES
Michael Douglas and his fiancee Catherine Zeta-Jones became the proud parents of a baby boy. Dylan Michael Douglas was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, near Beverly Hills. The baby weighed in at seven pounds and seven ounces.

The baby is the first for 30-year-old Welsh actress Zeta-Jones. Douglas, 55, has an adult son, Cameron, from his first marriage to Diandra Douglas. Michael Douglas and Zeta-Jones met at the Deauville Film Festival in France, in August 1998, began dating in March 1999, and got engaged on New Year’s Eve. No date has been set for their marriage. Zeta-Jones’ film credits include Entrapment and The Mask Of Zorro. Douglas’ recent credits include A Perfect Murder and Wonder Boys.

CHAN IN JERRY LEWIS REMAKE
MGM is in advanced talks with Jackie Chan to co-star in an update of the 1960 Jerry Lewis comedy The Bellboy. The original film follows a bellboy (Lewis), as he undergoes a number of zany misadventures at Miami’s Fountainbleau Hotel. With Chan set to share top billing, it appears the remake will depart quite a bit from the original. Details of the co-star have not been announced. Lewis, who owns the remake rights, will be a producer on the project as well. The veteran comic also serves as an executive producer of Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, based on his 1963 movie The Nutty Professor.

CULKIN AND WIFE SPLIT
Macaulay Culkin, the child star of the 1990 film Home Alone, and his actress wife, Rachel Miner, have separated after two years of marriage. Culkin, 19, met Miner, 20, in 1997, at the Professional Children’s School in New York, and they married the following June, when both were just 17 years old. The spokesperson for Culkin said it was a “temporary separation” and declined to reveal whether the couple were contemplating divorce.

Once the hottest child actor in Hollywood, Culkin starred in the original 1990 Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York in 1992, as well as My Girl in 1991, before taking several roles in less successful films, including The Good Son in 1993, and Getting Even With Dad and Richie Rich, both in 1994. His career suffered after he and his six siblings became embroiled in a custody dispute between his father, Christopher ‘Kit’ Culkin, and his mother, Patricia Brentrup.

Miner had co-starred in a Broadway production of The Diary Of Anne Frank, playing Anne’s older sister.

...AND SO DO HUNT AND AZARIA
Another actor couple who have split are Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt and her husband Hank Azaria. They have been separated for several months, but are not contemplating divorce. Their publicist insisted they’re still “very good friends” and that the situation is “amicable.”

Hunt, 37, and Azaria, 36, dated for nearly five years before tying the knot in a small, private ceremony at their Los Angeles home, in July 1999. Hunt gained fame and several Emmys starring opposite Paul Reiser on the popular NBC sitcom Mad About You, which wrapped its seventh and final season last May. For several seasons, Azaria played a recurring role on the show as Nat Ostertag, the affable but addled dog-walker who took care of the couple’s pooch, Murray.

Hunt won a Best Actress Oscar for her role as a waitress who falls for Jack Nicholson in the 1997 romantic comedy As Good As It Gets, and recently signed to star in Woody Allen’s next film. She also has four films set for release between October and December — Pay It Forward with Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment, the Robert Altman film Dr. T. And The Women, Castaways with Tom Hanks, and What Women Want, co-starring Mel Gibson.
Azaria recently received an Emmy nomination for his role opposite Jack Lemmon in Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie, a TV movie on ABC. He also is known as the voice of several characters on the animated Fox hit The Simpsons. Azaria’s film credits also include the 1998 remake of Godzilla, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Birdcage and Quiz Show.

SCHNEIDER’S ANIMAL INSTINCTS
Rob Schneider, who starred as a male prostitute in the surprise hit Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, is being paid a low seven-figure sum to play a man whose internal organs have been replaced with those of various animals. The film titled Animal has been greenlit for an October 1 start, and a summer 2001 release.

Schneider’s character displays the crude attributes of the critters, usually at the most inopportune times. The project was in development at Disney, but has been taken over by the studio’s former chairman, Joe Roth, and his nascent production company, Revolution Studios.

Animal will be executive produced by actor Adam Sandler and his producing partner Jack Giarraputo. The duo also executive produced Deuce Bigalow, which grossed more than $60 million domestically.