Kevin Costner became the 2,233rd celebrity to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. More than 2,000 people attended the ceremony for the 48-year-old star of Dances with Wolves and JFK. Costner's new film, the western Open Range, opens in the US on Friday.

The co-creator of the Asterix comic book series has vetoed a third movie adaptation about the Roman-bashing Gaul hero. Uderzo, who worked on the comic with the late Rene Goscinny, is reported to have taken a dislike to the second movie in the hit franchise, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. His decision has plunged plans for a third film, once again starring Gerard Depardieu and Christian Clavier, into crisis. It had been set to start filming next spring in Spain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been warned he faces "real bullets" in his battle to become governor of California. Democratic party spokesman Bob Mulholland said: "Schwarzenegger is going to find out that, unlike a Hollywood movie set, the bullets coming at him in this campaign are going to be real bullets and he's going to have to respond to them." Tales of womanising, abuse of steroids and even a photo showing the Austrian-born star's father as a member of the Nazi party during the second world war have already been published by opponents.