LOS ANGELES - WE SAW Beyonce play Etta James, but we probably won't be seeing the divas singing a duet any time soon.

The 71-year-old singer says in an audio clip that surfaced online on Thursday that she would "whip" Beyonce for singing "her song", At Last, at an inaugural ball for President Barack Obama.

BANGKOK - ANGELINA Jolie's day job is acting, but since 2001 she has been playing another real-life role: advocate for the world's refugees. This week she took her show to Thailand.

As a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, she is trying to leverage her celebrity status to put the spotlight on refugees from military-ruled Myanmar, including boat-people from that country's Rohingya minority.

NEW YORK - JOHN Grisham has no desire to ever run for office again. Though his name pops up every now and then on ballots in Virginia and Mississippi, the mega-selling author, former lawyer and politician emphatically vetoes the idea of a return to public service.

'I wouldn't take a seat in the US Senate if it was given to me and guaranteed for 20 years with no opposition,' says Grisham, who served as a Democratic representative in the Mississippi state House of Representatives from 1983 to 1990. Getting fired up, he declares, 'Look, I've got the easiest life in the world. I don't want to go to Washington and sit through subcommittee hearings on Medicare. How much fun is that? No.'