LOS ANGELES - JODI Foster will direct the drama 'The Beaver', starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who wears a puppet on his hand and treats it as a real person, Hollywood media reported.

NEW YORK - JIM Carrey is going to be a grandfather.

Carrey's spokesman, Marleah Leslie, says his 21-year-old daughter, Jane Carrey, is expecting her first child.

BOSTON - THE artist who created the 'Hope' poster of President Barack Obama was sentenced to two years of probation Friday after pleading guilty to three vandalism charges. Prosecutors dropped 11 other charges.

Shepard Fairey pleaded guilty in Boston Municipal Court to one charge of defacing property and two charges of wanton destruction of property under $250, all misdemeanors.