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Hopkins finds Hannibal a meaty role

BERLIN, Germany -- Sir Anthony Hopkins says playing serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is a fun trip into the human psyche.

"We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves," Hopkins said Sunday at the Berlin International Film Festival. "It's part of our mechanism, the duality in our psyche, the light and the dark.

"Hannibal Lecter -- he is the pure paradox of human nature."

Hopkins comments followed a Berlin screening of "Hannibal," the sequel to 1991's Oscar-winning "The Silence of the Lambs."

The actor has so much fun playing Hannibal that he's ready to do it again, he says.

"I would like to do one more sequel, which is being discussed," he says.

"Hannibal" topped the U.S. box office this past weekend, raking in $58 million.

Kathy Griffin struts her stuff

NEW YORK -- Following her brief appearance in a Kenneth Cole fashion show, comedian Kathy Griffin says she makes for an interesting fashion model.

"I always end up on the worst-dressed lists," Griffin said after strutting her stuff in a gold leather suit. "I guess I get to keep the clothes, which I love."

Griffin said she was "startled" by just how thin the other models are.

"Size 0 stuff is falling off them," she says. "It's so weird."

Busta Rhymes, Clive Davis in business

NEW YORK -- Busta Rhymes has a new label. The Grammy-nominated rapper and actor has signed with J Records, leaving his old label, Elektra, behind. The multiple-album deal was announced by J Records on Monday.

Rhymes said he was eager to work with Clive Davis, the founder and former president of Arista Records who started J Records.

"What intrigued me most about going to J was that Clive believed in my vision as a whole," said Rhymes. "It wasn't about being in the Busta Rhymes business -- for him it was about being in business with Busta Rhymes. What more could I ask for?"

Lewis Arquette dead at 65

LOS ANGELES, California -- Lewis Arquette, a character actor whose children followed him into show business, has died of congestive heart failure, his family said.

Arquette died Saturday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 65.

Arquette was the father to five children -- Rosanna, Patricia, Alexis, Richmond and David, actors who have enjoyed success in the movie business in the 1980s and '90s.

Born in Chicago and raised in Hollywood, Arquette was the son of the late Cliff "Charley Weaver" Arquette of Tonight Show and "Hollywood Squares" fame.

Arquette went on to star in a recurring role as J.D. Pickett in the television show "The Waltons," as well as several movies, including "The China Syndrome," "Waiting for Guffman," and "Best in Show."