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Anne Robinson: 'One mean lady'

BURBANK, California -- Does this mean Anne Robinson might bite someone's ear?

It seems Robinson, the vitriolic host of NBC's "Weakest Link," has earned top honors from former heavyweight champ (and ear-biter) Mike Tyson.

Robinson says Tyson came up to her at a ball game recently and said, "You're one mean lady."

Robinson might be mean to the contestants on her highly-rated quiz show, but she says Tyson isn't the only one who watches it. The show's audience spans generations, she says.

"There is a viewer who is over 50 who just gets very excited about me in leather," Robinson, 56, told The Associated Press. "There are also mothers who sit their babies in front of the set because somehow the baby laughs."

Paul Walker kicks himself in the butt

NEW YORK -- He's an actor, and he's his own toughest critic.

Paul Walker, who stars in the "The Fast and the Furious," says he can't stand to see himself on the big screen.

"I see all the things I did wrong and could have done better, even if no one else notices," the 27-year-old actor told The Associated Press. "I'm much more likely to give myself a kick in the butt than a pat on the back."

Walker says he's better off going to see animated movies with his 2-year-old daughter, Meadow.

"Animated movies are really up my alley," said Walker, who lives in Los Angeles.

So far this summer he's seen "Shrek" and "Atlantis: The Lost Empire," and he gives them both favorable reviews.

"The Fast and the Furious" opens Friday.

Helena Bonham Carter, on aping an ape

NEW YORK -- Evolution says we're related to the apes. But that doesn't mean it's easy to be one.

Ask Helena Bonham Carter, who stars in the upcoming "The Planet of the Apes." She rose at 2:30 a.m. each morning to begin the four-hour process of applying make-up to help her look like a chimp -- a bald cap, teeth, ears, a foam latex prosthetic for the face, facial hair and a wig.

"It's not for anybody neurotic, this stuff," Bonham Carter tells Premiere magazine in its July issue.

Bonham Carter said her makeup was so elaborate, she had to use a mirror while eating lunch so she wouldn't mess it up.

"You need the mirror because you've got no idea where your mouth is," Bonham Carter said. "It begins about an inch lower than where you usually aim for."

"The Planet of the Apes" premieres in U.S. theaters on July 27.

Poitier praises his home

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Oscar-winner Sidney Poitier returned to his homeland Wednesday.

The actor is visiting the Bahamas to act as a narrator for a government-produced documentary on the country's independence day in July.

While there, Poitier, 74, spoke before the House of Assembly, remembering from where he came.

"My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I," Poitier said, according to The Associated Press. "And all that I am, I've received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to my grandchildren, that I have never dreamt of."

Poitier won a best-actor Oscar for 1963's "Lilies of the Field."