Cruise hopping

Los Angeles, March 24 (AP): When it comes to furniture and his love for Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise just can’t help himself.

The megastar was the guest of honour at a Yahoo event on Tuesday at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. After an impromptu arm-wrestling match, Cruise jestingly recreated his “Oprah” sofa-hopping episode, this time on a chair, to trumpet his joy about his fiancee.

he brought the very pregnant Holmes onto the stage, where he beamed and patted her round belly. And, yes, he then sealed the interlude with a kiss.

Inside job

Los Angeles (Reuters): Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen should pull an Inside job at the weekend box office with their new thriller. Inside Man, a heist film that turns into a cat-and-mouse game between a bank robber and a veteran police detective, will enter the fray on Friday.

Art in hotel

London (Reuters): A London hotel is offering art fans a chance to emulate Impressionist Claude Monet in the room where he painted his classic studies of the Thames skyline. For ?2,600 , a couple can stay two nights in the Savoy Hotel room where Monet painted 70 canvases. For that price, they also get an easel, paints and the advice of an arts teacher on how to reproduce the French painter’s famous works.