Jackie Chan has seen enough action. The Hong Kong star told Press Association in Venice, Italy, that he wants to be more than a martial-arts master -- and is ready for another challenge.

"I've been willing to change my roles for quite some time. I'm fed up with these roles," the actor, 52, was quoted as saying. "We all know that the life of an action movie actor is quite a short career. I already consider myself a myth for still being around today."

"I want to put myself to the test by interpreting and acting different characters," he said. "I would like people in [the] future to see my movies and consider me an actor who can act in action movies, not just someone who knows about martial arts and happens to be an actor."

Chan -- whose screen credits include Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights -- presented his latest movie, Rob-B-Hood, at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. "When people come up to me in the street in America they say, `Ah, Jackie Chan!' and do all the action moves," he said. "No one does that to Robert De Niro."

Brad Pitt says he won't marry Angelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped. "Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the actor, 42, says in Esquire magazine's October issue, on newsstands Sept. 19.

Though Shiloh, Pitt's daughter with Jolie, was in the spotlight when she was born in May, Pitt says he "cannot imagine life" without adopted children Maddox, 5, and Zahara, 1. "They're as much of my blood as any natural-born, and I'm theirs," says Pitt. "That's all I can say about it. I can't live without them. So: Anyone considering [adoption], that's my vote."

Pitt, who plays a world traveler in the upcoming drama Babel, subscribes to a laid-back parenting style. "I try not to stifle them in any way," he says. "If it's not hurting anyone, I want them to be able to explore. Sometimes that means they're quite rambunctious."

David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, asked a judge to set aside his prenuptial agreement with the star, the latest development in their lengthy divorce battle.

Gest's lawyers told State Supreme Court Judge Harold B. Beeler on Friday in New York that Minnelli hid the fact that she was infected with herpes, was an alcoholic and prone to violence. Had Gest known, the lawyers argued, he never would have entered into the prenuptial agreement.

Minnelli's lawyer, Israel Rubin, refused to comment on specific allegations. "This whole thing is ridiculous," he said. Gest's lawyers asked Beeler to order a trial to determine the validity of the prenuptial agreement.

Minnelli, 60, and Gest, 52, married March 16, 2002, at a celebrity-studded ceremony with Michael Jackson as best man and Elizabeth Taylor as maid of honor. They separated in July 2003 and filed for divorce later that year.

Most recently, Minnelli argued in court papers that Gest and her former bodyguard, who claims she forced him to have sex with her to keep his job, joined forces to attack and embarrass her publicly. She claimed the bodyguard, M'Hammed Soumayah, 56, breached a confidentiality agreement by giving Gest information about her.

Gest has filed his own $10 million lawsuit against Minnelli, saying that during the 15 months they lived together after they were married she repeatedly beat him so badly that he suffered nerve damage in his head. Minnelli has denied the claims.

Police said Friday they hope the talks will solve problems around the supermodel's home near Bury St. Edmunds, a rural town northeast of London. Locals walking on a footpath that runs alongside the estate have complained about Schiffer's dogs "running wild," said a spokeswoman for police in the county of Suffolk.

"A public footpath runs alongside the grounds, where locals walk dogs. We first received a complaint in December that one of the dogs had bitten another dog," said the spokeswoman. "More recently, a local parish council has received a number of complaints to say that dogs are still `running wild.'"

Schiffer lives in Coldham Hall, a 16th-century mansion, with her husband, film producer Matthew Vaughn. She is thought to own an Irish wolfhound and a German shepherd.

The award to Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke's film was unexpected, and trumped such candidates for the top award as Emilio Estevez's Bobby, about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and Stephen Frear's The Queen, about the week that followed Princess Diana's death.

Affleck won for his role in Allen Coulter's Hollywoodland, which dramatizes an investigation into the death of George Reeves, star of the 1950s TV show Adventures of Superman.

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