• Rosie Perez: 'I have the ability'
• New Bond gadget man -- Cleese, John Cleese?
• Teen mob scares Pamela Anderson into cancelling tour
• 'Chang and Eng' attended by family member of character

Perez

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rosie Perez says she talked her way into a bigger role in her latest film, "24 Hour Woman." The 34-year-old actress, who has been on a four-year hiatus from the movies because she couldn't find a role that she liked, persuaded director Nancy Savoca she was a different actress than her previous roles.

"I said to her, 'I know you think I'm loud because of the press you read, but it's not true. I have the ability to do this -- all I need is the opportunity ... I want the lead and I want to produce. Here's my resume,'" Perez recalled for Sunday's Daily News. "I just got tired of being offered this and that -- I was like 'I'm better than that.'"

In the new movie, Perez -- whose high-pitched Brooklyn voice has echoed in movies like "Do The Right Thing" and "It Could Happen To You" -- takes on the role of a "well-rounded, complex" television producer who decides to share her pregnancy with the show's audience.

Cleese

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Q has an assistant. Variety reports that John Cleese will play the slipshod aide to James Bond's gadget guru in the franchise's 19th cinematic outing, "The World Is Not Enough." Cleese's character will apparently be named R.

Desmond Llewelyn, who has played Q in 17 Bond films, could retire from the role after this film, according to Variety. Cleese joins Denise Richards, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Judi Dench and Pierce Brosnan in the cast.

Lee

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson Lee has cut short a tour of Uruguay and Argentina after a bizarre scene on a beach. Following a news conference, Anderson was apparently hounded by scores of teen-age boys, who pestered her with questions about her famed sex videotape with estranged rock star husband Tommy Lee. The teens reportedly surrounded Anderson on the beach, shouted vulgar remarks and tried to fondle her.

"Pamela is frightened, and though we offered to suspend her open-air presentations, she just wants to go home," tour manager Diego Cassagne said Saturday. The current star of the syndicated TV show "V.I.P." immediately canceled the filming of a suntan lotion commercial in Uruguay and a guest appearance on a TV show in neighboring in Argentina.

"Chang and Eng"

SINGAPORE (CNN) -- On Friday, the cast of "Chang and Eng," the story of the world's original Siamese twins, received perhaps the greatest highlight so far, when the great-great granddaughter of Eng, Tanya Rees, flew all the way from North Carolina to be part of the audience.

Watching her ancestor's story played out on stage brought tears to her eyes. Tanya said after the performance that it was the most "special moment" of her life: "Everybody is going to enjoy the musical because the music is so special, the story is so special but to the family it's really true," Tanya said.

Having already broken ticket sale records in Singapore, the "Chang and Eng" juggernaut has swept director Ekachai Uekrongtham to fame in the theatrical circles of Asia. Now his sights are set firmly on international shores: "It's already the longest running musical in Singapore and it's going to be extended further. We are now working to bring Chang and Eng to Thailand -- it will be a homecoming of sorts because their birth place is in Thailand."

Reuters Limited contributed to this report.