Julia Roberts makes the Big Leagues

Julia Roberts has leapt with a single bound into the earnings realm usually only inhabited by male actors. Just weeks after Sigourney Weaver set a new contract record by accepting $18 million for starring in Alien 5, the friend of Orang-Utans everywhere has signed a deal to appear in the folow-up to My Best Friend's Wedding. The fee? $20 million. Rumours that the film is to be called My Casual Acquaintance's Engagement have proved to be unfounded.