Izzard Gets Catty

Eddie Izzard will play Charlie Chaplin in director Peter Bogdanovich's new film The Cat's Meow. The 1920s-set thriller focuses on the murder of a Hollywood insider, which occurs aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht, and its subsequent cover-up. Kirsten Dunst will star as Hearst's actress lover Marion Davies, and Jennifer Tilly will appear as gossip columnist Louella Parsons. The film will start shooting in Greece and Berlin this month. Bogdanovich, who had huge success in the 1970s with The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, most recently directed the TV movies A Saintly Switch and Naked City: A Killer Christmas