HOLLYWOOD … Heather Locklear, so familiar on the small screen, is set to make a movie for the big one. It’s tentatively titled “Flirting With 40,” and is about a divorced mother of two kids on the brink of her 40th birthday who falls in love with a much younger man. She soon learns life really CAN begin at 40. The film is based on the novel by Jane Porter. … Heather, 46, is one of Tinseltown’s favorites. Everybody likes her. She once announced to one and all: “Having to sit like a lady isn’t one of my favorite things. It’s nicer to be comfy. So, I mostly wear pants, and not a skirt.”

Emilio Estevez is a multi-talented man. This son of Martin Sheen writes, acts and directs. His next film will be “The Public,” which he wrote. He will star in and also direct this story of libraries becoming the home for many derelicts and the mentally ill. They wander into these public places and make their homes among the shelves until they are discovered and evicted. In his private life, Emilio was once married to Paula Abdul.

Julia Roberts will leave the bambinos with nannies in the daytime while she makes a movie. She will act in AND produce “Hothouse Flowers,” about a Manhattan divorcee who trades her staid life for one of adventure. More about casting and etc. when we find out. Meanwhile, the Moders “just keep rolling along.”

Michael Douglas, his hair tinted a nice soft reddish color, has signed on for “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt,” about a journalist who sets out to expose a corrupt district attorney by setting himself up as the suspect in a murder he didn’t commit. Douglas plays the D.A. As time goes by, Michael is looking more and more like his father, Kirk Douglas, looked in his younger days. In his private life, Michael is a happy husband to Catherine Zeta-Jones and a fun and loving father to his kids.



(c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.