In brief: Jennifer Aniston sans briefs

Two months short of her 40th birthday, actress Jennifer Aniston has posed naked (apart from a necktie) for the cover of GQ, telling the magazine: "I feel more comfortable today than I ever did in my twenties or early thirties. I'm more at peace in my mind and with my body"........ Nicole Kidman says that she might return to the Donmar Warehouse theatre in London, where she made her UK stage debut in The Blue Room, a performance famously described as "pure theatrical Viagra". She told the Daily Telegraph: "Quite often it's thought about and mentioned, and I think I should go and do something there"............ Filmmaker George Lucas has authorised a stage production of his most famous film. Called Star Wars: A Musical Journey, it will be a retelling of the story combining excerpts of the film with live orchestral accompaniment, and will be staged at the O2 Arena in London in April.............A restraining order has been issued against a former US serviceman who turned up at Tom Cruise's home in Beverly Hills attempting to enlist him in a campaign to help Iraq War veterans. However, Cruise, who famously played a disillusioned Vietnam vet in Born on the Fourth of July, claims that he is unaware of the incident. "Tom didn't even know about it, and the judge did the right thing - you've got to respect the judge for it. But it was not something Tom applied for," said the actor's lawyer ………… A film made inside Perugia's Capanne jail which showed Amanda Knox - the American student awaiting trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher - reciting Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, has been withdrawn from an Italian film festival after protests from the Knox family lawyers. The 21-year-old American stars alongside 11 female inmates in The Last City, which tackles prisoners' fantasies of escape........ Actor Macaulay Culkin's 29-year-old sister, Dakota, died yesterday after being struck by a car in Los Angeles............The long-running dispute over Damien Hirst's favourite London drinking hole, the Colony Room Club in Soho, was finally resolved last night. Michael Wojas, who was trying to close the joint down, was ousted from his position as the club's secretary at a heated AGM. It is now hoped the Colony will survive………..