Released on the second of this month Julia Roberts will be staring in a new film called ‘Full Frontal’. Julia will play the role of a magazine journalist who shows up on set to interview a TV star who has just got his big break (Blair Underwood). David Duchovny plays the producer of the film, who celebrates his 40th birthday party at an exclusive Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel. Other characters include Carl Bright (David Hyde Pierce), a Los Angeles Magazine writer who writes screenplays in his free time; his wife, Lee (Catherine Keener), a coldhearted HR vice president who terminates employees to relieve her marital stress; and Linda (Mary McCormack), Lee's sister, who freaks out, afraid that she'll never meet the right man.

Miss Roberts is a well-known actress and owes much of her fame due to her legendary performance in ‘Pretty Woman’ (1990). The more discrete fact that she is left-handed puts her in our spotlight for this month.

Since ‘Pretty Woman’ her career has seen 22 films including ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’, ‘My Best Friends Wedding’, ‘Conspiracy Theory’, ‘Notting Hill’ and many other successful pictures. The new film shows that she is most certainly not leaving the scene of film making for a long time yet. Her history is riddled with Oscars and hopefully there will be more to come.

Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich
in the Oscar winning role

Valentino Rossi, the famous left-handed motorcyclist seems to be indestructible this season in the 500cc Super Bike Grand Prix after winning six out of seven races so far. ‘Vale’ (Valentino) claimed his sixth MotoGP victory in Holland on the 29th of June to increase his World Championship lead further. Rossi rode patiently on Alex Barros' wheel for 15 laps at the Dutch Grand Prix before passing the Brazilian with three laps to go.

Predictions are that this month cinema screens will be dominated by the new film "Hart's War" in which one of the main roles is played by famous left-hander Bruce Willis.

Young Tommy Hart is a second year Harvard law student when he enlists to fight in World War II. His father is a senator, so Tommy's kept well out of the action until a freak encounter sees him taken prisoner and tortured by the Germans for information. In bad shape, he's transferred to a prisoner of war camp, where Americans and Russians are herded into separate zones - with the Russians treated as animals, an "under-race" by the SS. camp commandant.

Willis plays Col. William McNamara, a fourth generation war-hero from West-Point. He's the Americans' commanding officer, and a man who takes delight in challenging SS Major Visser's views on German superiority and racial supremacy.

Bruce Willis was born on 19th March 1955 in West Germany. Today he is one of the highest paid Hollywood actors, after achieving world fame in the movie "Die Hard" and its two sequels. Some of his other well known movies are: "The Sixth Sense", "Armageddon" and "The Siege".

The 22nd London Marathon goes down in history as the fastest ever after lefthander Paula Radcliffe making her marathon debut, easily out-classed her tough opponents, clocking the fastest time in a women's-only race. She also came desperately close to the overall world record, falling just nine seconds short of Catherine Ndereba's time in last year's Chicago marathon.

"My legs are pretty tired but the rest of me is pretty pleased," Radcliffe said after the race.

"I didn't realise how close to the world record I was."

Despite her fear that being left handed could affect her race (click here to view the full text), Radcliffe was very close to breaking the new world record. The double world half-marathon winner finished in two hours, 18 minutes, 56 seconds, the second fastest time ever over this distance.

She will be competing over 5,000m at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in July and will then attempt to win the 10,000m at the European Championships in Munich.

Also, Radcliffe gave a hint that victory in London had swung her towards selecting that event for the 2004 Olympic Games.

Robert Redford received an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at the 74th Academy Awards last month.

In his speech, Redford said: "...I've spent most of my life just focused on the road ahead, not looking back. But now tonight, I'm seeing in the rear view mirror that there is something I've not thought about much, called history. And what moves me tonight is that I'm being joined by colleagues and peers to reflect on that history..."

Since his acting debut in the 1962 drama War Hunt, Redford has appeared in more than 35 films including Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Way We Were, All The President's Men, and The Sting, for which he received an academy award nomination for best actor in 1973.

After gaining success as an actor, Redford tried his hand at directing and won an academy award in his directorial debut for the film Ordinary People in 1980. He received two nominations in 1994 for directing and producing best picture nominee quiz show.

March sees the release of a long-awaited new single “Freeek!” from a famous left-hander George Michael. A big departure from his most recent work, this one off track is solid funk, capturing the spirit of a very modern dancefloor. If the single is well received, there is an album due for release in October.

George Michael is proof that longevity depends on making good music, and in his 19 years at the top of the charts, he has achieved more than 67 million record sales worldwide. He notched up six US No. 1 singles from his debut album, eleven British No.1 singles and six No. 1 albums to date. He has also played at some of the biggest and most important concerts in history (Live Aid, the Nelson Mandela Freedom Concert, the Freddie Mercury Tribute).

From his early days with Wham! George has evolved into not only one of the most respected male solo artists of the present day, but also one of the finest songwriters, as proved with his albums Faith in 1987, Listen Without Prejudice in 1990 and the single “Careless Whisper” in 1995.

After leaving Sony to join Virgin, George released his first album with them, “Older” – a multi-platinum phenomenal success. Since then, his greatest hits “Ladies & Gentlemen – George Michael” shot straight to number one, and confirmed his place in the hearts of music lovers the world over.

Famous left-hander, Nicole Kidman has recently won a Golden Globe best actress award for her work in the musical Moulin Rouge.

"I never thought I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one," Kidman said as she accepted her award.

In Moulin Rouge, Kidman plays a singer at the famous Paris nightclub who carries on an ill-fated love affair with a struggling writer, played by Ewan McGregor - who was himself up for a best actor award.

Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic has won the BBC's Overseas Sports Personality of the Year award for 2001 thanks to an emotional win at Wimbledon. He became the first wildcard winner of Wimbledon when he beat Pat Rafter in a thrilling five-set final.

On receiving his award, Goran said: "I would like to thank the BBC for this unbelievable award. "I am proud and honoured to be here tonight with all these great sports people."