Looking tanned and trim, Matt Damon declared his latest film challenge as "probably the funnest time I've had working."

He also enjoyed making the movie The Informant!

What PEOPLE's former Sexiest Man Alive was describing was adding 30 lbs. – not to mention the cheesy moustache, hairpiece and glasses – to become nearly unrecognizable for his role as Mark Whitacre, an agricultural company's vice president-turned-FBI informant.

"It was very, very easy to gain the weight," Damon told reporters at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. "It was very, very fun, probably the funnest time I had working because I didn't have to go to the gym after work and I just ate everything I could see."

Based on a true story, the comedy – which costars Two and A Half Men's Melanie Lynskey and Scott Bakula – is Damon's latest collaboration with Oceans director Steven Soderbergh.

Keith Urban served wife Nicole Kidman an ace of a kiss. The A-list couple was spotted smooching courtside at the U.S. Open in Flushing, New York.

The lovebirds watched on as tennis great Roger Federer defeated Tommy Robredo in their fourth round match. Federer goes on to play Robin Soderling in the quarterfinals of the grandslam tournament.

Ludacris has given away 20 cars to people who wrote about their struggles to keep their jobs for a lack of wheels of their own.

Ludacris said he was taken aback after reading thousands of essays by people struggling or unable to buy cars needed to get to and from work or find jobs. The 31-year-old rapper felt he could step in and move them ahead, partnering with a suburban Atlanta dealership for Sunday's giveaway.

"People are getting laid off, and now are looking for jobs," Ludacris said. "To be efficient, you need some transportation of your own to get there. That's why I wanted to give back to those who need it."

Long before the tabloids and media frenzy, Jon Gosselin -- one half of the parenting duo "Jon & Kate Plus Eight" -- says the chaotic stress of raising eight children took its toll on the young couple.

"I got married at 22. I had twins at 23. I had sextuplets at 27. Bye-bye, twenties," Gosselin, now 32, told ABC News' Chris Cuomo in an exclusive interview. "And then raising all those kids until you're 30 and, you know, you don't even think about what's going on around you. You just do what you got to do to survive."

But it wasn't the demands of parenting, but what Gosselin calls Kate Gosselin's constant verbal "abuse," that sent their 10-year-marriage into a tailspin. Now, he says, the relationship is irreconcilable.

"Our relationship will never be fixed," he said. " ... I don't trust her anymore. I was abused ... I was beaten down ... I'm not going back to that life style."

Demi Moore teams up with a male model in a sizzling ad for her new perfume Wanted. The 46-year-old's timeless beauty is made all the more impressive by her recent revelation that she's never undergone plastic surgery.

Nicolas Cage is satiating his appetite with "The Hungry Rabbit Jumps," a thriller that Roger Donaldson has boarded to direct for Tobey Maguire's Maguire Entertainment and Endgame.

The Robert Tannen-written script, which Endgame picked up last year, centers on a man whose wife is the victim of a brutal crime. He subsequently becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization.

Maguire, who is not acting in the production, is producing with Maguire Entertainment's Jenno Topping. Jim Stern produces for Endgame, which is financing. Ram Bergman is also producing.

FilmNation is handling foreign sales.

"As a company, we've been wanting to do a thriller for a long time," said Stern, whose "An Education" is making the festival rounds. "In the best of the Hitchcockian tradition, we've got a character who's offered the chance for vengeance and he finds himself in over his head."

The movie is scheduled to shoot in January in New Orleans.

Boy George is planning to revive his music career just four months after he was released from prison. The former Culture Club front-man, real name George O'Dowd, was jailed in January for the false imprisonment and assault of male escort Audun Carlsen in 2007.

He served just four months of his 15 month sentence and was released in May for good behavior - and is now hatching plans to head back to the studio to record a new album of cover songs.

He tells British newspaper The People, "I'm choosing songs that speak to me and have lyrics that reflect my personal journey and experiences."

In a recent interview, Lady Gaga revealed the secrets behind her creativity when it came to her songs. “My cocaine soundtrack was The Cure,” she said. “I loved all their music, but I listened to this one song on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine. ‘Whatever I do/It’s not enough.’ Isn’t that funny?”

Drew Barrymore and fellow co-stars Juliette Lewis, Ellen Page and Zoe Bell recreate some of the scenes from her new movie Whip It in a photo shoot for next month’s Vs magazine. The film is based on the true story of the Texas Roller Derby League.