The 1988 dark comedy film Heathers is being retooled as a stage musical, The Hollywood Reporter said. The movie about a popular teen in love with a bad boy, who murders some of the most popular kids in school and makes their deaths look like suicides, starred Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. The stage version of the story is being developed by Race to Witch Mountain and Reefer Madness director Andy Fickman, the entertainment industry trade newspaper said. Fickman's Reefer collaborator is writing the Heathers lyrics and book, while composer Larry O'Keefe, whose past credits include the Broadway adaptation of Legally Blonde, is working on the music. Denise Di Novi, who produced the movie Heathers, is executive producing the musical, The Hollywood Reporter said, adding the creative team behind the stage show hopes to have a regional production ready for 2010 before possibly heading to Broadway.

A diamond bracelet and a ring worth more than $125,000 and loaned to actress Winona Ryder for an event in Madrid are missing, the New York Post said. Ryder reportedly borrowed the Bulgari jewels to wear to a Marie Claire magazine party this week, then said she left them with her hotel's front desk for safe keeping.

By Michael Compton, The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky. Jul. 10--hile films like "Hancock,""Wanted" and "WALL-E" have exploded into theaters, a small film aimed for young girls titled "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" has managed to slip into multiplexes virtually unnoticed.

By Jeanne King NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Christian Slater on Thursday turned down a plea deal offered by prosecutors of three days of community service if he pleaded guilty to charges of groping a woman.