Executives from Universal Pictures and Hasbro Tuesday announced plans to release Stretch Armstrong, a Hollywood movie based on the action figure, in 2011. The action-adventure film will be the first released under Universal and Hasbro's six-year partnership.

By Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) - Model-turned-actress Andie MacDowell still looks like a Hollywood star but these days she seems to see herself more as a mother hen -- and in her latest movie she was cast as exactly that.