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12 September 2008 12:01 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Kate Winslet has emerged as the favourite to play married poet Isadora Wing in a new movie adaptation of Erica Jong's controversial novel Fear Of Flying.

Director Diane English, who has adapted the 1973 bestseller for the big screen, has revealed the Titanic star is the only actress currently reading the script for the movie.

She says, "I would love to see Kate Winslet in that role."

Jong hit the headlines with the novel because it chronicles a married woman's attempts to live out her sexual fantasies. »

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11 May 2008 6:18 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Iron Man director Jon Favreau was forced to confront his fear of flying in order to promote the new superhero movie.

The actor was so terrified of taking to the skies, he hadn't stepped on a plane for two years - but was called upon to travel the globe with the stars of the comic book hit.

Favreau says, "I'm not a good flyer. I hadn't flown in two years and we had to fly around the world."

He even took aviation advice from Dustin Hoffman's character in the film Rain Man.

Favreau explains, "We went to Australia. And I flew with Qantas. If you remember Rain Man - he liked Qantas, because it never crashed - so I was very comfortable." »

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