Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

A London tabloid reported Sunday that gunmen tried to force the star’s limo off the road and abduct her in Mexico, where she is currently shooting a film. Meanwhile, Mexican authorities deny any knowledge of an abduction attempt against Zeta-Jones.

Film producer Lloyd Philips was quoted in the Mexican press as saying only that there was a small accident in which another vehicle struck the car in which the actress was riding.

The rumored kidnap attempt comes on the heels of a detective’s testimony that phone bills show that the person accused of stalking Zeta-Jones, Dawnette Knight, made threatening calls in mid-May to a hotel where the actress was staying. A judge will hold a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence for Knight, who was arrested on June 3, to stand trial.

Dunst had enough of love racket

“People are just way too cool to come up to talk to me. They would rather just talk about me behind my back.”

These are the words of “Wimbledon” star Kirsten Dunst, who does not have a love match with fame.

“There are times when I just want to yell, “Focus on someone besides me!”‘ she told a reporter in Los Angeles.

The success of the “Spider-Man” franchise has become a double-edged sword for Dunst – she can now open a movie and get paid a lot more, but her personal life becomes much less her own.

A seasoned actor at age 22, Kirsten Dunst is estranged from her mother Inez for pushing her into acting at age 3. “I would never do this to my child – start them out as a child actor,” she tells Allure mag. “Being a child is complicated enough, and then you add all this other stuff. There were definitely parts of my mother that would have liked to do it herself.” Dunst, who stars in “Wimbledon,” opening Sept. 17, adds “My mom and I are going through a separation right now. It’s all about each of us letting the other one go. It’s even more complicated than the normal mother/daughter stuff.”

A father’s love, bond

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Bud Welch lost a daughter in the Oklahoma City bombing but underwent a transformation from wanting to see bomber Timothy McVeigh executed to becoming a leading opponent of the death penalty.

Along the way, he came to know and have sympathy for McVeigh’s father, Bill McVeigh.

The journey of the two men after the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history forms the basis for “Bud & Bill,” a film being produced by Robert Greenwald. Greenwald is best known for the political documentaries “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism” and “Uncovered: The War in Iraq.”

Julie Welch, 23, was working in the Social Security Administration office in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, when the explosion destroyed the building, killing 168 people.

For nearly a year, Welch wanted McVeigh to die for the crime. But he said he came to realize it would not bring his daughter back and he began traveling the nation to speak out against the death penalty.

During his travels, he met McVeigh’s father, a retired auto worker in Pendleton, N.Y., about three years before McVeigh was executed.

“This is about my journey and Bill’s journey,” Welch said. “It’s about what I went through in losing a daughter and what Bill went through in losing a son. Tim is as much dead as Julie and Tim was his son.”