HONG KONG (AP) – Beyonce Knowles says she enjoyed working with Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy and director Bill Condon on “Dreamgirls,” and is looking forward to doing more film roles.

“I got to work with the best actors. They are so polished and so supportive. Usually, when you have Oscar-winning actors, sometimes they are not so supportive. But I could just watch and learn,” the 25-year-old singer said in an interview published in the December issue of Prestige Hong Kong magazine.

“Dreamgirls,” adapted from the Broadway musical, stars Oscar winner Foxx as a car salesman who worms his way into the Detroit music scene and becomes an impresario, orchestrating the crossover of black music to white mainstream culture.

Murphy co-stars as a flashy R&B singer. Knowles, “American Idol” finalist Jennifer Hudson and Anika Noni Rose play the Dreamettes, who start out as Murphy’s backup singers but become a sensation on their own under Foxx’s management.

“It was a great vibe,” said Knowles, who fronted R&B group Destiny’s Child. “Everyone was just happy to be involved in the movie.”

Foxx won the best-actor Oscar for his performance in “Ray,” and director Condon won an Oscar for adapting the screenplay of “Gods and Monsters.”

Knowles won five Grammy Awards for her top-selling solo debut, 2003’s “Dangerously in Love.” Her second solo album, “B’Day,” was released earlier this year.

Her screen credits also include “The Pink Panther” and “Austin Powers in Goldmember.”

“It’s exciting to do something new and put myself out of my comfort zone. I hope there will be more roles, and deeper roles, and this one will help prepare me for the future,” she said.

“Dreamgirls,” a DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures release, will be in U.S. theaters starting Dec. 25.

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – A museum dedicated to the music, clothing and history of Swedish supergroup ABBA will open in Stockholm in 2008.

Organizers are still searching for a suitable location for the museum, but said Tuesday it will open somewhere in central Stockholm in 2008.

ABBA is one of the most successful bands in history, having sold more than 370 million albums. While the group hasn’t performed together since 1982, it continues to sell nearly 3 million records a year and the musical “Mamma Mia!” – written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and based on the group’s hits – has been seen by more than 27 million people around the world.

The interactive museum will feature original outfits and instruments used by ABBA, handwritten song lyrics, a display of awards and “all other things we can think of and find,” said Ulf Westman, an event consultant who is spearheading the project with his wife, Ewa Wigenheim-Westman.

The museum will also feature a studio where visitors can record their own ABBA songs and an interactive experience that “will recreate the feeling of being at Wembley Stadium and seeing ABBA live with 50,000 others,” Westman said.

Wigenheim-Westman said the idea was inspired by the Beatles museum in London, but that it took nearly two years to convince Andersson, Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad that it was a good idea.

“It is nice that someone feels compelled to take on our musical history,” the four members said in a joint statement. “We think this will be a fun and swinging museum to visit.”

Band members will donate the material for the exhibits, but will otherwise not be involved in the project, which will be funded by company sponsors, Westman said.

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DIX HILLS, N.Y. (AP) – Frank Agnello, who starred with his mother and two brothers on the reality TV show “Growing Up Gotti,” was arrested earlier this month on drug charges, police said.

Agnello, 16, was found with marijuana, OxyContin and morphine pills when authorities pulled him over on a Long Island road for failing to heed a stop sign, Suffolk County police Lt. Donato Mignone said Monday.

The teen, who was driving a rented sport utility vehicle, was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a controlled substance, police said. He could face up to a year in prison if convicted.

Agnello’s attorney, Adam Mandelbaum, said no drugs were found on Agnello during the Nov. 10 arrest in Dix Hills. “The rest of the matter is under investigation,” Mandelbaum said.

He said Agnello will plead not guilty at a Jan. 24 hearing in Central Islip.

Mignone said police discovered the OxyContin and morphine pills in the SUV’s glove compartment, console and trunk. He said two passengers were also charged.

Agnello was also given a summons for driving without a license, police said.

The teen is the son of Victoria Gotti, daughter of legendary mob boss John Gotti and sister of John “Junior” Gotti. Besides starring in “Growing Up Gotti” with his mother and brothers, Carmine and John, Agnello has written a book, “The Gotti Diet.”

John Gotti was convicted of racketeering and murder in 1992. He died 10 years later in a federal prison.

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TOKYO (AP) – There’s no escaping Norio Minorikawa on Japanese TV. He hosts news shows, talk shows, wildlife shows – even his country’s version of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

On Tuesday, he reaped the benefit of all that work: a Guinness World Record for most live hours on the tube by a TV host.

The hyperactive TV personality, better known to Japanese TV fans as Monta Mino, spends a total of 21 hours and 42 minutes every week on live TV across 11 shows, according to the Guinness Web site.

“I’m touched. I want to die talking,” Minorikawa told London-based Guinness Chief Operating Officer Alistair Richards at a presentation ceremony in Tokyo.

Minorikawa hosts a further five prerecorded programs including “Millionaire,” the wildlife show “Amazing Animals” and “Full Throttle TV,” on which he advises viewers on lifestyle, health and relationships.