ANTHONY HOPKINS - HOPKINS ON EVACUATION ALERT

SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS is making daily dashes between his home and Hollywood in a bid to make sure he can evacuate his property properly if California wildfires threaten his estate. The movie star and his wife live in coastal Point Dume near Santa Barbara and have so far escaped the many fires burning throughout southern California. But Hopkins isn't taking any chances, and is limiting the time he spends in Los Angeles, promoting his directorial debut Slipstream. He says, "It's (fires) a terrible thing to watch but so far we're OK. I'm going straight back to make sure everything's OK." Kelsey Grammar, Olivia Newton-John, director James Cameron and Jane Seymour haven't been so lucky - they were all evacuated from their homes in and around Malibu, California earlier this week (begs22Oct07).