THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX: THE DELUXE MOVIE STORYBOOK Candlewick Press, $19.95

Transamerica (2005) SBS, 10pm

638 WAYS TO KILL CASTRO ABC1, 8.30pm NONE of the 638 ways devised to kill Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro (pictured) would look out of place in a James Bond movie. Exploding cigars, femme fatales, noxious gas and a poison syringe disguised in a ballpoint pen all failed.

Magnificent 7 (2005) ABC1, 8.30pm

ALL TALK She insisted on auditioning, and got it, and had her three scenes with Robert De Niro, which I thought was absolutely wild at the age of eight. Kate Beckinsale on her daughter auditioning for a part as a young Kate in the movie Everybodys Fine.