Marc Anthony And Whitney Houston To Duet?

Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony will tentatively be performing with pop diva Whitney Houston at a Dec. 5 benefit sponsored by the American Cinema Awards Foundation at New York's Marriott Marquis hotel.

The pop singer, who has also released three salsa albums and currently has a supporting role as a dreadlocked nut in Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead, was a little sketchy on details during an interview in Toronto on Monday (Nov. 7).

"I'm looking forward to it," says Anthony. "We'll be singing together, as far as I know, 'Greatest Love Of All' and I think I heard us singing, 'I Need To Know' together. Who knows? That's still in the works."

The New York native is also slated to appear on two Rosie O'Donnell specials, one the day prior to Thanksgiving, and another on Christmas Eve.

Anthony says collaborations with Billy Joel and Eric Clapton are also in sight. "I'm fascinated by both those guys," said Anthony, who worked with another legend, Paul Simon, on the short-lived Broadway musical The Capeman.

Anthony, whose eponymously-titled second English-language pop album has sold over a million copies since its Sept. 28 release, says such opportunities presented themselves long before his current success.

"They knew of my music before I decided to sing pop," Anthony says of Clapton and Joel. "They knew of my salsa stuff and had a lot of respect for what I was doing. When Eric came to the studio, he was like, 'Wow, so you're doing English now.' Billy, the same thing. He hadn't heard a lick of this album and was like, 'Wow, he's going to be singing in English. If he needs anything, let me know.'"

Anthony does have his own HBO special lined up for Feb. 11, called Marc Anthony Live At Madison Square Garden. "That will probably kick off the tour," he says.

-- Karen Bliss