While supporting her man at the 59th annual Bambi Awards in Duesseldorf, Germany, Katie Holmes had a new hairdo. She looks great. Like a living doll... more

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Paris Hilton has told PEOPLE magazine that she wants to have babies so she can have play dates with on-again/off-again best bud Nicole Richie. Richie is expecting her first child with rocker Joel Madden in January 2008.

"Nicole and I have been playing together since we were two years old," she told PEOPLE at the Nissan Live Sets One Year Anniversary Party. “I was just telling her, ‘I want a baby so that our babies can play together.’”

Still, Hilton admits, she has a few things to take care of first – like finding a man! “I don’t have a boyfriend right now,” the Simple Life star insisted. “But I would love to start a family.”

I have never been a fan of mandatory birth control but my beliefs are quickly changing.
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When Jessica Simpson announced her split from Nick Lachey on November 23, 2005, she could have hardly imagined that two years later she'd be the one still feeling heartbroken.

But while Lachey, 34, has happily moved in with his girlfriend of 18 months, Vanessa Minnillo, 27, Simpson has endured a number of high-profile failed relationships - from John Mayer to Adam Levine to Orlando Bloom to, most recently, the troubled Owen Wilson.

So does all the heartache have the 27-year-old Simpson missing her Newlyweds days?

"There are definitely parts of her that regret breaking up with Nick now," a Simpson friend tells Us Weekly in its new cover story.

And that regret is starting to show. A source tells Us the singer spent October 26 (what would have been her fifth wedding anniversary) "looking through old photo albums that she made when she was with Nick...she said she was just being 'girlie,' but she was definitely somber."

A friend explains, "Jessica thought she would be with someone right by now."

But relationship expert Dr. Janice D. Bennett tells Us that Simpson, who has recently started dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback and notorious ladies' man Tony Romo (Romo briefly dated Carrie Underwood earlier this year), is often her own worst enemy.

"It's possible Jessica is conflicted about being in a committed relationship again, so she is dating men who are unattainable," Bennett says.

Meanwhile, during a Nov. 15 guest appearance on The View Simpson, who is currently recording a country album in an effort to revive her sagging music career, seemed to be pining for a guy not unlike the one she left two years ago: "I want a man. Somebody who's a really great family guy...Gosh, just somebody who's strong enough to be my man."
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Friends of Lindsay Lohan have claimed that she is still drinking despite her spell in rehab.

The actress recently checked out of the Cirque Lodge rehab center, but allegedly succumbed to the temptation of alcohol at a Thanksgiving dinner last week.

A source told the New York Daily News: "She has been drinking a little bit. For Lindsay, her real problem was drugs, not alcohol. In the past, it wasn't the drinking that was the problem - it was the heavy drug use. The drug use was way more intense than her party drinking. As long as she isn't doing drugs, she's okay."

Lohan's representatives have denied the allegations.
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Lindsay Lohan is worried at her little sister's sexy new image and is determined to keep her on the straight and narrow, it has been claimed. Lindsay is reportedly terrified her teenage sister will follow in her destructive footsteps and has warned Ali: 'Don't end up like me.'

Ali, 13, appears completely dolled up in promotional shots for her mum Dina's new U.S reality TV show. "It was the final straw for Lindsay," an insider told Star magazine. "Lindsay knows that Ali idolizes her, but she also realizes that she was a bad influence on her for years. "

Lindsay's afraid that Ali will follow in more than just her footsteps onto the screen."

"She doesn't want her to ever experience addiction, rehab or jail, like she did. She's disturbed by how the makeup made Ali look 25. Lindsay wanted to know if their mum convinced her to take the sexy photos, but Ali told her that she loved the look. She asked Lindsay when she should get her own stylist and personal assistant. Lindsay doesn't fault Ali, since she's just following everyone's lead - the way Lindsay did - but she wants to fix this while there's still a chance."
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Have you ever wondered the real name of your favorite celebrity?

Here is a list of quite a few!

A
Alan Alda = Alphonso D’Abruzzo
Woody Allen = Allen Konigsberg
Muhammad Ali = Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
Julie Andrews = Julia Elizabeth Wells
Fred Astaire = Frederick Austerlitz
Chet Atkins = Chester B. Atkins
Frankie Avalon = Francis Thomas Avalonne

B
Lauren Bacall = Betty Joan Perske
Anne Bancroft = Anna Maria Italiano
Brigitte Bardot = Camille Javal
Pat Benatar = Patricia Andrejewski
Tony Bennett = Anthony Benedetto
Jack Benny = Benjamin Kubelsky
Tom Berenger = Thomas Michael Moore
Chuck Berry = Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Billy The Kid = William H. Bonney
Robert Blake = Michael Gubitosi
Jon Bon Jovi = John Francis Bongiovi
Bono (U2) = Paul Hewson
Sonny Bono = Salvatore Phillip Bono
David Bowie = David Robert Jones
Boy George = George Alan O’Dowd
Charles Bronson = Charles Buchinski
Albert Brooks = Albert Einstein
Mel Brooks = Melvin Kaminsky
George Burns = Nathan Birnbaum
Ellen Burstyn = Edna Gilhooley
Richard Burton = Richard Jenkins

C
Nicholas Cage = Nicholas Coppola
Michael Cain = Maurice Micklewhite
Maria Callas = Maria Kalogeropoulos
Eric Carr (Kiss) - Paul Charles Caravello
Vikki Carr = Florencia Casillas
Ray Charles = Ray Charles Robinson
Chubby Checker = Ernest Evans
Cher = Cherilyn Sarkisian
Eric Clapton - Eric Patrick Clapp
Patsy Cline = Virginia Patterson Hensley
Claudette Colbert = Lily Chauchoin
Nat King Cole = Nathaniel Adams Coles
Chuck Connors = Kevin Joseph Connors
Robert Conrad = Conrad Robert Falk
Alice Cooper = Vincent Furnier
Gary Cooper = Frank James Cooper
David Copperfield = David Kotkin
Howard Cosell = Howard Cohen
Elvis Costello = Declan Patrick McManus
Lou Costello = Louis Cristillo
Joan Crawford = Lucille Le Sueur
Michael Crawford = Michael Dumble-Smith
Bing Crosby = Harry Lillis Crosby
Tom Cruise = Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Tony Curtis = Bernard Schwartz

D
Rodney Dangerfield = Jacob Cohen
Bobby Darin = Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto
John Denver = John Henry Deutschendorf
Donovan = Donovan Phillip Leitch
Doris Day = Doris von Kappelhoff
James Dean = James Byron
John Denver = Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
Bo Derek = Mary Cathleen Collins
Danny DeVito = Daniel Michaeli
Angie Dickinson = Angeline Brown
Bo Diddley = Otha Elias Bates McDaniel
Vin Diesel = Mark Vincent
Phyllis Diller = Phyllis Driver
Fats Domino = Antoine Domino
Kirk Douglas = Issur Danielovitch
Bob Dylan = Robert Zimmerman

E
Sheena Easton = Sheena Shirley Orr
The Edge (U2) = David Howell Evans
Elvira = Cassandra Paterson
Eminem - Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Enya = Eithne Ni Bhraonain
David Essex = David Albert Cook

F
Morgan Fairchild = Patsy McClenny
Adam Faith = Terence Nelhams
Fatboy Slim = Quentin Cook (aka Norman Cook)
Sally Field = Sally Mahoney
W.C. Fields = William Claude Dukenfield
Jodie Foster = Alicia Christian Foster
Michael J. Fox = Michael Andrew Fox
Connie Francis = Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero
Billy Fury = Ronald Wycherley

G
Greta Garbo = Greta Gustafsson
Judy Garland = Frances Gumm
James Garner = James Bumgarner
Crystal Gayle = Brenda Gayle Webb
Bobbie Gentry = Roberta Streeter
Kathie Lee Gifford = Kathie Epstein
Whoopie Goldberg = Caryn Johnson
Cary Grant = Archibald Leach

H
Hammer = Stanley Kirk Burrell
Laurence Harvey = Laruschka Skikne
Rita Hayworth = Margarita Cansino
Jimi Hendrix = Johnny Allen Hendrix
Pee-Wee Herman = Paul Reubenfeld
Barbara Hershey = Barbara Herzstine
Hulk Hogan = Terry Gene Bollea
Billie Holliday = Eleanora Fagan
Buddy Holly = Charles Hardin Holley
Bob Hope = Leslie Townes Hope
Harry Houdini = Ehrich Weiss
Rock Hudson = Roy Scherer Jr.
Engelbert Humperdinck = Arnold George Dorsey

I
Janis Ian = Janis Eddy Fink
Ice Cube = Oshea Jackson
Ice-T = Tracy Morrow
Billy Idol = William Broad
Iggy Pop = James Jewell Osterberg, Jr.
Burl Ives = Burle Icle Ivanhoe

J
David Janssen = David Meyer
Elton John = Reginald Dwight
Don Johnson = Donald Wayne
Al Jolson = Asa Yoelson
Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) = Lewis Brian Hopkins-Jones
Jenny Jones = Janina Stranski
Tom Jones = Thomas Woodward
Wynonna Judd = Christina Ciminella

K
Boris Karloff = William Henry Pratt
Danny Kaye = David Kaminsky
Diane Keaton = Diane Hall
Michael Keaton = Michael Douglas
Chaka Khan = Carole Yvette Marie Stevens
Carole King = Carole Klein
Larry King = Larry Zeigler
Ben Kingsley = Krishna Banji
Nastassja Kinski = Nastassja Naksyznyski
Billy J Kramer (The Dakotas) = William H Ashton
Kris Kristofferson = Kris Carson

L
Cheryl Ladd = Cheryl Stoppelmoor
Veronica Lake = Constance Ockleman
Dorothy Lamour = Mary Kaumeyer
Michael Landon = Eugene Orowitz
Mario Lanza = Alfredo Arnold Cocozza
Queen Latifah = Dana Owens
Stan Laurel = Arthur Jefferson
Steve Lawrence = Sidney Leibowitz
Brenda Lee = Brenda Mae Tarpley
Bruce Lee = Lee Yuen Kam
Spike Lee = Shelton Jackson Lee
Jay Leno = James Douglas Muir Leno
Huey Lewis = Hugh Cregg
Jerry Lewis = Joseph Levitch
Liberace = Wladziu Lee Valentino
Jack Lord = John Joseph Ryan
Sophia Loren = Sophia Scicoloni
Peter Lorre = Laszio Lowenstein
Courtney Love = Michelle Harrison
Bela Lugosi = Bela Ferenc Blasko
Lulu = Marie Lawrie

M
Shirley MacLaine = Shirley Beaty
Elle MacPherson = Eleanor Gow
Madonna = Madonna Louise Ciccone
Lee Majors = Harvey Lee Yeary II
Karl Malden = Mladen Sekulovich
Mama Cass Elliot (Mamas & Papas) = Ellen Naomi Cohen
Manfred Mann = Manfred Lubowitz
Barry Manilow = Barry Alan Pincus
Jayne Mansfield = Vera Jane Palmer
Marilyn Manson = Brian Warner
Walter Matthau = Walter Matuschanskayasky
Dean Martin = Dino Crocetti
Groucho Marx = Julius Henry Marx
Meat Loaf = Marvin Lee Aday
Freddie Mercury (Queen) = Frederick Farookh Bulsara
Ethel Merman = Ethel Zimmerman
George Michael = Georgios Panayiotou
Joni Mitchell = Roberta Joan Anderson
Moby = Richard Melville Hall
Marilyn Monroe = Norma Jean Mortenson (later Baker)
Demi Moore = Demetria Guynes
Rita Moreno = Rosita Alverio
Harry Morgan = Harry Bratsburg

N
Chuck Norris = Carlos Ray
Andre Norton = Mary Alice Norton
Notorious B.I.G. = Christopher Wallace

O
Ozzy Osbourne = John Michael Osbourne

P
Jack Palance = Walter Palanuik
Bernadette Peters = Bernadette Lazzaro
Edith Piaf = Edith Giovanna Gassion
Slim Pickens = Louis Lindley
Mary Pickford = Gladys Smith
Stephanie Powers = Stefania Federkiewicz
Prince = Prince Rogers Nelson

R
Tony Randall = Leonard Rosenberg
Johnnie Ray = John Alvin
Donna Reed = Donna Belle Mullenger
Della Reese = Delloreese Patricia Early
Cliff Richard = Harry Rodger Webb
Joan Rivers = Joan Sandra Molinsky
Edward G. Robinson = Emmanuel Goldenberg
Sugar Ray Robinson = Walker Smith, Jr.
Ginger Rogers = Virginia McMath
Mickey Rooney = Joe Yule Jr.
Axl Rose (Guns N Roses) = William Bruce Rose
Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) = John Lydon
Winona Ryder = Winona Horowitz

S
Susan Sarandon = Susan Tomaling
Telly Savalas = Aristotle Savalas
Jane Seymour = Joyce Frankenberg
Del Shannon = Charles Weedon Westover
Omar Sharif = Michael Shalhoub
Charlie Sheen = Carlos Irwin Estevez
Martin Sheen = Ramon Estevez
Talia Shire = Talia Coppola
Sinbad = David Atkins
Eric Singer (Kiss) = Eric Mensinger
Slash = Saul Hudson
Slim Dusty = David Gordon Kirkpatrick
Dusty Springfield = Mary Isobel Catherine O’Brien
Suzanne Somers = Suzanne Mahoney
Robert Stack = Robert Modini
Barbara Stanwyck = Ruby Stevens
Sylvester Stallone = Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone
Ringo Starr = Richard Starkey
Cat Stevens = Yusef Islam
Connie Stevens = Concetta Ingolia
Sting = Gordon Sumner
Donna Summer = La Donna Gaines

T
Mr. T = Lawrence Tero
Robert Taylor = Spangler Arlington Brugh
Danny Thomas = Muzyad Yakhoob
Tiny Tim = Herbert Khaury
Rip Torn = Elmore Rual Torn Jr.
Randy Travis = Randy Traywick
Sophie Tucker = Sophia Kalish
Tina Turner = Annie Mae Bullock
Mark Twain = Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Twiggy = Leslie Hornby

U
The Undertaker = Mark Calloway

V
Rudolph Valentino = Rudolpho D’Antonguolla
Frankie Valli (Four Seasons) = Frank Castelluccio
Sid Vicious = John Simon Ritchie

W
John Wayne = Marion Morrison
Sigourney Weaver = Susan Alexandra Weaver
Raquel Welch = Raquel Tejada
Gene Wilder = Jerome Silberman
Shelley Winters = Shirley Schrift
Stevie Wonder = Stevland Morris
Natalie Wood = Natasha Gurdin
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) = William Perks
Tammy Wynette = Wynette Pugh
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Lindsay Lohan is apparently hoping to relaunch her music career with a unlikely collaborator.

The actress, who has starred in the likes of 'Mean Girls' and the 'Herbie' remake, is calling on none other than 50 Cent - last seen boasting he'd sell more albums than Kanye West, only he didn't.

According to Lohan's father Michael, the pair might hit the studio soon.

"They're talking about working together. Nothing is firm yet, but they're in talks. They've actually known each other for a while, just from being in the business together and crossing paths at events."

According to industry whispers Lohan is thinking of call her third record 'Nobody's Angel', though we're certain Fiddy will be able to shove some needless swearing in their somewhere.
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There just doesn't seem to be any makeup in the ugly divorce of cosmetics king Ronald Perelman and his ex-wife, Ellen Barkin.

The Revlon mogul has filed suit against the actress and and her brother, George Barkin, claiming that they're siphoning off funds from a production company the trio started in 2005.

According to papers filed on the billionaire's behalf in Manhattan Supreme Court, the two have been using the film company, Applehead I, as a private piggy bank.

The documents further claim that the Barkins "covertly established" their own production company, called Applehead II, earlier this year, and have been using Applehead I's cash to help run it.

The suit also alleges that George Barkin is collecting a $250,000 salary from Applehead I, even though he has "rendered no or few services of value."

"We were initially disappointed at Ms. Barkin's attempts to further enrich herself after the divorce," Perelman's rep told the Associated Press. "We are further disappointed to learn of her additional actions to further enrich herself, her family and friends."

When the couple divorced in 2006, the Ocean's Thirteen star, 54, received a $40 million settlement from the 64-year-old Perelman, who once estimated his net worth at $5 billion.

She sued her ex in August, claiming that Perelman had promised during their marriage to invest $3.4 million in her production company, and then reneged.

"Rather than pay that money, Mr. Perelman would prefer to file additional frivolous lawsuits," a lawyer for Applehead told Bloomberg News. "It's a distraction from the real issue, the payments he promised to make."
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Pamela Anderson's life these days is all about Vegas magic shows, tutoring math at her kids' school and cozy nights at home with new hubby Rick Salomon. But now, she's talking retirement – saying she's got "five more years" of show-biz work in her.

"I get offers to do movies and TV all the time. I say no to everything. Drives my agent crazy," the former Baywatch star – and object of Borat's affection – tells USA Today.

"But I'm lazy. I don't want to work. I want to be with my kids. So I just fly in from L.A., do a few days of shows and go back home."

The children are Brandon, 11, and Dylan, 9, her sons with ex-husband Tommy Lee. And her show, since June, is The Beauty of Magic, in which she shares the bill with Dutch magician Hans Klok – though the curtain is due to fall for good at Las Vegas's Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Dec. 8.

After that, it's back to fulltime motherhood in Malibu – and mathematics. Anderson steps in at her sons' school to assist as "Multiplication Mom for the fourth-grade boys," she says.

As for her professional life, Anderson, 40 (and a British Columbia native), sees herself eventually retiring the blonde-bombshell act. "Five more years of [T&A] and I'll go back to Canada," she says. "I've got some land. It'll be time."

'Happiest I've Ever Been'
Married since October to Rick Salomon, whose photos with her adorn her Vegas dressing room, Anderson tells the newspaper: "I'm the happiest I've ever been. We're good for each other."

As for their time together, she says, "We're in every night. Having sex."

She also plays down any suggestion that the two got hitched in haste. "Nah," she responds bluntly. "I make all of my decisions in about five minutes."

In fact, she and Salomon – perhaps best known for his and Paris Hilton's 2003 sex tape – were acquainted for 15 years. "He knows about all my stuff, and I know all his," she says. "We've always rooted for each other."

And as for her two ex-husbands, Lee and Kid Rock (who's not been quiet on the subject of his brief marriage to Anderson), she says: "Look, I wish them all well. I'm moving forward with my life."
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Brad Pitt has vowed not to film any more nude scenes – because he doesn't want his kids to see them.

"I don't want to be embarrassed when my kids get old enough to see my films," Pitt told the BBC in an interview that aired Tuesday. "I can't see any more nude scenes [in my career.]"

Pitt previously burned up the screen in the buff for Thelma and Louise and Troy – as well as in some steamy scenes with Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

As for his future in films, the 43-year-old who is promoting his film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, told the BBC, "I figure I've got very few films left. Who knows how many I'll get to do now, so I want to do something I'm interested in. Otherwise, I don't want to bother. I think it's a younger person's game."

Pitt, who recently dropped out of the film State of Play, also said he wasn't interested in making any more Ocean's movies. "There's no more," he said of the series of caper flicks he's made with pals George Clooney and Matt Damon. "I think we need to put away childish things."

He did offer some hope for working with Clooney and Damon again, though: "We'll find something else. I just don't think there's anywhere to go with that particular story," he said.
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Nicole Kidman says Isabella, 14, and 12-year-old Connor - her two adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise - are reluctant to use the traditional parental moniker and instead call her Nicole, much to her annoyance.

She told U.K. TV show "GMTV", "My kids don't call me mommy, they don't even call me mom. They call me Nicole, which I hate and tell them off for it."

The "Golden Compass" star recently revealed she is unhappy Isabella and Connor are being raised as Scientologists in Los Angeles.

Catholic Nicole lives in Nashville with her second husband Keith Urban, while her children live with Scientologist Tom and his new wife Katie Holmes.

She said, "Yes, they're being raised as Scientologists. I don't want to go there. My daughter and son, their life is molded by the way I live. If I wasn't willing to take on that responsibility, I shouldn't have adopted them. Then it can be argued that I should never have divorced, and that's true, too, but sometimes you don't have a decision in that. People fall out of love, they do."

"When children are teenagers, they have a say in where they want to be. Los Angeles is a big draw, and I'm looking to get a place there so we can share more."
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Ozzy Osbourne's wife/manager Sharon has told the "Extra" TV show that she and her husband agree they cannot live without each other, and so they've chosen to go to the grave together.

She explains, "Whatever it was, where you know you're going to die, we would want to choose the time where we want to leave. I would go with my old man, and he would come with me... (Fortunately) my husband is better than ever, health-wise."

But the macabre suicide pact doesn't kick in until 2012, with busy Sharon adding she can't contemplate taking her life "in the next five years."

Regarding her infamous feud with Courtney Love, Sharon claims that Love got her son, Jack, hooked on drugs, and calls the fiasco "a really, really ugly situation."

She adds, “It's kind of got to the point where it's now in legal hands, so we can't talk about it, because it's gone to that stage."
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Now you can because their NYC apartment is on the market!

The 12 room penthouse can be yours if you've got $12 million to spare (hmm, so a million per room. seems reasonable). But I'm sure the gals will budge on the price if you explain what a big Full House fan you were.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have never even lived in the Greenwich Village property, which they bought in 1994 for $7.3 million and stand to make approximately $4.7 on. The twins have been renting out the spectacular condo for $35,000 a month until their recent decision to sell.
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Looks like Drew Barrymore and "Mac guy" Justin Long are getting serious. The He's Just Not That Into You costars spent Thanksgiving with Long's family in his hometown of Fairfield, Conn.

Then, on Friday, the couple kicked back at the nearby Southport Brewing Company, where they shared some late-night cocktails, laughs and, yes, a smattering of smooches. "They started out in the bar area and then moved to a booth, where they sat next to each other and kissed and hugged," one eyewitness tells PEOPLE. Adds another patron: "Drew and Justin were adorable."

Long also recently filed a new entry on his official Web site, saying he was headed to the East coast to see his "girlfriend" and spend Thanksgiving with "the fam." He also raved about Flower Films, Barrymore's production company.

The two were first spotted together in late summer. Before that, Barrymore had been linked to Scrubs star Zach Braff and director Spike Jonze.
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Their baby's a month away, but Nicole Richie and Joel Madden still can't settle on a name.

“[Joel and I] can’t agree on one,” Richie, 26, told Access Hollywood in an two-part interview that began Tuesday.

“I figure I’ll be in the hospital for at least a day, so I’ll figure it out then,” she said.

It might be tough, though: Richie said they still do not know the baby's sex. "We’re waiting to find out, which has been a lot harder on me than it has on Joel because I’m so nosy," she said. "If he wasn’t at every doctor’s appointment, I probably would have found out by now just behind his back and not told him."

Boy or girl, she expects her child will not be anything like her or Madden, 28. "They’re going to be so embarrassed of Joel’s tattoos and my tattoos, because I have nine, because you never want to like your parents," she said.

So what's the toughest part of being pregnant? Giving up sushi, she said. "It’s my favorite food," she said. "I was going maybe four or five nights a week."

Richie, who has been dating her the Good Charlotte rocker since last December, also revealed that they'll tie the knot "eventually," but likely not anytime this year.

“Well, look how much has happened this year,” Richie added. “I mean, just let me rest a bit, you know. I gotta hold something for when I get older. I can’t have everything happen all in one year.”
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With the birth of her first child just two months away, Nicole Richie says her pregnancy has helped her bond with her biological mother – and brought her closer to dad Lionel Richie.

"When I found out that I was pregnant," she tells Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, "there was just something inside of me that felt a responsibility to mend any issues that I've had with my parents in the past, because, listen, I've put them through a lot."

Richie, 25, adds that she has spent time bonding with boyfriend Joel Madden's mother, and her dad, too. "[The baby] is all he talks about, actually," Richie jokes, adding that he doesn't want the baby to call him "grandpa."

Though many of the gifts at Richie's Nov. 19 baby shower indicated that Richie and Madden are expecting a boy, she says she and Joel are waiting to find out the sex of the baby.

"I like to know everything," she says, "If he wasn't at every doctor's appointment, I probably would have found out by now just behind his back and not told him."

In her interview, which airs in two parts Tuesday and Wednesday, The Simple Life star says she and Madden are holding off on planning their wedding.

"I got to hold something for when I get older," she says, "I can't have everything happen in one year."
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Balancing mommy duty and her music career – it's all in day's work for Britney Spears.

After spending Tuesday with her two sons Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, Spears switched into pop-star mode, arriving at L.A. restaurant and nightclub Social Hollywood to shoot the video for her tabloid-bashing single "Piece of Me" – the second single off her album Blackout. (It's being directed by Wayne Isham, who helmed Spears's "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" video.)

Spears and her backup dancers donned identical blonde bob wigs and black trench coats.

The premise? "The paparazzi are following [Britney], so they're dressed alike to trick them," a source close to Spears tells PEOPLE. "They all go into a club to get away. One [photographer] sneaks in, but Britney, in the end, discovers him."

The stakes are high for Spears, whose video for "Gimme More" was poorly received when it was released in October. (The song itself, however, was a hit.) "[Spears] is really freaked out about everything," said the source. "She's just really nervous and feels like everyone might make fun of her again."
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ROBBIE WILLIAMS might have a cheeky wee wriggler on his arm but she has done nothing for his dress sense.

Or maybe American soap actress AYDA FIELD likes going out with hairy tramps to make her look better?

She certainly needed something to deflect attention from her huge fluffy hat and ear muffs as the pair left their Amsterdam hotel.

Robbie once said he wore three-quarter length jackets to make him look slimmer.

But dressing as the Michelin Man in this padded jacket does the fella no favors either.

It must have been so cold when he went out to buy half a pound of the country’s finest mushrooms that he added an extra layer to keep warm.

Never mind Rudebox, Robbie looks like he’s been living in a cardboard box.
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Paris Hilton is pissed that Britney Spears is­ saying she wants to adopt Chinese twins because that was her plan.

The twenty-six year old heiress says she decided to adopt from China while on a recent visit to the Asian nation.

“Paris knows Britney won’t be allowed to adopt, she can’t even look after her own kids. But she’s stolen her thunder.”
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Barbra Streisand, who hedged her bets months ago with donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, has settled on one presidential candidate.

It's Hillary.

"Madame President of the United States ... it's an extraordinary thought. We truly are in a momentous time, where a woman's potential has no limitations," Streisand said in a statement released Tuesday by the Clinton campaign. "Hillary Clinton has already proven to a generation of women that there are no limits for success."

The Oscar-winning actress and singer is a FOB — Friend of Bill Clinton — and the endorsement is hardly surprising. In Hollywood, as in politics, timing is everything, and Streisand's endorsement comes one day after another entertainment superstar, Oprah Winfrey, announced she would campaign for Clinton rival Barack Obama.

"Hillary is a powerful voice for change as we find our country at an important crossroads. Under her leadership, our country will regain its respect within the global community. She will prioritize issues of global climate change, universal health care and rebuilding a strong economy. After eight long years, the public will once again have faith in their government," said Streisand, a longtime supporter of Democratic candidates.

In the statement, Hillary Clinton said she was honored for the support.
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Britney Spears finally wised up and hired a driver to help, er, curb some of her recent mishaps behind the wheel. Good move! Except that just days later, he is already "on his way out."

TMZ has learned that the chauffeur/driver Spears hired to drive her, the kids and a court-ordered monitor around town is quitting -- because driving for Brit Brit is a "liability." Obviously! A source close to Spears tells TMZ, that the driver and a monitor both had very close calls with paparazzi and other vehicles while driving Miss Britney.

A close call is an improvement over running over photog's foot.
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Halle Berry
Baby daddy: Male model Gabriel Aubry
Descriptions like "over 40" and "with child" aren´t usually things we associate with looking hot, but Halle pulls off both better than anyone we´ve seen. Plus, we admire the guts it must have taken to walk into the maternity store and say, "Give me a big stack of the lowest-cut dresses you have."

Christina Aguilera
Baby daddy: Husband Jordan Bratman
She probably won´t be getting dirty in any boxing rings for a while, but Xtina hasn´t resorted to a housecoat and slippers, either. Plus, there´s a good chance her doctor has told her to take out her piercings because of the bun in her oven, which is a plus for guys that aren´t into body mods.

Heidi Klum
Most recent baby daddy: Pop singer Seal
Heidi has already pumped out three offspring, but each time her torso has rapidly reverted to its original toned and insanely hot state. Even when she was ultra-pregnant and hosting Project Runway—we TiVo it for the girlfriend—she was making maternity clothes look like Victoria´s Secret outfits…with crotch pads.

Brooke Burke
Most recent baby daddy: French actor David Charvet
It has been well documented how much we love Brooke, even when she gets all wonky in the midsection. She is someone for whom we would be more than happy to make the long trip to the supermarket at 4 A.M. on a Thursday to get Cheetos and cookie dough.

Gwen Stefani
Baby daddy: Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale
Cute has always been Gwen´s thing, so pregnancy really works for her. It just gives her more real estate to fill up with wacky henna tattoos and bracelets. Plus, it put a little color into her otherwise—and we mean this in the sexiest way possible—corpse-like complexion.

Angelina Jolie
Baby daddy: Brad Pitt
You could put Angelina through a wood chipper and the bits that come out the other side would probably still be sexy as hell. Angelina carried her kid like a champ, even if it was a little more taxing on her body than all that adopting she had done in the past.

Naomi Watts
Baby daddy: Actor Liev Schreiber
Naomi has always been hot, but a little on the scrawny side for our tastes. Once she got pregnant, she carried that baby weight in all the right places (boobs).

Jaime Pressly
Baby daddy: DJ Eric Calvo
Jaime has the pregnant white trash act down to a science, and there´s something really hot about that. She and her arsenal of surprisingly revealing maternity clothes were the main reasons we tuned in to My Name Is Earl before the writers´ strike put it on hold. Plus, she carries her big belly and huge boobs a lot better than Elvis Presley ever did.

Monica Bellucci
Baby daddy: Actor Vincent Cassel
It probably has something to do with her Italian heritage, but Monica has never been shy about showing off her figure, and pregnancy did nothing to change that. Her nude pregnant magazine shoot made Demi Moore´s look about as hot as a Cat Fancy cover by comparison.
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TMZ has just received a statement from the L.A. County District Attorney:

"Los Angeles County prosecutors have decided NOT to file any criminal charges against actor Pierce Brosnan, who allegedly got into a scuffle with a photographer in Malibu last month. The District Attorney's office found that there was insufficient evidence to pursue a battery charge against the former 'James Bond' actor."

Brosnan had been under investigation for allegedly sucker-punching a paparazzo at a Malibu shopping center in October.
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1) Miss New Jersey
Claiming she was being blackmailed, Miss New Jersey went on the offense. Amy Polumbo appeared on TV in July to reveal photos she admitted were not "ladylike." Miss Teen USA officials decided not to strip her of her title.

2) Vanessa Hudgens
When nude photos of Vanessa Hudgens surfaced in September, there were rumors that Disney would dump the 'High School Musical' star. Hudgens apologized and now she's said to be on board for the third film in the series.

3) Sen. David Vitter
Sen. David Vitter had the dubious distinction of being the biggest name on a Washington escort service's phone list. In July, the Louisiana Republican said God and his wife had forgiven him for "a very serious sin." He remains in office.

4) Marion Jones
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones tearfully admitted in October that she used steroids. Jones pleaded guilty to felony charges, gave up the medals she won at the 2000 Games and retired from her sport.

5) Mike Nifong
The rape case against Duke lacrosse players blew up in his face, and Mike Nifong went from prosecutor to prosecuted. He was disbarred, resigned as Durham County's district attorney and served one day in jail for contempt of court.

6) Scooter Libby
"Scooter" Libby was convicted in March of lying in the CIA leak case. Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff was sentenced to 30 months in prison. President Bush commuted the sentence, calling it "excessive."

7) Sgt. John Shannon
Wounded Iraq War vet Staff Sgt. John Shannon testified in March about patient neglect and shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Medical Center. The scandal cost the hospital commander and Army secretary their jobs.

8) Lisa Nowak (aka Crazy Diaper Wearin Bitch)
Lisa Nowak's NASA career crashed in February when she was arrested in Orlando. Cops say she raced 1,000 miles to kidnap a rival for the love of a fellow astronaut. Whether that drive was diaper-assisted is in dispute.

9) Don Imus
Don Imus' out-of-bounds remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team got him bounced off the air. Multiple apologies didn't stop CBS from firing him in April. By November, he'd sealed a new deal with ABC Radio.

10) Michael Vick
Michael Vick's reputation was mauled by pit bulls in July. He faces prison after pleading guilty to dogfighting. The Falcons quarterback is suspended and stands to lose tens of millions in ad deals and bonus money.

11) Sen. Larry Craig
"I am not gay." So said Sen. Larry Craig after he was caught in an airport men's room sex sting. The Idaho Republican pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. At first, he said he intended to quit. Now he says he'll finish his term.
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Angelina Jolie has been voted one of the world’s ‘yummiest mummies’ in a poll held be British newspaper ‘The Sun.’ Jolie has three adopted children and one biological daughter with actor Brad Pitt.

New mother Myleene Klass was also made the list. Katie Homes, who has a daughter with Tom Cruise, landed in third place. Holmes was followed by the ‘Spice Girls’ Emma Bunton, who recently gave birth to a baby boy.

Britney Spears came in fifth place with another Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham, following in sixth place.
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"Hey! I just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU to all of you Spice fans who voted for me and Maks on Dancing With The Stars" more

Supposedly the pop star's Mulholland Drive mansion is equipped with a double-locked, X-rated Fantasy Room filled with ticklers, whips and fur-trimmed handcuffs hanging from the metal bedframe. more

Panettiere: “Well, if you want to make me a lesbian, that's totally fine with me. That would be a pretty funny rumor. more

Julia invited friends over to see A Mighty Heart DVD. When the film was over, she said could have done a better job more

Madonna horrified animal activists after dyeing her sheep various colors for a Vogue spread at their English country estate more

"She has been drinking a little bit. Over her week in New York, she did have a few drinks" said a pal. "Her real problem more

The R & B singer, 28, welcomed a newborn declining to say whether it was a boy or a girl. It's his first child and Foster's fourth. more

Late author won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the most awkward description of an intimate encounter. more

Her once gravity defying assets had moved in a direction more befitting to a 33-year-old mother of three. more

After almost 16 months of only modest listenership, Whoopi's morning radio show has been canceled by WKTU (103.5 FM) more

Extras on the set of Two Lovers were briefed not to bother the film's touchy star, Joaquin Phoenix. but someone more

Matthew Perry will play the grow up version of High School Musical star Zac Efron in a new comedy, Seventeen. more

Kimora invited Russell Simmons new girlfriend to his birthday party because she "wants this stupid b***h to get a clue." more

“I spent ten years working on these films (Star Wars). It’s time to let it continue on its own.” more

Actresses don't have deodorant stains or sweat on their dresses. Why? Botox. When injected under the arms it stops sweating more

Don't believe those stories you may have read elsewhere that Britney Spears has a new boyfriend in waiter Michael Marchand, who was photographed exiting restaurant Mirabelle with the pop star last week.

"Michael Marchand isn't a new one-time fling," explains Brit's closest friend to OK!. "He isn't a new boyfriend — He isn't even a friend... And he did not go to Las Vegas with her!"

So how did Brit, who celebrates her 26th birthday next Monday, end up being photographed with Michael? "The only connection she has with him is that she's eaten in Mirabelle, where he works," claims the friend.

However, the friend confesses, Michael did indeed attempt to make contact with the divorced mother of two. During one of their dinners at Mirabelle, Brit's ever-present pal Sam Lutfi left his cell phone on the table. Michael retrieved the mislaid mobile and drove out to The Summit, Britney's gated community looking down on Beverly Hills. "Michael was not allowed through the gates," Brit's friend reveals. "He has never seen Britney outside the restaurant."

In other Brit news, lawyers for the singer and her ex-hubby are scheduled to meet before the judge Monday for the latest round of legal wrestling over the former couple's two young boys, Sean Preston, 2, and 1-year-old Jayden James. OK! will be on the scene to bring you updates as they happen.
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Christina Aguilera is decorating a sailboat nursery especially for her bouncing baby boy!

Star Magazine reports is going all out the customized dwelling, complete with vintage accessories.

“All the bedding was custom made,” says a Star spy.

Xtina and her hubby Jordan are placing the finishing touches on the nursery with an early 1920’s French chandelier, a rocking horse built in Britain in 1880, and an antique mobile imported from the South of France.
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Success in her various professional guises, and her romance with best friend Pete Wentz, have Ashlee Simpson sounding positively giddy about life these days – and more resilient than she used to be.

Chief among her confidence-boosting achievements of late – her 2006 stint as Roxie Hart in the London production of the musical Chicago, Simpson tells CosmoGIRL in its December/January issue.

"There was a time when what people said about me could really get to me. But working on Chicago helped me come into my own," says Simpson, 23. "[Theater acting] had been a dream of mine ever since I was little, and being able to fulfill it ... was amazing. It taught me to be more comfortable with myself."

That self-possession, she says, helped her deal with fame better, too.

"I've gotten to the point where being credible with myself is more important to me than what anyone else says," she explains. "People make up stories about you, but they don't really know you. ... I'm not fazed by that anymore."

Simpson also credits boyfriend Wentz, 28, with providing encouragement in her private life that has boosted her professional work – in particular, her third album, due out next year.

"He's a great sounding board and very supportive," Simpson says. "Pete and I compliment each other. We are best friends, and we encourage each other. I think that is so important in any relationship – it builds a solid foundation."
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While lawyers were in two L.A. courthouses Monday arguing over her various driving violations and custody issues, Britney Spears spent her time readying for her next musical move: a new video.

Usmagazine.com has learned that production on the video for her single "Piece of Me" is scheduled to begin Tuesday at 8 a.m. at Social Hollywood. A source tells Us that the video will be directed by Wayne Isham, who helmed the video for the 2002 Brit hit, "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman."

A set source tells Us that since Spears, 25, has a scheduled visit with sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, on Tuesday, she will only be available to film for two hours, between noon and 2 p.m. During that time she will shoot scenes where she dances on a bar and runs down a staircase. There will be 15 extras, as well as a body double for Brit.

Meanwhile, at a hearing in her ongoing custody battle with ex Kevin Federline on Monday, lawyers for both Spears and Federline discussed holiday visitation plans and whether a representative for Child and Family Services should have access to sealed case documents.

Following the hearing, court spokesperson Alan Parachini told reporters: "There was a great deal of interaction over issues that were important to the parties. There was an order made relating to DCFS access to the files. There were extensive discussions over a visitation agreement over the holiday period. Holiday visitation will be different from the existing schedule. There was another matter discussed that I can’t discuss. The next court hearing is January 23."
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A giggling David Beckham has revealed what enquiring minds have wanted to know for years — he wears NOTHING in bed!!

The sexy footballer made every girl’s dream come true when he admitted he didn’t wear pyjamas under the sheets.

Becks let the comment slip during an interview on TV’s This Morning. When asked what he preferred, pyjamas or know pyjamas, he cheekily grinned: “No pyjamas.”

The LA Galaxy captain also spoke about how well the family are settling into American life.

Becks on adapting to life in the USA: “I think the most important thing for us was that the kids settled. And the boys have settled, they love their school, they love their way of life. To be honest Romeo keeps saying awesome a lot and there’s other little certain things that they keep coming out with. But I’m from London, so is Victoria. I’m a little bit more common than my wife but them hearing my accent they sound as if they’re from London and that’s how I want them to sound. But they are getting little parts of the American accent.”

Becks on having celebrity neighbours: “I always get star-struck. Even if I’m in the coffee shop, you see someone buying a coffee and you’re like, is that who I think it is and you don’t want to look and be a fan but you can’t help it.”

Becks on Tom Cruise: “He’s been working in Berlin and he back in LA now and I’m looking forward to just hanging with him and just having some fun.”

Becks on his Christmas plans: “I love London, I love being back in England and I love being back in London. It’s where I’m from, it’s where Victoria’s from and Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without being back here.”

Becks on why wife Victoria was keep to reuinte with the Spice Girls: “She’s been busy since we arrived in America. Since I’ve been away she’s been dropping the kids off at school and then going straight to rehearsals. She’ll start rehearsals at nine, have a half-hour break and finish and be home at seven, so she’s working really, really hard at the moment. It’s definitely going to be an amazing show. She loves being with the girls, she loves being back with the girls and doing something that she’s not done for quite a few years now. Victoria always says all our boys know what daddy does. He plays football in front of all these people but they’ve never seen actually what mummy used to do. So that was one of the reasons why she really wanted to do it. It’s going to be amazing. All the boys are going to love it but especially Romeo, Romeo’s the performer in the family. He’s going to be the next Justin Timberlake hopefully.”

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Angelina Jolie has been voted one of the world’s ‘yummiest mummies’ in a poll held be British newspaper ‘The Sun.’ Jolie has three adopted children and one biological daughter with actor Brad Pitt.

New mother Myleene Klass was also made the list. Katie Homes, who has a daughter with Tom Cruise, landed in third place. Holmes was followed by the ‘Spice Girls’ Emma Bunton, who recently gave birth to a baby boy.

Britney Spears came in fifth place with another Spice Girl, Victoria Beckham, following in sixth place.
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Hulk Hogan's wife said in a divorce petition that she wants a share of the family's two multimillion-dollar Florida properties plus alimony and child support for their 17-year-old son.

Linda Bollea filed for divorce from Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea — last week after 24 years of marriage. The petition says the marriage is "irretrievably broken."

The marital assets that need to be equitably divided include the nearly 17,000-square-foot mansion in Belleair where the family lives and a 3,474-square-foot home on Clearwater Beach.

Pinellas County records place the market value of the Belleair mansion at more than $7.2 million and the Clearwater house at more than $2.2 million. The Bolleas also have a condominium under construction in Las Vegas.

Linda Bollea also seeks an unspecified amount for alimony and child support for their 17-year-old son, Nick, who was arrested this month in connection with a traffic crash that left a passenger with severe brain injuries.

Her attorney declined to comment.

The Bolleas have starred for four seasons in the VH1 reality show "Hogan Knows Best," which chronicles the lives of the famous wrestler and his family, including daughter Brooke, 19.

Terry Bollea, 54, told a reporter last week that the divorce filing caught him "off guard," saying his wife has been in California for the past few weeks.
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Marilyn Manson wants to break the world record for sharing a bath with snakes.

The controversial rocker - who is famous for his peculiar obsessions with death and taxidermy - wants to beat the 'Texas Snakeman' Jackie Bibby, who currently holds the world record by bathing with 87 rattlesnakes for 45 minutes.

A source close to the singer said: "Marilyn is desperate to get into the famous book, and wants to do it for something people will associate him with. He thought about all the wacky records he could try and break, and came across Jackie Bibby's record. That's when he decided he wanted to try and break it."

Father-of-two Jackie - who holds four world records including holding eight rattlesnakes in his mouth by their tails - has perfected the art of bathing with the venomous creatures.

He said: "They can go wherever they want as long as they don't start biting. The key to not biting is for me to stay still. Rapid movement scares a rattlesnake. If you move real slow and gentle, that doesn't seem to bother them."
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25. Sahara
Budget: $160 million
Domestic Gross: $68.7 million
It was supposed to make Matthew McConaughey an action star and launch a lucrative new 'Indiana Jones'-esque franchise. Instead, the 2005 adventure flick became one of the most famous flops in history. Thanks to a much-publicized lawsuit filed by 'Sahara' author Clive Cussler months before release, the film rode a wave of bad buzz into theaters and never recovered. Of course, budget line items such as $200K for "local bribes" don't help a healthy bottom line, either.


24. Alexander
Budget: $155 million
Domestic Gross: $34.3 million
Oliver Stone's 2004 historic adventure drama seemed like a no-brainer: an Oscar-winning director, a fleet of A-list stars (Colin Farrell! Angelina Jolie! Anthony Hopkins! Val Kilmer!) ... but alas, not even the anticipated raciness of Jolie as Farrell's really hot mom could entice the masses to see this almost-three-hour epic misfire. Call him Alexander the Inferior.


23. Inchon
Budget: $46 million
Domestic Gross: $5.2 million
"Legend" has it Unification Church founder Sun Myong Moon began crying one day and could not stop until he went to see a movie, which he took as a sign from God to finance a film. The resulting 1982 Korean War drama starring Laurence Olivier, which took five years and way too much money to make, had the opposite effect on its viewers.


22. Poisedon
Budget: $160 million
Domestic Gross: $60.7 million
Expectations were high for Wolfgang Petersen's 2006 return to the seas -- he directed the submarine classic 'Das Boot' and the tragic 'Perfect Storm.' But it was the film he did in '04 that can be most aptly compared to this one: 'Troy,' in that both are bloated, too silly for their own good ... and monumental letdowns. (Insert your own sinking ship joke here.)


21. Speed 2: Cruise Control
Budget: $160 million
Domestic Gross: $48.6 million
Did anyone think this was a good idea? Anyone? Transplanting the unlikely scenario of the first 'Speed' to the even more unbelievable setting of a cruise ship?!?! We can just hear the pitch now for this '97 stinker: "It's 'Speed,' but on a boat! No one thought the bus-thing would work, either, and that hit HUGE. This can't lose." And we answer, "Oh, but it can. It really, really can."

20. One From the Heart
Budget: $25 million
Domestic Gross: $636,769
After the difficult production of 'Apocalypse Now,' Francis Ford Coppola wanted something simpler and smaller, ergo this '82 musical romance budgeted at $2 million. But Coppola had a vision, and his vision pushed the costs to $25 mil, funded through his company Zoetrope. Unfortunately for the director and his studio, critics and ticket buyers weren't ready for a surreal, downbeat musical. Tom Waits got an Oscar nod (for the soundtrack). Coppola got a trip to bankruptcy court.


19. All The King's Men
Budget: $55 million
Domestic Gross: $7.2 million
The 1949 adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the rise and fall of a Depression-era politician took home the Oscar for Best Picture, and the '06 film was widely expected to do the same. Then people saw it. And despite its source material and a star-studded cast (Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Jude Law), critics hated it, and its box-office fall was so great that not even you-know-who could put it back together again.


18. Leonard Part 6
Budget: N/A -- i.e. too bloated and embarrassing to reveal
Domestic Gross: $4.6 million
Bill Cosby's first post-'Cosby Show' star vehicle -- a 1987 comedy about a spy battling a megalomaniac vegetarian who can control animals' minds (it's somehow dumber than it sounds) -- was so embarrassing for everyone involved that Cosby himself encouraged people NOT to see it. Fittingly, it earned the Cos three Razzies, including Worst Picture, and made us never want to eat another Jell-O pudding pop again.


17. Shanghai Surprise
Budget: $17 million
Domestic Gross: $2.3 million
Back in 1986, pop goddess Madonna seemed poised to conquer the big screen, too. Not only did her 'Desperately Seeking Susan' follow-up require actual acting (she played a 1930s missionary -- not a typo), but she also starred opposite new hubby Sean Penn. Oh, Madonna. Rookie mistake(s)! Critics pounced on the 1986 clunker, which doomed the Material Girl's acting career and earned her her first Razzie ... but not her last.


16. Basic Instinct 2
Budget: $70 million
Domestic Gross: $6 million
When the original grossed $117 million in 1992, a sequel was green-lit immediately -- and proceeded to languish in production hell for a decade. It finally hit theaters in '06, thanks mostly to Sharon Stone's $14 million "pay or play" deal (she gets paid, movie or not). But if the studio thought Stone's bare bosom could compensate for shoddy story and lack of thrills, their instinct should have told them this un-erotic stinker was 10 years too late.


15. A Sound of Thunder
Budget: $80 million
Domestic Gross: $1.9 million
Never heard of this Edward Burns-Ben Kingsley fiasco? That's because only like 117 people saw it. Originally slated for a 2002 release, the time-travel flick was delayed until '05 due to flooding in Prague (where it was filmed) and the original production company's declaring bankruptcy during post-production. As a result, the special effects were third-rate, which is not a good call when your film is supposed to be a dinosaur-filled sci-fi spectacle. Call this one 'Jura-Suck Park.'


14. Hudson Hawk
Budget: $65 million
Domestic Gross: $17.2 million
The early '90s were not kind to Bruce Willis. After 'Look Who's Talking Too' and 'Bonfire of the Vanities' came this absurd 1991 action-comedy that was light on both. Not-so-shockingly, it was Willis' first and only writing credit. But "credit" for this bust also goes to the cheesy sound effects, Willis-Danny Aiello musical duets and unusually high levels of Sandra Bernhard.


13. Howard the Duck
Budget: $37 million
Domestic Gross: $16.3 million
After the 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' trilogies, George Lucas was flying high. But the Force was not with him when he produced 1986's Marvel comic-based 'Howard' for screenwriter pal Willard Huyck. The ridiculously bad sci-fi comedy about a stogie-smoking, Earth-saving duck (played by an actor in a duck costume) became the subject of endless ridicule, and it proved the biggest mistake of Lucas' career. Well, until Jar Jar Binks.


12. Bonfire of the Vanities
Budget: $47 million
Domestic Gross: $15.7 million
Tom Wolfe's scathing novel about the excesses of the 1980s could have been a brilliant, era-defining movie, particularly with Brian De Palma at the helm. But nice-guy Tom Hanks was all wrong to play Sherman McCoy, the yuppie "Master of the Universe" brought low by a fatal car accident; and with the story rewritten to make McCoy more likable, Wolfe's satire lost its teeth -- and 'Bonfire' went down in flames.


11. Catwoman
Budget: $100 million
Domestic Gross: $40.2 million
Where did this 2004 super flop go wrong? Let us count the ways: 1) a whole new Catwoman completely unrelated to the REAL Catwoman; 2) an unknown one-named man at the helm (Pitof); 3) the apparent belief that fans would pay solely to see Halle Berry in a skintight leather unitard (they showed you, 'Catwoman'!). We just have to ask Ms. Berry a quick question: What were you thinking?


10. Battlefield Earth
Budget: $73 million
Domestic Gross: $21.5 million
How do you say "epic disaster" in Psychlos? John Travolta squandered a chunk of the goodwill he'd garnered in his 'Pulp Fiction' comeback with this god-awful 2000 adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientologist manifesto. In a nutshell: Travolta plays a dreadlocked alien named Terl. We'd rather take the free stress test any day.


9. Gigli
Budget: $54 million
Domestic Gross: $6.1 million
It's hard to say which factor contributed more to the demise of this celluloid punch line -- America's unhealthy obsession with (hatred of?) Bennifer Part I or the fact that it's about a mob lackey who kidnaps a mentally retarded man and then falls in love with a lesbian assassin. But the lesson was clear: Gossip mag sales adversely affect box office dollars, and not even a little lesbian intrigue can change that.


8. Waterworld
Budget: $175 million
Domestic Gross: $88.2 million
The most expensive movie ever made when it came out in 1995, the post-apocalyptic epic came to stand for everything wrong with Hollywood fare: massive budget, self-indulgent star (Kevin Costner, who co-produced), all hype and no substance. It crashed and burned spectacularly; and though it made money overseas, in some ways Costner never lived down the failure (or the gills).


7. The Postman
Budget: $80 million
Domestic Gross: $17.6 million
What is it with Kevin Costner and post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies? He took another run at the genre with this misguided adaptation of David Brin's novel, directing himself as the savior of civilization -- a mythic messiah with a mailbag. Collapsing under the weight of its three-hour run time, jingoistic dialogue and Costner's hubris, the 1997 flop gave new meaning to the term "going postal."


6. Cutthroat Island
Budget: $98 million
Domestic Gross: $10 million
Geena Davis. Matthew Modine. They were both once hugely popular movie stars. Then came this excessive action-comedy about pirates who yada yada yada that actually ranks #1 on the Guinness World Book of Records more objective list of all-time box-office flops. But on the bright side, both actors have resurged lately with TV roles, and we all know the current state of bankability for movie pirates.


5. Cleopatra
Budget: $44 million
Domestic Gross: $26 million
Although Elizabeth Taylor's dramas -- a marriage-ending affair, a near-death illness -- were just the tip of the iceberg of troubles for this '63 epic, they may have been the nails in the coffin. Originally budgeted for $2 mil, the costs ballooned to $44 mil (current equivalent: about $295 mil), a cost that wasn't recouped partly due to public disapproval for the star's personal life. It was enough to almost bankrupt 20th Century Fox. Imagine a time when bad publicity was actually ... bad.


4. Heaven's Gate
Budget: $44 million
Domestic Gross: $3.5 million
Having just earned a Best Director Oscar for 'The Deer Hunter,' Michael Cimino scored a stellar cast (Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Kris Kristofferson) and unprecedented creative control for his 1980 follow-up. And he squandered it all, reshooting so much that the $11.5 million budget quadrupled, and the film was heralded as a cinematic debacle. The movie's failure forced the sale of United Artists to MGM, and reduced Cimino to directing bad Mickey Rourke movies.


3. Ishtar
Budget: $55 million
Domestic Gross: $14.5 million
It must've sounded like a fun, quirky idea for a comedy: Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as inept lounge singers who take a gig in Morocco and stumble into a CIA plot. But "lost in the desert" became more than a metaphor as production problems pushed the already high $40 million budget even higher, and negative word-of-mouth skewered the film even before its 1987 release. Beatty and Hoffman went on to better things ... but they'll always have Ishtar.


2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Budget: $100 million
Domestic Gross: $4.4 million
Loss? What loss? As our friends on Wikipedia put it, "the film grossed negative 95 million dollars," that's all. Believe it or not, the project floated around Hollywood for nearly 15 years before it was finally produced and made its subsequent historic crash. Don't feel bad for star Eddie Murphy, though. His last film, 'Norbit,' grossed a mind-boggling $95 million earlier this year. Look for more fat suits to come.


1. Town & Country
Budget: $90 million
Domestic Gross: $6.7 million
Reportedly, Warren Beatty's demands for multiple takes, rewrites and reshoots were primarily responsible for more than doubling the original $44 mil budget of what should have been a simple ensemble dramedy. Add in estimated marketing and distribution expenses and this staggering '01 failure lost its studio more than $100 million. If you say Beatty is just a perfectionist, then you obviously haven't seen this movie.
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The United Nations women's agency launched a campaign on Monday backed by actress Nicole Kidman to gather signatures on an Internet petition rejecting violence against women and urging action to stop it.

The launch of the petition titled "Say NO to violence against women," (www.saynotoviolence.org), is part of a 16-day U.N.-backed campaign to raise awareness about the issue and urge governments to make eliminating such violence a priority.

Joanne Sandler, acting head of the U.N. Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, said she hoped for hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of signatures to add weight to calls for concrete measures to be taken by governments.

Kidman, an Australian who is a goodwill ambassador for UNIFEM, did not attend the launch at U.N. headquarters but said in a statement she was among the first to sign, calling violence against women, "an appalling human rights violation."

UNIFEM said statistics indicate that as many as one in three women will experience violence in her lifetime, whether it be domestic violence, genital mutilation, human trafficking or systematic rape in conflict zones.
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Hours after guiding his Dallas Cowboys to a Thanksgiving Day win over the New York Jets, Tony Romo grabbed dinner with Jessica Simpson in Dallas.

Romo, 27, arrived at the Dragonfly restaurant inside the swank Hotel ZaZa at around 7 p.m. Thursday, shortly after Simpson, also 27. They settled into a corner table with about 25 friends and family.
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Daniel Craig confesses he vegged out for months after he was done building up his beefcake body for last year's Casino Royale.

"After it finished, I stopped training," the blond James Bond, 39, tells Britain's The Times.

As for his physical routine, he says he "relaxed for three months and ate what I wanted, and then it's hell because as soon as you get back in the gym, you have to work all that off, and it takes much longer than it does to put it on."

Craig, currently promoting The Golden Compass, is already preparing for the next 007 outing, at this point simply called Bond 22 and set for release a year from now.

"Last time I did a lot of weights to bulk up because I had to do it quickly," he says. "This time I'm going to do more boxing and more running. I need to be physically strong for Bond and, as much as I looked in great shape, I got a lot of injuries, probably due to the fact that I wasn't doing enough running and jumping, which is what I needed to do in the film."

Alas, for those who like a Bond who is all meat, Craig confesses that this time he plans to keep the muscle growth in check. "I won't look physically much different, but I won't be as 'no neck' as I was last time."
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Natalie Portman was so desperate to maintain a normal childhood, she created her stage name when she became famous. When she was on set or in the press, she was Natalie Portman, but back home she was Natalie Hershlag. Kind of like a real life Hannah Montana minus the wig.

Portman says, "It was like having an alter ego. I was able to keep my public persona controlled and let the messiness be in private. I could be a human being. I don't want to have a perfect (life), but I know my actions may affect or influence people, and there is a little bit of responsibility in that."

Didn't the people back home realize Portman and Hershlag were identical? The whole alter ego thing could only have worked for so long, no? In case you were wondering, Portman/Hershlag found fame at 14-years old.
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Elizabeth Hurley is planning an alternative career as a TV celebrity chef.

The British 42-year-old, whose resume includes actress, model, film producer, bikini designer and businesswoman, now has her sights set on fronting her own cookery show.

And Hurley plans to use the program to teach women how to get a super-slender body like hers.

She says, "I really want a television show on healthy eating. Maybe you'll see me in front of the stove soon."
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