Goldie Hawn dresses up for sex with boyfriend Kurt Russell, she has revealed.

The 62-year-old says she still has a sizzling sex life with actor Russell despite being a grandmother.

She said: “It’s fun. I really enjoy donning an outfit.”

The Private Benjamin actress has been in a relationship with Russell, 56, for 25 years and says never getting married has kept their sex life alive.

She said: “When sex has gone out of a marriage you’ve got to figure out if you’re going to be friends or break up.

“Sex is important. I think it’s a way to create more sexuality and I still feel that way about Kurt.

“There are times when we want to kill each other but you’ve got to play. It’s really important.

“What I do like about the fact that we’re not married is that when I wake up in the morning I really do wake up fresh and re-born every day.

“I know that I could walk out at any moment but we chose to be together,” she said on BBC’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
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The Anthony Pellicano trial is getting hotter in Los Angeles despite the laughable Los Angeles Times trying to get rid of it. On March 8, it actually ran a story titled "Pellicano Trial Is Yesterday’s News."

The trial, however, is Today’s News: Thursday morning, Pellicano aide and Maxim girl Tarita Virtue’s very informative testimony is being interrupted for testimony from actor/comedian Garry Shandling. His attorney may be the eminent David Boies.

Shandling’s role will be to further solidify the relationship between Pellicano and Paramount chief Brad Grey. Courtroom ears will be perked to hear if Shandling also mentions attorney Bert Fields.

Grey’s name has been much on Virtue’s lips since she began her testimony. She’s already testified that Grey hired Pellicano to dig up dirt on producer Bo Zenga over "Scary Movie." I told you two years ago that the government can line up wiretaps Pellicano made of Zenga, his family and lawyer that coincide with depositions in the "Scary Movie" lawsuit between Grey and Zenga.

In that case, Zenga claimed to have been hired by Grey executive Peter Safran to produce "Scary Movie," a Miramax/Dimension movie released in 2001. Dimension bought the idea and went ahead with the project.

Zenga claimed he had an oral agreement to be partnered with Bernie Brillstein and Grey as producers on the film. When he felt he'd been cut out by Brillstein-Grey, Zenga sued them for breach of contract.

There’s going to be more made of that whole episode shortly.

Shandling and Grey have a bad history, and that will be the focus of his testimony. Boies represented Shandling in a lawsuit against Grey when the latter was the former’s manager during the era of "The Larry Sanders Show."

Boies wrote about the eventual settlement he cut with Grey’s lawyer, Fields, in one of his books. Of course, at the time, Boies had no idea Pellicano allegedly was wiretapping everyone involved in the case. So that should be interesting.

Virtue’s other virtue so far was in discussing Pellicano’s passwords and code names for clients. When U.S. Attorney Dan Saunders put up an exhibit in which the word "sissy" came up, according to a blog posting by reporter Alison Hope Weiner, in reference to Tom Cruise, Saunders asked if that was Cruise’s code name. Virtue replied that she guessed that it was. Zenga’s code name was "Gypsy Boy."
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The Oscar-winning actor - who has been married to wife Shakira for 35 years - believes having your own space is vital to wedded bliss.

He said: "The secret to a happy marriage is separate bathrooms. That's essential. Whenever we stay in a hotel we always get two bedrooms just so we can have an extra bathroom.

"It's vital to have your own space so you aren't constantly in each other's pockets."

Caine met his model wife after seeing her in an advert for Maxwell House coffee and asked his agent to track her down.

The Sleuth star recalled: "Quite simply she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Once I laid eyes on her, that was that."

The couple have a daughter, Natasha.

Caine also has another daughter, Dominique, from his first marriage to actress Patricia Haines.
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For "Harry Potter" and Hollywood, eight is the magic number.

Warner Bros. Pictures and the producers behind the $4.5-billion film franchise featuring the beloved boy wizard will split the seventh and final novel in the J.K. Rowling series into two films.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" will hit theaters in November 2010, followed by "Part II" in May 2011, a decision that is being met around the world with fans' cheers but also plenty of cynical smirks. The publishing industry is learning to live without new "Potter" releases, but Hollywood just pulled off a trick that will keep its profitable hero on his broom into the next decade.

Any twist in the "Potter" universe is the stuff of global news bulletins. The books were a publishing sensation. And to an entire generation, the film saga has become a heartfelt touchstone on the level of "The Wizard of Oz" and as culturally and commercially ubiquitous as the "Star Wars" series. For all those reasons, everyone involved in the franchise is jumping forward to say an eighth film would be to serve the story, not the bottom line.

Daniel Radcliffe, the star of the franchise, said it was the dense action of the final novel that made the decision, not any executive or ledger.

"I think it's the only way you can do it, without cutting out a huge portion of the book," Radcliffe said. "There have been compartmentalized subplots in the other books that have made them easier to cut -- although those cuts were still to the horror of some fans -- but the seventh book doesn't really have any subplots. It's one driving, pounding story from the word go."

The same could be said about the relentless "Potter" franchise, which hit screens for the first time in 2001. The five "Potter" films to date have averaged $282 million in U.S. grosses, but the overall receipts go well beyond that. The faces of the stars stare out from DVDs, video games, tie-in books, toys, clothing, candy wrappers and a staggering array of other items. By some estimates, the brand represents a $20-billion enterprise, and that's without the planned "Potter"-themed complex opening next year at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida.

Extending the "Potter" franchise is a boon to the studio and to its parent, media giant Time Warner, where recently named Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes is reining in costs with moves such as the recent gutting of New Line Cinema. Time Warner's stock price has stagnated since its merger with America Online eight years ago.

Right now, Radcliffe and his costars are filming the sixth installment in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," at an old aircraft factory outside London. "It's been brilliant," Radcliffe said of the production. "It's also, I think, the funniest of the films so far."

Radcliffe is now 18 and, by the final film, will have spent half of his life in the role of the scarred orphan who finds friendship and danger within the stone corridors of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each film (following the construct of the novels) has been framed by a school year. Producer David Heyman, a key figure in the films from Day One, was reluctant to depart from that and make the last book into two movies.

"Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book," Heyman said. "You can remove scenes of Ron playing Quidditch from the fifth book, and you can remove Hermione and S.P.E.W. [Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare] and those subplots . . . but with the seventh, that can't be done."

Rowling, who signed off on the idea of a two-part finale, has been a more frequent visitor to the sixth movie's set than with previous installments. One big reason is that she is no longer busy trying to finish the "next" "Potter" book; she walked away from her signature character in July, when the climactic "Deathly Hallows" hit stores and sold a record 11 million copies in its first 24 hours on shelves.

Alan Horn, president and chief operating officer of Warner Bros. Entertainment, will be in Las Vegas today to talk up the "Potter" plans at ShoWest, a key annual conference of movie exhibitors. Horn said Wednesday that "it would have been a disservice" to downsize "Deathly Hallows" into one film.

"This way, we have an extra hour and a half, at least, to celebrate what this franchise has been and do justice to all the words and ideas that Jo has put in the amazing story," Horn said. "This is the end of the story too. We want to celebrate it. We want to give a full meal."

David Yates, director of the fifth and sixth films, will return and make the final two films concurrently. Screenwriter Steve Kloves also returns, and, by the completion of the franchise, he will have written seven of the eight films.

They will be adapting a seventh book with 759 pages packed with action and twists and turns in the race toward the final conflict between Potter and the dark lord who murdered his parents, the serpentine Lord Voldemort. Reviewing last summer for The Times, Mary McNamara wrote: "What Rowling has achieved in this book and the series can be described only as astonishing. Just as her characters have matured, the language and tone of the books have grown in sophistication and lyricism. But she has never lost the sense of wonder that has propelled her into literary legend."

After the dust settles, the book ends with an epilogue that finds the main characters -- Harry, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley -- grown up, married and 19 years removed from Hogwarts. Horn said that particular denouement has the filmmakers fretting about how to keep the young familiar stars on the screen just before it goes dark.

"That," Horn said, "is something we will need to deal with. People have watched these kids grow up, and it's been very special to do so. That's important to us."

Heyman said splitting "Deathly Hallows" is the right narrative formula, but the next problem is figuring out the division. As he put it: "The question will be, where do you break it? And how do you make them one but two separate and distinct stories? Do you break it with a moment of suspense or one of resolution?"

Horn said that screenwriter Kloves has already latched on to an approach that might work. Rowling could not be reached for comment, but the most recent entry on her website journal declared that "Hallows" stands as her favorite among the novels -- and that saying goodbye to Harry is never easy.

"It was the ending I had planned for 17 years, and there was more satisfaction than you can probably imagine in finally sharing it with my readers," Rowling wrote. "As for mourning Harry -- and I doubt I will be believed when I say this -- nobody can have felt the end as deeply as I did."
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Rap mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs is launching a car service to drive drunk celebrities home.

The entrepreneur hopes his new venture will put an end to a spate of celebrity DUI arrests.

A representative for Combs says, "He wants to make sure everyone's partying responsibly."
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odie Foster as a Starbucks barista?? It’s a good thing the coffee chain didn’t hit the big time until the '90s or the Oscar-winning actress might’ve wasted her chops calling out orders for double-half-caff-triple-venti crappuccinos. In the new issue of Parade, the 45-year-old mother of two reveals that, despite her impressive career, she sometimes fantasizes about slinging coffee for a living or hitting the ski slopes all day.

Read on for interview excerpts in which Jodie reveals what it was like being a child star, why she’s never fallen in love and where it’s all going.

On being a child prodigy:
"Being a child prodigy is inherently lonely. I was one of them. You’re different from other kids. No one else can understand. There’s a longing to connect, a craving to say, ‘Here is the deepest part of me, the part that people don’t see.’"

On her long career:
"I’ve been working for 42 years. Sometimes I think, ‘What the hell are you doing? What’s the value of all this?’ I have fantasies about the things I might have done. I wish I’d been a ski bum or maybe had a job at a Starbucks in a ski place."

On why she hasn’t fallen in love yet:
"Oh, my life is basically from the head up. I’m definitely not proud of that. I’m very analytical."

On her childhood attitude toward acting:
"To me, acting didn't seem like much of a profession. My mom always said, 'By the time you're 16, your career will be over. So what do you want to do then?' She was correct. Most child actors' careers end early. They're lost."

On being a working mom:
"I’m still not sure where I’m going in my life. There are times when I don’t really know what I am here for. When I had my kids, I was burnt out on the film business again and wondering if this new identity as a parent was going to be fulfilling enough. I was forced to ask these really hard questions about myself: Is being a mother everything? Are you supposed to lose yourself in the process of being a mother?"

On her strained relationship with her mother:
"A parent’s love for her children is unconditional. I don’t think the reverse is true. In some ways, my mother’s life was given meaning through me. She didn’t have my opportunities. I had to take care of her, and that pretty much meant I had to wake up and go to work."

On being a child actor:
"People ask me if I missed anything by not having a normal childhood. The truth is, if I’d been an ambassador’s daughter or grown up on a farm in Missouri, I wouldn’t have had a normal childhood either. I had the only childhood I knew."
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RACHAEL Ray may find herself with some extra time on her hands.

Insiders say the demanding TV cook's syndicated daytime show, "Rachael Ray," carried here on WABC/Channel 7, will be getting the ax at the end of her contract.

An impeccable TV source told Page Six, "They are seriously talking about taking her off the air."

The problem is Ray's ratings. When she debuted two years ago, she had a meager 2.5 rating, which her syndicator, King World, nonetheless trumpeted as "The biggest syndicated debut since 'Dr. Phil.' " In fact, one insider said, "They had hoped for more. 'Dr. Phil' beats 'Oprah' and gets like a 5.0 rating - and Rachael's set is very expensive and elaborate; his is just chairs."

A rep for Ray fumed that she's not alone in her falling numbers: Oprah, who discovered the bubbly chef, was down 15 percent from February 2007 as were "Live with Regis and Kelly," "The Tyra Banks Show" and "The Martha Stewart Show."

In 2007, Ray's syndicated show averaged a 2.2 Nielsen rating and has already dipped to 2.0 this year. An insider said, "Anything below a 2.0 is asking for trouble."

Another bad indicator is that in 2007, the average age of a daytime "Rachael Ray" viewer was 53.4, with only 776,000 women between ages 18 and 49 (the show's target demo) tuning in. In 2008, both numbers have taken a turn for the worse. The average-age viewer today is 55.1, with only 688,000 women between ages 18 and 49 tuning in.

A rep for Ray pointed out that the average age for Winfrey's viewers is 54.6, and said, "Our show is renewed through 2010 - so canceling is not an option."

If Ray is axed, a possible replacement is already in the works: King World is producing a chat show for Marie Osmond, which would be ready by 2010.

But even if Ray loses the syndicated gig, the perky on-air personality still has her Food Network shows, "30 Minute Meals" and "Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels" along with her magazine, Every Day With Rachael Ray.
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IN TODAY'S celebrity-obsessed culture, pop stars and models publish tell-all life stories when they're barely out of their teens. At 77, Sir Sean Connery has chosen to take his time.
More than five years after he floated the idea of an autobiography, the James Bond star's book, Being a Scot, is complete, The Scotsman has learned. It is due to be published in the autumn.

The book mixes a frank account of Connery's life with an esoteric take on Scotland's history and culture. Over 300 pages long, it draws on 400 photographs from his collection.

According to a publishing brief seen by The Scotsman, it ranges from his childhood in a gaslit Fountainbridge tenement to learning golf from Gert Frobe, his Goldfinger co-star, and weekending with Billy Connolly, "the funniest man alive".

The book's story is a saga in itself. In 2003, Sir Sean pulled out of an agreement with Meg Henderson, a Scottish writer, to pen his memoirs. Later, he cancelled a deal with Beatles biographer Hunter Davies and publisher HarperCollins.

Being a Scot, co-written by his old friend, the film-maker Murray Grigor, was due to be released by Scottish publisher Canongate. After months of working on early chapters, however, Connery and Grigor are said to have clashed with the publisher, Jamie Byng. The book is now to be published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. "I'm very excited about this book," said publisher Alan Samson. "There's a book called England Made Me. This is really how Scotland made me.

"We can't pretend it's something it isn't. It is not a book of titillating revelations about the women in his life, nor will it be sold that way."

Mr Grigor said: "The book really reflects the life and film achievements of this extraordinary man. It reflects topics of Scottish culture, high and low."

Sir Sean recalls Fountainbridge as a grim industrial no-man's land with the "porridge-like and pungent" smell of Auld Reekie's "huddled chimneys". The family lived at the top of a tenement, opposite McCowan's toffee factory, with the communal toilet four floors down.

The book tells how he became an actor "by accident". Despite what many accounts say, he never won a bodybuilding prize. Instead, Connery was spotted in a contest and was told a show of South Pacific was casting for a chorus line. He was hired, got £14 a week – more than ever before – and "got a taste for it".

He also tells how he was taught golf for the scenes in Goldfinger. "I began to take lessons on a course near Pinewood and was hooked," he writes. "Soon it would take over my life. I began to see golf as a metaphor for living."

IN SEARCH OF SCOTLAND

SIR SEAN Connery and Murray Grigor look in the book for the roots of Scots' "psychotic humour", the "Gothic tendency in Scots writing" and the "Scottish cringe".

Sir Sean sings the praises of Scottish architecture and film, and the country's penchant for inventing great games. But he laments the fact that while Vienna's historic 19th-century ferris wheel was built entirely with parts from Glasgow's steel mills, the London Eye was built by European firms.

"What became of Scottish innovation?" he asks.

Bond's favourite shoe shop gains a toehold in Scotland

IT MAY soon be easier to follow in James Bond's footsteps, as the suave spy's shoemaker of choice opens its first branch in Scotland.

Church & Co, which was formed in 1873 and whose clients have included Winston Churchill, will be the latest big-name arrival on Edinburgh's George Stre
et.

Church has stores across London and abroad: in Paris, Milan and New York.

Ian Fleming's famous superspy wore their Presley-style shoes in a number of novels, and the footwear has featured in a several Bond films.

The George Street store is set to open in time for this year's Edinburgh International Festival in August.

Stephen Etheridge, group chief executive, said: "Edinburgh is one of the UK's top retail locations. We are very excited about opening up there."

Leading Edinburgh retail expert Niall Macdonald, director of agents Jones Lang LaSalle, said: "Church's decision to come to George St would not have been hard. It's the ideal location for a retailer of their quality."

In another boost for George Street, The Scotsman has learned that the fashion chain Jack Wills has clinched a deal to move into the former Bonhams auction rooms on the thoroughfare.
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the auction of Michael Jackson's ranch may be forestalled by a loan extension offered by his loan holder Fortress Investments.

Jackson's attorney L. Londell McMillan told the Associated Press Thursday such a deal was in the works. But it's not done yet. There's still no recording at the Santa Barbara County Assessor's Office. Until that's changed, Jackson remains in foreclosure.

Neverland Scam: A 'Thriller'

On Wednesday, I told you that Jackson's Neverland Ranch and its $23 million lien are part of a weird sequence of events. This included a California investor's putting $46 million into escrow for Neverland, thinking he was dealing with Jackson’s representatives.

He wasn’t. And the investor just narrowly avoided being bilked for close to $5 million.

How did this all start? It turns out the investor’s rep, Jason Cestaro, got involved based on information sent to him right from the office of Jackson’s former manager, Raymone Bain, in February.

Cestaro, sources say, asked for and received crucial personal financial information about Jackson to make the decision to loan him so much money.

Cestaro, I’ve now learned, depended on a letter he was shown Feb. 13 on stationery that simply read at the top: Michael J. Jackson. It was signed by Diane Simmons Williams, a certified public accountant who not only was the wife of ex-District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams, but billed herself as a "Financial Consultant" to Jackson.

What Cestaro didn’t know is Williams also is an employee of Bain, which is how she had access to sensitive information about Jackson.

The notarized letter was presented to Cestaro by Kevin D. Kinsey, a Los Angeles finance rep, as evidence of Jackson’s income.

It was addressed "To whom it may concern" and outlined Jackson’s income as almost $30 million a year, including $5 million royalties from "Sony’s Records" and $11 million from Jackson’s stake in Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Jackson’s other income, Williams stated in the letter, included between $3 million and $4 million from BMI (airplays) royalties and $10 million to $11 million generated by Jackson’s MiJac Publishing, a separate entity.

Cestaro was thrilled to learn this, I’m told, but concerned that the letter was old. It was dated July 11, 2007. He called Williams, whose phone number was at the bottom of the letter, asking for an updated version. She balked and recommended he speak with one of Bain’s assistants, who put him off to another.

Nevertheless, Cestaro deposited the $46 million in escrow as an act of good faith.

Cestaro would not learn until later that Williams’ letter misrepresented Jackson’s finances: She’d omitted all that Sony income, plus the MiJac was being paid — but not to Jackson. It was going directly to paying off more than $330 million in loans secured by MiJac Publishing. Jackson had no access to it as actual cash, which was implied.

Several phone calls and e-mails to Williams on Wednesday went unreturned to this column, including two to the office of her husband.

In the meantime, despite the insistence of everyone involved, Neverland still is scheduled to be auctioned on March 19 in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Notice of Trustee’s Sale, first posted on the county’s Web site by Fortress Investments on Feb. 25, remains active.
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Apparently members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences weren’t the only ones impressed by Terrence Howard’s Oscar-nominated role as a pimp-turned-rapper in 2005’s Hustle & Flow. EW has learned exclusively that the 39-year-old Crash veteran, now starring in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, has landed a record deal with Columbia Records. “The full name [of the project] is Terrence Howard Presents Me and the Band of Kings,” says a label rep, who adds that the group’s as-yet-untitled debut CD “is slated for a fall release.” Maybe it’s not so hard out here for a pimp after all.
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"Everyone is my competition! I still feel the same way. Even though I do feel there's room for everyone as long as I'm first - no, I'm just kidding!