Celebrities

LOS ANGELES – Ben Affleck has vowed to give up acting for the sake of his unborn daughter. The Pearl Harbor star said he made the decision at the request of his pregnant wife, Jennifer Garner. Friends of the couple say Garner, 33, who stars in the television show Alias, doesn’t want Affleck to continue acting while she Read More

TAOS, N.M. – Julia Roberts has quietly dropped a landmark civil lawsuit she had filed against her breasts. The suit, filed in Taos Municipal Court in late March, charged that Roberts’ hooters, which had grown from a 34-B to a 38-D since she gave birth to twins last year, not only inflicted personal hardship and Read More

LOS ANGELES – A photographer shot near the groin with a pellet gun while chatting with friends in Malibu Saturday night has brought criminal charges against Britney Spears. According to papers filed in a Los Angeles County court, Brad Diaz, 33, accused Spears of “willfully and repeatedly stalking the plaintiff, thereby causing him mental anguish, Read More

MALIBU – Pandemonium broke out Saturday night when a paparazzo stalking Britney Spears at a hilltop home was struck in the leg by a plastic pellet. As guests inside the home were giggling and making crude jokes whenever Spears opened another box of comic lingerie at a baby shower held in her honor, Spears’ husband Read More

HOLLYWOOD – Brad Pitt is expected to announce on Meet the Press Sunday the impending launch of Bradgelina 2.0, the updated version of his wildly popular rumors hotline. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. (EDST) on Thursday August 11, concerned Pitt fans who dial 1-900-NOT-TRUE will be able to hear Pitt deny in his own voice an entire new Read More

HOLLYWOOD – Jennifer Aniston told Vanity Fair that she “desperately” wants to have a baby. Aniston, 36, who became a godmother in April, said she was so moved by the experience that she began to lactate halfway through the ceremony, ruining an expensive Victoria’s Secret bra and nearly fouling a $4,000 dress from Halston’s Christian Couture line. Read More

HOLLYWOOD – In her first interview since her breakup with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston told Vanity Fair she was initially “dumbfounded” when she saw photographs of Pitt with his hair dyed “a really gay blond” shortly after the couple had split. Aniston said she recalled thinking, “Ohmigod, he didn’t waste any time coming out, did he?” According Read More

ROME – Tom Cruise said he finds Lauren Bacall’s recent remarks about him “supremely ironic.” Bacall’s observations, which appear in the August 8 issue of Time magazine, begin with the charge that Cruise’ recent behavior is shocking. “It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially,” said Bacall, who appears Read More

BEVERLY HILLS – An embattled Paula Abdul will still be in the judge’s seat, at least for the time being, when production begins in August on a new round of American Idol shows. Despite allegations of sexual improprieties—and conduct unbecoming a judge—with 2003 finalist Corey Clark, Abdul, 42, will be involved in American Idol when the first auditions for Read More

ATLANTA – Cameron Diaz and her simpering smile will replace Nancy Grace and her self-righteous nostrils in the anchor seat of Closing Arguments, seen at 3 p.m. weekdays on Court TV. In announcing the change, William D. Faux, programming director at Court TV, allowed that Diaz’ recent legal victories were “among the relevant factors” in the Read More

MALIBU – Spokespersons for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have issued a joint communique denying that their clients are living together. “Despite certain physical evidence that might normally indicate two persons are cohabitating,” the communique began, “Angelina is simply staying with Brad while he continues to recover from his recent life-threatening attack of meningitis. She Read More

LONDON – Lindsay Lohan managed to infuriate her studio, her co-star, her fashion providers, and legions of her emaciated fans by skipping out on the premiere of Herbie: Fully Loaded in London last night. Lohan was a no-show at a Leicester Square theater, where hundreds of anorexic look-alikes huddled for warmth in bone-rattling proximity while waiting to Read More

LOS ANGELES – Jane Fonda’s “Irate About Iraq” bus tour, a cross-country protest against the war in Iraq, is attracting celebrities faster than a Rachel Zoe fashion clinic. In the week since Fonda announced her plans to protest “this immoral war,” more than a dozen celebrities have said they’ll be on the bus, which is Read More

LOS ANGELES – Sources close to Jennifer Aniston say the Friends star will be watching eBay closely when love notes she wrote as a teenager and other memorabilia go on sale July 29. The items to be auctioned include a scrap of paper with Aniston’s name and phone number scrawled on it in lipstick, a love letter Read More

HOLLYWOOD – Britney Spears, not content to let her sister, Jamie-Lynn, break the news that Britney is due to give birth to her first baby in September, announced yesterday that the birth will be televised on a special two-hour live segment of her reality show, Britney and Kevin: Chaotic. Spears told reporters that she was “taking Read More