JESSICA ALBA HAD HER BABY:
JESSICA ALBA had a baby girl over the weekend. We don't know exactly when, but there was a report that she showed up at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in labor on Friday night. No word yet on the baby's name.
Paris: 'I'm Not Pregnant'
Paris Hilton has slammed rumors she is pregnant, after pictures appeared online showing her with what appeared to be a tummy bump. The images of Hilton and her boyfriend Benji Madden out in West Hollywood on Wednesday night , sent the media into a frenzy, because the green dress she wore gave her what looks like a swollen belly. Hilton has spoken of her plans to start a family with Good Charlotte rocker Madden in 2009, but her representative insists her pregnancy rumors are "completely false".
Pitt-Jolie babies drive celeb media crazy
The Brangelina Baby Watch is taking on a fever pitch. While we're all still waiting for Angie's "fake assistant" to emerge, Star magazine is getting busted for running fake photos about Angie collapsing.
Sheen vows to never utter 'what's-her-face's name again – his version of she-who-shall-not-be named
Charlie Sheen hopes to bring an end to the feud between himself and ex-wife Denise Richards by refusing to even mention her name publicly again. Sheen told OK! Magazine, "It is what it is. I don't even care anymore. I'm going to take a stand to basically never utter her name publicly again, and I think if that's known, it will put an end to some of the drama." Sheen told the celeb mag he feels the debut of Richards' reality series, Denise Richards: It's Complicated, was timed to sabotage his May 30 wedding to Brooke Mueller.
Lohan headed for big comeback
The script for Lindsay Lohan's new movie, Labor Pains, is "hilarious," say Rush & Molloy. The movie - about a woman who pretends to be pregnant so she won't get fired - could turn her career completely around. However, getting the star insured apparently wasn't easy, given her two DUIs.
Swayze to return to work
Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer, is working on a new project. In the A&E drama The Beast, he plays a veteran FBI agent, Charles Barker, who teaches a rookie officer (Australian actor Travis Fimmel) his secret, eccentric crime-solving techniques.
Web surfers can ride waves on TidalTV
Channel surfers may want to add new video website TidalTV.com to their Favorites list. For its beta launch today, the site has live and on-demand content from more than a dozen networks, including CBS, NBC, Food Network, National Geographic Channel and TV Guide Network, as well as Vogue.TV and Ford Models channels. TidalTV doesn't offer user-generated material or full seasons of TV series, but nuggets include the new Coldplay video (Violet Hill) and the Top 10 List from the Late Show With David Letterman. Viewers can rewind and pause video, create playlists and send videos to friends. "You don't have to know what you want to watch," says CEO Mollie Spilman. "You just literally change channels and happen upon TV shows."
Bravo's Housewives bear claws
The long-standing battle between the East and West coasts came to a head behind the scenes of Bravo's A-list Awards. The cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County and New York City feuded over the script the women were supposed to read on-air, and two cast members nearly rumbled backstage, according to People.
Bethenny Frankel, of the New York cast, said Orange County housewife Jeana Tomasina started the fight when she expressed her dislike of the script, which poked fun at the homes of both casts. The fight escalated and Tamra Barney of the Orange County cast claims Frankel scratched her.
Though Frankel denies the fight between East and West turned physical, she did say, "Watch what happens. Give me a can of hairspray and a match, and I’ll take care of that in the dressing room later.”
Vanity Fair' stands firm on Clinton/Gershon item
Despite Gina Gershon's best efforts to force a retraction, Vanity Fair stands by Todd Purdum's article "The Comeback Id" published in their July 2008 issue. Beth Kseniak of Vanity Fair told TMZ, "Todd Purdum's article does not indicate that former President Bill Clinton had an improper relationship with Gina Gershon. The story merely examines the concerns of some of Clinton's aides about reports of his behavior. We don't believe that any correction is warranted."
Electra complains about wedding pressure
Though Carmen Electra and Rob Patterson just got engaged in April, the former Baywatch star complains the pressure to set a wedding date already feels overwhelming. "If it was up to everybody else, we'd be married and divorced already," Electra told People. Given the history of her previous two marriages, one can't exactly discount that possibility.
QUICK HITS & RUMORS
--Clint Eastwood says Spike Lee should "shut his face" about putting black actors into a movie about raising the flag at Iwo Jima.
--Bob Dylan says Barack Obama is "redefining the nature of politics."
--Oprah, of course, is "europhic" that Obama has won the nomination.
--Keira Knightley is in talks to star in a big screen remake of My Fair Lady.
--Samuel L. Jackson has signed a development deal with CBS.
--Vin Diesel has become a baby daddy.
--Hulk Hogan's son Nick Bollea got out of solitary confinement after all.
--You can buy Ted Koppel's Maryland home for a mere $1.9 million -- that's down from the $4.1 million he was originally asking.
--Danny Bonaduce, Dennis Rodman and Dustin "Screech" Diamond are heading into the ring for CMT's upcoming reality series Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling.
--Van Halen's reunion tour with David Lee Roth that wrapped up this week in Michigan raking in $93 million.
--Has Matthew McConaughey asked his pregnant girlfriend to marry him???
--Evander Holyfield is not broke . . . he's just "not liquid"
--Ashley Tisdale does NOT have AIDS
--An opera based on "Brokeback Mountain" is coming in five years
--Bobby Brown's autobiography is on hold, while his people work to secure a publisher
--Naomi Campbell has undergone some type of surgery that will allow her to have a child
--Somebody pulled a practical joke on Chris Rock while he was on tour in South Africa
--"Kung Fu Panda" is the new #1 movie in the country
--David Cook will be singing the National Anthem at the "NBA Finals" tomorrow night
--Bobby Brown, Maureen "Marcia Brady" McCormick and former Wilson Phillips member Carnie Wilson are RE-teaming for another CMT reality show
--Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones performed with the Foo Fighters
--Chris Martin wants Coldplay to be a bigger hit at karaoke bars
--Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott Disses Motley Crue . . . Poison . . . and American "glam" bands
--The last Police show will go down August 7th at Madison Square Garden
--Former Korn guitarist Brian "Head" Welch will release his debut solo album on September 9th
--Lou Reed went off on an interviewer who asked him about stock in satellite radio
--Warren G has been popped for marijuana possession
--The big thing Snoop Dogg learned by selling crack: "Common sense rules over everything"
--Is Rick Ross getting all smooth up in Foxy Brown???
--C-Murder's new murder trial has been postponed again
--The paparazzi caught 50 Cent allegedly TAKING A LEAK outside of a gas station
--Jessica Simpson says it's in God's plan that she sing country
"KUNG FU PANDA" IS THE NEW #1 MOVIE IN THE COUNTRY:
JACK BLACK and ANGELINA JOLIE'S new animated flick, "Kung Fu Panda", is the new #1 movie in America . . . bringing in $60 million. Here are the Top 10 movies in the country . . .
1.) (NEW) "Kung Fu Panda", $60 million
2.) (NEW) Adam Sandler's comedy "You Don't Mess with the Zohan", $40 million
3.) "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", $22.8 million (--Up to a total of $253 million in its 3rd week.)
4.) "Sex and the City", $21.3 million (--Up to a total of $99.3 million in its 2nd week.)
5.) Liv Tyler's horror flick "The Strangers", $9.3 million (--Up to a total of $37.6 million in its 2nd week.)
PRIME TIME TONIGHT
Network Premieres for 'Nashville Star' and 'The Bill Engvall Show'
• THE BACHELORETTE NASCAR DATING, LOS ANGELES STYLE AND INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY. (ABC, 8 PM)
• GOSSIP GIRL (Repeat) DAN'S CHILDHOOD FRIEND RETURNS. (CW, 8 PM)
• THE BILL ENGVALL SHOW SEASON PREMIERE (CBS, 8 PM)
• AMERICAN GLADIATORS SPECIAL "INCREDIBLE HULK" THEME EPISODE WITH BY THE ORIGINAL "HULK" LOU FERRIGNO. (NBC, 8 PM)
• ARMY WIVES RERUN OF LAST NIGHT'S SEASON PREMIERE (LIFETIME, 8 PM)
• BONES (Rerun) A DECOMPOSED BODY IS FOUND IN THE WOODS (FOX, 8 PM)
• DRUMLINE (2002) Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana and Orlando Jones. (VH1, 8 PM)
• TRANSFORMERS (2007) Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and Jon Voight. (CINEMAX, 8 PM)
• TWO AND A HALF MEN (Repeat) CHARLIE HAS TO FIND CREATIVE WAYS TO ENTERTAIN HIS GIRLFRIEND'S 4-YEAR-OLD SON. (CBS, 9 PM)
• NASHVILLE STAR MAKING ITS NETWORK TV DEBUT, HOSTED BY BILLY RAY CYRUS AND A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY TAYLOR SWIFT. (NBC, 9 PM)
• HOUSE (Repeat) RECRUITING NEW TEAM MEMBERS. (FOX, 9 PM)
• ONE TREE HILL (Repeat) Mouth KISSES THE BOSS'S BUTT. (CW, 9 PM)
• WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW MILLION DOLLAR MANIA (USA, 9 PM)
• ANGELS FALL (2007) A WITNESS TO MURDER QUESTIONS HER OWN EYES & SANITY. Heather Locklear, Johnathon Schaech, Gary Hudson (LIFETIME, 9 PM)
• WHERE THE HEART IS (2000) Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd (ABC FAMILY, 9 PM)
• CSI: MIAMI (Repeat) A WEALTHY REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER IS KILLED, AND HIS WIFE AND HER TWIN SISTERS ARE SUSPECTS. (CBS, 10 PM)
• THE MOLE PLAYING CHILE'S MOST POPULAR SPORT. (ABC, 10 PM)
