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EOnline.com BEAUTIFUL DAY: Bono announcing that a briefcase containing notes and lyrics for U2's 1981 album, October, has been returned, 23 years after it was stolen at a concert in Portland, Oregon.

Sir Ian Blasts Will Smith Over Decade-Old Homophobic Stance imdb.com British thespian Sir Ian McKellen has blasted Will Smith for remarks he claims were homophobic. The Lord Of The Rings star kept quiet about Smith's comments while they pair were making Six Degrees Of Separation in 1993, but the gay rights icon has decided the Hollywood actor should now account for what he said. Smith refused to kiss another man in the film, claiming it would "gross out" his fans - and McKellen has never forgiven him. He says, "He thought he was saying something very individual but what he was actually confirming was that he's got the disease so many people have - homophobia." Meanwhile, the homosexual star wants gay rights to be respected in Hollywood in his lifetime, because he's sick of stars hiding in the closet. He adds, "There are actors of all ages in Hollywood who lie about their sexuality. It's disgusting and bewildering."

Farrell's Drug Remarks Spark Outrage imdb.com Actor Colin Farrell has enraged anti-drug campaigners by "bragging" about his past heroin use. The Irish Phone Booth hunk admits he's dabbled with hard drugs - a penchant he funded by accepting low-paid modeling jobs - and has hailed the effect heroin had on him. In a candid interview with GQ magazine, he says, "I've smoked it a couple of times, but I knew where I was going. For some reason it seemed pretty f**king nice at the time." But drug prevention workers have blasted Farrell for acting irresponsibly in the knowledge his young fans look up to him. Peter Stoker of the National Drug Prevention Alliance says, "He should not be bragging about taking heroin. Farrell is a role model for children. If he thinks it is so cool he should go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting and see the harsh reality."

people.comProducing ResultsAlong with her new life as a mommy (to 4-month-old daughter Coco), Courteney Cox has become quite the productive producer of late. Her company, Coquette Productions, is "producing six different shows right now," Cox told us at a recent party for Hollywood uber manager Bernie Brillstein's new self-help book at the Beverly Hills Zegna store. "Well, we've sold six shows. One of them is for HBO, and it's one that I will star in if it goes. It's about a girl with an addiction problem." But even her success in producing doesn't match motherhood, Cox told us. "It's fantastic," she said. "Coco is amazing. It's the best thing that I've done for sure."

STELLA MCCARTNEY & ALASDHAIR WILLIS Designer Stella McCartney, 33, chose her fashion show in Paris earlier this month to reveal to pals (including Gwyneth Paltrow) that she and husband Alasdhair Willis, a former magazine publisher, are expecting their first child in the spring. And McCartney doesn't plan to leave the fashion biz behind when baby arrives: She's "looking forward to being a working mother," says a rep.

Like I said, it would be nice to give us a few answers now instead of always cliff hangers.I will be watching next week though...

So the casket was empty. Anyone have any guesses?!?!I sure wish they would start to give us a few of the answers, I'm starting to get tired of all the twists. A few little insights would be nice now.

McGregor Almost Quit Bike Trekimdb.comEwan McGregor and pal Charley Boorman almost parked up their motorbikes halfway through their round-the-world trek and called the adventure off - because they were missing their families. The actors admit their wives urged them on when the pair called home from remote Mongolia, insisting their global bike ride was too much. The three-month trek had already fallen well behind schedule, and Boorman and McGregor both knew they'd struggle to make up time. Boorman says, "We were desperate to get to our wives." McGregor adds, "They told us to stick it out and if it takes a bit longer, it doesn't matter." The pair eventually rode into New York in July after completing more than 20,000 miles in 113 days.

people.comStill ModRod Stewart has still got it ? and he's not afraid to show it. At one point during this week's "Rod Stewart Live from the Apollo" concert (supporting his new album Stardust ... The Great American Songbook, Vol. III and broadcast live on AOL), he turned his back to the audience, unzipped his pants, undid his belt buckle and tucked in his white shirt. "I tried to get off the stage and change outfits, but I wasn't able to tuck my shirt in," he told the audience, who roared with approval at his antics. After singing some of his standbys like "Maggie Mae," he told the audience to sit down for the portion of the show in which he sang old favorites like "Blue Moon." "Get seated," he told the audience. "Don't fall asleep!" Stewart later invited a flock of female fans to join him onstage for his finale ? to the chagrin of bodyguards who tried unsuccessfully to keep them from putting their hands all over the rocker.

'Housewives,' 'Lost' Earn Full Seasons (Wednesday, October 20 01:25 PM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) In one of its easiest calls in several years, ABC has given full-season orders to its two first-year hits, "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost." Given the out-of-the-box success of both shows, it's almost a little surprising the network waited this long to make the announcement. "Desperate Housewives" is the most-watched new series of the season -- and third overall -- while "Lost" is No. 3 among first-year shows (CBS' "CSI: NY" is second). "'Desperate Housewives' and 'Lost' each bring something unique to the table, and we're thrilled that audiences responded from day one," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment. "Creatively, these two shows only continue to get better."

Ashlee Simpson and Ryan Cabrera Back Togethergossiplist.comA saavy LiveJournal.com user snapped Ashlee Simpson and Ryan Cabrera sharing a tender embrace at the Dallas Airport. Obviously, they are back together.

The Answer Bitch EOnline.com How do stars avoid stretch marks after childbirth? Is there a certain cream they use, or are they just the lucky ones? Megan Blanchard, Ottawa A.B. Replies: The research is in. Pardon me while I deal with the shock. In a place where money can buy anything--including more money--skin doctors here in Hollywood insist that nothing can completely erase stretch marks. Nothing. Not harp-seal placentas, not Kabbalah, not Kérastase shampoo, not a night with Colin Farrell. Let's savor this moment a little longer. Once a star's chamois-smooth skin has widened beyond its contractual obligations, the lower layers of her derma explode in tiny tantrums of outrage, and up come the perpetual crinkle-paper inscriptions of doom. It works just like it does here on Earth. So, as soon as the stick turns blue, the star usually gets right to work on preventative measures. She gets herself to the spa, or on the phone with her publicist, who tries to scare up some free moisturizers. Doctors do say microdermabrasion--Angeleno for "scrubbing"--and some creams can enhance the belly's elasticity enough to give it more of a fighting chance against scarring. Examples: Recently preggers Gwyneth Paltrow is a reported client of the Elemis Day Spa in London. The Japanese camellia oil there is rumored to prevent stretch marks. So is Crème de la Mer's Body Serum, but it goes for $150 at Neiman's. So, you can either avoid stretch marks or send your unborn to college. Make no mistake. Pregnant celebrities pray feverishly to their gauzy, Swarovski-crystal-encrusted gods that these skin treatments work. Once stretch marks appear, they usually stay; they're family now. Well, the stretch marks and those squalling proto-princess larva babies of theirs. Supermodel Niki Taylor has twins, and she claims to have a stretch mark or two. "I did the whole oil and lotion thing to try to keep [the stretch marks] off, but I just got too big," Taylor told People in 1997. She even tried laser surgery, a popular postpartum strategy, but said the procedure made the marks worse. The only other alternative: Call someone like surgeon-to-the-stars Dr. George Orloff, drop about $8,000 and have your entire thorax recarved. "In Hollywood, a lot of women, after pregnancy, want a mini tummy tuck," Orloff tells this B!tch . "They have stretch marks around their breasts and belly area, and the tuck gets a lot of that skin removed--cutting out the stretch marks." All that said: If you believe what big actresses like Reese Witherspoon and Kate Winslet say (do you eat soap, too?), then there are plenty of A-listers with all kinds of untouched birthing scars. "I have cellulite, I have stretch marks," Witherspoon told the Evening Standard earlier this year. "My breasts are not what they were before I breastfed two children. If I ever have to do a bikini scene, it will become a caftan scene." Promise?

EOnline.com HEADLINER: Alicia Keys set to headline the Barbados Jazz Festival in January. The festival will run from Jan. 10 to 16.

Get Lost: The Mystery Solved! by Ben Katner TV Guide.com Is it just us, or is watching ABC's plane-crash smash, Lost (Wednesdays, 9 pm/ET), a little bit like driving on the New Jersey Turnpike? You never know where the heck it's going to take you, and yet you can't escape it, either. In any case, while we may never find our way on Garden State thoroughfares, we can make sense of the trippiest series since Twin Peaks . Consider, if you will, the following scenarios to explain the weird occurrences on the ultimate survivor island... The survivors are all dead. Think about it! Where else but in heaven could an individual walk away from a plane wreck looking as yummy as Kate (Evangeline Lilly) or Boone (Ian Somerhalder)? Plus, only divine intervention would allow paralyzed Locke (Terry O'Quinn ) to suddenly walk. On the other hand, would even a vengeful God trap sinners with a tree-shaking beastie, not to mention obnoxious hothead Sawyer (Josh Holloway)? Let's contemplate a variation on the theme... They're in purgatory. That's the ticket! Maybe Jack (Matthew Fox) isn't the Dr. Nice Guy that he appears to be. Lord knows his fellow beachcombers are a mixed bag of misanthropes and mischief-makers. So perhaps they are all stuck together, cluelessly working toward an understanding of some highly personal life lessons. Bratty Shannon (Maggie Grace) must see that using people is wrong; druggy Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) must begin to just say no... you get the idea. And the quick-vanishing man in the suit? Why, he is to purgatory what Della Reese was to Touched by an Angel ? a kind of celestial overseer. They're in outer space. Yeah, yeah, it's a mind-blowing proposition, we know. But it's not out of the realm of possibility. What if some alien race decided to Xerox Earth? They'd want to see how close they'd come to an exact duplicate, wouldn't they? So, to test their prefab world, they "import" a bunch of the natives by knocking their plane out of the air. Gradually, the busybody ETs would figure out the same thing that their unwitting guinea pigs are: Something is amiss. That's why there was a polar bear in the tropics; the Martians knew there were such creatures on Earth, they just didn't quite pinpoint where they belonged. This may also be why Locke was able to ditch his wheelchair; the pseudo-atmosphere in which our gang now reside may be slightly altered, allowing for miraculous feats of, in this case, an old guy's feet. They're in Jurassic Park. We give creator J.J. Abrams way more credit than to seriously think he'd tear a page from another writer's blockbuster. However, if he somehow found a way to isolate his crew on a prehistoric isle, letting them in the back door so that neither they nor the audience knew what to expect, well, that prospect might be too tempting to resist. In addition, short of a guest appearance by the Jolly Green Giant, it's going to take a creature of T. Rex-ian proportions to keep us from being disappointed by the eventual revelation of the monster in the brush. They're part of a government study. Cue the X-Files theme. This is obviously the kind of conspiracy about which Mulder lived to theorize. A disaster from which nobody should've walked away... an island nobody ever heard of... a shady character as sharply dressed as the nefarious Cigarette-Smoking Man. Yeah, this has "Made in the U.S.A." written all over it. Perhaps the G-men want to see what effect all that violence in TV and movies has really had on people. (They wouldn't be disappointed, either: There've been fisticuffs and gunplay nearly every day.) Or maybe the whole downing of the plane was orchestrated to rub out Kate, who isn't the criminal we're meant to think she is but a fearless spy who knows too much. On second thought, forget the X-Files theme; cue the Alias opening. There may be a crossover coming... They're about to meet seven other stranded castaways. All these weeks, we've been thinking we're watching a new drama. As if! When our heroes make it to the other side of the island, we learn that we've been duped into watching a sitcom and that there will be hilarity galore once the likes of goofball Charlie and ornery Sawyer start mixing and mingling with a certain skipper, his first mate and their gaggle of ill-fated tour-boat passengers (among them, a millionaire and his wife, a movie star and... you know, the rest). Silly as it is, we're kind of partial to this outcome, if only because we expect the Professor will have a much easier time fashioning a two-way radio out of coconuts with the help of Lost's resident Mr. Wizard, Sayid (Naveen Andrews).

DADDY'S GIRL Dear ol' dad Sting enjoys a squeeze Monday from daughter Mickey, 20, at a theater party in New York City.

THREE'S COMPANY Walk this way: Destiny's Child ? Kelly Rowland, Beyonce Knowles and Michelle Williams ? move as a power trio on the set of their new video, "Lose My Breath," last week in Los Angeles. The R&B group's comeback album Destiny Fulfilled hits stores Nov. 16.

people.com JOINED: U2 and Apple Computer are expected to announce that they have signed a deal to sell custom iPods preloaded with the Irish rock band's upcoming album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (due Nov. 23 from Interscope Records), reports Billboard. Reps for the band as well as Apple declined comment. U2's new single "Vertigo" is featured in current TV ads for the iPod. The track is currently No. 2 on Billboard's airplay-based Modern Rock Tracks chart, and No. 44 on the Hot 100, which is based on both retail sales and radio airplay.

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There is nothing spoilery about the info below, just some observations about the comic book the kid was holding in second episode. Think what you like! Thanks to SHAOKAHN of TT for this! Okay I'm getting obsessed with this show. Gotta move on. Here are some pics of the comic that the kid (Walt) was reading and a little info on it's storyline. Here's a translation of what the comic book says: The first pannel is fuzzy so I can't really read what it says, something about a bear skin rug with a bear inside. The second pannel says "ooops" and the 3rd "How big your teeth are! " ( like in Red Riding Hood). In the large panel the Flash says "What are your plans now? How does it affect you to tell us?, after all we are your puppets " and the little guy says "My plan is to die. Because of Gunther and you (plural) I am plagued with disesases, but I will share my pain". And the other guy says "We understand how you feel. What we did half a century ago was wrong and what they've done to you since then goes beyond any type of forgiveness. But if somebody must pay for this..." That comes from a Spanish speaker on another Lost fan-site. Another one, a comic book collector, has this to add: "The comic itself is entirely between Wally West (Flash) and Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern) and calls back to the Golden Age in DC comics where Green Lantern (Alan Scott) and the original Flash- Jay Garrick- were fighting side by side. The essential plot line is... Get this- a Government/Extraterrestrials conspiracy causing a bizzare series of events that read like something out of the X-Files. Aparently the villain- Alien X- was easily defeated toward the end of the issue- but when he is defeated and dying, rather than get medical help that Kyle offers, he commits suicide- only AFTER unleashing a swarm of otherworldy creatures upon earth. I don't know at this time what those creatures were. It would seem these pages come from a part where Alien X has captured Jay and Alan, just before Wally and Kyle set them free."

TIME CHECK With her hectic schedule (including her Bonez Tour 2004, kicking off in Dallas on Oct. 25), Lavigne admits, "It's always go, go, go." Good thing she's watching the clock at a cocktail party in Las Vegas hosted by record exec Clive Davis (on Sept. 14). ROMAN HOLIDAY Lavigne and her beau, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, slow down during a visit to Rome on June 3. Their tourist stops included The Colosseum and St. Peter's Square, all under the watchful eye of a bodyguard. SHOP GIRL Need a cart, Avril? The singer goes on a DVD-buying spree during a trip to a Sydney store Aug. 17. Among her purchases: the Julia Roberts weeper Stepmom, Wayne's World 2 and ? gasp! ? Britney Spears's film Crossroads. IT'S LOVE Courtney Love leaves her mark on Lavigne backstage at the 2004 World Music Awards in Las Vegas on Sept. 15. Lavigne, who cancelled a flight back to Los Angeles "to hang out and party with (rockers) Hoobastank" afterwards, walked away with best pop rocker honors. LOUNGE ACT "People think I'm this angry person and I'm not," says Lavigne, living it up with pals (including Whibley, second from left) at a soiree for the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto in June. The "Complicated" singer walked away with the people's choice award for favorite Canadian artist at the music channel's yearly event.

EOnline.com BEAUTIFUL DAY: Apple Computer Inc. and U2 expected to announce next week that they have inked a deal to sell custom iPods, according to Billboard. The iPods will reportedly come preloaded with the rockers' new album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, set to be released Nov. 23.

"It's like Stephen King meets Melrose Place."-- Ellen DeGeneres, describing one of her new favorite shows, ABC's plane crash-survivor drama Lost (people.com)

JONES: SPEND BIG ON ME!Page SixNOT only does Star "Bridezilla" Jones want her wedding provided for free, she's also asking guests to lavish her with expensive gifts. Jones and her fiancé, Al Reynolds , are registered at Geary's of Beverly Hills, Tiffany, Frette and, for those of more modest means, Crate & Barrel and Williams-Sonoma. One item on Jones' "wish list" is a George IV-style silver tray from Tiffany costing almost $11,000. Jones muses on her password-only Web site, "can't you just imagine Star Jones as the little 'Stepford Wife' bringing hubby Al his martini after a hard day at the office . . . yes, I can just see it now!" Most of the expensive items from Geary's ? gilded plates and Baroque-style silverware ? are still available, but Jones notes she needs Frette sheets ? which cost upwards of $1,000 a set. "We are changing the master bedroom of both our East Hampton home and our New York City home to reflect a 'married couple,' rather than a single-woman fantasy bedroom. Gotta make room for the head of the household!" Now that's sweet.

FERGIE TO BARE ALL sfgate.com Provocative British royal The Duchess of York has stripped for charity. Sarah Ferguson, who turned 45 on Friday, posed in only Cartier jewels and a pair of designer stilettos for a book that will raise funds for Sir Elton John's AIDS Foundation. The upcoming "Four Inches" book will reportedly contain various other celebrities and models, like Rebecca Romijn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rachel Hunter and Kate Moss. All of the ladies pose in nothing but high heels and expensive jewelry. The photo book is expected to hit bookshelves next year.

Scarlett Johansson at "A Love Song For Bobby Long" premiere in Hollywood, California