princess

Another Kid for Kelsey EOnline.com by Bridget Byrne Aug 30, 2004, 2:05 PM PT Just what the doctor ordered: a baby boy. Former Frasier Kelsey Grammer and his wife, Camille, have announced the birth of "a happy and healthy son." Jude Gordon Grammer was delivered by a surrogate mother at 4:11 a.m. Saturday in Sacramento, California, weighing in at 7 pounds 11 ounces. The Grammers already have a daughter, Mason Olivia, born in October 2001, also via a surrogate mother. As with Mason's birth mother, the identity of Jude's surrogate was not disclosed. Grammer, 49, is a triple Emmy winner for essaying neurotic shrink Dr. Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier . Like his former TV alter ego, Grammer is twice divorced: He and first wife Doreen Alderman split in 1990; he and second missus Leigh-Anne Cushany divorced in 1993. Grammer also has two other daughters: Spencer, 19, from his marriage to Alderman; and Greer, 12, from his relationship with makeup artist Barrie Buckner. Kelsey married the former Camille Donatacci, who turns 36 Thursday, in August 1997, after they met on a blind date the year before. She is an ex-Playboy Playmate and Club MTV dancer who now teams with her husband to speak out on irritable bowel syndrome, which she suffers from. Kelsey, who ended his 11-year run on Frasier (and his 20th overall as the character) in May, will next appear on television this Thanksgiving as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in NBC's new version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, costarring Jason Alexander and Law & Order's Jesse L. Martin. Additionally, Grammer's Grammnet production company is responsible for the sitcom Girlfriends about to begin its fifth season on UPN, and he's producer and host of Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show, a hit in England, scheduled to premiere on Fox in January 2005.

histar.comMatt Damon is great friends with his girlfriend Luciana Barroso's five-year-old daughter, but insists he is not taking over the "daddy role". Damon brought aspiring interior designer Barroso, her mother and Barroso's daughter to Sydney last weekend for the Australian premiere of The Bourne Supremacy. Damon explains, "Without talking too much about her, because she's five and she didn't sign up for this, what I could say is that I am definitely not playing daddy. "She's got a great father, you know? The two of them split, but they're great parents in their own right." But the Oscar-winner admits he can relate to the child, because his own parents divorced when he was young.

Kristin of E!Five New Fall Shows You Are Going to Love!#1 Choice:Lost (ABC)Wed.; premieres Sept. 22What It's About: Matthew Fox. Sweaty and sexy.Oh, sorry. Did you want me to say more? Well, this is the show everyone's been raving about, a small-screen series that looks and feels like a big-screen feature. It centers around plane-crash survivors who are stranded on a deserted island--including Matthew Fox (Party of Five) and the girl I'm expecting to be the biggest breakout star of the season: Evangeline Lilly.What You Need to Know: Lost is from JJ Abrams, the mastermind behind Felicity and Alias, who directed such a heart-pounding, compelling pilot for Lost--reportedly the most expensive pilot in TV history!--that it scored him a gig directing an itty-bitty movie you may have heard of: Mission: Impossible 3.And speaking of good people...did I mention how you will love Evangeline Lilly? She came from nowhere--okay, Vancouver really, but hadn't done a single oncamera role before Lost. By scoring the role of a lifetime as Matthew Fox's leading lady, she's following in the footsteps of Keri Russell and Jennifer Garner as JJ Abrams' next female protégé. It'd be easy to hate her, except she's oozing with charm and humility."Getting this part has changed my world, my life's upside down," Evangeline told me at an ABC party. "At times, it's exciting, and, at [other] times, scary. But the only emotion I can define that has never changed is gratitude. I know I'm out of my league." You'll know what a joke that is when you see it.Bottom Line: Lost is the best new show of the season.

DOWN ON BROWN Page Six FOXY Brown, you've worn out your welcome at the Louis Vuitton flagship on Fifth Avenue. A fed-up staffer called us Friday while the rapper was throwing a tantrum inside the store to plead for us to expose Foxy's abominable behavior. "She comes in here all the time and yells at people, curses at us, snaps her fingers at us. She's just awful. We've all had it." Foxy also has a habit of returning anything she buys if she doesn't get a "celebrity discount."

people.comGoing Once ...Want a two-hour tap-dancing lesson with Tony Danza ? (Come on, admit it ...) Don't worry, you can feel good about it: Said lesson ? and several other celeb goodies ? are up for auction on eBay through Sept. 24, with proceeds going to the Partnership Against Child Abuse. Some of the other offerings include tickets to the premiere of the upcoming Jennifer Aniston movie Otherwise Engaged, lunch with teen star Raven Symone and a visit to the set of her TV show That's So Raven, a guitar autographed by the members of Maroon 5, lunch with rocker Melissa Etheridge and more.

Alleged Stalker Targets Avril Lavigne Monday Aug 30, 2004 8:00am EST By Stephen M. Silverman CREDIT: INFGOFF.COM A man accused of harassing Avril Lavigne's parents and violating a court order by trying to contact the Canadian pop star has been charged with felony stalking. Prosecutors claim James Speedy began his obsession in 2003 by writing the pop star, and then followed by writing her parents once he discovered where they lived, the Associated Press reports. "He sent his letters by FedEx and complained when they were not answered," deputy prosecutor Janice Albert said in papers filed Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court. "He sent wine, photos, CDs and requests for contact. They never responded." According to Albert, Speedy acknowledged in a June 2003 letter to the family that his behavior was comparable to a stalker's. A month later, Canadian police found Speedy parked in a car near the Lavigne residence, Albert said. In another letter, which he allegedly referred to as a "courtesy notification," he wrote to say he was in Lavigne's hometown of Ontario but promised not to drive by her parents' house, spy on them or do "anything creepy." Despite a Canadian anti-harassment order, Speedy contacted Lavigne's agent this past March about the possibility of attending her Seattle-area concert so he could "knock fists" with Lavigne. Speedy was released on bail following his April 7 arrest. His arraignment is scheduled for Sept. 17.

popbitch.com >> Stolen by Streisand << Babs goes on the take Forget Winona, Barbra Streisand is the most famous klepto in Hollywood. Something in her trailer goes missing every day. For example, the crew will come in and find a bunch of fresh flowers thrown in the bin because she's walked off with the vase. And it's always the cheap horrible things that get taken.

Romijn-Stamos Linked to O'Connell imdb.com Stunning actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos has reportedly embarked on a new romance with Kangaroo Jack star Jerry O'Connell. The blonde beauty, whose husband John Stamos recently filed to divorce, has been spotted on the set of O'Connell's American TV show Crossing Jordan on numerous occasions, prompting speculation of a hot new relationship. A source says, "The first day Jerry brought Rebecca on the set, he literally paraded her all around to meet everyone. Each time he introduced her, he'd beam and say, 'Isn't she beautiful? Look show beautiful she is!' She blushed, but you could tell she loved the attention." O'Connell once dated former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell. I liked Giuliana DePandi & Jerry O'Connell as a couple.

BOWLED OVER Halle Berry and her boyfriend, actor Michael Ealy, team up for a bowling outing with friends Thursday in Studio City, Calif. When did these two get together?? I don't remember hearing that??

histar.com Just months after having daughter Coco, COURTENEY COX ARQUETTE is already planning baby number two. Courteney and husband DAVID ARQUETTE are said to be talking with the fertility experts she consulted for her daughter. However, a source says, "she's 40, so time is not on her side." Hey BobbyD, you seen David on the courts since baby #1 came?? He puffed up and showing off pics to anyone that will look?

Andy Dick and son Jacob at the American Eagle Outfitters Rocks Los Angeles with a Back To School Tailgate Party.

Cage Pays Ex for Secret Elopementimdb.comNicolas Cage's secret elopement to former waitress Alice Kim has cost him $100,000 - after his furious ex-girlfriend insisted on a holiday to make up for his betrayal. The Honeymoon In Vegas star, 40, infuriated Kristina Fulton - mother of his son Weston - for telling her about his wedding plans only a day before the big day last month and reportedly handed over $50,000 for her holiday in Hawaii as an apology. But Cage's spokesperson tells the New York Daily News that Fulton knew about the betrothal for months and it was all quite "amicable".Articles C

Berry Dumps Benet's Clothesimdb.comHollywood beauty Halle Berry has reportedly donated her estranged husband Eric Benet's clothes to homeless Los Angeles residents. The Monster's Ball star's soul singer spouse Benet moved out of their Hollywood home in October following their split after two and a half years of marriage. According to British newspaper The Sun, Berry has repeatedly asked the hitmaker to pick up his belongings from the house, but finally lost her patience and brought the garments to a charity collection point. A friend says, "Halle was boiling mad. She found it hurtful having his stuff around. There will be nicely dressed tramps around."

people.com OFFERED: The "For Sale" sign is back on Julia Roberts's 3,000-sq.-ft., four-bedroom, lower Fifth Avenue co-op, reports the New York Observer. Actress Ellen Barkin had planned to purchase the place, which had an asking price of $4.9 million (monthly maintenance fee: $3,947), but that deal apparently didn't go through. The Roberts pad is described in its listing as having three renovated bedrooms, a new eat-in kitchen, a library and a maid's room. As for a New York base, Roberts, 36, who is expecting twins early next year with husband Danny Moder, is said to own several apartments in the Gramercy Park area.

What was the scoop in Kelsey, wasn't he accused of sleeping with underaged girls years ago when he was drinking like a fish??

histar.comNobody can accuse BEYONCE and JAY-Z of cutting corners on their vacation. Their "little" trip to St. Tropez cost them well over $400,000. See, their four-day stay alone set them back $430,000. Then there's the $17,320 a day they spent to rent their yacht. And there's no word how much it cost them to fly in from the States on a private jet.Oh... and for their four-day stay, they packed 22 suitcases!

people.com Oprah Winfrey, fresh from jury duty but deep into summer reruns, will run a new episode this Thursday, on which Gwyneth Paltrow will give her first interview since becoming a mother in May.Paltrow plans to speak about not only daughter Apple but also her secretive 2003 marriage to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and the 2002 death of her father, director Bruce Paltrow, says the Hollywood Reporter.Also on the episode, Jude Law, Paltrow's costar for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, will appear, as well as the jurors from the Chicago murder case that Oprah just served on. The jury convicted Dion Coleman, 27, of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Walter Holley, 23, following a fight over a fake $50 bill.The Oprah Winfrey Show will then revert to reruns, until the new season premiere on Sept. 13.In other TV news, Oprah's discovery, Dr. Phil McGraw, will flex his considerable muscle on CBS, which has postponed the fall premieres of 60 Minutes, The King of Queens and John Goodman's new sitcom Center of the Universe by a week ? to Sept. 29 ? to make room for his Sept. 22 special, A Dr. Phil Primetime Special: Family First.

PINK POWER Pink nails the note at the V Festival 2004 in Chelmsford, England, on Saturday. Also on the bill at the two-day music fest: Dido and The Strokes, among others.

SWEET MUSIC Is there something we should know about Alicia Keys and Usher? Nah ? the two are just canoodling for the camera while filming a video Monday for their duet "My Boo" (off a re-release of Usher's Confessions) in New York City.

From the Daily News I'm obsessing over the interview with Thandie Newton in the latest issue of Trace magazine. First of all (you'll have to imagine the snaps), she doesn't even want an Oscar, okay? "The Oscars mean nothing to me now," she says. "After 'Beloved,' I realized that a lot of people in the Academy just don't get to watch a lot of the movies that come out." Newton, who left icicles on my notepad after my own brief encounter with her, addresses rumors that she's perceived by African-Americans as being cold. "It might be because I'm English and educated." Brrr! "It may also be the accent and the very cool sophistication people see in me." Double brrr! She concludes, "Emotionally I'm a chameleon, and when I'm presenting myself in a formal way, it may seem rehearsed. I guess I carry some of my mum's spirit with me, and perhaps African-American audiences can sense that bottomless African sadness in me." So remember, the next time you're called out for your attitude, just blame it on your "bottomless African sadness."

Achtung, Baby! New U2 Release SetEOnline.comby Josh GrossbergAug 23, 2004, 10:00 AM PTNov. 23 is going to be a beautiful day for U2 fans.Bono and the boys have announced plans to release their still untitled album in the U.S. then, a day after it drops in the U.K. The first single, "Vertigo," will hit radio on Sept. 24, while a video for the song will debut in October.U2's 11th studio album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, is the follow-up to their multiple Grammy-winning 2000 disc, All That You Can Leave Behind. Besides "Vertigo," other song titles rumored to be on the Irish rockers' set include "Tough" and "Full Metal Jacket."The band has been previewing tracks to select music industry types, and the buzz has been tremendous. Time magazine's Josh Tyrangiel says the new CD "is just full of confident, expansive guitar rock from the masters of the form. All the old tricks--the Edge's echoing guitar notes,Larry Mullen Jr.'s martial snare--still work...[bono] has enormous assuredness, and the occasional cracks in his voice make the bad-relationship songs (and, as always, there are quite a few) darker and more dramatic."U2 fan site @U2 quotes VH1 Senior Vice President Bill Flanagan saying, "It's the best album they have ever done. It's going to knock [listeners] out." And British rock writer Neil McCormick tells Hot Press magazine that "Vertigo" "is like the early U2 pumped up in the 21st century, a really exciting record."The album's release will apparently not be impacted by the disappearance of early version of the album. A compact disc containing unmixed versions of the tracks went missing from a recording studio in Nice, France, in July, prompting worries that the songs could be leaked to the Internet, potentially costing the quartet, arguably the most popular rock band in the world, and its label, Interscope, millions in lost revenue.With French investigators still not finding what they're looking for, Bono told London's Daily Telegraph that the group may try and head off such a disastrous leak by making the album available early as a legal download on Apple's iTunes should file-swappers get their hands on it."If it is on the Internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of the month," the singer said. "It would be a real pity. It would screw up years of work and months of planning, not to mention f--king up our holidays. But once it's out. It's out."A cursory scan of the major music-swapping sites haven't turned up any of the MIA tracks.For now, the album will be on shelves--and iTunes--in November, with a U.S. tour slated for the spring.

Liz SmithNY Post BETTE MIDLER called in to pump her returning "Kiss My Brass" concert, which plays Radio City Music Hall Oct. 13-17. "Maybe I should call it 'Kiss My Brass Again!' " she said. "It's not really different from what it was before, just sort of 'fluffed up' to keep things timely in terms of current events. I change numbers sometimes. People remember 'One for My Baby,' which I did on Carson's last show, so I give 'em that. I go with how I feel. I regale my audience with the vicissitudes of my career, which I consider an ongoing art project which I must comment on; the good times and the many, many disasters.""Oh, but Bette, you've had mostly great times; they outweigh the bad," we said."Yes, you're right, I've been blessed," she said. "But complaining is funnier."Midler seemed downright emotional when I told her that her 1991 movie, "For the Boys," had been on TV a lot recently, and that it was great. (Bette garnered an Oscar nod for this tale of a TV star-USO entertainer, but the box office was weak.) "You're kidding? It's been on? A lot? Oh, that's so great. You know that was a heartbreak, but . . . I guess I have to be grateful it's there to be seen." We spoke of Donna Summer, who was such a sensation at last year's Hulaween bash to benefit Bette's fabulous New York Restoration Project. (This year's event happens Oct. 26 at the Marriott Marquis.) "Was she the greatest, or what? I want to bring her back again. She is the dearest, sweetest person. And that voice! It's from God." (Indeed, when Summer opened her mouth to sing, the audience gasped ? it was a disco world again.)Midler's latest Restoration Project was the building of the first boat house on Harlem River Drive, which will include all sorts of special activities for local residents.Any movies in the works? "Scripts come in, and I look, naturally. I think 'The Stepford Wives' turned out well, though it was a rough shoot, I won't lie."Rough how? "Oh, it just was, you know . . . my focus is the Restoration Project, my concerts and records, like the Rosemary Clooney CD. Movies are great. But I have plenty to do."

Photo:

This poor guy is going to kill himself soon.... EOnline.cm Tab Fab You Don't Know Dick: Reportedly grief stricken over the death of friend Rick James, ever erratic Andy Dick acted like a super freak at several NYC hot spots, according to the Globe . At Suede, Dick reportedly first tried to kiss everyone he met and later was seen rolling around on the bathroom floor before finally bawling his eyes out in the dishwashing room. The next day at club Plan B, he let the bad times roll by alternately kissing and slapping male and female strangers. A source there says, "He was obviously obliterated," though he was lucid enough to skip out on a $300 tab. The jag continued this week at club Butter, according to the New York Post, with Dick projectile vomiting under the table on the $200 jeans of a female music editor. Sounds like Andy's up for the lead in a Courtney Love biopic. You go, hurl!

DRESSED TO THE HILT-ONNY PostParis Hilton - in a T-shirt that could be referring to her looks or fame, but not her lifestyle - fetches a CD from her SUV outside a friend's L.A. home.The selection of choice?Her own single, charmingly titled "Screwed." And no, it was not co-written by her ex-porno pal, Rick Salomon.