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(IMDB.COM)Winslet and Mendes Move Into Fairytale MansionTitanic actress Kate Winslet and her director husband Sam Mendes are finally settling down in the $5.9 million English country mansion they bought three years ago. Westcote Manor, hidden in the tiny village of Church Westcote in a secluded part of the Cotswolds, boasts eight bedrooms and 22 acres of ground. A local builder estimates the couple will have doubled their $2.1 million budget to renovate the mansion, which comprises of two buildings and a 1950s extension. The couple had to squeeze into a tiny stone cottage next door while the lengthy work was completed on their home.

(NYDailynews.com)A baby step toward Sienna-Jude vows? Sienna Miller is assuring the producers of her next movie, "Factory Girl," that she's not pregnant with Jude Law's baby - but the buzz in her circle is different.One source who claims to be a confidante of the blond British beauty says, "She's 100% pregnant, she's 100% keeping it, and she and Jude are talking about a wedding, possibly in France."Just 21, Miller apparently bought the superhandsome Law's story that he cheated on her with his nanny, Daisy Wright, because he was lonely for Sienna while he was away from her on location in Shreveport, La., the source adds. They've gotten back together, but she still hasn't put the $35,000 engagement ring he'd bought her back on.The excellent British gossip column "3 a.m." just reported that Sienna was carrying an unopened bottle of Champagne as she left Wyndham's Theatre in London, where she's in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." If she's pregnant and drinks it, she's a fool.But George Hickenlooper, who'll direct Sienna in the career-making role of Edie Sedgwick, the heiress and Andy Warhol acolyte who overdosed at age 28, told us: "We're starting the film on Nov. 7. Sienna is ready to go." There have been rumblings that a baby on the way would lead the "Alfie" actress to drop out of the production, but Miller's spokeswoman told us,"Sienna has not pulled out of the movie," adding: "I don't comment on Sienna's personal life."So either she isn't preggers now, or she'll be wearing a lot of muumuus by then.

(Pagesix.com)BLURRY BONGOS FOLKS are still talking about Matthew McConaughey's recent performance at a John Mellencamp show at the Hollywood Bowl. The Texan, who was famously arrested in 1999 for smoking weed and playing bongos in the buff, jumped onstage looking "completely out of it" and sat in on "Little Pink Houses." Our source reports: "He couldn't open his eyes, he didn't know any of the words . . . He just kept hitting his bongos randomly and muttering . . . When he finally left the stage, Mellencamp looked relieved and told the crowd, 'I'm glad he's a good actor at least.' " McConaughey's reps had no comment.

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Maybe it's $$$...the non-celebs are well taken care of.

Interestingly, he doesn't talk about when a celeb dates a unknown...how the unknown's private business is put out in the papers. Example...Ben's Boston Girlfriend after J.Ho.Message to Matt and other celebs...how about stop being out and about in places you know you will be photographed..Baseball Games,The Grove, The Ivy, Beverly Hills?

(IMDB.COM)Miller Thankful For Law's SupportSienna Miller insists she has received invaluable support since the shock of finding out about her partner Jude Law's infidelity - particularly from Law himself. The Layer Cake beauty is feeling stronger than ever, but has bemused fans by praising Law's kindness during her ordeal, even though he was the one who broke her heart in the first place by having a month-long affair with his children's nanny, Daisy Wright. She says, "I'd be lying if I said that it hasn't been a really rough Couple of months. But at the end of the day I've got a huge support system. My mum, my sister, all my best mates and Jude have been really supportive of me. Actually it's you know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

(IMDB.COM)

 

Farrell Not So Macho

 

Colin Farrell has been embarrassed by his old schoolmates, who have shattered his tough image by insisting he used to be a posh "mummy's boy." The claims, which appear in Jane Kelly's unauthorised biography Colin Farrell: Living Dangerously, have unhinged the screen hunk's carefully crafted image, and his old pals are particularly amused by his strong Irish accent - which he never used to have. Childhood friend Peter Barry remembers, "He was seen as effeminate. They thought he was a sissy so he got picked on." Former pal Ritchie Molloy snipes, "He pretends he's from a tough part of Dublin but he's not." Another former schoolmate adds, "Colin sounds quite broad Dublin these days but everyone knows he's posher than he makes out."

 

Uhhhh....duh?

Star Jones in her "healthier" days!

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What a bitch! Total bitch... 

Which one Star,Vivica or Al?

LOL! All of the above!!

(NYDAILYNEWS.COM)

 

Don't go dissing Star Jones around Vivica A. Fox.

You might get threatened.

 

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel learned that lesson the hard way Tuesday when the sultry actress vowed to beat him with her shoe over his nasty cracks about the "View" panelist, a close friend of hers.

 

"I don't like when people make negative comments about my friends," Fox E-mailed Lowdown yesterday.

 

No kidding.

 

Kimmel didn't get on the phone with me, but Tuesday's interview started badly when he introduced Fox as "perhaps most harrowing of all, Star Jones' bridesmaid" - and it went downhill from there.

 

"We usually have really great comical moments, but that's my friend. I love her," Fox, wearing a cleavage-revealing jacket, informed her rumpled-looking host. "That's not funny to me."

 

Several icy exchanges later, the two accused each other of having a bad attitude while aggressively pointing fingers.

 

"It goes both ways," Kimmel chided.

 

"I'm desperate to make this work," he pleaded with his guest, who was on his show to plug her Lifetime crime drama, "Missing," and a new women's mag she's fronting called Jolie.

 

"You know what? The four of us should get together - me, you, Star and [star's husband] Al [Reynolds]," Kimmel suggested.

 

Fox responded grimly: "You would get your a- kicked."

 

"I'm sure I would," Kimmel said. "But that would be funny for you."

 

"It wouldn't be funny," Fox vowed. "I would have to take off my shoe and beat you down, brotha!"

 

"Oh, great," Kimmel said. "Three people beating me up. Maybe it isn't such a great idea."

 

Fox, who'd been expected to stay for the next segment, instead walked off the set - and the camera focused on her empty chair.

 

As for Jones - the inspiration for all this acrimony - her spokesman told me yesterday: "Star loves and adores Vivica Fox. ... However, she does not watch - and has never watched - 'The Jimmy Kimmel Show.'"

 

 

What a bitch! Total bitch...

(IMDB.COM)

 

Drug Addict Romance Was Horrible for Johansson

 

Actress Scarlett Johansson has sworn off dating dangerous men because she once dated a cocaine addict and recalls it being a nightmare. The pretty star, who is now dating Pearl Harbor actor Josh Harnett, admits her nameless ex could never be trusted and she always felt a distant second to his love for drugs. She tells US style magazine Cosmopolitan, "It was horrible. I won't allow myself to get involved with someone like that again because you're never as important as the drug. "You can't trust them, and you never know where they are. They lie. Every time they blow their nose, you're like, 'Hmmm.'" But The Island star insists not all her past relationships have been disasters - one sweetheart who she fell for when she was just 14 is still a close pal. She adds, "You go through puberty and feel like there's nobody in the world who's ever going to understand you. Then you meet this person and you're connecting with them and exploring things you've never explored before. You never have that again. "(You feel like) 'I'm gonna marry you and have your children.'"

 

Is this Jared? Benicio? the producers or directors she's been with?

(MSNBC.COM)McCarthy turns new page with divorceReed Saxon / AP fileJenny McCarthy's happy book about marriage had to be rethought after she filed for divorce. MSNBCUpdated: 3:08 a.m. ET Aug. 30, 2005Jenny McCarthy was writing a light-hearted book about marriage — until her divorce.The former pin-up penned a book called “Marriage Laughs” and a source says she had just sold the humorous, how-to guide for $1 million. “Jenny was deliriously in love with her husband and her book, which is hilarious, was going to be a [part of a] series about marriage,” says a source. “Jenny was going to be the spokeswoman for a generation of young, sassy, married women. But just as the contract was being signed, Jenny filed for divorce.” “Irreconcilable differences” were cited in McCarthy’s split from her husband of six years, John Asher, who directed her in the film “Diamonds.” The book, however, will survive — in a different form. It will be published this spring by Dutton. “They’re changing the name to ‘Life Laughs: The Naked Truth From the Front Line,’” says the source. "The humor is still there, but some of the subject material is being changed — obviously.”

(NYDailynews.com)Murphy makes merry with Mariah Eddie Murphy and Mariah Carey hooked up Friday night in Miami.The songbird - in town for an appearance at last night's MTV awards - heard her cell phone ring while she was holding a dinner party for friends at the Raleigh Hotel's penthouse. It was newly single Murphy, demanding she come over to Prive, where the $20-million movie man was hanging out with pals Quincy Jones and Ice T and the latter's cantilevering cutie, Coco. Carey did decide to leave her party but may have taken too long at the makeup mirror. By the time she arrived, at 2:30, Murphy had been standing at the top of the stairs for 20 minutes, with his arms folded, saying: "Where the hell is she?"Carey, who's ditched the tube tops and two-sizes-too-small cutoffs for more sophisticaed styles, finally showed up, looking sexy and relaxed, report our spies. Both stars immediately started whispering into one another's ears and nuzzling.Back at a banquette with pals, Murphy, also looking relaxed, "held hands with her under the table," one nearby spywitness adds.By 3:30, the pair had slipped out the back door unnoticed (perhaps driven by a pesky drag queen named Wanda who suddenly snapped at Ice T, "Stay away from my man!"). They were holding hands as they slid into the backseat of a Mercedes, and zipped over to the five-star Hotel Setai.Our helpful spy, who followed them, says: "They were sitting in the car 15, 20 minutes until nobody was on the street and then they went in together."

(writes speech) Let me thank, the little people! Cuz where would the world be without midgets?

Awww...I'm getting quoted? Awwww....geez...where's my kleenex?

Now I see why Jude cheated! Eat, girl! Eat!!!

 

I agree, queenie...I would love to visit THAT building. It would be funny to see if they have mail slots, newspaper slots and "drugs slots."

(Pagesix.com)KATE'S ESCAPE IS Kate Moss moving to Los Angeles to get away from her crackhead boyfriend Pete Doherty? Our sources say Moss just plunked down $3 million on a condo in the tony Sierra Towers building on Doheny Drive. Her neighbors in the building are Lindsay Lohan, Matthew Perry and "Star Caps" diet guru Nikki Haskell. Moss last fled to L.A. two months ago when she and Doherty briefly broke up. They're back together but friends and family have begged her to leave the crack cocaine and heroin user. Moss' rep didn't return calls.

(IMDB.COM)Johansson Slams CruiseHollywood actress Scarlett Johansson is the latest star to slam Tom Cruise's attack on Brooke Shields for using medication to ease postpartum depression. Cruise - who claims to have helped people fight drug addictions through his controversial Scientology religion - sparked a war of words when he criticized Shields in May for using anti-depressant Paxil, following the birth of her daughter Rowan. The Island actress brands the War Of The Worlds star as "ignorant" and insists women should have the right to choose how they treat their body. She says, "I think people have their own right to choose whether or not they want to stop taking a drug. I can go into a very lengthy conversation with anyone about a woman's right to choose and things like that, but I don't believe in forcing my opinion on people. I do believe that, in particular, children are over medicated. But I've also known people who've taken anti-depressants for a couple of months, and it saves them from what could really be a drastic situation. Ruling out something that could legitimately help people seems ignorant."

(STAR MAGAZINE.COM)

 

LINDSAY: NOW SHE WANTS JUDE

 

Lindsay Lohan

Teen starlet Lindsay Lohan, 19, is on the prowl — big time! Her latest crush? Cheat-aholic Jude Law! The perennial party girl's fascination with the cheeky Brit actor kicked off in July, a source tells Star, when Jude, 32, was busted cheating on pregnant fiancée Sienna Miller with his children's nanny, Daisy Wright, 26. Lindsay was in London promoting her film Herbie: Fully Loaded when the scandal broke.

 

Even though Sienna is considering taking Jude back — they were separated for about 10 days — Lindsay is anxiously waiting in the wings for the couple to permanently split so she can move in, says the source. "Lindsay told me she feels the chances of Sienna truly being able to forget Jude's infidelity are slim," adds the source.

 

"If the relationship blows up again, Lindsay says she wouldn't mind being around to pick up the pieces." Lindsay's rep, meanwhile, denies the crush.

 

LINDSAY'S SECRET WEAPON

Naughty-by-nature Lindsay believes she has what it takes to tame Jude's wandering eye.

 

"Lindsay told me she thinks she is sexy enough to fulfill his needs," says the source. "She claims she can figure out how to make her man happy and keep him out of other women's beds."

 

But man-hungry Lindsay doesn't appear very content chasing after just one Hollywood hunk. An eyewitness tells Star that on Aug. 9 while Lindsay was at NYC's Aer Lounge for the afterparty of the film Four Brothers starring Mark Wahlberg, "[she] was asking staffers over and over, 'Where's Mark? Where's Mark?'It seemed like she was obsessively looking for him." But Lindsay was out of luck: Wahlberg, 34, was a no-show. Men of Hollywood, watch out!

 

— MAGGIE HARBOUR

 

Wasn't sure to post this in Lohan's thread...sienna's thread...or just start one out of the blue?

(NYDAILYNEWS.COM)Report: Jenny McCarthy Files for Divorce NEW YORK (AP) -- Jenny McCarthy and her husband, John Asher, have filed for divorce after nearly six years of marriage.The TV star and former Playboy playmate and Asher filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court, Us Weekly reported Friday. The magazine reported the couple are citing "irreconcilable differences."McCarthy, 32, married Asher, a 34-year-old film director, in Sept. 1999. They met when Asher directed McCarthy in the 1999 film "Diamonds."The couple has a 3-year-old son, Evan.A call to McCarthy's publicist was not immediately returned.McCarthy is currently starring in the new UPN sitcom, "The Bad Girl's Guide." Her previous work includes MTV shows "Singled Out" and "The Jenny McCarthy Show" and the short-lived 1997 NBC sitcom "Jenny."

(Pagesix.com)August 16, 2005 -- THE nanny who drove Jude Law to cheat on Sienna Miller is in town. Daisy Wright — who had a 3-month affair with Law — arrived Saturday to tape an interview with "Inside Edition" and party with friends. Wright should have come sooner. When the story broke last month, there was a lot of interest in her. But an interview with "Good Morning America" fell through after Peter Jennings died, and "Entertainment Tonight," "The Insider," "Access Hollywood" and "Extra" all turned her down for fear of upsetting Law's powerful p.r. firm, PMK. "At first Daisy's reps wanted like $100,000 for an interview," said an insider, "But we believe she sold her interview to 'Inside Edition' for only $15,000." A rep for Wright confirmed the nanny was doing that show, declined to comment on how much she was getting, and denied she was posing for Playboy. On Sunday, Wright and her publicity rep hit Olive & Bettes on Bleecker Street where she bought an "I Wanna Be Your Nanny" T-shirt for $35 before hitting Pastis, where they drank beer and waited out the thunderstorm. She leaves town today. Meanwhile, Law and a supposedly pregnant Miller recently met for hours trying to work things out.

Papa Joe Simpson and the Missus...ooops...I mean Ashlee!!

 

WEB EXCLUSIVE

By Ramin Setoodeh

Newsweek

Updated: 5:14 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2005

Aug. 12, 2005 - Jessica Alba is on a roll. She heated up screens this spring as the sultry heroine of “Sin City,” the Robert Rodriguez film based on Frank Miller's graphic novels. In this summer’s “Fantastic Four,” she certainly wasn’t invisible as the Invisible Girl. (Despite bad reviews, it has earned $145 million so far-and Alba has signed on for two more sequels.) Next up, she stars opposite Paul Walker in the action movie “Into the Blue.” With the “Sin City” DVD coming out this week, the 24-year-old actress spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Ramin Setoodeh.

 

NEWSWEEK: I hate to ask you this, but have you heard about all the rumors about you and Tom Cruise?

Jessica Alba: I heard it from journalists. I never actually heard it from anyone else.

 

Are they true? Did you meet Tom before he dated Katie Holmes?I actually met everyone at his company for a movie called “The Eye.” It’s like a scary, cool thriller that I wanted to do. I met his entire production company, including him. They make really interesting movies.

 

Did anyone every approach you about being his girlfriend?

No. That’s so weird. I don’t even understand how that would happen.

 

It’s a such a strange rumor, but for some reason it got out. I just wanted to give you a chance to clear it up.I know. That’s silly.

 

So you never went out on a date with Tom Cruise?

[Laughs.] You’re still fishing. No. I have a boyfriend. Why would I go out on a date with another man? I’ve been in a relationship for a year.

 

Do you think you’ll get married?

Eventually, I’ll get married.

 

One of my co-workers wanted me to ask you out on a date for him.

You have to be really, really smart if you’re going to go on a date with me. That’s the only problem.

 

What does he need to know about you?

I’ve been all over the world. I’ve been working since I was 12. I’m not an idiot. I’m interested in all sorts of different things. I’m pretty educated on what’s going on in the rest of the world.

 

Are you political?

I definitely have my point of view.

 

What is that?

I can’t wait for Barack Obama to run for something. Cause I am voting.

 

Do you think he’ll be president in the future?

I sure hope so. I hope people are open-minded enough to have somebody like Barack.

 

What do you think of the war in Iraq?

You know, it’s really none of my business. I’m not fighting. I’m not in the Army. I’m not in any of the armed forces. I’m not Donald Rumsfeld. And I’m certainly not in Iraq—an Iraqi person who has to deal with all the bulls—t in my country. I’m not Afghani. I wouldn’t know what that reality is like, to sit in your home and to have soldiers raiding your house because they think your kid is a spy. And explosions happening at your kids’ schools. I don’t know if I could have a real educated opinion about it all. I just think it’s f—ked up, whatever’s happening over there.

 

 

I have to say. I used to be a big fan of “The Secret World of Alex Mack.”

Oh, you were. [Laughs.] That’s hilarious.

 

You were so mean on the show.

Well, it was a character. Come on.

 

Most people don’t realize you had such a long career on television. You were on “Beverly Hills 90210” as a teenager even though the other actors were much older.

It was weird. I actually stopped watching after the first season. And going on the show, they were all like grown-ups. They were not even high school or college. I was playing a girl who was giving up her baby or something.

 

More recently you were on “Entourage.”

I was the first guest star, I think.

 

How do you discover the character of Jessica Alba?

I don’t know. It’s funny when they write dialogue for you—'cause I’m like, "This is supposed to be me? That’s so weird." I changed it so it was dialogue I’d say myself. The house wasn’t mine.

 

Do you have any beach houses?

No, I don’t. I’m not that fly yet, but maybe one day.

 

Let’s talk about “Sin City.” I know you had to convince them to cast you for the role.

I got cast because I did a good job. I was the actress they wanted. They didn’t hire me cause they thought, "Oh, you’re hot." Or, "We think you’re going to be the next big this and that." They could give two s—ts who I was. Their movie was going to be successful whoever was in the role. So they cast the best actors. (uhhh...then why were you, Bruce Willis, and Josh Hartnett in it?)

 

So how did you convince them you’re the best?

I don’t know. I just read with a casting director. (And swallowed)

 

Did you know you were going to be so talented in the art of lassoing?

I didn’t think I could lasso, actually. I hit myself in the face more than a few times with a lasso in my trying to do it right. So no, I thought I was terrible.

 

But it didn’t look that way on the screen.

That was after lots of hitting myself in the eye. There really isn’t a trick. You’ve just got to do it.

 

Did you practice on people?

Yes. Basically, on anybody who was walking by me on the set. I kind of was like, "Could you just stand still for a second?" And they were like, "Who are you?" And I’m like, "I’m in the movie, don’t worry." I’d just lasso people and trash cans. I think I did lasso Bruce Willis. And I lassoed all of his—he has like a trainer and an assistant—and I think I lassoed Frank and Robert, the make-up artist, girls.

 

Were you nervous at all about wearing so little?

Yeah. But I’m glad I wasn’t naked. Like, for the alternative, it was better wearing what I wore than not wearing anything at all. She’s drawn naked. For me, it wasn’t an option. It was an option for whoever was playing the character. They left it up to us, but I wasn’t comfortable with that.

 

You also aren’t wearing that much in your next movie, “Into the Blue”?

Well, I play a shark wrangler. She’s in the water a lot—in the Bahamas, and it’s hot. It wouldn’t be right if she’s wearing a full suit when it’s like 90 degrees.

 

I hear that your costar, Paul Walker, is a very disciplined actor.

He’s good.

 

I’m just joking, Jessica!

No. He did a good job. Out of the things I’ve seen him in, this is the most you get to see of Paul. He actually—I don’t know—gets to do more than just do one-liners and stuff. I was proud of him.

 

What do you think is the hardest part of being a young actress?

I don’t think it’s that hard. I think life is really f—king good, being an actor. We get to do what we want to do for a living. So you have paparazzi following you around. If it truly bothered me to my core I’d f—king live in another country or I’d live in another state even. There’s no paparazzi in Michigan.

 

But wouldn’t there be paparazzi if you lived there?

No, there wouldn’t. People live all over in different states and they don’t they get bothered. I live in LA, so of course. You live in New York, fine. Miami, maybe. It’s not a big deal at all.

 

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.