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I dont think the above lady should sue either but its sad that the guy died that tragic way as he was becoming a father. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle....yEnoughNews&s... Granny grows tired of prostitution at age 63 Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:15 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin grandmother who has worked the city's diplomatic quarter as a prostitute for the last 49 years plans to retire when she turns 64 next year, according to Germany's Bild newspaper. Even though prostitutes were forced to leave the area after the Berlin Wall, fell because dead-end streets in the downtrodden district were re-connected to east Berlin and property values surged, Renate Dolle was allowed to stay, Bild said. "I've got a lot of regular clients," the blonde woman told the newspaper, pictured wearing a short red mini skirt and high-heeled white boots as she stood near the Japanese embassy. She said she charges 30 euros ($36) and on good nights she has four to five clients. "I'm going to stop at 64 and retire," said Dolle, whose husband drops her off for work each night after the television evening news and who has a nine-year-old granddaughter. She is one of 10,000 prostitutes in Berlin and 400,000 in Germany, where prostitution is legal. Dolle said she tried to work in a popular red light district nearby recently but was chased away by younger competitors. "What do you want here, you old whore, get lost," Dolle said they shouted at her. "What did I ever do to them?"

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/s...170670&p=y8zy... =182171613 White fixated on Catholicism 11/07/2005 - 10:38:01 The White Stripes frontman Jack White has become fixated on Roman Catholicism, snubbing his previous musical role models in favour of Christian saints. The Blue Orchid rocker is so hooked on the faith he displays figurines of his favourite religious icons on his amplifiers during shows, much to the bemusement of his fans. He says: "I've recently got into the cult of the saints. I've pushed aside a lot of my musical idols and put the saints up there instead. "The church defines them as people who have definitely made it into heaven no matter what path they took. I have statues of various saints sitting on top of my speaker stacks."

Will Smith Gets £7k Live 8 Goody bag July 10, 2005, 10:31:20 WILL SMITH ACCEPTS CONTROVERSIAL LIVE 8 GIFTS WILL SMITH has sparked controversy by accepting a $12,749 (£7,000) goody bag for appearing at Saturday's (02JUL05) Live 8 concert in Philadelphia. The Hollywood actor, STEVIE WONDER and BON JOVI enjoyed a backstage gourmet menu of crispy calamari salad and salmon sushi whilst appearing at the American charity event to end poverty in Africa. And the stars have been accused of undermining the concert's message, by going home with HUGO BOSS suits, watches, jewellery and guitars.

CAREY RAGES OVER CELLULITE GAG ON LIVE TV R&B beauty Mariah Carey flew into a rage on live German TV Thursday night -- after a cheeky comedian drew attention to her cellulite problem. The singer attacked funnyman Oliver Pocher during a tense interview, after he looked at her tight-fitting dress and joked, "What do you call a stuffed sausage in English?" She fumed, "There are too many men here, you are not being fair." Pocher explains, "We were discussing the cellulite Ms. Carey has on her legs. I only said what the public were thinking."

Woman Who Threatened Zeta-Jones Sentenced By LAURA WIDES, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - A woman who pleaded no contest to stalking and threatening Catherine Zeta-Jones was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison, but with credit for time served, she could be behind bars for less than a year. Dawnette Knight, 35, cried silently as Superior Court Judge David Mintz read her sentence. The judge also approved a 10-year restraining order barring Knight from contact with Zeta-Jones and her family and ordered her to pay $200 in restitution. He gave her credit for 600 days served.Zeta-Jones, who won a 2003 supporting actress Oscar for her role in "Chicago," wasn't in court, but sent a letter that was read by prosecutor Debra Archuleta.Calling Knight "evil," the actress told her: "You have profoundly affected me in how I conduct my life. ... Your actions will be with me the rest of my life — how I will be constantly observing, looking over my shoulder, as I continue to bring up my children in the best possible way I can."Zeta-Jones added: "You will never be famous, you will never be infamous, you are just a criminal."Knight pleaded with Mintz for leniency and apologized to Zeta-Jones, saying: "I hope one day the victim will forgive me. I am sorry. I think about it all the time."Lawyer Richard Herman requested probation but said after the hearing that his client had received "a very kind sentence." Charged with one felony count of stalking and three felony counts of making criminal threats, she could have been sentenced to five years in prison.Knight was accused of sending more than two dozen threatening and violent letters to acquaintances of the actress, including her agent and her husband, actor Michael Douglas.One letter said: "We are going to slice her up like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." In another letter, Knight allegedly apologized, claiming she had been in love with Douglas.Knight was originally charged with stalking and 24 counts of making criminal threats between Oct. 2, 2003, and May 21, 2004. Twenty-one of those counts were dismissed.

Nicolas Cage to star in upcoming 9/11 movie By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Nicolas Cage will star as a real-life policeman who survived the collapse of the World Trade Center in what would be one of Hollywood's first films to dramatize the Sept. 11 attacks on America, Paramount Pictures said on Friday. Oscar-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone is on board to direct the untitled movie, which centers on the story of the last two men -- a pair of Port Authority police officers -- rescued from the rubble of the twin towers, Paramount said.The two officers, Sgt. John McLoughlin and William Jimeno, sold their life rights to the studio, providing the basis for the original screenplay by relative newcomer Andrea Berloff.Cage, who won an Academy Award for "Leaving Las Vegas," will play McLoughlin. No other casting decisions have been made, Paramount said.The Viacom Inc.-owned studio has given producers the go-ahead to begin work on the film, getting an apparent leg up on another 9/11 feature in development at rival studio Columbia Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news).Columbia announced in February it had optioned screen rights to "102 Minutes," a book by two New York Times reporters chronicling the interval between the crash of the first hijacked airliner into the World Trade Center and the collapse of the first tower.No director or actors have been signed to the "102 Minutes" project, but Columbia has received a first script draft by Billy Ray, the writer and director behind "Shattered Glass," according to Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety.Word that Paramount had a film in the works dramatizing the 9/11 attacks came a day after London was rocked by a series of deadly bomb blasts that renewed anxieties about terror threats. A studio insider said the timing of its announcement was less than "ideal," precipitated only because Variety broke the story in its Friday edition.The fact that at least two major studios have embraced the subject of 9/11 marks a huge shift in Hollywood's attitude toward depiction of the suicide hijackings that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and prompted the U.S. global war on terrorism.In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, studios and broadcasters steered clear of any themes considered evocative of the tragedy. The trend has gradually swung the other way.Until now, stories about 9/11 have remained the province of film and TV documentaries, television dramas, or in big-screen fiction like Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" featuring 9/11-like imagery.ABC is planning a miniseries drama based on the "9/11 Commission Report," the best-selling official government account of events surrounding the attacks. NBC recently pulled the plug on a similar project.

Cox may be pregnant again Former Friends'star Courteney Cox is rumoured to be pregnant again after in vitro treatments. Her first child was conceived this way after a series of miscarriages. David Arquette has not confirmed his wife's pregnancy.

Crow consulting fertility experts Singer Sheryl Crow wants to have a baby with cycling champ Lance Armstrong. Long-time love Lance froze his sperm years ago after being diagnosed with testicular cancer. He has three children conceived by in vitro fertilization with his ex-wife. Sheryl is consulting Swiss fertility experts about the procedure. (Armstrong is currently chasing his seventh consecutive Tour de France title. The race began July 2 and goes until July 24.)

Five questions with Owen Wilson July 10, 2005BY CINDY PEARLMAN LOS ANGELES -- Owen Wilson figures that maybe he has commitment issues. "I thought I'd be married by the time I was 30 and starting a family," he says. "But it just hasn't worked out that way. I guess I want to be sure of my choice, and I didn't realize that I have such a strong, scientific side that demands you must experiment and compare."Like Vince Vaughn, the other star of "Wedding Crashers," Wilson has a short list of demands before he walks down the aisle. "Well, first you have to be attracted to the person. After that hurdle, the even bigger hurdler is do you like the things that they say? Do they make you cringe? That's a big one for me."Over breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel, a slightly flu-ish Wilson sat down over a glass of water to explain what makes him ... well, cringe.Q. OK, Owen, you put it out there. What annoys you when it comes to the opposite sex?A. Sometimes just hearing a person say stupid things or things that you just know are emotionally dishonest-type things. I remember going on a date with this girl where she told me that she believed babies come into this world knowing everything and the world zaps things out of them. I was like, OK. I said, "You mean, they're so innocent and loving?" She goes, "No. No. They know everything." I said, "You mean like algebra, too?" She goes, "Yes. Yes. But the world, it somehow beats it out of them."We're not dating anymore.Q. At least you have Vince. They're calling you the new Hope and Crosby. Do you hang out off the set?A. Yeah, Vince is mad at me today because he said I let him down. We were supposed to go see Dwight Yoakam last night, but I've been slightly under the weather. So I had to rest. He's a very tough taskmaster. Very demanding. Vince didn't believe I was sick, but listen to me sniffle. Look at my eyes.Q. Are the guys in "Wedding Crashers" creeps because they want to infiltrate weddings to have one-night stands?A. My character does wonder aloud if maybe it's a little sleazy. He knows they have to turn the corner and not do this forever.Q. The guys almost turn what they do into a job. Do you remember your strangest job?A. I was a pool cleaner. I think I had an idea from like Playboy or Penthouse forums that it was going to be a job where I was going to have to be fending them off with a stick. Sadly, that never came to pass.Q. When you get married someday, what will you never have at your wedding?A. I'm nixing the song "Shout" right now. If I never hear it again it will be too soon for me. I'll probably have a very traditional wedding.

Life's sweet for Johnny Depp By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun NASSAU, Bahamas -- Move over George Hamilton. Johnny Depp is dark. Mahogany dark, like a light-roast coffee bean in the sun. "What can I tell you? Three months on a boat," says the actor, who's in a nine-month-plus process of playing the ghost-pirate Capt. Jack in two consecutive sequels to Pirates Of The Caribbean in this ex-pirate sanctuary turned pina colada paradise. "I'm not using any sunblock at this point," says Depp, who actually owns a 35-acre island not far from Nassau. "You do when you start out, because the sun out here will really take a bite out of you if you don't. But I've sort of levelled off. I don't think I'll get any darker than this." What makes his complexion more dramatic is that he's doing interviews to talk about pal Tim Burton's predictably out-there Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, adapted from Roald Dahl's classic children's book. In it, Depp plays the weirded-out chocolatier Willy Wonka with a deathly pale face and a silly, scared, geeky, socially maladroit manner, accompanied by odd mannerisms like a hand over the mouth when he giggles. Kind of like, um ... well, Depp, Burton and the producers of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory aren't thrilled that some who've seen it feel the characterization evokes Michael Jackson. "It actually never crossed my mind. Michael Jackson was not an ingredient or inspiration to the character at all," Depp says. "A few people have mentioned it and it kind of took me by surprise. I can on some level understand it, the look a little bit may evoke that. But you could just as easily think of some reclusive germophobe like Howard Hughes as well. Roald Dahl wrote this character in 1964 and Michael Jackson was a wee lad then." Burton's response is to laugh derisively. "Here's the deal: Michael Jackson likes children, Willy Wonka can't stand them," the director says. "To me, that's a big difference in the whole persona, y'know?" What is obvious is that the dark-minded Burton and the challenge-minded Depp have again collaborated on a movie about a gifted misanthropic outsider -- a vibe that goes back to their first movie together, Edward Scissorhands. As those who've read the book, or seen the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (with Gene Wilder as Wonka) know, the story involves the announcement by the reclusive candyman to allow five children to tour his mysterious and reputedly magical factory. Said invitations are included, lottery-like, in random Wonka Bars shipped throughout the world. The hero of the story, Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore, who also played opposite Depp in Finding Neverland), is a poor lad who lives with his entire family in a one-room house and gets his invite in a bar he purchases with money he finds on the street. Charlie and the other kids -- a uniformly spoiled-rotten lot that includes Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee, Violet Beauregard and the porcine Augustus Gloop -- are led with media fanfare into a foundry that is part Fritz Lang industrial nightmare and part fantasyland (with a touch of 2001: A Space Odyssey), all dovetailing with Burton's love of pastel-hued heightened reality. There are marshmallow plants and cream-filled buttercups (actually edible according to Highmore, who sampled them) and a chocolate river that actually stank. There are trained attack squirrels. And there are the Oompa Loompas, all played (and digitally multiplied) by the small-sized actor Deep Roy. And there's Wonka himself, whose ulterior motive for inviting children into his world seems sinister on the surface, especially when they start falling prey to their own gluttony. "It's good fun playing characters like Wonka, Capt. Jack, Raoul Duke from Fear And Loathing (In Las Vegas), characters that can do things I would never dream of doing, or speak to people in a way that I would never bring myself to," Depp says. "The material was seductive, but the fact that Tim was doing it was the catalyst. He went out on a limb for me in 1990 with Edward Scissorhands. And that's something I will never forget. And over the years (in collaborations like Sleepy Hollow and Ed Wood) he's had to butt heads with studios to get me because I wasn't very popular with studios. So there's a bond and a love and respect that will be there forever. "And he also happens to be one of the most interesting filmmakers of all time, in my opinion." Of course, things have changed after the box office hit Pirates. These days Depp, who divides his time between his homes in L.A., France (where he lives with actress Vanessa Paradis and their children Lily-Rose and Jack), is a top-ranked draw and is being paid a reported $37 million for the two Pirates sequels. Says Burton: "This was the first time I didn't have to talk anybody into it. When I was offered this, before I could open my mouth, the studio goes, 'What about Johnny Depp?' And I go, 'Okay, if you're gonna force him on me.' " Both take pains to praise Wilder for his performance, although Burton makes it clear he doesn't think much of the original film (Dahl hated it. His widow has since seen Burton's version, and according to producer Richard Zanuck, "is thrilled by it." Wilder, on the other hand, recently told the Daily Telegraph, "It's all about money ... Why else would you remake Willy Wonka?" Both Burton and Depp tell almost identical stories about how the Wonka characterization came about, inspired by, according to Depp, "guys like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans and local guys like Uncle Al, and how odd it was the way they spoke, this bizarre musical rhythm and cadence to their speech pattern -- 'Good morning children ...' "I tested it on Lily-Rose to see if I was going in the right direction with the sound of this voice. A lot of times what happens is you come up with these ideas and you never get to try them until a read-through. So with Lily-Rose, I was talking to her one day. Many times we've played Barbies where she says, 'Daddy, don't use that voice.' And what happened was we were playing and I started to use the Wonka voice, and she kind of lit up a little bit, like, 'Where's that coming from?' And I thought, 'Awright, I think I'm on the right track here.' " He carried his experimentation to the filming. "The kids in the film, they were great. At first they weren't quite sure how to deal with (my ad libs), but they caught on and started enjoying it. I remember one time early on, I started speaking jive to Jordon (Fry), who played Mike Teavee. Like, 'It's in the fridge, daddy-o, are you hep to the jive?' And we're in rehearsal and I walked up to him and put my hand out and said, 'Slide me some skin, daddy-o.' And he tilted back at an angle, looking up at me and said, 'That's not in the script!' I just started laughing hysterically." Being in Cruise/Hanks territory is an odd place for Depp, an actor without a persona. "He's like a character actor in a leading man's body," Burton says. "He's more like Lon Chaney than a leading man. He likes to transform, play different characters in different movies. He's an actor that you'd think about perhaps even for female roles." Depp himself is fairly self-effacing about his look. Asked about this 43-year-old's appeal to young women, he says, "Gosh, I don't know. I think it's that they see some of my movies and feel sorry for me." Dressed down in jeans and a worn white cotton shirt, he says, "I remember when I was really, really young, 3 or 4, and my mom and dad dressed me up as a hobo for Halloween. And the only difference between what I looked like then and now is that they drew a little more beard than I'm able to grow." He's not overly serious about how he got where he is ("That's what the ride is for the moment, it'll always change"), but he seems serious about what to do with it. "My sister and I have this little company, we've made some recent acquisitions that are pretty exciting, some to be in and some to get made. We're very excited about the latest Nick Hornby novel, A Long Way Down. And there's this one by an Australian writer named Gregory David Roberts called Shantaram (about 10 years in the life of a drug-using armed robber on the run), which is a beautiful book. "I've been doing things that I've chosen to do for quite a good stretch now. And that small core group of people -- and I hate to use the word fans -- that small core who've stuck with me all these years, y'know, I feel good for them. Because great masses of people decided to watch Pirates Of The Caribbean, they don't have to hang their heads in shame. At least not so much."

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/s...903928&p=y839... =183904806 Pinkett Smith: 'I'm glad Will fancies other women' 09/07/2005 - 12:55:10 Jada Pinkett Smith is happy her husband Will Smith lusts after other women, because she would be more concerned if he didn't appreciate the opposite sex. The actress could be forgiven for feeling insecure after Smith admitted to fancying a string of Hollywood beauties, including Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek, but she knows she is ultimately his "chosen one". She says: "I love the fact Will has a genuine appreciation for women. He's a real man and he sees an attractive woman and it is how it is. We don't really worry about that stuff. We know what we are. "I think it kind of enhances the appreciation he has for me. I am the chosen one." But she refuses to tolerate any funny business from the former Fresh Prince of Bel Air. She adds: "You can look all day but you can't touch. And if you do touch..."

Copied this off another site.I have been reading that the male model Cory Bernstein who is supposedly straight was with the hot movie star Colin Ferral at the former Versace mansion in South Beach and had sex for two hours ...is this true..... it was on the Socialites talk site but i don't believe it, they both are straight but apparently there were so many people there who saw them!

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-07-08/#2 Depp Blames Fame for His Alcoholism Movie hunk Johnny Depp blames his speedy rise to fame for causing his debilitating alcohol addiction. The Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas star was so intimidated by his celebrity status during his early movie career, he turned to drink to block out his unhappiness. He explains, "I'd go to functions and back in those days I literally had to be drunk to be able to speak and get through it. I guess I was trying not to feel anything. My drug of choice back then was alcohol more than anything. Hard liquor, spirits. And yeah, I had a keen idea that it was not good. But you get liquored up and once you are in that spiral, you don't even get hangovers anymore. You wake up and have a drink again."

OASIS rocker LIAM GALLAGHER has slammed U2 star BONO's "boring" attempts to convert him to Christianity - insisting he is his own God. The WONDERWALL singer recently shattered his rock 'n' roll image by confessing he regularly goes to church to confess his sins, but his belief in himself rises above everything else. But Liam refuses to follow his sibling's religious beliefs, despite Bono's persistent efforts to show him the way of the Lord. He complains, "What can Bono tell me I don't know I'm not looking for guidance. There are days I believe and days I don't. And days I think, 'F**k the lot of them, I'm going for a Stella (beer).' "And when I've had ten of them, I'm f**king God. F**k Bono. I don't need his guidance. He'd talk a glass eye to sleep." (CM/CU/SC)

Kate Bans Pals From WeddingSupermodel Kate Moss is planning a wedding on the party isle of Ibiza this summer.But any pals who don't approve of her boyfriend Pete Doherty have been told they are not welcome.In fact, the only guests invited will be those who are prepared to give their unconditional backing to their nuptials.A source has told Grazia magazine that Kate believes her friends are looking at junkie rocker Pete in a "shallow, judgemental way".And Londoner Kate claims she and Pete are creating their own "cult of personality - defiant, rebellious and poetic".The only two pals guaranteed an invite, according to the magazine, are 60s icon Marianne Faithfull and artist Lucien Freud.But the likes of Sadie Frost, Davinia Taylor and Meg Mathews may all miss out on the ceremony, reportedly to be held in a lavish private villa.A source told the magazine: "Kate had a tantrum at a couple of friends at Glastonbury for trying to wrench her away from Pete."The pal added that Kate loves Pete because he has shown her "how fake her life had become".

MARIAH'S SISTER IN HOOKER ARREST July 7, 2005 -- Mariah Carey's troubled, HIV-positive sister has been arrested for prostitution - for a second time. Suffolk County police said they picked up Alison Carey, 43, after she solicited an undercover cop at the West Shore Marina in Huntington, L.I., on June 13. "She offered to engage in sexual conduct for $250 in cash," a police source said. Explaining the long lag time between Carey's arrest and the public release of her family ties, another source said, "We don't ask for the family tree when someone is put under arrest for prostitution." It was Alison's second prostitution arrest. She was previously busted in April at her Huntington home, police said. She pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $200 on June 2. Eleven days later, she was back on the streets, police said. The new charge carries a maximum of three months in jail. Alison Carey has been out of tune with her family for years. She has claimed in interviews that she started turning tricks as a teenager, and that her work paid for limos that took her younger sister to her early gigs. In the early 1990s, Alison was so broke and strung out that her mother got custody of the young woman's son. She gave birth to another boy, and spent years in welfare motels and sleeping in a car. But she later lost custody of that boy, too. In 2000, she shopped a tell-all book about her life and her famous sister, whom she called a "vain and heartless multimillionaire." The book was never published, if it was written at all. A spokeswoman for Mariah Carey did not return a call yesterday. Alison Carey's lawyer could not be reached. Source: NYPOST

http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/dailydish/ BALD PORTMAN GETS STOPPED Actress Natalie Portman was stopped by New York police recently, and has blamed her newly shaved head on raising suspicions with officers. The Golden Globe-winning beauty, 24, was driving through the Midtown Tunnel -- which connects the New York City borough of Queens with Manhattan -- when she was pulled over for questioning. Portman has recently shaved all her hair off for her next movie, "V for Vendetta." She tells Newsweek magazine, "I've never had that happen to me before. "It's supposedly random. My registration was expired because I had been out of town, and it was my first day back. I'd been in Israel and Berlin for the shooting. "They wouldn't let me go in. But he said to take the bridge instead. And I didn't understand that logic. If you're a suspect, don't take the tunnel, take the bridge?"

Man Lights Himself on Fire to Propose Wed Jul 6, 8:02 PM ET GRANTS PASS, Ore. - To prove his love, a 38-year-old man set himself on fire before getting down on one knee and asking his girlfriend to marry him. About 100 people gathered to watch Todd Grannis perform the flaming stunt on Monday, which involved wearing a cape soaked in gasoline.Grannis climbed up a 10-foot scaffold, was set on fire and then plunged into a swimming pool, dousing the blaze. Emerging unscathed, he got down on one knee and proposed, as a friend standing nearby slipped him the engagement ring."Honey, you make me hot," he told his sweetheart, Malissa Kusiek. "I hope I'm getting the point across that I'm on fire for you."Kusiek, who has been dating Grannis for several years, said "yes," but added that she was a little angry because of the danger."At first I was mad, because I thought, 'He's not a stuntman,'" Kusiek said. "Then, of course, the tears started flowing. Of course I said yes. I was so thrilled."Grannis said he came up with the stunt through the help of his friend, professional stuntman Eric Barkey. Barkey pulled out a photo of himself on fire and said, "You could do that," Grannis said.Grannis met Kusiek, the owner of a local hair salon, when she cut his hair."I kept telling her sometime before I'm 50," said Grannis, who co-owns an Internet wholesale company. "She wasn't expecting it. She had no clue."

Man faints, dies after seeing epidural 2 hours, 55 minutes ago This is sad....man dies as child is coming into the world. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California woman is suing a hospital for wrongful death because her husband fainted and suffered a fatal injury after helping delivery room staff give her a pain-killing injection. Jeanette Passalaqua, 32, filed the suit against Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Southern California Permanente Medical Group Inc. in San Bernardino County state court last week. In June 2004, Passalaqua's husband, Steven Passalaqua, was asked by Kaiser staff to hold and steady his wife while an employee inserted an epidural needle into her back, court papers said. The sight of the needle caused Steven Passalaqua, 33, to faint and he fell backward, striking his head on an aluminum cap molding at the base of the wall. Jeanette Passalaqua delivered the couple's second child, a boy, later that day. Steven Passalaqua, however, suffered a brain hemorrhage as a result of his fall and died two days later, the lawsuit said. The suit seeks unspecified damages related to Steven Passalaqua's death and to Jeanette Passalaqua's emotional distress at being widowed with two young children. Because Passalaqua was solicited by Kaiser to assist in the epidural, the lawsuit said, the hospital "owed him a duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent foreseeable injuries resulting from his participation." A spokesman for Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente called the death "a tragic accident." "Some of the allegations in the lawsuit are simply that -- allegations. The legal process is under way and we should respect that," said Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/p­eople/2005-...ter­view_x.ht... IFISVA Johnny Depp: From bad boy to suburban dad NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Once known as a Hollywood bad boy, Johnny Depp has grown into more of a suburban dad. These days, Depp can be found at his home in the south of France with singer-actress Vanessa Paradis and their two children, 6-year-old Lily Rose and 3-year-old Jack. So it seems fitting that the latest of Depp's long line of offbeat characters is Willy Wonka in the film version of Roald Dahl's novel Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Why play Willy, a role immortalized by Gene Wilder in the 1971 classic? Besides wanting to make his children happy, Depp was eager to collaborate for a fifth time with director Tim Burton, who gave him his breakout movie role in 1990's Edward Scissorhands. During an interview at a resort near filming of two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, the 42-year-old Depp was in full Captain Jack Sparrow regalia - bandanna, gold teeth, unkempt dreadlocks - as he sat down with The Associated Press to talk about movies, fame and family. You've said every movie you've done has been for your children, even before they were born. What do you mean by that? In the late '80s when I was on that TV show 21 Jump Street. On the one hand it was a great thing. It was an incredible learning experience. It did a lot for me. I was making money for the first time in my life. That was not bad. There were a lot of very positive aspects to that situation. There were also negative aspects. At that time as a television actor, it was very, very difficult to break into films. ... I was released (from Jump Street ) while I was doing Edward Scissorhands, and I swore to myself that I would only work on these films or these projects that I would at least someday be able to say to my kids, 'That was all me. That's pure me. I didn't sell out because I don't want you to be mortified or embarrassed.' So that was what was in my head at the time, just thinking if I am going to this, I am going to do it on my terms. If I am going to fail, I am going to fail on my own terms. Why do you and Tim Burton work so well together? It all stems from Tim's bravery. Early on for Edward Scissorhands we had this great meeting and somehow connected. I never expected that he would cast me in that role. I never expected that he would take the risk on me which was a really big risk at that time. He just did and somehow there is this kind of mutual understanding of things, and a mutual fascination with people, human beings, weirdness, character flaws, human tics and all of that stuff. Did you watch the original Willy Wonka ? Did it inspire how you portrayed your character? I watched the original when I was a kid. I ended up watching it with my kids, up until it was time for me to play the role of Willy Wonka. (Then), when my kids would put the DVD in, I would run to the next room because I didn't want to be influenced at all. I was really conscious about making sure I went to a different area than Gene Wilder. I loved his character. I loved Willy Wonka as a kid. He was the best thing in it for sure. Gene Wilder has said Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was only remade to make money and that Hollywood has no business messing with a classic film. What's your take on this? Somebody sent me an article where Gene Wilder said, "Why would they remake Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" We didn't remake Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, we remade (the book) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's based on the same book they based theirs on. Making a statement that they only made this film because of the money is a really odd statement to make from a guy who has been in the business as long as he has ... all movies were made because somebody somewhere wanted a return on their dollar that they spent. Ultimately it's a business. If you can dance around in there and avoid the sharp edges, and understand the game, but not play the game, then you're OK. Of course it is a dirty business, but that doesn't mean that it's all about money for me. My intentions are as pure as they can be. It seems you haven't done a straight-up Hollywood film. Would you ever? There were a few things that came around the bend, that they tried to get me involved in. I couldn't bring myself to do it. The seed for me was tainted. There was no redemption in there. It was kind of a sellout for a (lot) of money. You would go in and do the work and take the money, but it wasn't anything that you would be particularly proud of. That, I couldn't do. I've attempted things in the past where people thought I tried to sell out. For example I did this film Nick of Time with (director) John Badham. I don't know if the film was particularly good. I did that film not for money, or not to sell out. I didn't think it was going to be successful at all. I didn't care. I did it because I wanted to work with Christopher Walken and I wanted to work with John Badham. The script was very much like an old school Hitchcock film. All of those elements were intriguing to me so I took it. If you hadn't left Hollywood for France, do you think you would have a different perspective about fame? No, I don't think so because I come from where I come from. I come from Kentucky. My relatives, and my mom and dad, my sisters and my brother, our life in Kentucky is something that is very strong in my being. In south Florida, we were nomads for years and years, working various jobs for great lengths of time. Dropping out of high school, doing construction, printing T-shirts. Where I come from is what has made me me. What's this about you buying a cannon to shoot Hunter Thompson's ashes out of? Hunter meant a lot to me. He was another hero and someone that I got to know very well because I played him in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. We got very, very close. He was a great pal, one of my best friends. We had talked a couple of times about his last wishes to be shot out of a cannon of his own design. ... All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out. You've been in a relationship for many years now, so what's the secret? Trust, have fun, respect for one and other. Respect for one another's privacy. Respect for what the other person does in their chosen profession. Obviously a whole lot of love. Vanessa was like a bolt of lighting. So she knocked you out? Well yeah, because there were no pretensions. She has her success on her own terms and when we met it wasn't like she was anything other than this sweet, cool, funny girl. I'd never experienced anything like that before. She gave me these two beautiful kids. Is marriage an option? What does it mean to you? Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and she owns me. I think signing a piece of paper doesn't mean anything in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people. The thing is, if you are together and you love each other and are good to each other, make babies and all that, for all intents and purposes you are married.

OMG....I never heard of such a thing. Those definitely are not real. She has been on the meaty side for awhile....not meaty in the real world - let me clarify that - but compared to others in Hollywood......

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/c­elebrity/48912004.htm Joss Stone's Mariah swipe July 6, 2005, 11:53:30 Joss Stone has taken an apparent swipe at Mariah Carey for performing her latest single at Live 8. The teen soul sensation believes people should not have sung their new songs at the charity concert because the show shouldn't have been for personal gain. She said: "I didn't want to sing my single because that's really lame and pathetic and stupid and not what it's all about". Not only did Mariah perform her latest song, 'We Belong Together', at Live 8, but she made the point of telling fans it was her new single. However, Joss claims Mariah was "really nice" when she met her. She said on Britain's BBC Radio 2: "She does come across as a bit of an idiot on TV, but she's actually quite nice. She's all smiley and really lovely".

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/c­elebrity/48962004.htm Owen Wilson's sex jet admission July 6, 2005, 11:58:33 Owen Wilson has confessed he's a member of the Mile High Club. The handsome actor, who plays a womaniser in new film 'Wedding Crashers', admits he once made love to a girlfriend during a five-hour flight. He revealed: "I had sex on a plane from Los Angeles to New York. However, Owen doesn't believe girls think he's a sex symbol. He claimed: "Girls don't find me sexy". Meanwhile, the blonde heartthrob has admitted he uses cheesy moves when he takes a girl on a date. He confessed to Britain's More magazine: "I do the old kind of yawning, kind of throwing my arms back over my head and casually dropping one of them over a girl's shoulder. You know, a bit like, 'Yaaawwwwn'. "It's surprising how well that works".

Stewart Says Prison Nickname 'M. Diddy' AP Tue Jul 05, 2:53 PM ETMartha Stewart says in a new interview that her nickname in prison was M. Diddy, that house arrest is "hideous" and that her prosecution was about bringing her down "to scare other people." In the interview, Stewart tells Vanity Fair magazine she agrees with those who say her crime lying about a personal stock sale is far different from massive corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco. "Of course that is what it's all about," Vanity Fair quotes Stewart as saying. "Bring 'em down a notch, to scare other people. If Martha can be sent to jail, think hard before you sell that stock." Stewart, 63, is serving a five-month term of house arrest at her Bedford, N.Y., estate that followed five months in a West Virginia federal prison. She is scheduled to go free early next month. "I hate lockdown. It's hideous," Stewart tells the August issue of the magazine, on newsstands July 12. Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin Stewart says she knows how to remove it. "I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off," she is quoted as saying. "It's on the Internet. I looked it up." Her publicist's eyes "widened with alarm" when Stewart made the remark. The article didn't say whether Stewart claimed ever to have taken off the device. Still, Stewart appears to take house arrest very seriously, noting that she once phoned her probation officer to apologize when she arrived home two or three minutes late from an approved outing. Stewart has two TV shows planned for the fall season a one-hour daytime talk show "Martha" and a version of the NBC reality show "The Apprentice." She says her version of "The Apprentice" will be different than Donald Trump's and that she doesn't want to be portrayed as mean and harsh. She says she would never use Trump's catchphrase, "You're fired." "We are trying to come up with other ways to say it," she says. "For instance, if someone is from Idaho, I could say, `You're back in Boise for apple-picking time.'" A federal appeals court is considering Stewart's bid to overturn her conviction on charges that she lied about her sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems stock in late 2001. Asked whether she owes anyone an apology, Stewart says she is sorry for the "chaos" her prosecution caused but suggests she is not personally to blame. "You can't be sorry for something that let's see, how can I say this? I'm on appeal. You don't appeal if you think that you should be sorry," she says. The magazine reports Stewart is in good spirits and hard at work renovating her Bedford home. She is allowed to leave Bedford 48 hours per week for work outings. She even laughs at a joke made by Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" that she could make a shiv, or small blade, out of a lamb shank. "He was talking about me after I left, and I have to say Jon Stewart is even better looking in person than he is on TV," Stewart says. "I have such a crush on him." ___

http://www.sfgate.com/columnis­ts/dailydish/ BACKSTREET BOYS TOUR CHAOS The Backstreet Boys much-hyped reunion tour is in trouble before it has begun -- the aging boy band is struggling to sell tickets. According to reports, concert promoters have scaled down the size of venues and are even giving away a free ticket with every two purchased, three weeks before they start the tour to promote their comeback album, Never Die. A source tells Page Six, "Tickets aren't selling. Nothing is sold out. It is starting to look like a Spinal Tap tour."