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Here’s a shocking new headline for you (NOT REALLY!!) “Julia Roberts’ marriage on the rocks, friends fear they’re headed for divorce.” Julia & Danny Moder have been married for 3 years and 3 months, realistically that’s the longest she’s ever been with any guy, married or not. When she met Sanny, he was still in love with his wife, a makeup artist for the Hollywood studios, the first few times he slept with Julia, he did it for the same reason any guy would…she was Julia Roberts, but whenever he’d go back to his wife, Julia went berserk. She couldn’t figure out why he would choose an ordinary girl over a world-class movie star, so Julia became relentless. Her competitive fires were stoked, she wouldn’t rest until he left his wife and married her, but when he finally did, she lost all interest and even worse, she lost all respect. (Okay...) To give you an idea, Julia just left for New York to do her first Broadway play, she figures to be gone at least 6 months. Not only didn’t she consult with Danny, she didn’t even tell him until she started packing her things, when he asked if he could come along, she refused, she said she needed him to oversee the renovation of the home she just bought for them in Malibu and as for the kids, she’s taking them, and several nannies, with her. More on Julia… back when she was making “Oceans 11”, George Clooney’s nickname for Julia was “The Alleycat,” she was engaged to his friend Benjamin Bratt at the time, but every chance she got, she was sleeping with the cameraman (Danny Moder, when he was still married). When Danny flew home for Christmas, Julia came onto Clooney (they’d been lovers a long time ago) but out of respect for Ben Bratt, he didn’t take her up on it, but that’s when he came up with the nickname “Alleycat”, telling her “you need to be spayed. Besides Ben Bratt & George Clooney, she’s also been with Daniel Day Lewis, Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Lyle Lovett (who she married, then divorced) and also Dylan Mcdermott, Liam Neeson, Jason Patric, Matthew Perry, Bruce Willis, and Kiefer Sutherland (who she publicly humiliated, by leaving him at the altar). Seems like the “Run-a-Way Bride” was the perfect role for her. WUHU 107

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/67542004.htm Scarlett Johansson 'I Believe In Plastic Surgery' October 23, 2005, 11:26:24 SCARLETT JOHANSSON is determined to have cosmetic surgery to preserve her good looks. . The stunning actress is only 20 but she is already planning a few nips and tucks in the years to come. . She says, "I definitely believe in plastic surgery, I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that." .

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/s...50128&p=8485x... 4850599 Miller moving to US 24/10/2005 - 10:32:09 Screen beauty Sienna Miller is abandoning Britain for America after becoming the target of relentless media attention since her alleged affair with Daniel Craig. The Alfie actress has been painted as a hypocrite in the British press, after it was reported earlier this month she struck up a romance with her Layer Cake co-star while she was still dating Jude Law. Only days after the news broke, Miller claimed she had broken up with ex-fiance Law back in July, after he confessed to cheating on her with his former children's nanny Daisy Wright. Miller's mother Josephine says: "Sienna is unhappy with the hassle she is getting. She wants to live a more private life and she knows she will get that in America. Plus, she knows it would be very good for her career because that's where the film industry is biggest."

ttp://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/B/Banderas_Antonio/2005/10/23/1274... l Banderas rides again as Zorro By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun LOS ANGELES -- Some sequels seem fated by unconscious acts. Antonio Banderas, for example, kept his sword from 1998's The Mask Of Zorro. Why, he's not sure. "I didn't practise very much during seven years. We (he and wife Melanie Griffith) didn't have an intruder in the house or anything like that," he says, talking up his return to the mask and cape in the long-delayed followup The Legend Of Zorro. "It is true that swordfighting is like riding a bicycle, once you do it, you never forget. But you do have to refresh. We have new choreographies. It is a dance. A dance with an edge -- and that edge is potentially very dangerous. "It was much more painful this time because I'm 45. And when you crash, your bones start telling you you're 45. But also this movie is harder than the first in other aspects." These days it's hard to tell what 45 is supposed to look like. But the fit, tanned guy in jeans and denim shirt sitting in front of me is hardly a case study in middle age, despite what his bones say. He is correct, however, about The Legend Of Zorro being a bigger fish. It was a sequel that seemed to not want to happen, despite the original's $200 million box office and obvious audience appreciation of Banderas as Don Alejandro de la Vega (a.k.a. Zorro, the swashbuckling hero of old California) and a then-unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones as his fiery leading lady Elena Montero. Money talked some more in the form of DVD sales, to the extent that the exec producers (among them a guy named Steven Spielberg) decided to make it happen. With nearly double the budget of the original (some of it to pay the much higher salary commanded these days by the Oscar-winning Zeta-Jones), The Legend Of Zorro has more of everything, including sword fights, explosions, runaway trains and evil villains -- bent this time on bringing the U.S. to its knees. "There is a moment you feel the movies don't belong to you anymore," Banderas says. "They belong to the audience. And a movie like this, the audience is the one that decided in the end if there is to be a sequel or not. "There were many of the same people, not only the people in front of the camera, but the same cinematographer, the same art director, the same casting director. It was kind of a family thing." A family thing indeed. In this movie, Alejandro and Elena are now married and have produced a 10-year-old mini-Zorro, a son Joaquin, played by Mexican child actor Adrian Alonso (the movie was shot in San Luis Potosi, Mexico). Unlike the original, in which villains -- notably Anthony Hopkins -- were dispatched by stabbing thrusts, there is no bloodshed in this movie, the better to snare that elusive PG rating. It's in keeping with Banderas' family-man image these days. After all, the Spanish-born actor -- who has a young daughter, Stella, from his nine-year marriage to Melanie Griffith -- was a big hit as a thickly accented, swashbuckling Puss In Boots in Shrek 2. He's already at work reprising the character in Shrek 3, and depending on how that does at the box office, there are talks to give Puss his own movie. "The fact that for me, who arrived in this country 16 years ago without speaking the language, that they want to use me just for my voice, kind of makes me proud somehow," Banderas says. "My daughter definitely prefers Puss In Boots. But when we were watching Zorro, she was elbowing me all the time and saying, 'Is that you, Popi?' And every time it's a stunt (with a stuntman), so of course I say, 'Yes!' " Which is not to say that his entire career will be PG. Banderas, whose wife starred in his directorial debut (1999's Crazy In Alabama), will be taking to the chair again to direct El Camino de los Ingleses. The movie will shoot next month in Spain with an all-Spanish cast. "Spanish actors, Spanish production, everything's Spanish," says the actor, who was first noticed in raunchy Pedro Almodovar films like Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! "I need to do it. I have been so much out of the Spanish film for a while, they didn't feel good about my persona of just working in America all the time. It was like a duty. It is harder, darker, more sexual than the movies I have done here." He's also wrapping up co-starring in the dark indie film Bordertown for director Gregory Nava, again filming in Mexico -- this time with Jennifer Lopez. "I play a Mexican journalist investigating murders, and she's also a (Latina) journalist but she wants to be American and grows her hair blond, the kind I have seen in this country. At the end she has to recognize her origins and meld with that." Also in the works, a Broadway musical version of the Johnny Depp movie Don Juan DeMarco. "The plan is to do it using music written (for the film) by Michael Kamen, he's dead now unfortunately, and Bryan Adams. I would go to hell for (director) David Leveaux," Banderas says of the man who directed him to a Tony Award nomination in 2003 in Nine: The Musical. "What I have learned over the years, is so vast. So many things happened in my life, my personal life, from directing my first movie to going to Broadway. I have done practically every genre, horror movies like Interview With A Vampire, (movie) musicals like Evita, many things, it is true. It gives me some kind of vertigo to think all this happened from the first time I step in this country. "I don't think it's over, I keep going, working, I feel better than ever."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexd?blogid=7 Hurley Slams Miller Again English model/actress Elizabeth Hurley has taken another swipe at English actress Sienna Miller, claiming her new short haircut exposes her flaws. The 40-year-old Hurley hit the headlines earlier this summer when she dubbed the 23-year-old former fiancee of Jude Law "a bit pedestrian," and now she's less than impressed with Miller's new "bob" cut. Hurley says, "That's the thing about valuing trends above sexiness. It exposes your flaws. That cut exposes the poor girl."

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/102442004.htm Robert De Niro Waits For Bananarama October 23, 2005, 10:04:18 ROBERT DE NIRO WAS REALLY WAITING FOR BANANARAMA British girlband BANANARAMA were left in shock when Hollywood icon ROBERT DE NIRO asked to meet them after they released their hit single ROBERT DE NIRO'S WAITING in 1984. The SHY BOY hitmakers were so nervous about seeing RAGING BULL actor De Niro in the flesh, they sank several drinks at a bar before being taken to spend time with the screen legend. Singer KAREN WOODWARD says, "Actors don't do it for me. Robert De Niro rang and asked us out once. We said yes, but we were very shy and had to get slightly drunk before we met him." SARA DALLIN adds, "The De Niro story seems so unlikely, but it happened. I don't know which of us he fancied!"

Kate Moss tipped for Bond role October 21, 2005, 1:03:55 Kate Moss is rumoured to be starring in the next Bond film opposite ex-boyfriend Daniel Craig. Bosses say the shamed supermodel, who is currently battling her cocaine addiction, would be a perfect Bond girl because of her stunning looks. . She will reportedly star alongside Sienna Miller, who has already landed a role in upcoming film 'Casino Royale'. A source told Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "Film bosses are interested in giving Kate a fresh start in the movie. "She's stunning and already has chemistry with Daniel and Sienna, which would work well on screen". Meanwhile, Kate's mother has jetted to America to see her daughter in drug rehab after a call for help. Mum Linda flew to the Arizona clinic on last week after a telephone call from the disgraced supermodel, who checked into the treatment centre after she was caught on camera snorting cocaine. A friend told Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper the star has been supported by her mum throughout the scandal The source said: "Kate does not really know who her friends are, but she knows she can rely on her mother When Kate asked her to go out to Arizona, Linda did not hesitate - she booked a flight straight away"

NATIONAL ENQUIRER/By MICHAEL GLYNN Julia Roberts' three-year marriage to cameraman Danny Moder is on the rocks. Sources say the couple have been spending more and more time apart since the birth of their twins almost a year ago. Now, amid constant fighting, they plan to live apart - and friends fear it could destroy their relationship forever! Sources close to the couple told The National Enquirer the pressures of parenthood have put an intolerable strain on their marriage, which began so promisingly with an Independence Day wedding in 2002. Their sex life is believed to have suffered, say insiders, and Danny has objected to the way his Oscar-winning wife calls the shots at home over everything from kids to careers. "There is something wrong and neither wants to talk about it," said a source very close to the pair. "Danny is distant and Julia wants to be on her own. I think something is definitely amiss." Pretty Woman star Julia, 38, has been spending more time with the children at her $5 million ranch in Taos, New Mexico - while her husband has remained in Los Angeles. Now she intends to live in their New York apartment with the twins while she appears in a Broadway play. In the meantime, Danny, 36, will stay in Malibu, California, and oversee multi-million dollar renovations to their ocean-view home. The sources say tension has been brewing in the marriage since son Phinnaeus and daughter Hazel were born last November. "Julia and Danny love each other deeply, but the pressures of a new family have pulled them apart," said the family friend. "They hope that by spending some time apart they will get their marriage exactly back on track. "So while Julia is in rehearsal in New York for her Broadway play, Three Days Of Rain, Danny will be all the way across the country in Malibu. That way, he can also surf to his heart's content and look for film work at the same time. Julia really loves those children, but she hasn't been working as hard as she'd probably like on movies, which is very new to her. It's been a tough year."

Was no suprise. She has her kids now. Maybe he cheated on his wife again......like the first wife.

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,...--27031,00.html Foxx Endorses Fantasia for 'Dreamgirls' Role By Daniel Fienberg October 17, 2005 LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com)- It isn't every day that you hear an Oscar winner get excited about doing a film with a reality television veteran. Talking to reporters about his upcoming role in "Jarhead," Jamie Foxx threw his full support behind Fantasia Barrino, winner of the third season of FOX's "American Idol," for one of the final uncast roles in the upcoming DreamWorks adaptation of "Dreamgirls." "I think if Fantasia does it, it's outta here," Foxx gushes. "If Fantasia does the movie it's completely in the stratosphere. It's nuts." Bill Condon, an Oscar winner himself, will direct "Dreamgirls," a big screen version of the hit Broadway musical that takes a fictionalized look at the rise of the Supremes. Beyonce Knowles is in place as Deena (the Diana Ross role), with Tony winner Anika Noni Rose and Eddie Murphy also on board. Fantasia (she of the single name since her "Idol" win) has been linked to the role of Effie (originated on stage by Jennifer Holliday), the group's replaced lead singer, for some time. The casting rumors gained momentum in late summer with buzz of a impressive audition tape that swayed most of the project's creative talent. Despite all of the industry rumbling, though, the part remains curiously vacant. Foxx's own participation in the film has been on-and-off, as the "Ray" star hesitated following his Academy Awards triumph. The material and the cast swayed him and now Foxx will begin work on "Dreamgirls" early in the new year after he completes Michael Mann's "Miami Vice." "At first I wasn't going to do it," Foxx admits. "They didn't know what was going on. Then I was like, 'I wanna do it.' Then I found out Eddie Murphy was doing it and Beyonce was doing it and I said, 'C'mon man. I have got to get that. Save me a dollar man, because that's going to be outstanding." Foxx is generally in a musical mood these days. His new album drops on Dec. 6 and movie reporters covering the "Jarhead" junket were treated to a sampler of the disk, which includes guests like Ludacris, Mary J. Blige and Kanye West. "I fooled them a little bit too, because I've got some young stuff at the beginning, some young stuff at the end, but in the middle, it's our stuff -- some make love, how-you-doing, get-to-know-you, treat your woman like this, treat your man like that, some infidelity on both sides," he says. "Jarhead," based on Anthony Swofford's best-selling memoir, will be in theaters on Friday, Nov. 4.

The baby looks fresh out of the womb. Give it a day or two to get rid of that wrinkled look and then they start looking better. Heidi looks great for having just given birth.

Kevins dad died....I guess he has a sister and a wife named Kira...different spellings though...kinda strange...not a common name Edmund Bacon was a Philadelphia civic institution, responsible for redeveloping much of the Center City landscape during his long career as city planner. Here's the Philadelphia Inquirer obit; it's long, but fascinating nonetheless: Edmund Bacon dead at 95 By Stephan Salisbury and Leonard W. Boasberg INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS Edmund Bacon, 95, the brilliant, irascible city planner who spent much of the first part of the 20th century reinventing Philadelphia and the American city and much of the latter part defending his achievements, died today of natural causes at his Center City home, according to family members. He suffered in recent years from a variety of what were, to him, mostly annoying ailments and infirmities that got in the way of doing things. Whether Mr. Bacon was pushing for the demolition of the city's infamous old Chinese Wall to make way for the modern commercial downtown, arguing for selective redevelopment of a shabby river ward that became known as Society Hill, conceiving of a central city mall anchored by big department stores - the future Market East, or sketching out plans for what became iconic spaces like Independence Mall and JFK Plaza, he kept one thing foremost in his mind: Philadelphia could be at the top of contemporary American cities, boasting a vibrant center, muscular public design, housing for the middle and upper classes, and rejuvenated greenspaces. "Philadelphia has lost one of its greatest citizens," Gov. Rendell said in interview. "The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon chosen not to be a Philadelphian. "The example and high standards that Ed Bacon set should be a constant reminder to all of us involved in planning for the expansion and future of our city." An almost heroic, if not maniacal, force of will guided Mr. Bacon, a man born and raised in Philadelphia, a city which he viewed on the eve of World War II as "the worst, most backward, stupid city that I ever heard of." But almost in the same breath, he resolved then "that come hell or high water, I would devote my life's blood to making Philadelphia as good as I could." Like Robert Moses, his sometime rival in New York, Mr. Bacon shaped the urban landscape with grand - and sometimes grandiose - schemes. But unlike Moses, who controlled hundreds of millions of dollars and wielded the authority conferred by such wealth, Bacon achieved his stature and power from the force of his ideas and rhetoric, the clarity of his vision, the support of powerful reform-minded political patrons and sheer stubbornness. A tall, lanky man with a shock of white hair who was a familiar figure on the streets around his yellow-doored house near Rittenhouse Square - he even hopped on a skateboard a couple of years ago while urging the city to rescind its ban on skating in JFK Plaza - Mr. Bacon was capable of scathing put-downs as well as slicing sardonic humor. While not usually characterized as unduly modest, in later years he sometimes said he was most well known as "the father of Kevin Bacon," the movie star, not to mention his five other children, whom he said were all "doing very interesting things." But Mr. Bacon's fame and legacy firmly rests on his service as executive director of the city Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, a time in which he saw the development of Society Hill, Independence Mall, Penn Center, University City, Penn's Landing, Market East and the Far Northeast. His office was considered so visionary and effective, that Time magazine put him on its cover in 1964. He was "largely responsible for the rebirth of Philadelphia as a vital city," declared the American Institute of Planners in announcing Bacon as recipient of its 1971 distinguished service award. The citation of the prestigious Philadelphia Award, which Mr. Bacon received in 1984, paid homage to his public role as "a pioneer in urban revitalization." Architect Vincent Kling, who worked with him on Penn's Landing and Penn Center, which replaced the Chinese Wall, a monumental stone railroad trestle that blockaded Center City from the Schuylkill to City Hall, described Bacon as "the brightest, most energetic city planner we've had here since William Penn." Bacon's plans did not always become reality, for better or worse, and he often ignited controversy. And while Mr. Bacon may have preferred to get his way without public controversy, he did not shun it and was hardly afraid to use it to his advantage. In the spring of 1970, two months after he resigned as city planner and development coordinator, Mr. Bacon replied to a special grand jury investigating the 1500 Market St. development. In its presentment (which did not implicate him in wrongdoing), the jury accused him of having given "evasive" testimony. Bacon angrily replied, in a speech to the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, that the presentment was a "big lie." "The only evasiveness involved was my evasion of punching him [a deputy district attorney who had questioned him] in the nose," he declared. Bacon was also a proponent of the Crosstown Expressway, which would have linked the Schuylkill and Delaware River expressways by cutting a swath along South Street. After years of controversy, the idea was rejected, and South Street became the site of its own renaissance. Some neighborhood groups and preservationists criticized him for tearing down more than necessary. Bacon insisted that he tore down only what was necessary to preserve and enhance the city. The restoration of Society Hill was a case in point. In the 1950s, urban renewal usually meant destroying blighted neighborhoods in order to save them. Bacon, however, began calling for the restoration of the neighborhood, with its 18th and 19th century houses, even before becoming planning commission director in 1949. Society Hill was transformed from the slum neighborhood it had become to a prestigious area of expensive homes and thriving businesses during his long tenure as city planner. That said, much was torn down, and Mr. Bacon was constantly butting heads with Charles Peterson, the legendary preservationist who served as architectural historian for the park service and essentially designed Independence National Historical Park. Peterson, who died last year, never forgave Mr. Bacon for the scope of demolition. Nevertheless, the two men were jointly honored this year as Society Hill's "founding fathers" with a historical marker on Spruce Street. Bacon could be spectacularly wrong, without question. He once call for tearing down City Hall (except for the tower) - a proposal that was, he would later ruefully admit, "one of my terrible mistakes." He also disclaimed credit for the idea of the Crosstown Expressway, and expressed fervent thanks that it was never built. Throughout his tenure and after leaving his post, Bacon resisted attempts to build buildings higher than William Penn's statue atop City Hall. There had always been, he argued, an unwritten rule, based on a "gentlemen's agreement," against exceeding the height limit of 491 feet. Anyone who sought to break this "marvelous agreement," he wrote in a letter to the editor of this newspaper in 1984, would have "to answer the age-old question, 'Are you a gentleman?' " After William Rouse's development of the two Liberty Place towers broke the "agreement," Mr. Bacon remained unreconciled. Bacon served as Planning Commission director under four mayors: Bernard Samuels, the last Republican to hold the office; Joseph S. Clark; Richardson Dilworth, and James H. J. Tate. Since the commission is primarily an advisory body rather than the center of real authority, Bacon exerted his power through persuasion, through the respect in which he was held, and, many felt, through political astuteness. "People always think I exercised political power," he told an interviewer a few years ago. "They're wrong. I had a personal policy that I would always support the policies of the administration I was working for." Bacon could be astringent in his criticism of architects, who, he maintained, could be so preoccupied with the surface features of a building that they missed the setting in which it was placed. "Great cities are not great because of individual buildings. They're great because of the way things fit together," he said. When he first proposed the concept of Penn Center, he said, "I was chastised by the Philadelphia chapter of the American Institute of Architecture because I presumed to make a plan where there was no client and no program. You're not supposed to do a design for a building unless someone engages you to do it. Everything I did was unconventional." Edmund Norwood Bacon was born May 2, 1910, in Philadelphia, the descendent of Quakers who had come to Pennsylvania in 1682. He grew up in West Philadelphia - his father was medical editor for the publishing firm of J. B. Lippincott. He graduated from Cornell University with a degree in architecture in 1932, the depth of the Great Depression, and promptly took off for Europe. From there he made his way to Shanghai, China, where he spent a year working with an American architect. Back in the States, he worked for Philadelphia architect W. Pope Barney, then went to the Cranbrook Academy, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to study under the celebrated Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. The architect assigned him to work with the Flint, Mich., Planning Council. He started in 1937 and stayed two years, long enough to receive the town's Young Man of the Year Award and, two weeks later, to get ousted for having tried to push through a public housing project over the objections of powerful local real estate interests. Even the middle-class automobile workers who would have benefited most for the project voted against it in a referendum he had organized, he would recall years later. "I was thrown out of Flint in disgrace," he said. "But I had learned that city planning is combination of social input as well as design." Returning to Philadelphia, he was taken under the wing of Walter Phillips, an energetic and visionary lawyer with close ties to the city's increasingly restive and assertive political reform movement led by Joseph Clark and Richardson Dilworth. Phillips lured Mr. Bacon into a job as managing director of the city housing authority. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Mr. Bacon returned to Philadelphia in 1946 and the following year co-designed the Better Philadelphia Exhibition, a show of models and plans that foretold what came to be called the "Philadelphia renaissance." He joined the Planning Commission that year, taking over as executive director in 1949. The next year he also began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania as adjunct professor. After retiring from public life in 1970, Mr. Bacon became vice president of the Montreal-based development company Mondev International Ltd., worked on downtown renewal programs, and organized the 1993 World Congress on the Post Petroleum City - an idea he had proposed the year before in his keynote address at a United Nations symposium on metropolitan development and conservation. He spent much time in the past decade or so seeking to fend off what he considered poorly conceived plans to alter or obliterate some of his planning efforts. He fought vocal, losing battles to block the National Park Service from carving up the expanse of Independence Mall with new buildings. And he was incensed by the recent redesign of JFK Plaza with its attendant ban on skateboarding. Asked a few years ago what he thought his greatest achievement had been, Mr. Bacon replied: "Philadelphia." His wife, the former Ruth Holmes, whom he married in 1938, died in 1991. He is survived by their six children, Karin, Elinor, Hilda, Michael, Kira and Kevin; and five grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Oct. 23 at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 15th and Cherry Streets.

>From The Boston Herald 10/14/05: A Rockport man allegedly murdered his girlfriend the night before he was to go to trial for assaulting her, then holed up in their home for two weeks, sharing a sofa with her corpse while he watched TV, authorities say. John D. MacKenzie, 45, of 249 Main St. claims that after watching the Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 25, he helped Wendy L. Cox kill herself by suffocating her with a pillow and a dry-cleaning bag in the bedroom of their quaint, sunflower-yellow home, police say. Later, MacKenzie posted a note on the back door saying they were away, wrapped Cox's body in blankets and brought it downstairs to an L-shaped living-room couch, where an unidentified friend found MacKenzie late Wednesday night sitting with the corpse and watching TV. "I could smell the odor," said Joe Mustone, who was hired to replace the window the victim's friend broke to get inside after she hadn't heard from Cox in more than two weeks. ``Nothing like this happens around here. I'm upset someone that insane was living among us.'' MacKenzie told investigators he and Cox, 35, had been dating about 18 months, police said. She had tried unsuccessfully to kill herself in the past, he told them, so after watching the game ``he helped her,'' the police report said. ``When he first tried to suffocate her he only used the pillow...Cox laughed at him and said she could still breathe so a plastic bag was put around her head and then the pillow.'' Police found a suicide note, which MacKenzie told them was from a prior attempt. Cox's family declined to comment. The couple's relationship was apparently troubled. One friend said MacKenzie drew Cox into his swinging ``sex-swapping lifestyle,'' even though MacKenzie claimed he was trying to help her straighten out her life. In a police statement four months before her death, Cox described an incident in which she said, ``He beat the crap out of me, tossed me around like a rag doll, grabbed me around my throat and threw me down the steps.'' But she declined to get a restraining order. A friend said MacKenzie graduated from Beverly High School and went on to work at APS Imaging in Woburn. He liked to drink, the man said, and was on the verge of his second divorce. The suspect's landlord, Alan Battistelli, said MacKenzie moved in to his Rockland home in March 2004, paid his rent on time and seemed to keep the house clean. "It's a total shock," said MacKenzie's first wife, Maureen S. Madigan. The couple, who divorced in 1996, have four children together, ages 17, 15, 13 and 12. Citing ``cruel and abusive'' treatment, Madigan filed for divorce after learning MacKenzie had run an embezzlement and money-laundering scheme involving a former employer. MacKenzie was convicted of the crime and sentenced to serve time at Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Pa. MacKenzie's second wife, Joanne, declined to comment except to say, ``It's been a long day.''

Jude Law's Hayek dateOctober 13, 2005, 11:50:03 Jude Law's ex-fiancée Sienna Miller broke down in tears after hearing he had been on a date with beautiful actress Salma Hayek. The heartthrob actor partied with stunning Hayek in top Paris nightspot 'Man Ray' on Tuesday (11-05-05) and were seen looking "extremely friendly", according to witnesses.But after Sienna heard the news she stormed into Jude's hotel restaurant to confront him.A source is quoted in Britain's The Sun newspaper as saying: "Sienna threw herself at Jude. She walked into the restaurant where he was having lunch with a pretty brunette, who wasn't Salma, and she got down on her knees and wept."She was sobbing uncontrollably and telling him, 'Don't go, don't go'. " An insider added to Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper: "It was astonishing Sienna was screaming as she flew into the room but Jude appeared completely calm and nonchalant Her face was absolutely puce and she was clearly very upset" The troubled pair then left the eatery and disappeared upstairs together Earlier this week, it was revealed Law ditched Sienna after she reportedly cheated on him with actor Daniel Craig The star is said to have thrown the blonde out of his swanky London home when he heard she had a two-week romance with her 'Layer Cake' co-star last month The split came months after Law begged the 23-year-old for another chance after admitting sleeping with his children's nanny

http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/10...s/scoop/20051... 1_scoop.txt Eddie Murphy's grudge against his replacement Divorce papers filed by Eddie Murphy reveal that the comedian is trying to make sure his ex-wife can't be around her new boyfriend while her kids are around. 25 Hours Web site also reports that Murphy's following the letter of the law on his pre-nuptial agreement, signed 12 years ago, to make sure he gets to hang on to his three homes.

J. FREEDOM DU LAC's review in The Washington Times of Ricky Martin's new album, "Life": <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/11/AR200...> No more living la vida loca for Ricky Martin. Now, the bon-bon-shaking pop star is living the thug life. Or so we're to believe, based on the cover of Martin's new album, "Life." There, the once-sprightly Puerto Rican pretty boy is wearing his tough-guy best: Gloomy expression, jarheadish 'do, at least 28 hours' worth of facial scruff and some sort of big, dumb, monochromatic tattoo on his left shoulder. It's the hardened look that one might get by working with the stylists from the International Male catalog. While Martin may indeed be mad as hell -- quite possibly at William Hung for having turned "She Bangs" into an international punch line -- he hardly sounds it throughout "Life," a just-slightly-above-average album that manages to come across as predictable and yet adventurous, at least for a Ricky Martin record. (Fiery Furnaces or Ozomatli, he ain't.) Think of "Life" as a sampler platter of global music trends that includes everything from the old sounds of Cairo to the freshest from Puerto Rico but that features as its centerpiece the sort of standard-issue pop and R&B that fills the U.S. Top 40. No wonder he's getting his brood on in "Life"'s cover photo. But don't be fooled by the posturing. On his first English-language release since 2000's "Sound Loaded," all Martin really wants is to be wuvved. "I just wanna be yours," he bellyaches on "I Don't Care," the Usheresque, Scott Storch-produced lead single, in which Martin sings of a cheating fictional fiancee before the rapper Fat Joe and R&B diva Amerie steal the show with their vocal cameos. "I think I love you, and I need you by my side," Martin announces in the foot-stomping bridge of the funk-lite "It's Alright." "I just want to stay with you / For always / Al-wayyyyys," he sings in the maudlin "Stop Time Tonight." The CD's opening track, "Til I Get To You," features Martin telling his "one and only temptation" about all the things he plans to do to pass the time "til I find you, feel you, breathe you, touch you, taste your truth." For those who can't spare 4 minutes 55 seconds -- the length of the to-do list-cum-Middle Eastern-tinged power ballad -- Martin's self-assigned tasks include: swimming the mountains (huh?), climbing the sea (double-huh??), passing the smiling faces with the hidden rage, and making a move with a new intention. "Never gonna stop," he sings, "til I get to you." Unless, that is, the horny bug bites Martin during his journey. At which point all bets are off. All clothes, too. In fact, they may be crumpled up on the bedroom floor already. Consider the dirty little ditty "I Am," which hints at both crunk and reggaeton. (Besides discovering the joys of Middle Eastern music during the making of "Life," which even features the Hossam Ramzy Egyptian String Ensemble, Martin apparently had a revelation about reggaeton's global marketability. To wit: The hit single "I Don't Care" even gets pushed through the reggaeton remix blender at the end of the album, courtesy of the genre's top hitmakers, the Luny Tunes.) Anyway, in the midst of cooing an entire lyric sheet's worth of come-ons during "I Am," Martin blurts, "I like it when you bend like that." Similarly, on the thumping "Drop It On Me" -- an infectious club-hit-in-waiting that features a jaw-dropping verse by Daddy Yankee and one of those delightful, galloping reggaeton rhythms -- Martin encourages a boricua to "drop it, mami" and "give it all." And he really means all -- "wicked, dirty, sticky" inclusive, as per the multi-culti dance track "This Is Good." Sonically, the up-tempo song builds on an R&B and hip-hop foundation by adding Latin American chants, salsa's circular piano loops and some Qawwali-like vocals. Lyrically? This pretty much sums it up: "I got your salt skin driipping on the tip of my tongue." Maybe that's what the new hard-core image is all about: Ricky Martin, living libido loco! Maybe he is an answer to a blind item or 2...............

Bacon taken off TV show for gay sceneMonday October 10 2005 00:00 IST IANSNEW YORK: Actor Kevin Bacon has claimed he was taken off an interview on TV "Today" show because a recent movie he was promoting was rated NC-17 (strictly no children under 17 allowed) for a gay scene it contained.The movie "Where The Truth Lies" is directed by Atom Egoyan. The gay scene involves Bacon and the British actor Colin Firth, reported Pagesix.com. Bacon said, "They had me booked on the 'Today' show and they cancelled it because of the NC-17 rating. And I come to find out that none of the other morning shows will have me on."But a spokesperson for the show said: "While we always enjoy having Kevin Bacon on the show, in this case he was never booked to appear."

MOSS OFFERED MILLIONS FOR REHAB DIARIES Troubled model KATE MOSS is already being offered millions of dollars (pounds) to publish her rehabilitation diaries, even though she is still battling her drug demons at an Arizona clinic.US publishing houses, including Bertlesman and Simon and Schuster have been quick to home in on the catwalk queen, desperate to persuade her to tell all and make a fortune.Hollywood producers are also eager to cash in on the style icon's fall from grace, insisting her story would be a box office triumph - but the profiteering interests of showbiz moguls have been branded unethical.ROSIE BROCKLEHURST, of anti-drugs charity Addiction, warns, "It would be very unscrupulous of publishers and film makers to make approaches so early on in Kate's drug treatment."Sometimes there can be benefit in someone writing down their experiences of how they beat drugs, but only when they have had a sufficient amount of time to recover. It would not benefit anyone, let alone Kate, for there to be a book or film so soon."A friend of the model says, "Every night before going to bed she writes up her diary in her second-floor bedroom. She has been told to be as honest as possible."

How old is that guy...he looks way older than Hey Jude......Wasnt that the guy Tori Spelling was w/ awhile back?

Thanks..... Ill check it out....dont get there tooo often.......just if my husband is not around....he doesnt understand my gossip addiction and I dont want him to catch me looking at pics of nekkid celebs~

Janet Jackson's butt bongosOctober 7, 2005, 12:25:37 Janet Jackson has reportedly been caught on video sunbathing naked - and slapping her bare butt "like bongos". .A steamy paparazzi tape of the sexy star apparently lying in the nude appeared on the internet yesterday (06-05-05). .Sources claim the stunning singer can be seen sunbathing on her back, before rolling over and slapping her bottom several times, according to America's New York Post newspaper. However, the saucy footage has now been taken down.

Jon Bon Jovi homeless helpOctober 7, 2005, 6:01:05 Jon Bon Jovi is donating the money it would cost to make a music video to help homeless people in America. The rocker's new single, 'Who Says You Can't Go Home', is due out soon but he won't be making a video to promote it.Instead the sexy singer plans to donate the cash to housing charity 'Habitat for Humanity'.The 43-year-old said: "That money is going to house four families in Philadelphia. "I'll be writing a cheque for a good portion of it personally and that's fine.It makes you feel good and you're doing it for the right reasons. " Bon Jovi's charity work in the past few years includes building a health clinic for the poor in New Jersey.The father of four is quoted in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper as saying: "I think volunteerism should be fashionable That's my goal To make volunteering the new black"

Eric Clapton's women woesOctober 7, 2005, 5:30:07 Eric Clapton claims women don't fancy him now that he's turned 60. The former womaniser said he even feared girls may think he's a "dirty old man" if he flirts with them.The rock star - who is married to Melia McEnery who he has three young children with - is quoted in Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper as saying: "At first there was a little regret that women didn't look back anymore when I looked at them.I was also concerned about whether I was a dirty old man. " He added: "But then I found it was a tremendous relief not to be ruled by my sex drive." Meanwhile the legendary singer - who is rumoured to be worth around £120 million - has claimed he will have to keep working until the day he dies - just to pay the bills. He is quoted in Britain's The Sun newspaper as saying: "It's a reality, not a pretence.I will have to work to support the way we live"

Kate Moss' Scientology help October 8, 2005, 11:50:05 Troubled Kate Moss has reportedly been targeted by the Church of Scientology following her cocaine shame. Sources claim the controversial sect - which counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its followers - is "reaching out" to the supermodel, who has lost four lucrative fashion contracts after her drug use was exposed. An insider revealed: "Scientology has become quite proactive in reaching out to people. Kate is a woman who needs help and Scientology feels that they can steer her in the right direction. " Scientologists are reportedly keen for Kate to undergo a drug treatment programme called Narconon. However, Greg LaClaire, head of the church's Celebrity Centre, refused to comments, telling America's MSNBC website: "We don't talk about the private lives of anyone. Oh Great.....pretty soon we will hear about her and TomKat having drug free, but vitamin fused, threesomes.................

Well how 'bout them apples? What comes around goes around I suppose.