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Hollywood scribe tackles Cobain movie By Borys Kit "Troy" screenwriter David Benioff has signed on to write a movie about late rocker Kurt Cobain. Many of the details of the Universal Pictures project are still in the early stages. Benioff will use as a reference the Charles Cross' 2001 book "Heavier Than Heaven," which detailed the rise and fall of the Nirvana frontman. Also unclear is whether Courtney Love, Cobain's widow, will appear onscreen. Love is on board as executive producer, along with her attorney Howard Weitzman. Nirvana helped popularize grunge rock in the early '90s, and their song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was often termed the anthem for a generation. Cobain struggled with drug addiction and the pressures of fame, and was found dead in his home in 1994. Although labeled a suicide, his death and its circumstances have taken on mythic status. Cross' book, while attempting to be a definitive biography, was criticized at the time for not having the involvement of Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl or Cobain's mother. Several attempts have been made to bring Cobain's story to the big screen, though none have come to fruition. Director Gus Van Sant based his 2005 movie "Last Days" on what may have happened in Cobain's final days. Benioff also wrote the upcoming Marc Forster drama "The Kite Runner," as well as "25th Hour," which was based on his own novel. His upcoming credits include "Wolverine" and "Brothers."

SLIP US A MICKEY! BIZARRO ROURKE ROCKS THE RED CARPET Rourke wore a picture of his recently departed pooch Loki around his neck. We are so in love. HEY, Mickey, you're so fine/You're so fine you blow our minds wearing sunglasses indoors and a necklace with a picture of your dead Chihuahua on it/Hey, Mickey! White suit by Jean Paul Gautier, who "did [him] a solid" by whipping up something last minute? Yes. Smoking a cigarette while walking the red carpet? AMAZING. Molesting Angelina Jolie? Yes! More! Because here's the thing: Back when she was fun, kissing her brother onstage and wearing vials of blood around her neck, Jolie and Rourke would have been an item. They would have had crazy wild sex, sex that would have single-handedly revived the economy, launched empires and restored cheer to a weary nation. They would have had a groovy kind of dead-Chihuahuas-and-vials-of-blood love. But while we're left to ponder the beauty of what might have been, Mickey moves on without regrets. He has more close-talking to do. OK, so he didn't win for "The Wrestler," but that seems beside the point. Because he's back - and the devastating sex appeal of the brash young man in "9 ½ Weeks" ("Has someone been a Nosy Parker?") has been replaced by something much cooler, darker and more unhinged. He's like Hollywood's crazy old Uncle Bob now, and that's a good thing. Because everyone needs a crazy old Uncle Bob, especially in these tough economic times. And because the person who shows up on the red carpet wearing a necklace with a picture of his dead Chihuahua on it wins at life. Invading Robert Downey Jr.'s personal space. Doin' the forehead bump with Seal. "You will kiss me now, Angelina," commands Rourke.

Pete Wentz: Baby Bronx Was 'A Happy Accident' Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz didn't plan for the pregnancy that resulted in their newborn son, Bronx Mowgli, but the proud dad felt it was just the excuse he needed to move past his old rock-star ways. "It was a happy accident," Wentz, 29, tells the December issue of Details. "But I think that certain things happen for a reason in your life, and maybe it was time to put the wild child in a cage." Wentz says his wild-child days involved experimentation with prescription drugs, including one attempted overdose on Ativan (an anti-anxiety medicine) in 2005. But the drug-overdose death of Heath Ledger in January was an eye-opener for the Fallout Boy bassist. "Dude, after Heath Ledger," he says, "I was just like, Man, this is not going to end up good." Simpson-Wentz, 24, who married the rocker in an Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding in May, also played a role in his transformation. "I realized I'd found my soul mate, and it made me want to be a better person," he says. "Now, with the baby, I want to be the best dad I can be." While Wentz gained notoriety with his band, being part of a famous couple has exposed him to a different side of the spotlight. "When me and Ashlee are on the red carpet together, I'm like her purse," he jokes. With the birth of Bronx, a new Fall Out boy album dropping Dec. 16, and a clothing line, Clandestine, on his resume, Wentz vows he won’t be following in the footsteps of sister-in-law Jessica Simpson and her ex-husband, Nick Lachey, when it comes to reality TV. "I get pitched, like, Newlyweds 2 once a week, dude," he says. "For like, move-to-an-island-after-this money. I just can't do it." Newlyweds 2 once a week, dude," he says. "For like, move-to-an-island-after-this money. I just can't do it."

Kate Winslet Dishes on Sex Scenes with Leo Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have done steamy onscreen sex scenes together before, but for their upcoming film Revolutionary Road, they had to pair up in front of Winslet's director-husband, Sam Mendes. "I had a total meltdown," Winslet said at New York City's Times Center on Monday. "Sam was there lining the scene up. I'd get things like, 'Press your hands into his back! No, his back!' You just have to deal with it. Leo was remarkably fine with the whole thing." Mendes, who joined his wife for the TimesTalks conversation about Revolutionary Road, called the scene "a profoundly weird experience" but said Winslet was very professional. Revolutionary Road marks the first time Mendes has worked with his wife, despite Winslet's efforts to do that for years. "I was getting a little sick of people like Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Watson, all these wonderful actors say, 'Oh my God! Oh, you haven't worked together, have you?' I was starting to get a little bit jealous," the Titanic actress said. Comfortable Nude For her part, Winslet, 33, said she is fine with getting naked onscreen as long as the scenes fit the story. "Every time I've been asked to do nudity on screen, I've always believed in the scene," said the actress, who is also naked in her movie The Reader. "I think it's important that women on screen are portrayed as real women. I'm comfortable in my own skin and I'm comfortable with all the imperfections that I have." Winslet said she hasn't always been so comfortable with her body and was overweight in grade school. "As a kid, I was bullied at school because I was always quite chubby," she said. "I was always told I was wrong, I was doing the wrong thing. I was made to feel ashamed of myself and my appearance. And you develop a self-preservation muscle when you experience something like that." Oscar Fanstasies She escaped the teasing by going into her room and practicing her acting, from making herself cry to makeout scenes in front of a mirror. "I was the kid who watched Whoopi Goldberg hosting the Academy Awards, and I remember at the end of the show, [she] said, 'To all those kids out there, who wonder one day if they could be in this room, well you know, that could be you.' I was that kid that said, 'Oh my God, that could be me!' I've been there five times!"

Tina Fey Reveals Trauma Behind Her Scar Since shooting to fame and winning Emmys as the star and creator of 30 Rock, Tina Fey has remained quiet about the dramatic story behind the faint scar that lines that left side of her face. "It's impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it," Fey, 38, tells Vanity Fair in its January issue. But when she was 5, the future TV star was playing in the front yard of her Upper Darby, Penn., home when a stranger approached the young Fey and violently cut her cheek. "She just thought somebody marked her with a pen," says her husband, Jeff Richmond. The Aftereffects And while the experience was traumatizing, Fey worked hard to keep it from affecting her childhood. "I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid. It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera," says Fey, whose scenes are often shot from the right side. Though she has overcome the obstacle, Fey says that she does worry about how it may one day affect her role as a mother to daughter Alice, 3. "Supposedly, I will go crazy," says Fey. "My therapist says, 'When Alice is the age that you were, you may go crazy.' " Went on Weight Watchers Besides collecting her Emmy gold, Fey spent this fall mimicking GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin to great acclaim (even from the Palin camp) on Saturday Night Live and signing a $5-million book deal. While Fey may be hotter than ever, it wasn't always the case for the 5'4" beauty. "She was quite round," Richmond says of his wife's pre-fame days in Chicago, But "in a lovely, turn-of-the-century kind of round – that beautiful, Rubenesque kind of beauty." But after a makeover and going on Weight Watchers during her SNL period, Fey, who is half-Russian and half-Greek, knows what her greatest assets are. "Because of the Greek-girl thing, I have, like, boobs and butt," she says. As a result, she adds, "I only have two speeds – either matronly or a little too slutty. I have to be steered away from cheetah print."

IVANA TRUMP SEPARATES FROM FOURTH HUBBY Ivana Trump has issued a statement confirming reports of marital discord with Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi. Trump, who married Rubicondi in April, says she filed a legal separation agreement three months ago. Trump says she kept quiet about it because she didn't want to ruin Rubicondi's chances as a contestant on the Italian edition of the reality TV show "Survivor." Rubicondi is Trump's fourth husband. After about six years of dating, they tied the knot in a lavish ceremony at her ex-husband Donald Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Says Trump: "Rossano wants to live in Miami and work in Milan. ... But, I am a New Yorker and my family, friends and businesses are here. As the beautiful song says, `Que sera sera!'"

FIRED? HERE'S Y SOMEBODY'S head should roll at OK! Just weeks after Susan Toepfer was installed as the new editor-in-chief, the glossy had its first big bungle. It somehow managed to misspell Ashlee Simpson's name as "Ashley" - on the cover, no less. A rep for the magazine told Page Six, "It is highly embarrassing and, sadly, someone will probably be fired."

TOUCHING MOMENT How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan gets some hands-on protection from husband Alexis Denisof Thursday as the parents-to-be step out for the 15th annual Lint Roller Party at L.A.'s Hollywood Palladium. The event benefited the Best Friends Animal Society's in Los Angeles, which helps find homes for homeless animals.

Alyson Hannigan Is Pregnant! Actress Alyson Hannigan is pregnant, her rep Megan Moss tells PEOPLE exclusively. The How I Met Your Mother star, 34, and her husband, actor Alexis Denisof, 42, will welcome their first child this spring. The couple met on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the 1999-2000 season and were married at the Two Bunch Palms resort near Palm Springs, Calif., on Oct. 11, 2003. On the big screen, Hannigan is famous for her role as band geek Michelle opposite Jason Biggs in the American Pie trilogy.

ANNE'S NEW GUY THE last thing actress Anne Hathaway needs now is another social climber. Her last beau, blue-blood wannabe Raffaello Follieri, is behind bars, and so she's moved on to Adam Shulman, an actor she's been spotted vacationing with in New Orleans. "Adam is known as an opportunist," an insider told Page Six. "When he was at Brown [university], he went after all the heiresses. It's like Anne is addicted to losers." A rep for Shulman had no comment.

Jennifer Hudson "Still in Shock" at Chicago Hotel Jennifer Hudson has been holed up in a downtown Chicago hotel with loved ones and friends as she prepares to bury three family members. "She is still in shock," a source tells E! News. "She hasn't gone out much at all and has a lot of security around her." E! News has confirmed that Hudson checked into the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Oct. 24, the day her mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother Jason Hudson were shot and killed in Donerson's home and nephew Julian King was reported missing. Donald Trump himself offered up the hotel suite for Hudson and her family to stay in free of charge. Hudson had been in Florida when she received the news and immediately boarded a flight north. Since her arrival last Friday, Hudson has rarely left her hotel suite, sources say. She has had her cousins run errands, including picking up personal items from her downtown condo and bringing in food. Hudson hasn't been seen in public since identifying her nephew's body at the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office on Monday. Sources close to the Oscar winner tell E! News that her family and fiancé David Otunga have been her rock throughout the week. In fact, Otunga has been with her around the clock. "David's been by her side through this whole tragedy," a family source says. "He has totally been there for her."

BREAKING NEWS: Girls Next Door Star Kendra Wilkinson Is Engaged! Girls Next Door Kendra Wilkinson, 23, is engaged to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett, her ex Hugh Hefner tells Usmagazine.com in a statement. "Kendra Wilkinson has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life with," Hefner tells Us. "He popped the question last Saturday. "I have given her my blessing and will be giving her away at a very special wedding ceremony at the Playboy Mansion this coming June," he continued. In September, Wilkinson denied engagement rumors. Meanwhile, Hefner's other ex, Holly Madison (from whom he split in October), continues to heat up with illusionist Criss Angel. The pair locked lips and held hands at the premiere of "Criss Angel Believe by Cirque Du Soleil" on Halloween night in Las Vegas. And don't worry about Hefner, 82: He has already moved on with 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon. "I mean, Hef will always be Hef," Wilkinson told Us recently. "You can never change him. Hef will keep going on. He'll keep loving women, keep loving the big boobs and blondes."

Rebecca Romijn: "I'm a Beached Whale!" Rebecca Romijn - who is expecting twin girls this winter - is amazed at how big her bump has gotten. "I can't move anymore ... I'm a beached whale!" she tells Page Six magazine. "I have not been without a bra this entire pregnancy. I refuse. I'm not taking any chances. I'm determined to keep the puppies up!" (In September, her husband Jerry O'Connell apologized for calling Romijn "huge" on Late Night With Conan O'Brien.) The 36-year-old model also says she she did not do in vitro to get pregnant. "A year ago, we tried [the fertility drug] Clomid for a couple of months unsuccessfully," says the actress. "But by the second month, I was like, 'Ahhh! I hate this!' I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it's crazy-making." She also denied claims that she and John Stamos split in 2004 because she did not want children. "There is absolutely no truth to that. That [story] was completely made up," she said. "I desperately wanted kids. I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I’ve always dreamed about decorating my baby’s nursery." Can you guess whose twin this is? Now, she and O'Connell are doing just that. "I knew early on he would be a fantastic dad," she says of O'Connell. "He's a pragmatic, smart, savvy, enthusiastic person. He really lives his life with tremendous integrity, and he’s a healthy person in every single way."

BOLDFACES ELECT TO CELEBRATE ROBIN Williams celebrated Barack Obama's presidential-election victory by paying a midnight visit to the home of Ally Hilfiger, the spoiled, 23-year-old daughter of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger. Williams, 57 - who split from his second wife, Marcia, in March - was seen going into Hilfiger's Greenwich Street building at about 12:30 a.m. Sources say he told the doorman he was visiting Ally, who starred in the MTV reality show "Rich Girls" in 2003. But we're told Williams' girlfriend, painter Charlotte Filbert, 27, is a houseguest of Hilfiger, who introduced the lovebirds. Earlier at Public House on East 41st Street - at the party co-hosted by Republican fund-raiser Georgette Mosbacher, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Glamour's Cindy Lieve and GQ's Jim Nelson - Josh Lucas probably wasn't aware he was surrounded by the likes of Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau and former Gov. George Pataki. Lucas, the star of "Glory Road" and "Poseidon," was seen smoking a funny-smelling cigarette. The crowd also included precocious "Gossip Girl" Taylor Momsen, who is three years shy of voting age, Jessica Alba, Salman Rushdie, David Boies, Charlie Rose, James Franco and Gina Gershon. Further north at Philippe on East 60th Street, Sean Combs was celebrating his birthday upstairs when Obama was declared the winner. A huge roar shook the dining room where Michael Jordan, Russell Simmons, Wesley Snipes, Bob Johnson and Butch Lewis were viewing the returns. Jordan and Snipes later partied at Tenjune with fellow Chicagoan Larenz Tate, Knicks Jared Jeffries and Jerome James, and "Last Comic Standing" host Bill Bellamy, the surprise emcee for the night who shouted with excitement: "We are officially a country of change."

50 Cent Collaborates with Bette Midler Odd couple alert! What could 50 Cent and Bette Midler possibly have in common? Plenty, it turns out. The two joined forces Monday to celebrate the opening of "The Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson Community Garden" in Queens, New York. "I called and nagged him," Midler said, describing how she got 50 Cent involved with the garden. "His G-Unity Foundation gives a million dollars away every year in grants to non profits all over the city ... They're just brilliant." The garden (the most recent endeavor for Midler’s New York Restoration Project) is located in Jamaica, Queens, where the rapper grew up. It will mainly serve as a living classroom for neighborhood school children to learn about how food grows. "I wish I had this to come to when I was growing up around here," he said. "The opportunity to create this garden for the youth and the community is a great one." Besides, he noted, "When Bette calls you don't say 'no.' Not if you want your reputation to stay the way it is." So, will Midler and 50 Cent work together in the future? "Absolutely!" he said, before sharing a laugh and a hug with the singer. "He's producing my next record," the Beaches star said with a wink. "I will be rapping. He's writing a song for me right now."

50 Cent Gets Monthly Visitation With Son 50 Cent reached an agreement with his former girlfriend on Wednesday in a bitter custody dispute over their 12-year-old son Marquise. The rapper (real name: Curtis Jackson) and ex Shaniqua Tompkins avoided eye contact as they and their attorneys went before a judge in a Central Islip, N.Y., courtroom just before noon on Wednesday. During the hearing, which lasted less than five minutes, a judge granted Jackson one weekend visit a month with Marquise, who will also spend half of his school's winter and spring breaks with his father. "50 is pleased this has been settled and looks forward to spending some quality time with his son," the rapper's attorney Brett Kimmel tells PEOPLE. "We came to an agreement," Tompkins told PEOPLE after the hearing. "Despite my feelings for his father, I want Marquise and his father to have a healthy relationship. That's what that time is for." The former couple had been in a heated custody dispute following the May 30 fire that destroyed a Long Island home owned by Jackson and inhabited by Tompkins and their son. Tompkins publicly blamed Jackson for starting the blaze in the midst of his attempts to evict her. The rap artist denied the allegation and in June filed a $20 million defamation lawsuit against his ex.

Tom Arnold Reveals Sexual Abuse Past To portray a child molester in a movie is a risky career move for any actor. But for comic actor Tom Arnold, 49, accepting the role as Alex in the new movie Gardens of the Night was more than a role: It was his attempt to finally put his own past as a sexually abused child behind him. From ages 4 to 7, while growing up in Ottumwa, Iowa, Arnold says he was sexually abused by a 19-year-old male babysitter. He opens up about the experience in an interview with PEOPLE: Why did you want to play Alex in Gardens of the Night? It was a tough choice. I was a smart kid, and [my molester] still got to me. So I wanted to portray a pedophile in a way no one has seen before in order to explain how these things can happen. I even wore the same clothes as him in the movie. Showing this guy meant so much to me. How did this happen to you? [The abuse] started shortly before I turned 4. This guy would babysit me three or four times a week. He wanted me to play a game, and he wanted me to learn it so I could play it every time. I knew it was weird and I was scared, but I didn't know what sex was. Why didn't you tell your dad? The guy gave me a candy bar at the end of the game. I wasn't allowed to have candy at my house, and I felt ashamed that I took the candy. And I was afraid of him. The message was clear he would hurt my dad if I told, and the thought of losing my dad was impossible. When did it stop? There was an incident when I was 7. The guy had showed me his gun and aimed it at my dad one day when he arrived home from work. A few days later, I stole my dad's gun and went out in the middle of the street, waived it around and pointed it at his house. It caused a stir in the neighborhood to say the least. After that, I think it slowly stopped. I remember it as him moving away. When you were 30, you found him and confronted him. During my last week of drug and alcohol rehab in 1990, I told what had happened to me for the first time. In my mind, he was only a few years older than me. When my counselor said, 'So you were 5 and you had a 7-year-old babysitter?' I remembered he had a man's body. With the help of a private investigator, I found him and confronted him at his office. Coming out of the building, I felt pure joy. What's next for you? I'm ready to put this behind me. To portray him in a movie was the final thing I, as an actor, felt I could do. Forty-five years is a long time to keep something like this in your life. I'm ready to take the chance to be with a good person, and hopefully one day have my own children. That's what I want more than anything.

Why Lisa Bonet Is Nervous About Her Return to TV Lisa Bonet's return to television in a recurring role on the ABC cop drama Life on Mars wasn't easy for the press-shy actress. "To have my face reinstated in minds and homes once a week was an intense decision," says the star, who achieved fame early in life on the hit Cosby Show. The paparazzi's interest her family has been one of the downsides to being back in the public eye. Bonet, 41, has a 16-month-old daughter Lola with boyfriend, actor Jason Momoa (Stargate Atlantis), and is expecting their second child in January. "It feels like you're being stalked," she says. "As a shy person, that type of attention coming at me violates something. I don't like that it's expected to come with the territory." Bonet does have a lighthearted complaint about some other media attention. She'd like to debunk the widespread rumor that she also has a son. "I don't have three children already," she says. "I always hear that I do … Apparently, there's some young child locked in a basement," she quips. "I don't dwell on that stuff, but that comes to mind.” Motherhood is definitely a priority for Bonet, who describes herself as "a hands-on mom." "A parent's hope is to pass on wisdom so they don't repeat the same mistakes you did," she says. "You want a better life for them." As for why she decided to sign on for a the new role, despite some reservations about the attention she'd be getting, she says, "You know, I guess it all has to do with the stars lining up and it being the right time and the right project.' A happy love life also helped. "Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety," she adds.

Kate Winslet: I Still Feel Like the 'Fat Kid' Kate Winslet struggled with her weight as a teenager – and the successful star and fashion icon says she still sometimes has doubts about her body. "I never had a desire to be famous," Winslet, 31, says in a new Vanity Fair interview. "I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses. I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I'm being very sincere. You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid." Luckily, Winslet did not let her insecurities get the best of her. In fact, she set a record as the youngest actress to earn five Oscar nominations. But despite her professional successes, Winslet tells the magazine she still can be self-critical. "You always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else," the actress says. "And I still sort of have that. I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' "But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels,'" she says. So, what makes Winslet happy? "I need to be looked after," she says. "I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.' I mean, the things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. The actress and her director husband Sam Mendes wed in 2003, and have a son, Joe, 5, together. Winslet has a daughter, Mia, 8, from a previous relationship. Reuniting With Leo Her latest project, Revolutionary Road, due in theaters in late December, allowed Winslet to collaborate with her husband for the first time. Mendes directed his wife in the period film, which also reunited her with Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio. "Leo and I, you know, are sort of kindred spirits," Winslet says. "We're cut from the same cloth." DiCaprio also has high praise for Winslet, saying, "Kate is the most talented actress of her generation." Winslet has already earned Oscar buzz for her role in the film. And she may double her chances a sixth nomination with her second anticipated film this fall, The Reader, due out Dec. 12. "How the hell did I get that lucky [to have two compelling roles] in the same 12-month period?," she says. "It's really rare and remarkable, and I don't take that position lightly. It might not happen like that again; I'm well aware of that. You know, the truth is, I'm just going to bloody well make the most of it."

Seal: Our Kids 'Don't Care about Music and Fashion' What's life like for the three kids in the Seal-Heidi Klum household? Pretty ordinary, says Seal. "Kids don't care about music and fashion," Seal, 45, told PEOPLE at Tuesday's Africa Rising concert in London. "They just run around and break things. We don't talk about stuff like that at home." Asked how he'd feel if his kids – Leni, 4 (Klum's daughter with Flavio Briatore); Henry, 3; and Johan, nearly 2 – wanted to follow him into the music business, the singer said: "I'd encourage our kids to do anything they wanted as long as they don't have aspirations to be a serial killer or in the military. I have three American kids. I'd have a real problem with [them joining the military] after the debacle of the past eight years." The London native said he was happy to be back in his hometown. "It's not often I get to perform in London," he said. "I'm a busy man. Lots of kids to look after, and a wife." Told he hadn't picked up much of an American accent (Klum, 35, Seal and the children live in New York), Seal said: "You should hear me when I talk to Obama."

Kevin Costner & Wife Expecting Again Kevin Costner and wife Christine are expecting their second child, a rep confirms to PEOPLE. The actor, 53, and Christine, 34, were married in Colorado in 2004. The couple's first son, Cayden Wyatt, was born in May 2007. Costner also has three children from his first marriage to Cindy Silva. Before baby, though, Costner has a different kind of celebration. His country music album will be released in November.

Vanessa Paradis Opens Up About Her Romance with Johnny Depp Heard that rumor about Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis getting married? Yeah, so has she. And no, it's not true. "Each summer people say we're supposed to be getting married, but we don't talk about it that much," Paradis – Depp's girlfriend of 10 years and the mother of his two children – tells the U.K. edition of Elle in its November issue. "He's got me, and he knows he's got me." Adds Paradis, 35: "I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect ... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be – we have two kids [Jack, 6, and Lily Rose, 9]. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without." When French singer-actress-model first met Depp, it was not quite love at first sight. "We were in two different worlds – him in America, me in France – but we had friends in common," explains the current face of Miu Miu. "We saw each other sometimes over the course of four years. But then, the day we found each other in Paris, we were both in the same world and free and it was just instant. There was no more time to waste – just no way around it." Asked if she's "tamed" the Pirates of the Caribbean star, whose previous girlfriends include Kate Moss and Winona Ryder, Paradis says: "Tamed. What's that? Like a lion? Noooo, no, we did it to each other. Maybe I'm a good girlfriend because I'm his girlfriend. I'm not sure I'd be a good girlfriend to anyone else; the same for him. It's difficult to explain, but it's something that's natural, obvious and beautiful." What's also natural: Women's desire to mob Depp, 45. In fact, Paradis feels it herself. "I understand. I want to mob him all the time, I do," she says. "He's a very charming person."

DAMN THE ECONOMY, BRING ON THE ART AUCTION DIANDRA Douglas, ex-wife of Michael Douglas, is trying to bring art to the masses despite the flailing economy. Tonight, Douglas is co-chairing the MUSE Film and Television gala at the Paul Kasmin Gallery on 10th Avenue. She told Page Six, "There will be a silent auction of really wonderful art. These are great works for less money than a gallery would sell them for, and a great chance to collect art." Also at the event will be Caroline Kennedy, Penny Marshall, Henry Kissinger and Donna Karan. As for her ex and his new wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diandra notes, "They might stop by after their political engagements."

HEFNER'S CRUMBLING HAREM JUST as Page Six predicted a month ago, Hugh Hefner's sham-like world is falling apart. His youngest "girlfriend," Kendra Wilkinson, has been hooking up with Philadelphia Eagle Hank Baskett. Now, it seems his "No. 1" gal pal is looking for an out, too. Tongues wagged when Holly Madison was pictured with notorious ladies' man Criss Angel, and now she tells Us magazine her relationship with Hef will end. "I want to be with somebody who I can be married to, and have kids," she says, noting that Hefner, 82 - who is still legally married to Kimberley Conrad, 45, mother of two of his four children - nixed nuptials. In fact, he told Us, "That's not much in the cards for me." As for Madison's fling with Angel, Hefner smirked, "One hopes . . . that when she starts dating, she'll have better taste." Only Bridget Marquardt, who is married to a man in Ohio, has stayed loyal while developing a show for the Travel Channel.