Costner To Wed on Saturday?
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Kevin Costner will wed longtime girlfriend Christine Baumgartner this Saturday - just a week after Britney Spears wed in Los Angeles. Tim Allen, Bruce Willis and Oliver Stone will be among the celebrity wedding guests at the big day, which will be held at the actor's Aspen, Colorado, ranch, according to American news show Hollywood Insider. More than 500 guests are expected. Academy Award-winner Costner is next set to be seen on the big screen in The Upside of Anger opposite Joan Allen and Evan Rachel Wood.

Kevin Costner Marries Girlfriend in Aspen
Sunday Sep 26, 2004 4:20pm EST
By Serena Kappes and Jason Bane
people.com


CREDIT: AP PHOTO/ROGERS & COWAN, LARA PORZAK

Kevin Costner married handbag designer Christine Baumgartner in a ceremony at the actor-director's 165-acre ranch outside Aspen, Colo., on Saturday.

Costner, 49, pulled up to the ceremony site in a horse-drawn carriage, and Baumgartner, 30, arrived soon after in a vintage green pickup truck. The pair tied the knot by a stream, then celebrated with their guests under a tent nearby. Celebrity guests included Tim Allen, Don Johnson and Costner's Dances with Wolves costar Mary McDonnell. It's the second marriage for Costner, the first for Baumgartner.

Costner, who has three children with his first wife, Cindy Silva (Anne, 20, Lily, 18, and Joe, 16), briefly met Baumgartner while golfing more than a decade ago, but didn't begin dating her until they met again at a restaurant in 1998. (Costner and Silva split in 1994.) "We exchanged numbers, and I told her that I would ? did she mind if I called her in two weeks. I did not realize that was like an insult to a woman," Costner told PEOPLE in 2003.

Despite a brief split in 2002 and an almost 20-year age difference, the two are "like little kids together, really in love," said close friend David Giammarco.

ON THE LINKS
Kevin Costner and new wife Christine are clearly still in honeymoon mode as they canoodle at a kickoff event for the Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews, Scotland, on Tuesday. The couple will participate as amateurs in the golf tournament, which begins Thursday.

FLIRTING IN FIRENZE
Newlyweds Kevin and Christine Costner (they married Sept. 25) share a little amore over a cup of cappuccino while honeymooning in Florence, Italy.

Kevin Costner's wacky Italian honeymoon

By Angela Baldassarre

Oscar-winning actor/director Kevin Costner and his new wife Christine Baumgartner completed a post-wedding golf trip to Scotland and are continuing their romantic honeymoon in Italy.

The happy couple explored the coast of Viareggio, one of the most beautiful seaside resorts of Tuscany, and perhaps searching for a belated wedding gift for his new bride, Costner decided to check out a luxurious sailboat which once belonged to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

But after Costner boarded a tiny craft called Yellow Submarine to be taken over to the sailboat, it soon became evident that he was in for more than a sales tour. Apparently the voyage was all part of the hijinks of an Italian Candid Camera-style programme and the Hollywood star got swept up in the fun, diving straight into the water fully dressed.

Then on another day, Costner spoofed his rugged cowboy image on another Italian TV programme, donning a Western-style ensemble, complete with gun belt and pistol, and mounting a scaled-down mechanical bull.

Costner, 49, married designer Baumgartner, 29, last month after six years together. Costner was previously married to Cindy Silva with whom he has three children, ages 16 to 20.
 

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COSTNER'S COSTLY NUPTIALS

Kevin Costner spent a cool $2 mil on his wedding extravaganza in Colorado which included a shin-ding that included a hoe-down, rodeo and square dancing over four days, says the National Enquirer . He's married now to Christine Baumgartner, who's 19 years younger than his 49 years. His oldest daughter, Annie, who's 20, was there, too, dancing away with the bride.

Christine Baumgartner and Kevin Costner at "The Upside of Anger" premiere in Westwood, California

Vain Costner


(BANG) - Kevin Costner hates the gym but is too vain to quit.

The 'Dances With Wolves' star, who turned 50 in January, admits he would love to stop exercising but is so worried about getting fat and losing his looks he can't give up.

He said: "I hate the gym. And I certainly don't like weights. But it's important for me to look good. So as much as I don't want to do this any more, it's vanity that keeps me going."

Costner, who is about to become a father again for the fourth time with second wife Christine Baumgartner, also says he is motivated to keep working out so he looks good for his wife and children.

The veteran actor recently gained 20lb for his role as a drunken baseball player in new movie 'The Upside of Anger', but believes if he let himself go permanently it would disappoint his family.

He added: "I owe it to my children and my wife."

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Kevin Costner has formed a five-piece band. It
debuts at a charity golf tournament in South Carolina.

Kevin Costner Outed In Massage Sex Scandal
Filed under: Kevin Costner , Scandals , Sex


Kevin Costner has been publicly named as the "celebrity accused of performing a sex act while being given a massage at a famous golf hotel." There was a gag order (no pun intended) on this previously, but now that has been lifted.

The actor was accused of the incident at the spa at The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Fife, in October 2004. A legal ruling had banned identifying Costner, who had been in St Andrews with his wife, where they attended the Dunhill Links pro-celebrity golf event.
The 34-year-old spa worker at the centre of the allegations initially claimed unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the hotel after she lost her job. She claimed that she was unfairly dismissed after she made the complaint to management about the 51-year-old star, whose best-known films include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Bodyguard.

However just before a tribunal hearing this morning, the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, settled with hotel lawyers. And this afternoon tribunal chairman Nicol Hosie ruled that both the hotel and Costner could be identified and that there was not a strong enough case for their names to be withheld.


No word from Kevin Costner's people on the ruling, however, I'm sure there will be denials all around.

Costner exposed as actor behind sex act claim
By Lee Glendinning and agencies

Kevin Costner has been revealed as the celebrity accused of performing a sex act while having a massage at a prestigious hotel in Scotland, after a tribunal ruled there was not a strong enough reason to keep his name suppressed.

The Hollywood star was accused of taking off his towel during the massage at The Old Course Hotel in St Andrews, Fife, in October 2004, exposing himself and then performing a sex act.

An earlier legal ruling had prevented his identity being revealed, but the tribunal chairman Nicol Hosie ruled that following widespread newspaper and magazine reports outside Britain, as well as internet blogs, which alleged that Costner was the culprit, his name had already fully entered the public domain.

A lawyer acting for the Daily Mail newspaper had argued that Costner’s had been published in papers including the Sunday Times in Perth, Australia, The National Enquirer and the Himalaya Times in Nepal.

The 51-year-old actor had been on honeymoon with his new wife in St Andrews when he went for the massage.

The 34-year-old spa worker giving the massage claimed she had been unfairly dismissed after she made a complaint to management about Costner’s behaviour.

But just before her tribunal hearing was due to start today the woman, who cannot be named, settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.

Last month, the Scottish masseuse told the tribunal in Dundee that she was "mortified" when Costner removed his massage towel before engaging in a sex act.

"It was disgusting and, even though he was a Hollywood superstar, I couldn’t believe he thought he could get away with something like that," she said.

"Kevin Costner abused me and I considered that a criminal act.

"When I was giving his wife a massage afterwards, I wanted to tell her everything."

The management of the hotel had not taken her seriously enough when she complained, she said, and she had not been provided with adequate counselling. The woman said that she was sacked last August.

Costner, whose best-known films include Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Bodyguard, is understood to be a good friend of the hotel’s owners. He has previously denied the claims through his publicist Paul Bloch.

Speaking from Los Angeles tonight, Mr Bloch said: "This is a dispute between an ex-employee and a hotel; this was never about Kevin Costner."

He added: "I have not even reached Mr Costner. He’s on location shooting so he knows nothing more about this."

An advocate representing The Daily Mail, Laurence Kennedy told the tribunal: "It is not the role of the tribunal to police the question of reputation," he said.

"The newspaper wishes to be free to report the allegations as allegations, not as a matter of fact."

After deliberating for an hour, Mr Hosie said it was unlikely that Costner was unaware of the allegations against him, given the coverage the story has had in the American press and on the internet.

"It is very significant that his name is widely reported in the world’s press," he said. "It is already a matter which is in the public domain."

He added he was not convinced there was a pressing social need convincing enough to allow restrictions to be put in place which would prevent Costner being identified.


Who says dreams...ooops..Gossips don't come true!

Dang ~ you dumb schmuck!! Another perfectly good fantasy ruined!!

I have to add though that there are times when I look at GMD and Mr. Pitt-Jolie and think my hormones must have gone non-existent but then I saw Mr. Costner (pre-this news) in person and found my hormones are just fine, thank you very much.

Dang, dang, dang it, you stupid schmuck!

It's all right Kappy. We still have Jake! (do you like Jake? for some reason I think you do. if not, substitute name of nice and hot male celebrity here.)

Has anyone else heard the rumor that Costner is teeny where it counts? : I don't remember where I first heard this, or if it is in any way reliable, but it kind of makes this story more funny, so I thought I'd throw it out there.

Ew, gross. I thought that blind vice was about tRavolta! Well, his young wife is rumoured to be not-so-bright; how humiliating this must be for her!

I know there was a blind item about this in the BI forum, but I can't find it.

It got pulled up yesterday so it's around......


Here's the thread (blind item): http://www.fanchitchat.com/chatboard/index...opic=6122&st=16

NOT LIKE KEVIN

A BRITISH cutie who knows what a horndog Kevin Costner can be says she's still stunned by the bizarre masturbation charges against him. "How very different from the man I first met," says Annabel Heseltine, daughter of ex- British deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine, who says she rejected a quickie from the "Dances With Wolves" wolf after his divorce from Cindy Silva in the '90s. A masseuse claims Costner pleasured himself in front of her during a rubdown as he honeymooned with Wife No. 2 in Scot land. Heseltine, in an op-ed piece in yesterday's London Telegraph, says despite Costner's "easy charm," she "ran into several girls with fractured hearts as a result of a liaison with [him] and was glad I wasn't one of them." She adds: "If he did behave badly, he deserved what he got."

Totally neutral on Jake. As a woman, he brings out only maternal feelings in me.
Guess I'll have to focus on Mr. Clooney although I like him best when he's on the screen with Brad.

30/04/2006 14:13 Contact Music

KEVIN COSTNER's former girlfriend BIRGIT CUNNINGHAM has leaped to the star's defence after hearing allegations the actor performed a lewd sex act in front of a masseuse while honeymooning in Scotland in 2004. The blonde socialite insists the screen star, who visited the five-star Old Course Hotel spa in St Andrews with his second wife CHRISTINE, would never be so "vulgar". And Cunningham, who dated Costner during the 1990s, has suggested the therapist may have fabricated the claims after being rebuffed by the hunk. She says, "Kevin is very romantic and tender, he would never do anything so vulgar. "He would be more interested in a long loving kiss rather than the naughty bit. He really is Mr Perfect, squeaky clean, if a little naive when it comes to realising the effect he has on girls. "Women are always throwing themselves at him but he hates being chased. Maybe she made an advance, was rejected and wants revenge."

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Kevin Costner plays a charity golf tourney

Yeah . . . I don't know . . . my first thought was someone was out to make a buck. I have no doubt about this man's problem with cheating but since it's so easy to get someone, why would he do something this crude? Doesn't make sense.

And I'd like to keep the fantasy going in spite of any evidence.

BECAUSE HE THINKS HE CAN. Some guys think they can do whatever they want because they are so cool and rich and stuff. I have never understood why he was considered so hot. I just don't see it.

In Bull Durham, when he's telling Susan Sarandon he likes long slow deep wet kisses that last 3 days.....Oh yeah! I see the attraction!!! [that, however, is the only movie I've really liked him in, but GOD do I adore that movie!!! He could give me a pedicure whenever he wanted....Well, back then at least]

Costner Hits Back at Split Reports

Kevin Costner has fired back at Hollywood gossip suggesting he and his new wife Christine Baumgartner are on the verge of splitting up. The movie star's publicist, Paul Bloch, has issued a statement on behalf of his client in a bid to end fresh US tabloid speculation about the state of his marriage. He states, "The story is false. They sold their house in Hollywood and they are moving to Santa Barbara. Kevin is on location and Christine is getting the house ready. Christine Costner is on her way to Shreveport, where Kevin Costner is shooting Mr. Brooks. They'll both then go to Providence, Rhode Island for daughter Annie's graduation from Brown University. The Costners will then head back to Los Angeles where Kevin will continue to help Christine with the move. After that, Kevin will go back and finish shooting the remaining several weeks of Mr. Brooks." The split rumors come just a month after allegations from a masseuse that Costner performed a lewd act in front of her while he was honeymooning with Baumgartner in Scotland in 2004. The unnamed 34-year-old claims Costner grabbed her while she was massaging him, before dropping his towel and exposing himself. Bloch has already rubbished the allegations, stating, "We find it unfortunate that Mr. Costner's name has been brought into what is essentially a dispute between a company owned by a good friend of his and a former employee."

SCANDAL IS COSTLY

THE British sex scandal that tarred Kevin Costner - a masseuse claims the actor pleasured himself during a massage while on his honeymoon - may have taken its toll on the star's marriage. According to Us Weekly, Costner's wife of less than two years, Christine Baumgartner, is furious and is now living separately. The mag says Costner told Baumgartner he would do anything to save his marriage. A rep for the couple denies friction. There could be another reason the two are living apart - they recently sold their Hollywood home for a bigger one in Santa Barbara, and Baumgartner is overseeing the move while Costner films a movie in Louisiana.

I have to admit, I thought these two were pretty cute together. Kinda thinking he did what he's being accused of though....

Costner Returns to Field of Dreams
Posted Aug 14th 2006 5:59PM by TMZ Staff



DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- The corn lining the outfield is tall again this year. The white farmhouse, wraparound porch and picket fence appear unaffected by time. The mythic baseball diamond and lush outfield look just like they did in the film made 17 years ago.

And for a few hours, hundreds of children and parents raced around the bases, played catch or hit soft pitches in the field made famous by 1989's "Field of Dreams." For 10-year-old Alexis Turner, the visit included a brush with Kevin Costner, the movie's star who returned Friday for the first time since filming ended.

Costner joined about 5,000 people who packed the field for a free screening of the movie. The event, sponsored by online DVD rental company Netflix Inc., is the fifth stop in a 10-city tour featuring classic movies at the locations they were filmed. "My dad pointed him out to me. I didn't even know I was standing next to him," said Turner, of Goshen, Ind., who fielded balls while Costner tossed pitches to one young hitter after another. "He told me to 'step back honey,' ... when one, a bigger hitter, came to bat," said Turner, in the middle of touring several major league ballparks with her father. "This is easily my most favorite part of the trip."

The film, about a farmer named Ray Kinsella who is persuaded by a mysterious voice to build a baseball field in his cornfield, is

based on the W.P. Kinsella novel "Shoeless Joe." "I was only 14 when the movie came out, and it was immediately

one of my favorites and still is," said Jennifer Lukenbill, who drove her husband and children eight hours from their home in

Nevada, Mo., to see Costner and the movie. "I can't watch it even today without feeling the way I did the first time," she said. "It was the first time I saw my dad cry -- and the last time."

The movie turned a plot of land owned by two local farmers into a site visited by more than 65,000 people each year. Like the ball diamond, not much has changed in Dyersville since the film crew and stars like James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster invaded this small eastern Iowa town. A new hotel has been added, the downtown has undergone a beautification and lighting project and several new companies have arrived.

The population -- 4,035 -- has increased by about 100. Tourism and agriculture are still the area's chief economic engines. "I think initially, the natives thought interest in the field as an attraction would taper off," said Dyersville Mayor Jim Heavens, who estimated more than 1 million people have visited the field in the last 17 years. "But it's been pretty steady over the years and it's one of those things that continues to make a connection with people."

Visitors on Friday got a sense of the dispute between the two families that own the land. The Lansing family, which owns the farmhouse, right field and most of the infield, elected not to take part in the event. So officials closed off their property, forcing moviegoers to plant their folding chairs in left and center field. But for many, like Dan Dunavan, a 65-year-old retiree from St. Louis, the turf tension was irrelevant. "I just wanted to come up and see this," said Dunavan. "It's a cornfield pretty much in the middle of nowhere. And everything looks the same as it did in the movie." Before the screening, Costner played a 75-minute set with his four-piece band. "I feel like I will forever be connected here to the state of Iowa," Costner told the crowd. "I've never lost my feel for what we did here. This was a perfect time for me to come back. This is our secret here tonight in the corn."

HOLLYWOOD HANDS

The Guardian costars Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner prepare to get their hands dirty and make an imprint on Hollywood history Wednesday in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

Costner leaves Hollywood mark, literally
Actor's hands and feet preserved in cement outside Grauman's Chinese
Associated Press
Updated: 59 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - Oscar winning actor-director Kevin Costner sunk his hands and feet into wet cement on Wednesday in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre — following, literally, in the footsteps of other stars.

“I feel so lucky today. I feel so guilty,” mused the 51-year-old. “I’ve been able to live my dream. I’ve been able to stare down the bully, kiss the girl, and save the day. The staple of all Hollywood movies, the fantasy of every man.”

Quietly handsome, Costner jump-started his sparkling film career with a lead role in 1985’s comedy “Fandango,” and went on to headline dozens of films, including “JFK” and “Field of Dreams.”


In 1990, his Civil War epic “Dances with Wolves” snagged him Academy Awards for directing and best picture. He was also nominated for best actor.

Other movies under his director’s shingle include 1997’s “The Postman” and 2003’s “Open Range.”

At the ceremony, Costner thanked both fans and co-workers, from writers and directors to the “stuntmen who’ve taken risks to make me look stronger or jump farther than I ever could.”

He ended his lengthy speech on a cautiously optimistic note.

“Long live the movies and the imaginations that drive them. Long live our hard fought freedoms that allow us to bring them to you without fear or censorship,” he said.

Costner’s upcoming film “The Guardian,” with co-star Ashton Kutcher, opens Sept. 29.

COSTNER BLASTS BUSH ASSASSINATION FILM

KEVIN COSTNER has waded into the debate about controversial new movie DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, insisting British director GABRIEL RANGE failed to consider how GEORGE W BUSH's family would react to scenes of the US President being assassinated. The DANCES WITH WOLVES star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada at the weekend (09-10SEP06), where he premiered his new film, THE GUARDIAN, alongside the screening of Death of A President. Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film. He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world. "Whether we think it's being performed right or not we can't, like, wish... or think that's even cute."

Cartoon declares 'Open Season' on Costner flick

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A cartoon bear and deer talked their way to the top of the box office as Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher's animated comedy "Open Season" debuted with $23 million.

Kutcher also finished in second place with Disney's "The Guardian," in which he co-stars with Kevin Costner as Coast Guard rescue swimmers. The action drama opened with $17.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The previous weekend's leading flick, Paramount's "Jackass Number Two," fell to third place with $14 million, raising its 10-day total to $51.5 million.

The weekend's other new wide release, the MGM-Weinstein Co. comedy "School for Scoundrels," opened at No. 4 with $9.1 million. The movie stars Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite") as a wimpy meter maid caught up in a war of wills with a con man (Billy Bob Thornton) who teaches an extreme confidence-building class.

Hollywood snapped out of a box-office lull that had persisted most of September. The top-12 movies took in $85.1 million, up 13 percent from the same weekend last year.

"It sort of broke the little mini-fall slump we were in," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Sony scored a record 11th movie debuting at No. 1 this year with "Open Season," featuring the voice of Lawrence as a domesticated bear uprooted from his cozy home and hurled into the wild, where he's befriended by a slick-talking deer (Kutcher).

"Open Season" was the debut release from Sony Pictures Animation, a unit the studio hopes to establish as a regular producer of digital cartoons alongside such industry pioneers as Pixar Animation and DreamWorks Animation.

"It's a great first step," said Yair Landau, president of Sony Pictures Digital. "It takes years and multiple films to build a brand, and certainly we'd like audiences to think of us in the pantheon."

Two Academy Award contenders about real-world leaders, Fox Searchlight's "The Last King of Scotland" and Miramax's "The Queen," opened strongly in limited release.

"The Last King of Scotland," with best-actor prospect Forest Whitaker as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, took in $143,252 in four theaters over the weekend in New York City and Los Angeles. The film has grossed $172,389 since opening Wednesday.

Featuring James McAvoy as a Scottish doctor drawn into a dangerous relationship as Amin's personal physician, the film expands to more cities this week.

Opening Saturday, Stephen Frears' "The Queen," starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, took in a whopping $123,000 in just two days at three New York City theaters.

Costarring Michael Sheen as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the film examines the furor over the royal family's aloofness in the wake of Princess Diana's death in 1997. "The Queen" expands to more theaters this Friday.

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BEARING ARMS

The Guardian costars Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Costner go head-to-head at the Berlin premiere of their action film on Sunday. Kutcher also gave a one-two punch at the U.S. box office over the weekend: The Guardian and his animated comedy Open Season opened in the top two slots.

Costner Takes Casino Battle to South Dakota Supreme Court


Actor/director Kevin Costner is asking the South Dakota Supreme Court to help him sever ties with two business partners in a Deadwood casino he owns. The star is asking the court to send the case back to a judge for a final decision so he can become the sole owner of the Midnight Star, an eating and gambling establishment where costumes Costner wore in various movies line the walls. Costner filmed much of Dances With Wolves, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 1990, on South Dakota's plains and in the Black Hills, where Deadwood is located. The actor owns 93.5 per cent of the casino and hired Francis and Carla Caneva to manage the operation and gave them each 6.5 per cent ownership. Costner fired the couple in July 2004 and asked them to part ways as partners, as well. When they declined, he chose to dissolve the partnership. In order to formally sever ties, the casino's fair market value had to be determined, which has been the subject of much dispute. Costner's accountant put the value of the casino at $3.1 million, while the Canevas got another Deadwood casino owner to testify he would play twice that amount, or $6.2 million. A judge agreed with that amount and ordered Costner to buy the business for $6.2 million or sell it on the open market. Costner appealed the decision, arguing that the value of the casino wasn't derived from a hypothetical buyer and seller, as is required by the Internal Revenue Service, and that the value was set without viewing any financial documents.

Costner and the Supremes
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Forget the buffalo, Kevin Costner is doing some legal wrangling in South Dakota these days.

Mr. Dances with Wolves is asking the state's supreme court to review a lower court ruling forcing him to pony up $6.2 million to two former business partners who ran the Midnight Star, a casino the actor owns in the Black Hills, where much of his Oscar-winning opus was shot.

Costner, who owns a 93.5 percent share in the business, is hoping a favorable decision will let him sever ties with Francis and Carla Caneva, whom he hired to manage the Midnight Star.

The actor had given the Canevas a 6.5 percent stake in their partnership but sought to buy them out after he fired them in July 2004. The Canevas balked, however, sparking the current legal imbroglio.

In the original lawsuit trial, Costner brought in an accountant who estimated the value of the Star at $3.1 million. The Canevas had their own expert witness, a casino operator from nearby Deadwood (where HBO filmed its same-named TV series), who testified that the Star's gambling operations were worth double the amount.

The original judge sided with the managers, ordering Costner to pay $6.2 million for them to relinquish their stake or face the possibility the entire casino would be put up for sale on the open market.

The Bull Durham star appealed, claiming the Canevas' figure didn't adhere to Internal Revenue Service guidelines.

Michael Reynolds, the lawyer for Costner's company, Midnight Star Enterprises, has claimed the Canevas want to lock in value above $4.9 million, which is the point at which they'd actually start earning money from their initial investment.

Reynolds also argued the original ruling should also be overturned because the judge required the sale of the casino, whereas Costner wants to just end the partnership, but keep possession of the Midnight Star.

An attorney for the Canevas, Richard Plumier, told the Associated Press the judge was merely adhering to the terms laid out in the partnership agreement, which called for Costner to sell the business before the partners went their separate ways.

"This is Mr. Costner's agreement. I didn't write it," he said, while suggesting that Midnight Star was definitely worth more than the A-lister was letting on.

No word yet when the South Dakota Supreme Court will issue an opinion on the matter.

Costner, most recently onscreen in the new film The Guardian, has been keeping his lawyers plenty busy of late.

Last year, the 51-year-old performer filed an $8 million lawsuit against Ascendant Pictures for breaking an oral agreement for him to headline a romantic comedy titledTaming Ben Taylor. He also was named in a complaint last April brought by an unidentified female masseuse who claimed she was wrongfully terminated from her job after she complained about Costner alleged lewd behavior while on his honeymoon with his new wife in Scotland in 2004.

Kevin Costner, Wife Christine Are Expecting
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 09, 2007 10:00 AM EST
By Simon Perry
people.com


Baumgartner and Costner
Photo by: Lisa O'Connor / ZUMA

Waterworld director Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine, are expecting their own little dipper, his rep said Thursday.

"They're very excited, very happy about the pregnancy," publicist Paul Bloch told the Associated Press.

Costner, 52, and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner, 32, wed at his ranch near Aspen, Col., in September 2004.

On that day, Costner arrived at the stream-side ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage, while Baumgartner pulled up soon after in a vintage green pickup truck.

The couple met while golfing more than a decade ago, but didn't begin dating until they met again at a restaurant in 1998. Despite a brief split in 2002 and an almost 20-year age difference, the two are "like little kids together, really in love," close friend David Giammarco told PEOPLE at the time of their wedding.

This will be Baumgartner's first child. Costner has three adult children, Anne, 22, Lily, 20, and Joe, 19, from his previous marriage to Cindy Silva, which ended in 1994.

BOOOOOOO! Where's the masseuse story? A fluff piece this is!

That will be one cute kid. I wonder if the masseuse scandal was what hurt the Guardian at the box office.

Kevin Costner's a Daddy Again

Kevin Costner's 4th child was brought into this world on Sunday. It's the 52-year-old's first child with wife Christine, 33. They named their new baby boy Cayden Wyatt Costner.

Their rep said, "The baby weighed 7 lbs, 14 oz at birth and has dark hair. Both mother and son are doing well. This is the fifth child for Costner, the first for Christine."

I'm guessing the "Wyatt" part is for Wyatt Earp which starred Kevin. Looks like it's going to be yet another slow day. I mean I'm writing about KEVIN FUCKING COSTNER! WTF?!

http://www.dlisted.com/

Okay: What's wrong with the story above.

You all get three guesses

I think it's his fourth kid, not his fifth.

First the article mentions it's his fourth kid, then the quote says it's his fifth. It actually is is fifth, because he had three with his first wife Cindy and one with some random girlfriend.

Demi Moore and Kevin Costner Debut Mr. Brooks
Filed under: Ashton Kutcher , Demi Moore , Film , Kevin Costner , Premiere , Red Carpet



Demi Moore and Marg Helgenberg provided a little glitz on the red carpet at the premiere of Demi's new film "Mr. Brooks." Ashton Kutcher was in tow, and even Demi's ex-husband Bruce Willis showed up for the premiere. During the typical red carpet interviews that happen on the red carpet, it wasn't Demi Moore or Ashton Kutcher who provided the best quote, it was the film's other star Kevin Costner.

"If there's a vanity in an actor, it's that they want to be remembered forever. If you want to, you have to be in a movie that is worth remembering, that's the idea!" said the star, who plays a serial killer in the psychological thriller.

He added of Mr Brooks: "It has the chance to be a classic."

Good luck with that.



More photos (Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, Kevin Costner, Rex Lee, Macy Gray, Marg Helgenberger) from the premiere of "Mr. Brooks" are after the jump.









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Kevin Costner is Nasty
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In his new film. Kevin Costner plays Earl Brooks, a successful business and family-man who is able to keep his murderous alter ego, played by William Hurt, at bay until a photographer played by Dane Cook sees him commit a crime.

"It's a movie that's a perfect storm of pressure," Costner told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm. "Has an (alter)-ego banging on him. He has Dane Cook, kind of a wanna-be, who is, in a way, more insidious."

Serial killer movies are not the usual kind of films Costner makes and he said he won't even go see them. He chose "Mr. Brooks," which also stars Demi Moore as a detective working the case, because he said it has "some interesting entertainment value."

"This one had this weird thing where you found yourself, I think, laughing appropriately," he said. "And yet you understood why you were laughing. And I think you end up with a lot of empathy. And so, for me, this movie's not any different than 'Field of Dreams' in a way. It's just, hopefully, an American classic.

Well, from the reviews that "Mr. Brooks" is getting it doesn't have entrainment value, and is definitely not an American classic.



More photos from the pre-screening of Mr. Brooks are after the jump.



Posted by: Jessica Marx
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Looked interesting to me; I plan to see it.

Kevin Costner Worries About Death.

KEVIN COSTNER fears he won't live long enough to see his newborn baby son grow up.

Little Cayden Wyatt Costner was born last month (May07) and the 52-year-old actor worries he'll die before the tot becomes an adult.

He says, "My fundamental fear is that I will die and someone else will have to raise my new baby.

"I fear I won't get to coach him in terms of what it is to be a man."

The Dances With Wolves star admits he's already struggling to keep up with his younger wife, 33-year-old Christine - when it comes to his parenting duties.

He reveals, "Sometimes I fake that I'm still asleep in the morning. My wife buys it, and she gets up to feed the little one."

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Costner settles movie lawsuit


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Costner has wrapped up his latest role — plaintiff in a lawsuit. Costner, 53, has settled his 2 1/2-year-old lawsuit that claimed Ascendant Pictures broke an oral agreement to pay him $8 million to star in a romantic comedy called "Taming Ben Taylor."

Details of the settlement were not made public.

The movie, about a divorced man who refuses to sell his failing vineyard to a neighboring golf course, was never made.

Notice of the settlement of Costner's suit and a cross-complaint filed by the Beverly Hills production company were contained in court documents filed Monday by Costner's attorney, William A. Bossen.

The cross-complaint alleged fraud and was filed against Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency that represented Costner. Winner of the director and best-picture Oscars for 1990's "Dances With Wolves," Costner also has starred in "Bull Durham," "Waterworld," "Tin Cup," "JFK" and "Field of Dreams."

Bossen confirmed Wednesday that the case was settled recently but declined to provide further details.

A call to Robert N. Treiman, who represented Ascendant Pictures, was not immediately returned.

REUNITED!
16 years after The Bodyguard, Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner met up Sat. at a Muhammad Ali event in Arizona.

They hated each other on that picture. HATED. Well, sixteen years is a long time and celebs do put a good front on things in public, regardless.

Sounds like he should have cast Madge after all.

In the whole series of pics on Dlisted, they never made eye contact.