Sometimes-actress, always-perfectly-symmetrical-faced-human being Jessica Alba wrote a book called The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You. She is marketing it as "like GOOP, but for Poors like you and me."

Helena Bonham Carter — or, as Brad Pitt calls her on the Fight Club DVD commentary (which, just FYI, is WAY more entertaining than the actual movie), "the HBC" — has finally admitted that she's been living a lie — she cannot appear in major motion pictures AND raise Tim Burton's nightmare spawn, which means that the HBC…

Poor troubled Terminator 3 actor Nick Stahl now has a glossy senior picture in the Paul Reubens Academy Yearbook: Stahl was arrested around dinnertime last night for jerking off in the private booth of a porn store in Hollywood. The LAPD booked him for a misdemeanor (lewd conduct) and he was released a few hours later. …

Last night Real Live Movie Stars™ hit the red carpet at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, for the world premiere of Lay Miz. 'Twas a black tie affair, which means there were tuxedoes, but also: Weird bustlines, bare shoulders and crumpled taffeta.

Here's a family portrait of Tim Burton, Helena Bonham-Carter and their two children at Disneyland Paris. Do you think Jack and Sally are the godparents?

But the night sort of always does, doesn't it? Queen Helena Bonham Carter Of Darkness and Fingerless Gloves turned 48 today. Let's celebrate Ms. Burton with this clip, which is extraordinary for a) featuring the Pixies and b) being one of the most romantic endings to any movie in 1999. Man, who doesn't still kind of …

We're not even one day into the new year and already dreams are being crushed: Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes spent last night partying in New York together. They flew in from LA on Friday and tried to stay low-profile by boarding the flight at separate times, but, yeah, like that's going to make any difference. And now…

The BAFTA Britannia Awards were held in Los Angeles last night. (As an aside: Is there also like an American Academy of Film and Television Arts Americana Awards ceremony that is held once a year in London? No.) Helen Mirren AND Helena Bonham Carter showed up, and we are pleased.

Mike Newell - who directed Enchanted April, Four Weddings and A Funeral and Donnie Brasco, among others — is currently working on a version of Great Expectations, with Helena Bonham Carter playing Miss Havisham. Mighty fine casting. Deadline reports:

Kate Hudson has given birth to a baby boy. As you may recall, she did a pendulum test and felt fairly sure she was having a girl. She also said: "I'm carrying so differently than I did with Ryder." But nope! It's a boy and we don't know his name yet. Something Muse-worthy. [People]