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• Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty are officially dunzo. "I'm single at the moment, and I'm completely happy with that," Miller says. Getty is still technically married to his wife, Rosetta; the two have been separated since Getty was caught kissing Miller last July. [US Weekly]

• Sienna's other ex-boyfriend, Jude Law, is apparently causing her a great deal of stress, as well; after he signed on to play Dr. Watson in Guy Richie's upcoming adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, Miller was dropped from the film. [Daily Mail]

• Britney Spears is headed to France: she's set to star on the French TV show "Star Academy" on November 28. [US Weekly]

• Gavin Rossdale is opening up about his "super mellow" new son, Zuma Nesta Rock. "What I've found from having children," Rossdale says, "is that they just want to make you be better." [People]

• Sir Paul McCartney is leaving the Beatles behind and joining the Ogres as a cast member in the upcoming Shrek 4. [The Sun]

• In a final creepy twist on their fake relationship, Hugh Hefner will walk ex-Girl Next Door Kendra Wilkinson down the aisle when she gets married next June. [The Sun]

• Evan Rachel Wood is speaking out about her breakup with Marilyn Manson and denying reports that Manson was "controlling" and "emotionally abusive." "Manson has been by my side and taken care of me through the best and worst times," Wood says, "I love him as a person and as an artist. I will always be proud to have been a part of that." [People]

• Another track from Britney's Circus album has leaked. "Kill The Lights," has a similar theme as "Piece of Me": it's another song about Britney's relationship with the paparazzi. Sample lyric: "All the flashing, trying to cash in, hurts my eyes/All the poses, out of focus, I despise."[Just Jared]

• Emilio Estevez will join his brother, Charlie Sheen, on Sheen's sitcom Two and a Half Men, some time this season. That's all well and good, Coach Bombay, but when are we gonna get our Mighty Ducks 4? [Ace Showbiz]

• Sad news: Jheryl Busby, who revived the Motown label in the early 90's by signing such artists as Queen Latifah, Johnny Gill, and Boyz II Men, has died at the age of 59. [NYTimes]

• More sad news: novelist Rev. Andrew Greeley is in critical condition after "falling and fracturing his skull."[Yahoo News]

• Miley Cyrus' mom, Leticia, keeps a virtual eye on her daughter by texting her constantly during Miley's dates with her 20-year-old boyfriend, Justin. Says Miley: "If you look at my text inbox, it's mom, mom, mom, mom. She'll send them constantly."[Starpulse]

• Pierce Brosnan thinks Barack Obama could definitely play James Bond. "He's cool enough. He's definitely got the walk and the talk, yes, Brosnan says, "But I think he's going to make a greater president. And Mr. Daniel Craig is a great Bond of his time." [People]

• Peaches Geldof and her husband are calling it quits after 96 days of marriage. "She doesn’t fancy him any more, and wants to move on," says a source, "To her it is as simple as that. She just wants to divorce him and find a new boyfriend."[Daily Mail]

• During an acceptance speech at the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Awards, Sean Penn took a little shot at his ex-wife, Madonna, by saying, "What's my British thing to say? Guy Richie is back!" Yeah, I'm not sure what that means, either. [Daily Express]

• Christina Aguilera and her husband are trying for another baby, as Christina doesn't want a huge age gap between her children. "I honestly can't wait for the next one," the singer says, "I do want more kids, and I want them to be close in age, at least the first two." Meanwhile, Britney Spears laughed maniacally in her bedroom and shouted, "I already have two! And they're close in age!" before making another check mark on the "How Britney Will Defeat Christina" chart that she's been keeping since 1997. [Daily Mail]

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• Barneys Creative Director Simon Doonan and designer Jonathan Adler were wed yesterday at City Hall in San Francisco! This article states that they "sealed the union with a spirited sprint down the glorious grand staircase." Mr. Doonan wore a Liberty print shirt, Barneys Co-op jeans, a Prada V-neck and a Thom Browne velvet jacket. Mr. Adler wore Barneys Co-op jeans, V-neck, a Fred Perry sweater, and Adidas sneakers. [SFGate, Photo by Thor Swift]
• If Prop. 8 passes in California, "it would be the first time in American history that an existing minority right would be taken away by the vote of a majority." The Christian conservatives are ahead, in terms of fundraising. Karen Ocamb's article indicates that Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, Sir Elton John and Melissa Etheridge have not donated to the cause to fight Prop 8, according to the California Secretary of State’s Campaign Finance website. Ocamb writes: "While their visibility as openly LGBT celebrities and entertainment power players is important, their financial absence from the specific fight to save the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry is hurting." [In L.A. Magazine]
• Katie Holmes made her Broadway debut in All My Sons last night and Tom Cruise loved it. "It was extraordinary," he says. [Yahoo News]

• Heidi Klum is freaking out about hosting the Emmys on Sunday. She says: "I get nervous when so many people are looking at me. It’s live and you go on stage and no one asks questions. To go out and just talk is terrifying." Heidi, when it doubt, say "deezigners." Everyone loves that! [The Sun]
• BREAKING: Ivana Trump flew coach. [Page Six]
• Pink's song about heartbreak, "So What," is her first No.1 song on Billboard's Hot 100. She says the track is not entirely autobiographical, but the opening line is, "I guess I just lost my husband." (Watch the video!) [Yahoo News]
• Nicole Kidman speaks about her baby and her hubby! She says: "To be given the blessing of a child at this stage of my life was wonderful." She also claims she and Keith can't stand to be away from each other. "We start to hurt after seven days. I've never wanted to live my life apart from the person I love. If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you’re committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around. If I fall, I fall — that's it. We gently fell into each other. We were two lonely people who went, 'Ah, there you are.'" [The Sun]
• After shooting 30 Rock with Oprah, Tina Fey says: "I would like to announce that we are officially best friends." [Chicago Tribune]
• You know how Amy Poehler is getting her own show? Will Arnett will be on it! Her husband! [Onion AV Club]
• Justin Timberlake is planning on writing a song for his friend Ellen DeGeneres and her new bride Portia de Rossi. "I actually made them a promise and I'm gonna stick to it," he says. Let you whip me if I misbehave… [UPI]
• Simon Cowell uses so much Botox he can no longer scowl. He says: "To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It simply works. You do it once a year — who cares?" Um, Simon, do you only brush your teeth only once a year?? [The Sun]
• George Clooney's character in Burn After Reading uses a sex ramp; apparently sales of this item are suddenly up. [Daily Express]
• Katherine Heigl earns about 22 times what her Grey's Anatomy costar Ellen Pompeo makes, thanks to her film career. (Other Grey's salaries are compared here, too.) [Portƒolio]
• Val Kilmer as the governor of New Mexico? Bill Richardson says yes! "I like the idea. Val Kilmer is a New Mexican; he was Batman. You know there have been successful actors going into politics." [Shakesville]
• Last night, Audrina Patridge maybe moved out of the house that she shared with Lauren Conrad and Lo Bosworth. Plus: Rumors are swirling that she's getting her own spin-off show. Please let JustinBobby be in it! [TMZ]
• Oooh the Jack White/Alicia Keys Bond theme! It's called "Another Way To Die." Listen here. [Concrete Loop]
• So you know how Robert Downey Jr. is going to play Sherlock Holmes in a flick directed by Guy Ritchie? Jude Law will play Watson. [Ain't It Cool]
• Gwyneth Paltrow and Mario Batali will do another 13 episodes of their cooking show; this time in Italy. [Perez Hilton]
• Contrary to reports, two of Paris Hilton's dogs were NOT eaten by a coyote. [Page Six, People]
• Pat O'Brien is leaving The Insider. [People]
• Ryan O'Neal's lawyer says: "Those were not Ryan's drugs, he doesn't use drugs." [People]
• Gary Coleman's lawyer says "he did nothing wrong." This comes after Coleman allegedly ran over a dude who tried to take his picture with a camera phone. [People]
• Janet Jackson's Rock Witchu tour: "Overloaded with blinding dazzle, pyrotechnics and gaudy style over substance. The myriad production numbers were reminiscent of a poor Vegas revue and emotionally distant, the band and backup singers bolstering her vocals hidden away, leaving one to wonder if some — or most — of it was prerecorded." [Reuters]
• Is Britney Spears getting special treatment for her driving without a valid license trial? [AP]
• Broke oil "heir" Brandon Davis owes money all over town. [Page Six]
• Is Kathy Griffin moving her Life On The D-List show from Bravo to some other network? [Page Six]
• Denise Richards' show: Getting canceled? [Page Six]
• Joan Prather of Eight Is Enough was arrested after dragging an L.A. County Sheriff's deputy down the Pacific Coast Highway with her car. [TMZ]
• China's Ugly Betty is not ugly enough. [Guardian]
• Speaking of Ugly Betty, America Ferrera says Henry and Gio will be back on Season 3. [EW]
• Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez: Officially divorced. That was quick! [TMZ]
• LL Cool J is pissed because Jessica Simpson's album beat his on the charts. [MSNBC]
• Ronnie Wood's estranged wife says: "I'm enjoying my new freedom." [The Sun]
• Ashton Kutcher doesn't know how to spell step-daughter Tallulah's name. [Perez Hilton]
• Does Playboy treat black women like crap? [TMZ]
• The Spice Girls have beaten Led Zeppelin for an award for the best music reunion. Girl powah! [BBC News]
• Tracy Chapman is releasing her first new album in years, and you can listen to a track here. [Perez Hilton]
• "I do believe in marriage… But I just think for me, it’s not a desperate kind of thing. In America it’s definitely something that seems to be a major goal with every woman – the big wedding day. I don’t need that. I want total commitment and spiritual connection, and I am lucky because that’s what I’ve got. One of the things that first attracted me to my boyfriend is his brain. He’s very well-read and really sexy to me. Brains are the most important thing to me, because I feel I lack them. I want them from the man I am with. I love a well-read man – that is such a turn-on." — Eva Mendes. [Mirror]

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• Jude Law and Kimberley Stewart: Seen drinking champagne and snogging each other in Cannes. He's a 35-year-old father of four; she's a 28-year-old party girl who used to date Cisco Adler (She got a tattoo reading "Daddy's Little Girl Loves Cisco," which, after their breakup, she changed to "Daddy's Little Girl Loves Disco.") Also, when she had her implants removed, she sent them to Jack Osbourne, who hung them on his wall. [Mirror]

• Oh, gross, there are pictures of Jude and Kim making out. Blech. [The Sun]
• Did Shania Twain split with her husband Mutt Lange because he was having an affair with the secretary? [People]
• Lindsay Lohan is being sued over that fur coat she "borrowed." You know, the one LL picked up at a club and left wearing, even though it wasn't hers? The real owner saw pictures of LL wearing the coat in a magazine. "It was my coat. It was no doubt," 22-year-old Masha Markova says. Later the coat mysteriously returned to the club. [People]
• Also: Lindsay has always told people she wouldn't be on her mom's reality show. So why is Dina Lohan saying: "I told Lindsay I don’t want her on the show right now. … Doing reality TV would almost be taking a step backward as far as her career goes." [MSNBC]
• Ali Lohan's been targeted by Mean Girls! She says: "A couple of girls in school made up a video of me and put it up on YouTube. They used disgusting words. Like if my mom ever heard me say that stuff, I'd be grounded for life!" [People]
• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt had dinner with Clint Eastwood, Brett Ratner and Mick Jagger on the Côte d'Azur last night; what did you do? [People]

• Britney is back in LA after her five-day Costa Rican adventure at Mel Gibson's house. [ET]

• Pete Doherty was kicked out of the soccer event he attended for peeing in a trophy. [The Sun]
• Madonna: Seen chatting up Mike Tyson. [Mirror]
• Kiefer Sutherland is single. He filed for divorce from wife Elizabeth Kelly Winn in 2004 and a judge made it official on Friday. [Mirror]
• It's official: Katie Holmes will be in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway. [People]
• Owen Wilson is dealing with this most recent breakup with Kate Hudson by "immersing himself in blondes, boobs and beer." Owen spent four and a half hours at a strip club in Philadelphia last Thursday. [Page Six]
• Nick Cannon was trying to have a boys' weekend at the MGM Grand Foxwoods when Mariah called at 1 a.m. and told him to come home. "He didn't look happy about it," a source says. [Page Six]
• Lynne Spears was seen telling Jill Zarin of Real Housewives of New York City that she is on Team Jill. [Page Six]
• After making a nasty audio mashup of her voice, Howard Stern wants to make peace with Dolly Parton. "She's had a long career and she's been hot the whole time," he says, which doesn't make things better. [Page Six]
• Audrina from The Hills: Has a sister who's heavily tattooed. [Rush & Molloy]
• This video of the new cast of 90210 makes me feel old. [ET]
• Scarlett Johansson's best friend Jessie Baylin says ScarJo's wedding to Ryan Reynolds will be great. "I'm really excited for them," Jessie tells E!. "I think Ryan is amazing. She’s beautiful, and she’s going to look beautiful." [E!]
• Gwyneth Paltrow bares her left breast in hew new film, Two Lovers. Didn't we already see them in Shakespeare In Love? [Fox News]
• Jesse Metcalfe trashed a hotel room in San Diego, yawn. [Page Six]
• Opening arguments are set to begin in the R. Kelly trial. [Yahoo News]
• Oy! Sex And The City posters are banned in two Israeli cities (Jerusalem and Petah Tikva) because municipal officials don't want the word "sex" on display in the religious towns. [USA Today]
• Jennifer Hudson is releasing a CD in September. Even though he was on the Dreamgirls soundtrack, this will be her debut album. [Reuters]
• Vegas, baby! The ladies of The View are headed to sin city to broadcast from Caesars Palace for a week. [UPI]
• Naomi Campbell is on the official Ugly Betty podcast. See the video! [ONTD]
• Now that California has overturned the ban on gay marriage, Star Trek's George Takai is planning his wedding! The lucky guy is Brad Altman, his 54-year-old business manager. [Reuters]
• Spencer Pratt is firing back at Brody Jenner's dad, who called Spencer a "bad influence." "That's a bold statement for someone who only decided to try and be Brody's father after Brody got famous," Spencer says. Um, you know you're talking about Bruce Jenner, who won Olympic gold and was on boxes of Wheaties, right? [Us Magazine]
• The honeymoon is over: Pete Wentz is being sued by a fan who claims Wentz beat him up at a Fall Out Boy show last year. [E!]
• Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is known for his strong women, but he's focusing on his male characters with his next flick. [Guardian]
• Lane Garrison, the Prison Break actor who is serving time for vehicular manslaughter, is being moved to a maximum-security lockup, uh-oh. [E!]
• Some dude was blasting Mariah Carey in his car and when he stopped at a red light, another guy pulled up and called the Mariah lover a "derogatory name" for listening to Mimi. So the guy who likes Mariah threw a bottle at the other guy and subsequently got arrested. Neither of these guys were Nick Cannon. [Perez Hilton]

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Slate:

My father likes to contend that movie acting is the easiest art; Norah Jones' performance here is a compelling refutation of that claim. There's nothing overtly wrong with her line readings or facial expressions, and she's as lovely as the day is long. As a singer, Jones is a gifted explorer of this same emotional terrain: wistfulness, longing, heartbreak. But as an actor, she fails to make Elizabeth someone we want to know better. Meanwhile, another singer, Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power), packs a whole nightclub's worth of smoky mystery into her one scene as Jude Law's returning ex-girlfriend.

Without a plot or any kind of connective tissue to hold the vignettes together, nothing about My Blueberry Nights makes any kind of coherent sense as it follows Norah Jones, the recording artist, around in her acting debut. She can't act, and I've got news—she's no jazz singer, either, even though she's managed to forge a bogus reputation as one. Still, here she is, in practically every scene, lovely to look at but so insecure and uncertain about how to speak a simple declarative sentence that she seems to be hiding in the corner of each frame.

Norah Jones, in her bland screen debut, plays a brokenhearted New Yorker named Elizabeth who sets out on a road trip across America after a bad breakup, presumably in search of oblivion or at the very least a change of scenery. But first, she wallows, spending a series of long, woozy nights in an otherwise ever-deserted diner basking in the melancholy sympathy of diner owner and fellow lonely-heart, Jeremy, improbably played by Jude Law. If this is the guy she goes to for a shoulder, you have to wonder who she's pining for.

For all its insubstantiality, My Blueberry Nights does provide some catnip allure that will be to some tastes. Best served will be those willing and able to embrace the general void of Elizabeth's character and place themselves within it. Jones proves agreeable but bland company in the role; she's attractive, but lacks mystery, emotional vitality and that something special behind the eyes. As if to make up for this in their scenes together, Law starts off in overdrive and only rarely downshifts; he's more effective when he does so.

All that stuff bothered me at first, along with the fact that Jones can't really act. When she's required to display emotion about the former boyfriend, it's more like watching somebody miss the bus or lose her cellphone than undergo a very early midlife crisis. Still, the camera loves her, as they say. (If there's one thing Wong Kar-wai knows how to do better than any other filmmaker, it's shoot beautiful women so they look their best.) She has a little of the young Julia Roberts, or a less extreme Angelina Jolie, about her.

Ms. Jones, whose diffidence lends her musical performances an air of intrigue and seduction, does not so much fail to act as refuse to try. Her face registers degrees of strickenness and bewilderment, but she is most persuasive when she falls asleep at the counter of Jeremy's establishment after gorging on pie.

Jones, a very appealing performer in concerts and interviews, is herself half-Asian (her father is the celebrated Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar), and thus fits snugly into the Wong Kar Wai iconography [...] Jones also has a similar background to many performers from Wong's Hong Kong films: Leung, Leslie Cheung, Faye Wong, Andy Lau, Leon Lai and dozens of others were Canto-pop stars before they were accomplished actors. But there's a big difference between movie acting, which is what the Hong Kong stars quickly learned to do, and posing for pictures, which is what Jones does. She has all the right moves, but something is missing inside. (Her unfortunate speaking voice doesn't help.) She's the hole at the center of the movie. Indeed, Blueberry Nights can be seen as a series of acting lessons, by the other members of the cast, which Jones can apply the next time she's in a movie. Their work usually looks natural; hers seems forced and false. They shine, next to her limited screen luster.

The glue here is Jones, who holds a wispy, wistful film together with a deeply felt, unself-conscious performance that strikes the right notes without ever falling into repetition or banality. She brings her singer's talent of knowing when to go for emotions and when to hold back to her acting. It's a remarkably assured work; one hopes she will further explore acting in other movies.

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• "I think he's a great-looking guy but I think his suits don't fit him very well...I wouldn't say he's badly dressed, but he could sharpen up his look a little better." —Tom Ford on Barack Obama. [Vogue UK]
  
• Holy. Fucking. Shit. Comme des Garcons for H&M? Start lining up for this now. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Jude Law is set to be the face of a yet-to-launch men's fragrance from Dior. It will invariably smell douchey. [Cosmetics News]
  
• Your cell phone does not need its own pair of Crocs. [Sassybella]

• The Murakami-Louis Vuitton show at the Brooklyn Museum is kind of a big "fuck you" to counterfeiters. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Liz Claiborne CEO WIlliam McComb took a 2% paycut this year, making only $8.9 million for 2007. Poor guy. [Crain's]
• Word on the street is that Alessandro Dell'Acqua wants to be the new creative head of Malo. [Vogue UK]
• Two resignations from Harper's Bazaar in under a month? And both of them to go to InStyle? Ouch. [Fashion Week Daily]
• This just in! Fashion has just discovered a new-fangled contraption that lets people communicate, transmit information, and buy expensive shit with the greatest of ease. It's called the Internet. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Kate Moss acting? Uh, stick to modeling, tootsie. [Sassybella]
• Dude, how crazy is it that American Apparel will be selling American-made clothes in China? [LATimes]
• The new St. Ives campaign focuses around the slogan "Get a happy face." Because loving your wrinkles should be a positive experience, they say. [Brandweek]
• The Greeks buy more designer clothes than any other country. Who knew? [WWD, sub req'd]
• Another reason to love Patricia Clarkson: "You will never guess where I bought these earrings: Sears! They came free with a washer and dryer." Love. [WWD, sub req'd]

• Now the face of Versace menswear, Patrick Dempsey has started referring to Donatella Versace as his "Italian mother." [Fashion Week Daily]
  
• Model Erin O'Connor musing on the end of another fashion season: "...yes I'm howling, oh how woeful I was when the mini cab rocked up early Sunday morning to collect the regal attire, literally stripped from my back to be sent back to each designer. Kind enough to donate for the week I hear you mutter? Jees, and Cinderella thought she had it bad? Hark, where for art thou my four-door Sports Series Maseratti? Not even a pumpkin post-shows for this lowly creature, just her own two spindly legs to get her from A to B..." [Vogue UK]
  
• The Herve Leger dress that Victoria Beckham wore to the Marc Jacobs show last season is now on sale at Intermix. Er, maybe not? So many people tried to buy it online that the Intermix website crashed. [Fashionista]

• Why was this not a challenge on Project Runway this season? Clothing made from plastic bags is the new recycling. [Guardian UK]
• Alessandra Facchinetti debut collection for the Valentino label: Hitting the runway on Thursday! [FT]
• Fashion folk: Mainly computer illiterate. [IHT]
• Jeffrey Kalinsky of luxe boutique Jeffrey, is giving Nordstrom a "makeover." Jeffrey, if you have never had the distinct pleasure of being abused there, is known for its infamously bitchy salespeople. [WSJ]
• Yves Saint Laurent's Stefano Pilati wants shoppers to feel like they've been taking opium when visiting the new YSL store in Paris. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Oscar de la Renta has just inked two licensing deal for handbags and small leather goods, finding more and more ways to put a little O in your life. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Escada's got a new CEO and he's ready to whore out the company by focusing on money-making world of accessories. Didn't we just read like fifty-thousand stories on the death of the It Bag? [WWD, sub req'd]
• I will mock my boyfriend ruthlessly if he ever wears a robe like this. [Chic Report]
• Recession? What recession? Women's apparel prices areon the rise. [IHT]

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• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden were seen partying Grammy weekend, so some random source says, "It's almost as if they aren't parents." Kind of a cheap shot. But yeah, the nanny is apparently working overtime. Mom and dad need to party! [Page Six]
  
• Guess who was on the set when Lindsay Lohan posed nude for Bert Stern's Marilyn Monroe-inspired New York magazine shoot? Not momager Dina, but 14-year-old little sis, Ali. Picking up tips on how to behave? [Rush & Molloy]
  
• Dad Jamie tells Britney's new bodyguards not to let her go to a bar or bathroom alone. Also, when she left a restaurant Saturday, she took a cup of coffee with her. [Page Six]
  
• Britney's ongoing custody case reconvenes in court today. First order of business: Who will rep Brit? The firm of Trope and Trope bailed. [E!]
  
• If you find Bindi Irwin vaguely terrifying, wait until you see her doll. [TMZ]

• Meanwhile, Robert Irwin, 4-year-old son of Steve, was bitten by a baby boa constrictor. "He said, 'I hope it wasn't venomous,'" his mom claims. (It wasn't.) [AP]
• Blind item! "The sobriety of which troubled starlet probably isn't being helped by the fact that her uncle deals weed out of the spare room in her mom's house?" [Gatecrasher]
• Jessica Simpson appears in a workout video, but she doesn't want you to see it! Even though she signed a multimillion dollar contract, she changed her mind and refused to give final approval. Speedfit is suing Jess and her dadager. Hey, it can't be any worse than Blonde Ambition. [Page Six]
• Do Michael Bolton's kids hate his fiancée Nicolette Sheridan? Do you care? [Rush & Molloy]
• Desperate Housewives' Marcia Cross's pregnancy: Life-threatening! "My eyesight started going, and I gained 12 pounds in one week," she says. "Both are symptoms of preeclampsia, a complication that is life-threatening for mother and baby. Within 12 hours of being diagnosed - at 35 weeks - I had a C-section." She now has twins, Eden and Savannah. [Rush & Molly]
• The new season of Dancing With The Stars will feature tennis star Moncia Seles, actress Shannon Elizabeth, magician Penn Jillette, actress Marlee Matlin and TV "personality" Adam Carolla, among others. Click for the full list! [People]
• Spencer Pratt on Heidi Montang's new album: "Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming - they're gonna sell 10-million plus." LOL. [People]
• Scarlett Johansson: "I learned I was a sexual being through David Bowie's songs." Thanks for sharing! [Mirror]
• Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson spent Valentine's evening together? Drinking at a pub? Harry + Hermione = ♥! [Mirror]
• There's a Bon Jovi documentary in the works, people. Who wants to bet it will be called Livin' On A Prayer? [UPI]
• "I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored. War is not a movie, it is a tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced." — Sharon Stone. [AP]
• The driver of The Spice Girls' tour bus saw a car driving erratically. He called 911; it turned out to be a carjacking. The Spice Girls (and their driver) save the day! [AP]
• Oh! And The Spice Girls want to play Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in June. Not that they've been asked. Yet. [Reuters]
• Brooke Shields' mother tells the National Enquirer that she's disappointed in Brooke and liked ex-husband Andre Agassi better than current hubs Chris Henchy. Sigh. [MSNBC]
• Pictures of Jennifer Lopez' twins will be on People in the US, but OK! internationally. [MSNBC]
• Monopoly, kitchen edition! Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will acquire Emeril Lagasse's media and licensed properties. [Wall Street Journal]
• Mandy Moore's always been afraid of going on vacation alone. But she did it and had a great time, so is now the chair of uPumpItUp.com, a site aimed at helping women balance their "wellness." [Reuters]
• Olivia Newton-John is planning to walk along the Great Wall of China to raise money for a cancer charity. Does part of you wish she would do the walk in tight shiny black pants while singing, "You better shape up/cuz I need a man/And my heart is set on you..." ? [Reuters]

• Jamie Lynn Spears' boyfriend could face statutory rape charges since he is 19 and JL is 16. According to reports, if the baby was conceived in Louisiana, the act could technically be considered "felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile." What a mess. [Daily Mail]
  
• But sources say that Jamie Lynn's parents "adore" her boyfriend and babydaddy Casey Aldridge. What else are they gonna say? [People]
  
• Breaking news: Have Jamie and Casey already broken up? [Perez Hilton]
  
• Jamie Lynn on being a good mom: "I love babies, and I have my nephews that I love. I have a great mom and she has raised three kids, so if I take lessons from her, I think I'll be great." Oh, dear. [Perez Hilton]
  
• Britney went Christmas shopping at Lisa Kline in L.A. Tuesday and a store rep says "She looks the best I've seen her in a really long time. She was really, really nice, saying, 'Thanks, babe,' 'Yeah, babe.' Everything was 'babe.'" Uh, maybe because her sister is with "babe"? [People]

• The inquest into Princess Diana's death continues, and now a handwritten letter has been released: In it, Diana writes, "This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous — my husband is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry (the nanny) Tiggy. Camilla is nothing but a decoy." Holycrap. [Telegraph]
• Katie Holmes says the two children Tom Cruise adopted with ex-wife Nicole Kidman call her "Mom." Sweet! [People]
• But, oh, snap: Kidman says, "My kids don't call me mommy, they don't even call me mom. They call me Nicole, which I hate and tell them off for it." [Perez Hilton]
• Pete Doherty is in negotiations with a British TV network to tell all about his romance with Kate Moss — including sharing home videos the two made together — and Kate is pissed. She doesn't want her private moments with her ex aired on TV and "Some of it is really raunchy stuff Kate believed would never be seen by anyone else," says a source. We've all seen her topless and doing coke, so what's left? [Page Six]
• Is Christina Aguilera having a C-section because she is "too posh to push"? [Daily Mail]
• Want Sharon Stone to host your event? It'll cost you a hefty $175,000 for 30 minutes. And she may or may not wear a catsuit. [Page Six]
• Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens says team jinx Jessica Simpson "is not a fan favorite — in this locker room or in Texas Stadium." [Page Six]
• Later, he clarified: "Man, I was joking. Everyone was laughing, right?" [Breitbart]
• Shocker! One of the beefy, waxed, chiseled new American Gladiators might be gay! And he maybe did porny movies, woohoo. [Gatecrasher]
• Liam Neeson biked to a green event. Kudos! [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which documentary maker had to turn a blind eye to all the call girls that her subject, a famous sports star, was patronizing? 'The hookers got better access than I did,' she joked Tuesday at a dinner for the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, a new initiative of the Tribeca Film Festival." [Gatecrasher]
• Eva Longoria's husband, Tony Parker, is suing photo agency x17 for publishing reports and text messages alleging that he cheated on Eva with French model Alexandra Paressant. The papers state, "Tony Parker has never had sexual relations with a woman named Alexandra Paressant." Well OK then! [TMZ]
• Paris Hilton's Swedish pizza boy, Alex Vaggo, has been dropped by his modeling agency for "lack of communication." How do you say "flaky" in Swedish? [TMZ]
• The People's Choice awards are being revamped: No red carpet, prerecorded acceptance speeches, and a taped, not live, show. The writers' strike is to blame, but the adjustments sound like improvements. [USA Today]
• Ashlee Simpson's new video debuted Wednesday, but everyone was too busy paying attention to Jamie Lynn to notice and Ash is pissed. [MSNBC]
• Heather Mills faces being sued by her own divorce lawyers — she has over £2 million in unpaid bills. Maybe she could do another reality show? [Daily Mail]
• Jude Law and ex-wife Sadie Frost are going to spend Christmas in Cuba learning how to salsa dance. Sexy! Does this mean a reconciliation? [Daily Express]

[London, November 30. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Britney Spears has been served with a copyright infringement injunction by Louis Vuitton. See, she drove a pink Hummer with a faux Murakami-for-Vuitton cherry print dashboard in the video to her 2005 single "Do Somethin'." You can't really see the dashboard very closely in the video, not that you'd notice because you're too busy thinking, "Jesus fuck she looked like that once?" [WWD, 2nd item]
  
• The all-black choir at the Victoria's Secret show last week was lip-synching. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• If Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has never heard of you, your fifty grand will not help you buy your way into fancy events she hosts. God, she's so principled. [NY Post]
  
• Christian Lacroix on exercise: "I don't do it. It would hurt me. I would die from it, I'm afraid." Amen to that. [Telegraph]
  
• Jude Law is signed on to be the "international 'face'" of British menswear label Alfred Dunhill, a gig for which he is rumored to be receiving seven figures. His co-star in the print ads is a dog. [Telegraph]

• Oscar de la Renta has inked a licensing deal to do a fur line. Um, Oscar, you've heard of PETA, right? Have fun with that. [WWD, sub req'd]
• Kate Moss: the latest face of Donna Karan! We wonder if this means that Donna has made Kate go and get some homeopathic treatment for, um, that little "problem" of hers through Karan's Urban Zen initiative. [WWD, 1st item]
• Elle Macpherson; "I don't buy fashion anymore, I buy art." Don't bite the hand that paid for all that "art," sweetie! Or wait, actually, bite the shit out of it, what do we care. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Marc Jacobs on his hypothetical reality show: "What really troubles me about some of these shows is that the entertainment comes from putting other people down." [Vogue UK]
• Model Laura Bailey says she's been dropped from the latest advertising campaign for English department store Marks & Spencer because she is pregnant. They say no, she was just "unavailable" for the shoot. Um, that's a new one! [Vogue UK]
• A new line of panties with built-in corsets are being manufactured only in US sizes 1-4. Because clearly those are the sizes in dire need of corseting. Clearly. [Sassybella]

• Designer Roberto Cavalli has never been known for subtlety. On working with celebrity clientele: "Well Jennifer Lopez, at this moment, she requests something very special because she is waiting for the baby. It is so complicated because every week she is getting bigger." Ha ha, and Lopez still hasn't confirmed her pregnancy. [People.com]
  
• Liz Claiborne's profits fell 63% last quarter as the company enters semi-meltdown mode. You might recall that Tim Gunn was recently tapped as the company's "Chief Creative Officer," which is one of those titles that probably means crap all but is it really realistic to expect us not to drop a "make it work" joke here? [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Okay, so there are these rumors that Gisele is supposed to oust Kate Moss as the face of Versace, and then there are these other rumors that Kate is supposed to become the face of Yves Saint Laurent, where Gisele is currently model-of-choice, and it all kind of makes sense in that way that it did when "Bennifer" broke up to create two much more predictable couplings, and Kate Moss looks kind of awkward and wrong in those Versace ads anyway, but it's still kinda disappointing. [Vogue UK]

• Is Diane von Furstenberg itching to finally tie the knot with long-time beau Barry Diller? If we're reading this blind item right, maybe.. [NYDaily News]
• Aw, we just love when internships at Harper's Bazaar are up for grabs at a charity silent auction! You know, for the children. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Jude Law's ex Sadie Frost's clothing line FrostFrench has taken London by storm and the label's flagship store is a great success and now they're opening more stores! Meanwhile, Jude Law seems to be balding. Just saying. [Vogue UK]

[Toronto, October 19. Image via INF]

[New York, October 2. Image via Splash.]

[LAX, October 3. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• In his latest adventure as Liz Clairborne Chief Creative Officer/media love object, Tim Gunn is going on a 6-city tour sponsored by Glamour to showcase Claiborne's new denim line and help women try on jeans and find the "perfect" ones. (Denim: novel, right?) We've always believed all this talk about "perfect" denim is a lie but we'd give that all up just to have Tim Gunn pat our ass. [WWD, sub req'd]
  
• Marc Jacobs's show for Louis Vuitton — which he also designs; it's so hard to find talent these days! — is Sunday evening and the waiting masses have learned that there is some sort of trashy romance novel theme to the show. We smell literary product placement! [WWD, 3rd item]
  
• David Lynch has tips for wearing those Louboutins he shot so tortuously for an upcoming advertising campaign? Meditation. Because, like, if you just sit Indian style and rub your temples all day you won't notice the pain in your feet. [WWD, 3rd item]
  
• The latest round of Gap's Product (Red) campaign will include images featuring Anne Hathaway. Because nothing screams "impoverished African children" like Anne Hathaway! [MediaPost]

• Deciding it isn't enough to be irrelevant once a month in a disposable medium, Harper's Bazaar has decided to publish a book of style rules. Precisely zero people are waiting in earnest! [WWD, last item]
• Name-checking them in her breakout single "Lip Gloss" paid off! Lil' Mama is doing in-store performances for L'Oreal. [WWD, 2nd item]
• Who are the London fashion thieves? Following break-ins at the Luella, Marc Jacobs, Roger Vivier stores and Christopher Kane's studio, the brand spankin' new FrostFrench flagship store (helmed by Jude Law's ex, Sadie Frost) was also burglarized last night. Hey wait a second, isn't Jude Law in that new jewel thief movie Sleuth? Hmmm.... [Vogue UK]
• We still get kinda sad when legends sell out: Lacroix for Evian. Sigh. [Fashion Week Daily]
• Karl Lagerfeld quote of the day: "All my contracts are for life, so I am like a death row inmate." [Fashion Week Daily]
• Gisele: Likes animals! [Sassybella]

• Jude Law was arrested for allegedly assaulting a photographer outside his home in West London. [The Sun]
  
• Is Chelsy Davy moving to London to be near boyfriend Prince Harry? Also, y so many ys? [The Sun]
  
• Britney's bodyguard has been formally charged with battery after last month's scuffle with paparazzi in Las Vegas. [Extra]
  
• Halle Berry, 41, confirms she is 3 months pregnant by her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, 32. Anyone want to volunteer to babysit? [People]
  
• Did Tommy Lee have sex on a banquette in the Hamptons? Maybe it would be news if he didn't.[Page Six]
  
• "We would drive around and listen to [David Bowie's album] Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars while enjoying a little marijuana." So says the guy who dated Madonna when she was 14 — just one of many stories uncovered by a biographer. [The Independent]
  
• Was Nicole Kidman secretly engaged to Lenny Kravitz at one point? [Page Six]

• Jamie Foxx, elevator diva! [Page Six]
• Zach Braff is now subjecting actress Shiri Appleby to his "charms." Bonus: she's Jewish! [Page Six]
• Newsflash! Criss Angel, of Mindfreak fame, is just a "press whore" who is "using" Britney for publicity — he's not even helping her with her MTV VMA performance. [Page Six]
• Ellen Barkin teases paparazzi. [Page Six]
• Owen Wilson's family doesn't want Kate Hudson anywhere near him. Ouch. [Gatecrasher]
• Katie Couric called a New York restaurant to have food delivered to her daughters — she made the call from Iraq. [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Paul McCartney and Renee Zellweger: "very cozy" ???? [Rush & Molloy, 3rd item]
• Drew Barrymore and "Hi, I'm a Mac" actor Justin Long: lip-locking? What about Spike Jonze? [Rush & Molloy, 4th item]
• Shaquille O'Neal has filed for divorce. He makes $20 million annually in his contract with the Heat and more in endorsements. He and his wife, Shaunie, are the parents of six children. [USA Today]
• Kate Moss has a new boyfriend, Jamie Hince from "uber-trendy" band The Kills. [Mirror]
• Amy Winehouse performed at the Mercury Music awards! She sang "Love Is A Losing Game." [Telegraph]
• Amy also told a newspaper why rehab doesn't work for her: "I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you." Yikes, okay. She also said, "Normal people spend time thinking, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I spend my time drinking." [Mirror]