• More from Jennifer Aniston, whose Vogue interview has been leaking all over the internet: "There is more to me than just a tabloid girl. This whole 'Poor lonely Jen' thing, this idea that I'm so unlucky in love? I actually feel I've been unbelievably lucky in love. I don't feel like I'm supposed to be any further along or somewhere that I'm not. I'm right where I'm supposed to be." Oh! And she also says: "I never liked Sex and the City, the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find the Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love." [Perez Hilton]
• Oh, Jen also says when it comes to John Mayer, "People need to mind their own business." But! She gushes: "I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that's where it is." [People]
• You know how Jennifer Aniston has a cleavage-baring red dress on for her Vogue cover? So did Angelina Jolie, for her January Vogue cover. Also? They both posed on sand! (Click to see both covers.) [The.Life Files]
• Paul Sculfor, who previously dated Aniston and is now Cameron Diaz's boyfriend, is taking Cammie home to the UK to meet his family. Christmas in England! [Daily Express]

• George Clooney on Prop 8: "At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black." [E!]
• Daniel Craig doesn't hold the umbrella over his girlfriend when it rains. [The Sun]
• "Quantum of Solace is not a great movie. It's full of explosions and set pieces, and reminds everyone who sees it of the "Bourne" movies. But as a James Bond movie? It ranks far below the usual standards." —Roger Friedman. [Fox 411]
• BREAKING: A dead body was found outside of Paula Abdul's house. [TMZ]
• By the by, Mark Ronson is still sad that Amy Winehouse couldn't get her shit together enough to finish their Bond theme. [Daily Express]
• Baz Luhrmann admits that Australia isn't finished yet! "I'm going back to the mixing desk to finish it in 24 hours," he said Tuesday, just before he left for the airport. Hurry! [Reuters]
• Brad Pitt's bodyguard had to protect him from a gaggle of paparazzi at the premiere of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, and Brad says: "Though they [the paparazzi] were exceptionally more aggressive than usual, breaking through a security barrier and into a private holding area, ultimately just another day in the life." [Yahoo News]
• Three years after the incident, Suge Knight is suing Kanye West over a shooting and the loss of a diamond earring. [TMZ]
• Donald Trump has been housing Jennifer Hudson and some of her relatives at the Trump International Hotel & Tower free of charge. "She's a great girl. And we're protecting them well," Trump says. "They are very safe." Wow, dude did a good deed. [People]
• Ouch: Jesse Metcalfe fell 40 feet, down two flights of stairs, and was knocked unconscious. He broke his leg, but an MRI shows no brain damage. This happened right after the World Music Awards, so one can't help but wonder if he was drinking… [The Sun]
• The story about Lauren Conrad throwing a fit at the airport? LC says it's false. "While it is a very entertaining story, I just don't think that highly of myself." Neither do we, dear. Neither do we. [People]
• Dear all you people who watch How I Met Your Mother: What is up with your show? First Heidi and Spencer, now Kim Kardashian. No, really. [E!]
• Kim Kardashian and boyfriend Reggie Bush love playing video games together. Zzz. [AP]
• Kevin Federline's lawyer says there won't be a hearing in family court to investigate his son's health. See, little Jayden got sick in Louisiana due to a "terrible allergic reaction" the first time Britney was allowed to take her kids out of the state since losing custody earlier this year. [People, E!]
• Mischa Barton was hounded by paparazzi outside of a club in L.A. and was very annoyed; the story takes the stance of "shouldn't she be glad people are still taking her picture?" but when you watch the video of aggro guys swarming around her, you get it: It's annoying. [E!]
• Warning: There will be full-frontal nudity in Sacha Baron Cohen's flick, Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male. Cohen auditioned gay "adult" stars recently. [Rush & Molloy]
• UK TV presented Cilla Black says she once talked to Jennifer Lopez's then-husband, Chris Judd, and Lopez "started fuming." "She was screaming to her entourage: 'What's that woman doing with my man? Get rid of her.' It was so funny.'" [Daily Mail]
• Christina Aguilera says her son Max inspired her music: "I talk about being a super girl in the song 'Keeps Getting Better' and really that's due in great deal to the fact that I've had a complete new appreciation for women in general, for what we're capable of doing, of what our bodies are capable of undergoing, and creating." [People]
• Josh Brolin swears he heard George Bush saw W and "liked it very much." Karl Rove, on the other hand… [CNN]
• Blast from the past: Small Wonder, the robot girl sitcom. [BoingBoing]
• David Beckham has the best-selling calendar in the UK, yawn. [Mirror]
• LOL at this picture of a lady in curlers gazing upon Barack Obama. [Concrete Loop]
• Elton John and Billy Joel: On the road! Dueling pianos? Elton says: "It's two for the price of one. Our ticket prices are the same as anyone else's, but there's two of us. In this day and age, we hope to be getting people value for their money." [Mirror]
• The finale episode of TRL happens this Sunday. A huge finale show is planned; Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Kid Rock, 50 Cent, Fall Out Boy, Christina Aguilera, Travis Barker and Beyoncé will appear. [MTV]
• Joe Jonas and Camilla Belle: It's on. He's 19, she's 22. [TMZ]
• Headline of the day: "Jason Priestley on Brenda Walsh's Rumored Illness: 'That's Awesome!'" [E!]
• Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis is developing a series for HBO based on his unconventional, rock 'n' roll childhood. His dad, Spider, sold drugs and hung with rock stars on the Sunset Strip. Get a hot hottie to play Spider and this sounds like a show worth watching. [Variety]
• Spotted: Billy Corgan leaving the White House, on the same day as the big Obama visit. Secret mission? [Washington Post]
• Will Russell Crowe replace Heath Ledger in a flick called Dirt Music? Isn't that taking the casting in a really different direction? [Daily Express]
• Word association with Tracy Morgan: Waffles, vampires, Michelle Obama. Etc. [Comedy Central]
• Natascha McElhone was spotted with her newborn baby, just five months after the tragic death of her husband. Sadness. [Daily Express]
• Have you seen this Elizabeth Peyton portrait of Michelle Obama yet? [LA Times]
• News you can't use: Katie "Price" Jordan and husband Peter Andre are going on vacation, where, Jordan says, "All we are going to do is have spa treatments, relax, have sex, eat and sleep." [The Sun]
• Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown renewed her wedding vows in a four-day extravaganza in a plush Egyptian resort. There was a swimming pool with disco lights, glitter confetti and belly dancers. A low-key affair. [The Sun]
• Martina Navratilova will be on UK show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here. She'll totally win any tennis challenges! [Mirror]
• A Rolling Stone poll has deemed Aretha Franklin "the greatest singer in the rock era." All hail the queen! [Reuters]
• Brooke Shields is trying her very very best to be optimistic about the future of Lipstick Jungle, despite the fact that the show recently moved to kiss-of-death night, Friday: "You know, people get very nervous when they see a show that switched nights. For us, it's a positive thing. Especially with the economy — more people are inclined to stay home on a Friday night or watch television live. Or moms are more likely to stay up and watch a 10 o'clock show if they don't really have to get up with the kids. Well, kids don't sleep on the weekends, either. But at least they don't have to rush to get them to school. So I think that that's … there is that audience." Sure, sure. [NY Mag]
• Adam Sandler's wife welcomed their second child into the world, a girl named Sunny Madeline. [ET]
• Did you know that Lindsay Wagner, aka the Bionic Woman, is working on some kind of acupressure project that helps people deal with negative experiences with inner healing? [The Star]
• Paul McCartney: Revealing details about the real-life Eleanor Rigby? [Daily Mail]
• A dude who illegally posted Guns N' Roses songs online is pleading guilty of copyright infringement, uh-oh. He could get three years in prison. Welcome to the jungle! [Reuters]
• Roger Moore on the new Bond: "I'm sad that it has turned so violent." [Reuters]
• "In the middle of an orgasm, do I think 'do I have too much flab around my middle?' I mean when you are really in an ecstatic place and you look at your child’s face and you are completely happy and you have your family around you – you certainly don’t think about that!" — Susan Sarandon. [The Sun]
• "Everyone tells me that there will never be a good time, that I will always be busy, but I just think when the stars are aligned it will happen." — Janet Jackson, on having a baby. [Daily Express]
• "I write a lot of my songs for women. A lot of the songs are about things that we need to hear. Things I wouldn't really say, or I wish I could say. I'm kind of a voice for a lot of young women. I feel that women understand men a little better. I really don't feel that men understand women as much. And it's something that we go through all the time. But I also feel like we learn a lot from each other, and when we're connected it's amazing." — Beyoncé. [Telegraph]
• "Apparently she wants to be directing and that's what she'll be doing. Two directors in the family is never going to work." — Christopher Ciccone, on sister Madonna's future. [The Star]
• "I grew out of my leading boy days. It's good. It's the natural progression of things… What you can achieve on television now, and I sound like an ancient man when I say these things, but what you can do on TV now is worlds away from what we could even think of doing 10 years ago." — Josh Jackson, talking about his role on Fringe versus his time on Dawson's Creek [The Star]
• "I think she should keep her head down, work really hard and learn about governing. But I'm not anyone to give advice to anyone about anything." — Katie Couric on Sarah Palin. [Page Six]
• "Coco will probably follow in our footsteps, unfortunately. She has a really strong personality. She’s a funny, quirky kid. But she doesn’t like people laughing at her so it should be drama!" — David Arquette, on his four-year-old daughter (with Courteney Cox) getting into show biz. [Daily Express]
• "I've got to tell you, it's so vague at this point, it's so faraway in my mind, I can't even remember the darkness. I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split. … And pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we've been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other." — Jennifer Aniston, on Brad Pitt, in Vogue. [Perez Hilton]
• "Three and a half years ago a man came along and said, 'I'm going to take you to Tennessee. And he took me down there and he said, 'I think you deserved to be loved. Let me love you, let me give you a home, and let's make a baby.' So thank you, Keith Lionel. I don't believe that you can [have it all]. But I believe you can have balance. Three and a half years ago I had a wonderful career, I had two kids, I had movie offers, great directors offering me things, but I wasn't loved." — Nicole Kidman. [People]
• "I am not darker, angrier or moodier these days. In fact, it's just the opposite. All that's happened is that I've given up on trying to find a way to use unwanted media as a form of entertainment. (It still was worth a try.) A walk to the car isn't the best time to try and analyze my mood or disposition, so you'll probably always get a bad read from it. Things have changed a bit, and the decision to slide on and off your radar isn't so much my own anymore. But I'm too young to stomp my feet about it. All I can do is concentrate on keeping my heart and soul correct and then redecorate around it." — John Mayer. [People]

[New York, August 12. Image via Splash.]

[New York, August 6. Image via Flynet]

• Did Sarah Jessica Parker remove her "famous" mole? You know, the one on her chin? (And while we're at it, did she have, as some claim, a series of subtle nose jobs? [This Is London, Awful Plastic Surgery]
• Speaking of procedures, what did Katherine Heigl do to her lips? [Awful Plastic Surgery]
• Natalie Cole has been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. Her doctor says, "Natalie has had a terrific response to her medication and is now virus negative." She is experiencing side-effects of the drugs, like fatigue, muscle aches and dehydration, but she is doing well. The disease is most likely from her past drug use. [People]
• Lindsay Lohan has been satisfying her DUI requirements, including a trip to the morgue. She'll have to do an alcohol education class next. Think she'll ace it? [TMZ]
• Amy Poehler on The Office spinoff? Really? Really? Just as long as she still does Weekend Update. [Reuters]

• Hayden Panettiere has a new song, "Wake Up Call," which you can listen to here and then let me know if I'm right in thinking the reggae-tinged single is a (not so bad) Gwen Stefani rip off. [PopSugar]
• Knox Jolie-Pitt was almost named Rex. [Rush & Molloy]
• Are Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee back to their old ways? Tommy apparently has a "steamy set of photos" of Pam on his phone, and he'll show them to you, if you ask. [Daily Express]
• Is Colin Farrell's girlfriend pregnant? [Star]
• The new 90210 premieres September 2. Producer Gabe Sachs says: "It's not the same show, but we get to have the element of such a cool, big hit. It's an honor to do it or to be able to do it. We'd love to have anyone from the old cast that would like to be on it." [LA Times]
• Gossip Girl gossip! There's a new guy named Marcus, and he's Blair's love interest and Chuck's rival. Although it would be more awesome if he were Chuck's love interest and Blair's rival. [People]
• Bindi Irwin turns 10 next week. "It's so exciting I can't wait. Double digits means double the fun which is so exciting." Gah. Shut up. [News.com.au]
  Dolly Parton fans: 9 To 5 the musical opens on Broadway in 2009!!! [Reuters]
• Alex Rodriguez threw a party and none of his teammates showed up. [Page Six]
• Whoa. Derek Jeter is dating Minka Kelly? Who used to hook up with John Mayer? Does Minka know about the herpes tree? [Page Six]
• Kim Kardashian's boyfriend, Reggie Bush, wants her to "work out hard." Oy. [Page Six]
• Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins are into preservation of their New York City neighborhood, but is it at the expense of a hospital that could save lives? [Page Six]
• Nicole Kidman claims she doesn't want to sell pictures of her daughter, but an editor at a celeb weekly says: "She wanted $3 million and we weren't going to pay that." [Page Six]
• Haha, this paper counts all the ways that Paris Hilton is a liar. Although lying to Page Six is sort of par for the course for any celeb, no? [Page Six]
• Has Paris given up booze and drugs because she wants to have a baby? [The Sun]
• Chris Martin was stopped on his way to a party at the Beverly Hills hotel on Saturday and asked if he was on the list. "A goon at the elevator wouldn't let him up," a source reports. "Everyone's like, 'This is the lead singer of Coldplay.' The goon wasn't rude, but he just asked him if he was on the list." This is how the rifraff lives, Chris. [E!]
• "I still very much love her. I do. I can't lie to you." — Al Reynolds on Star Jones. [Yahoo News]
• Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton on Family Ties, is facing jail time after violating his probation. He pleaded guilty last year to 3rd degree assault in a domestic violence situation. And his mug shot makes him look like Eddie Munster. [TMZ]
• Michael Bay told Megan Fox to gain 10 lbs. for Transformers. "Michael doesn’t like skinny girls," Megan says. Does this mean she is not skinny? Because WTF. [The Superficial]
• Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page: Arrested for cocaine possession. [TMZ]
• Eva Longoria's short hair cut and "fuller figure" are script-related changes for Desperate Housewives. (One fan commented on this story: "Thank God that she didn’t cut the hair because she actually likes it that way!!! Her hair was soooo beautiful and now she looks so different.") [People]
• Menudo band member Carlos Olivero, 18, was kicked off of a Delta flight for "having an attitude." Kid, you're not the hot shit you think you are. Put your iPod away. [People]
• Michael J. Fox will guest star on FX's Rescue Me. [USA Today]
• The screenwriter for the Passion Of The Christ is suing Mel Gibson, claiming he was underpaid. Apparently Gibson didn't want to make money off of the movie because he considered the film "a personal gift to his faith." Jesus. [Yahoo News]
• "No Robin. Not ever." —Christian Bale on the future of Batman. [Rush & Molloy]
• "We are so proud of our boy." —Heath Ledger's father, after seeing The Dark Knight. [People]
• "I feel like I have no privacy. Just because people are seeing something that was meant to be between me and her. That's the biggest reason that I'm, you know, trying to stop the tape from being released. I broke up with her in the middle of June; it was something probably to do with that. It was basically when she decided to give the tape away." — Verne Troyer on his sex tape. [E!]

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• Ellen Page,Jane Eyre: Page is set to play Jane Eyre in a new adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman about an orphaned girl who works as a governess for a handsome married man with an insane wife he keeps locked away. Verdict: Just because a film is based on a classic piece of literature doesn't mean that it won't be chock full of female stereotypes (in fact, literature is usually chock full of those!) and Jane Eyre is just about the biggest lovable female victim in English literature.

• Eva Mendes, Queen of the South: Mendes will star as a Mexican woman who escapes to Europe after her boyfriend is murdered and then becomes the reigning drug-smuggler in Spain. She does this all while being hellbent on avenging her murdered boyfriend. Verdict: While the avenging-murdered-lover thing sounds kind of victimy, the drug-smuggling thing sounds kind of awesome. Of course, a woman can't rise to the top unless she has some secret traumatic past haunting her waking and sleeping moments!

• Kirstie Alley, Nailed: Alley will play a veterinarian who cannot remove a nail from her niece's head after an accident. Her niece, played by Jessica Biel, then travels to Washington D.C. to fight for better healthcare and falls in love with a congressman. So quirky! Verdict: Alley's role seems a bit too small to get enough attention to swing it towards any stereotypes.

• Susan Sarandon, Peacock: Peacock is a psychological thriller about a town in the aftermath of a train crash. Sarandon will play the mayor's wife who also runs a woman's shelter. Ellen Page and Cillian Murphy are also set to star. Verdict: There are little details about Sarandon's character, but we imagine it would be pretty difficult to portray a woman who runs a woman's shelter negatively.

"Ellen Page Takes On Jane Eyre" [Variety]
"Queen Appoints Hartnett, Kingsley" [Variety]
"James Brolin Gets Nailed" [THR]
"Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas Join Peacock" [THR]

The Good:
Eva Amurri shows why the little black dress is what it is. Wow.


Emile Hirsch is definitely underdressed compared to his co-stars. But I'm a sucker for a stripey anything.


Llittle Paulie Litt is sorta my hero.


Susan Sarandon's leather coat is really ugly. But son Miles Robbins is so damn cute and clearly loves his mom so damn much that I forgive and forget all.


Could Stephen Colbert and his family be any cuter?! See, they all look smart in jeans. Emile Hirsch, take note.


Same goes for Vincent D'Onofrio and his wife and kid.


I think this is my favorite of Christina Ricci's premiere dresses to date. Smart and fun.


The Bad:
Grace Hightower, per usual, is always a class act. But Robert DeNiro looks like a total schlump. Would it kill him to wear pants that fit?


The Ugly:
I'm sorry: Why was Fred Durst there?

[Images via Bauer-Griffin and Getty.]

[Image via Oh! My God! I Miss You]

The Good:

Eva Amurri knows how to showcase what her mama gave her.
Speaking of which, these are the moments when I can't believe that Amurri's mama Susan Sarandon played Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Also, how cute is her son Miles?
Yay for Gabrielle Brennan, the appropriately-dressed child of the day.
Damn you, Helena Christensen.
Irina Pantaeva should be rewarded for curbing her nascent Bai Ling-esque fashion instincts.
This is the best I have ever seen Nicole Miller look. Sigh.
I wish I could quit you, Olivia Palmero.

The Bad:
What's with the shiny, tiny pantsuit Hana Soukupova?
Oh, Maggie Rizer: Just 'cause your stepdaddy stole all your money doesn't mean you can't make some effort in dressing yourself.

The Ugly:
I love Dita von Teese. I am horrified to witness Evan Rachel Wood morphing into her.

All images via Getty.

The Good: Will Arnett and Amy Poehler: Please adopt me. Go ahead and call me crazy, but I think this is a great look for Rosie O. Aw, Susan Sarandon. Jonah Hill never fails to make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Susie Essman's dress proves that funny always triumphs over fashion.

The Bad: Eh, take that back. See: Kelsey Grammar and his scary-looking wife Camille. Dear Sarah Silverman: 1) I'm over you. 2) Get a new outfit.

The Ugly: Can someone tell me when Matthew Broderick morphed into a puffy alien? Um, yeah same for Robert Kennedy, Jr. And Maroon 5, whose egos are bloated.

[Images via Bauer-Griffin.]

The Good: I'm not gonna lie: Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) is on my 'Good' list simply because I'm obsessed with her music. Wearing horizontal nautical stripes, Marchesa designer Georgina Chapman hopes to distract from the girth of her husband Harvey Weinstein. She fails. Norah Jones looks like she's on her way to a middle-school dance.

The Bad: Susan Sarandon looks like she's chaperoning that dance. Will someone please tell Zoe Kravitz that she's not in middle school? The holes in her tights do not make her look cool or edgy. It's a sad day indeed when Agyness is the best-dressed person on the 'Bad' list. Enough already, Erin Fetherston. Kelly Bensimon looks like a bad throwback to the early '90s. Those boots! That dress! That belt! Clearly this is the reason she is no longer married to ELLE's Gilles Bensimon or editing ELLE Accessories. Dear Ziyi Zhang: "No" to the sequined beret.

The Ugly: Thanks a lot, Irina Pantaeva, for triggering my vertigo this early in the day.

[Images via Getty.]

And "different" lifestyle choices are the norm these days in England and Wales. Conceptions outside marriage increased from 47% to 56%, meaning that now the majority of English babies are bastards. Heh.

Not surprisingly, fathers over 40 are also on the statistical rise. Ten percent of all babies born in 2004 were born to daddies over the big 4-0. In fact, having babies over 40 is such a phenomenon in the UK that there's an entire website devoted to it called mothersover40.com, and it provides fertility info, community and other resources for mamas close to menopause. Says Bentley: "As long as women are aware that their fertility naturally declines over the age of 35, and that it will probably take a bit longer to get pregnant, late motherhood is a valid choice." In fact, three months ago, Helena Bonham Carter, 41, had her second child; and Halle Berry, 41, is expecting her first any day now. Oh, and also? Susan Sarandon had son Miles when she was 46. If it's good enough for a politically aware, intelligent, talented lady like Susan, it's good enough for us.

Pregnancy Among Over-40s Reaches 'Record High' [Guardian]

Earlier: Having A Baby: Doctors Say Now Or Never; I Say No Fair

[New York, January 30. Image via INFDaily.com.]

Hey Susan! Your aunt Hester called from Florida and she wants her second best formal muumuu back! And she says next time, ask before you borrow, bitch!