AIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: Nothing lasts forever, at least that’s what the philosophers tell us. And now no less a philosopher than Willie Nelson has provided us with an object lesson. Known for decades for his trademark below the waist braided hair, Texas’ own balladeer has shorn his locks and now is only sporting a collar length do. He missed several chances to merchandise the event, auctioning off the opportunity to do the actual cutting, or selling the poor rejected tresses, but Willie is a more private and unassuming guy than that. He strode out on stage to play with his son Micah’s band The Reflectacles in Hawaii and shocked the audience (whose shock was so total they probably couldn’t even tell you the name of the tune he played.)
IT ONLY COMES OFF FOR SAMANTHA: You always hear this star or starlet saying, “I’d only do a nude scene if...blah, blah.” Kim Catrall has taken that one step further. Anyone who’s seen her in Sex and the City has been treated to an ample amount of her epidermis. But La Catrall has her standards and says she’ll only ‘drop the towel” while she’s in character as Samantha Jones so it wouldn’t be Kim peeling off but her alter ego, Samantha.
KEEPING IT EVEN: Mommy Rebecca Romijn has revealed that there is one secret she intends to keep forever from her twin daughters. The seventeen-month-old girls Dolly and Charlie will never know which of them was born first. The beauty says, “I decided before they were born that they wouldn’t know which came first so that potential for rivalry and contention just won’t be there for them. Even their birth certificates give the exact same time.” Now that Ugly Betty has closed down, Romijn and husband Jerry O’Connell are looking forward to being full-time parents and enjoying watching their girls grow and develop.
THANKS, BRO: Chris O’Donnell’s brother John has something most other clothing designers can only dream about—a readymade famous model to be seen everywhere in his designs. John O’Donnell is the owner and chief designer for the Johnnie-O men’s clothing line. Older brother Chris laughs, “I do the beta testing and wear all the clothes before they come out. If you see me, you’re seeing my brother’s stuff.”
MOVIN’ FAST: If Amanda Seyfried wants to keep her Mama Mia costar boyfriend Dominic Cooper she’d better get a move on, and quickly. The pair are taking a “break” from their relationship while they try to work out some couple problems. But, while the cat is away...Dominic was at Cannes last week and at the Grace Jones concert he found himself paired up with notorious serial girlfriend to the stars Lindsay Lohan. The couple were bumping and grinding to beat the band so Amanda needs to make up her mind or she may find that the train has left the station.
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?: Pert, gorgeous, diminutive Dolly Parton once came in second in a beauty contest she’d entered in Santa Monica! Worse still, it was a Dolly Parton Double contest! To add insult to injury, she was the only girl in the contest. Dolly explains, “They didn’t take me seriously at all. There were all these six foot drag queens marching across the stage with their high heels. I was kinda lost in the shuffle.”
GROWING PAINS: Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson find themselves severely conflicted these days. They are two weeks away from wrapping up the final Harry Potter film in the franchise. They have been playing Harry Potter and Hermione Granger for the past nine years and have gone from preteen to early adulthood on the set together. Watson says, “It feels like someone is dying.” And, Radcliffe admits, “I will be devastated when it’s over. Everything from the films is so linked to my life. Every scene triggers a whole series of memories.” But both actors are ready to accept new challenges – Watson is a student at Brown University in Rhode Island and Radcliffe is set to return to the Great White Way in the revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
CUPID ON STAFF?: Evangeline Lilly is really going to be bereft now that Lost has closed down for good. The hour-long skein not only provided her a great living, it set her up for some great loving, too. She was known to have romanced at least two of her co-stars, one of whom was Dominic Monaghan, with whom she’d had a torrid three-year long relationship, that left them still able to be deep friends. Now, she’ll jet back to the mainland bringing her newest enamorato, stage hand Norman Kali back with her. The twenty-eight year old super buffed and handsome Kali sure beets the usual kind of souvenirs folks bring back from Hawaii!
SOCCER GREAT AND MUCH MORE: L.A.’s own David Beckham has put his life on the line to entertain the U.K.’s NATO troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Leaving Victoria and their three boys behind. The Golden Boy flew out of Oxford and arrived in the war zone under cover of night. The soccer great reported that after meeting the foot soldiers, “I feel very humbled. I’ve nothing but admiration for these young men and women.’ The Galaxy’s star has joined an illustrious fraternity composed of the entertainment world’s best and brightest stretching back to Bob Hope and before him to Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heinke.
BUT, IT’S EASIER WHEN YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL : Juliette Binoche says she has figured out how an actress can keep a career building as she inescapably ages. The forty-six year old Oscar winner says, “You have to create your own life. You have to go with unexpected risk and stories helmed by directors you love—either that or write your own stories. The only thing you cannot do is blame anybody but yourself.”
LOVE’S LABOR LOST?: Sienna Miller and Jude Law have been trying to stitch together the torrid relationship they once had. All had been looking really good and the betting money was on an engagement announcement in the very near future. Then the couple went out for an evening of snooker and fun at the oh-so-private London club, Shoreditch House. There was a spark and the next thing anybody knew Miller had a roaring “in your face” with Law before stomping out in high dudgeon. Just when the witnesses were assuring each other that they’d seen the last of them as a pair, Miller sashayed back in and all the billing and cooing resumed. Keeping up with this couple can prove truly exhausting.
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY: Just when you thought that Jesse James’ life couldn’t get any worse, it has. James’ ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder, has been released from her six-month jail term for tax evasion and now wants to take over custody of the daughter they share. Not only does she want custody, she wants James to pay $5,000 for the lawyers she’s going to use to try and take their daughter away.
FROM THE OTHER SIDE: A jeans company thought it had a really great idea—manufacture a leather jacket just like the one Marlon Brando made famous in his films. Better still why not name it after the actor himself as The Brando? Then publish an e-newsletter called The Wild One after one of his most iconic films. All of that seemed a great idea to the folks at Joe’s Jeans right up until they were served with a lawsuit from the estate of the great actor. Now, they stand to lose everything in attorneys’ fees, court costs and judgments.
SAD SACK: Wouldn’t you think that Paul McCartney’s legacy in the music world was so huge that he could afford to overlook small things? The word on the street is that the former Beatle is upset that the actor cast to portray him in the new film Nowhere Boy, the story about the life and early years of his creative partnership with John Lennon is shorter than the actor who plays Lennon. In fact, he’s supposedly so upset that he’s refused to even look at the film. Who knows, he might even find something else, maybe the script, the direction, the choreography to get even angrier about.
ASHTON DOES IT ALL AT HOME: If you’ve seen Ashton Kutcher’s new smash Killers, you’ve seen his terrif new bod. He makes a point of flaunting it and his female audience is certainly happy that he does. In case you’re wondering how he got that god-like physique, he’s more than willing to fess up. Demi Moore’s hubby says he saw a workout tape offered on TV, sent for it and worked out to it at home all by himself. That gave him the look, but he soon discovered that he should have worked with a coach on his stage fighting skills as in his first fighting scene, with the second punch thrown he knocked out a stunt man—cold. “I felt really bad about that. To be honest, I should have just let the stunt guy be in charge while I made the jokes.”