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LUCKY GIRL: Gorgeous Rachel Weisz, the girl who drove The Mummy crazy, admits that there is someone who gets her motor all revved up. Weisz is about to begin work with co-stars Robert Pattinson and Hugh Jackman on Unbound Captives and she has let it slip that she could very easily get ‘into’ the Twilight star. She gushes, “He’s got the whole rebel vibe – he’s not star struck. Meeting him was vampirific. He sucked my blood!”

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COLD FEET: A year ago Kelly Osbourne accepted male model Luke Worrall’s marriage proposal. So if they’re not married by now, why don’t they at least have a date picked out? Kelly says, “Luke’s unpredictable and sweet, not many men his age are willing to admit how much they care.” More >

that they’ve become such close friends that she now feels like they are siblings, and can kill a romantic moment faster than anything. Tony Parker’s gorgeous wife allows, “Ricardo and I hate kissing because he’s like my brother, besides I’m not a fan of love scenes, everybody knows that!”

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HOOKING UP: Kim Kardashian’s sister Khloe is temporarily taking the lime light away from her sister. The reality TV star met Los Angeles Laker’s Lamar Odom at a club in August and wham!, the two of them became an item. Hooking up with a jock in that family seems to be the thing to do. So Khloe knew the drill well. Her stepdad, Bruce Jenner was an Olympic champion and her sister Kim’s boyfriend Reggie Bush plays for the Saints. The family all seen together in one of the new trendy spots on Sunset Blvd.

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BEING A PEST: Miley Cyrus was on a flight with Josh Duhamel and thought it would be a great opportunity to pester the hunk with a series of naughty text messages. On a recent L.A. to London flight, the Disney star sent some “Hi Stud” text messages to the husband of Black Eyed Peas star Fergie. Cyrus giggles, “He didn’t know which seat the messages were coming from.”

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BABY BOOM: They met in the briefest of encounters. He wasn’t looking for true love, just a few moments of passion. After they’d moved along from that night, he changed his cell number without informing her. After all, he was an international star and she was only a wanna-be. But he left something behind him and when she realized she was no longer alone, she couldn’t reach him through any of the usual quieter channels. So what was a poor girl to do? Being a resourceful lady, she took to the press. More >

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Prepare to be electrified. Frozen is a brilliantly conceived, gut-wrenching horror film about three vital, healthy, appealing and attractive skiers whose perfect snow day turns into a nightmare when they get stranded on the chair lift after dark. More >

I just caught up with the film “Public Enemy” in which Johnny Depp did a great job portraying 1930s gangster John Dillinger.
I should know. In 1935, when I was a sophomore at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, I boarded a trolley car at the school and rode to the end of the line. It was diagonally across the street from the First National Bank. Just as I arrived, the bank was surrounded by police cars. More >

MICKEY GUSHES: For Mickey Rourke success and happiness have come really only recently. The fifty-seven year-old former Oscar nominee admits that he feels he’s been touched by an angel. He recently accompanied girlfriend Anastassija Makarenko to Germany to meet her parents and says, “Anastassija is a gift from heaven. She’s very beautiful and has the biggest heart and a great frmily. Her parents are great people.” It’s not surprising that the couple plan to wed this coming April.

STAY AT HOME DAD: Do you know why we hear so little about Johnny Depp? It’s because he’s so happy at home with partner Vanessa Paradis and their two children. Lily-Rose and Jack keep their dad busy, grounded and happy. A laughing Depp declares, “My kids are a lot smarter than me. I learn a lot watching them. In fact, there’s not a lot they could learn from their old man.”

STARRY EYED STAR: Country music’s sweet Taylor Swift has bought her own home in Nashville and is turning it into a twenty year old’s dream house. The songbird gushes, “It’s going to be my fantasy world. I’ve got a pond in the living room which surrounds an open fireplace. There are going to be koi in the pond and a huge “bird cage” fit for a person hovering above everything. The ceiling is painted to look like the sky at night, all kinds of stars.” While the beauty won’t talk about her short lived romance with Taylor Lautner she sure doesn’t seem to be languishing.

NOT SO THONG AGO: Channing Tatum has a major hit with his new movie, Dear John, just realeased. But he’s had his past life rise up to bite him. When his wife Jenna Dewan discovered that he used to be an exotic dancer, well, Tatum admits, “I danced for almost a year when I was eighteen. It seemed like a fun thing to do and I got out of it unscathed. When Jenna found out about it, she made me give her a private performance.” The hunk didn’t mind and is now even thinking about doing a movie about that part of his life, “Yeah, I’d get back into my thong again!”

CUPID WAS BUSY: There was more happening last week than only the handing out of some small golden trophies. Gerard Butler caught the eye and riveted attention of Kate Hudson. Hudson had only recently walked away from a baseball player boyfriend and was so radiant that Butler told her, “You’re the most beautiful woman in the room. I adore your work.” Bookies are betting that neither will be classified as single again for quite a while now that they’ve found each other.


THE RIGHT RECIPE: Mariah Carey got herself everything a girl could dream about in a husband. The multi-platinum star could buy herself anything she wanted, but never had a man to take care of her. Nick Cannon keeps proving over and over again how lucky she is. The good-looking TV personality has always got Mariah’s back. He not only indulges her, and plays with her, but also takes care of her. It’s no secret Mariah has a shoe fetish and wears all the scary high ones. She also enjoys a glass of champagne.


HAPPY MOMS: Mothers of daughters all over the U.K. and the U.S. can now breathe a sigh of relief. Semi-professional bad boy and ladies man Russell Brand is now officially engaged! Brand proposed on New Year’s Eve to singer Katy Perry during a trip to India. It’s for sure this is the real deal as the couple held an engagement celebration party the other night at a trendy (Il Cielo) restaurant right here in Beverly Hills.

ROUGH HEWN LOVE: Miley Cyrus may be young, but she certainly knows her own mind and what she likes in her fellas. One thing this girl is not is a flowers, love hearts and chocolates kind of girl She just can’t get into sensitive sweet guys and that is probably what killed her romance with Nick Jonas and Justin Gaston. No, Miley avers, “I like spontaneous men who appreciate the outdoors. You know, maybe dirt bike or horse riding. I like to get out and do things.”

EVENTUALLY, HE SAYS: Quentin Tarantino may be getting a little long in the tooth to be starting a family, but he refuses to rule out the idea. At forty-six the director says he’s sure he’d make a great dad. He’s been linked to a laundry list of Hollywood’s “A” list women, among whom Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino and Julie Drefus have been numbered, but still hasn’t picked the one to share his life and babies with. What worries him seems to be, “You hear those stories that once you have kids your life is over, but I actually like my life as it is. Still, I think I’d be a great dad.”

LIVERING RIGHT?: Courtney Love hasn’t been known for a quiet and conservative life style. The female equivalent of a bad boy, Love still doesn’t think she’s been as wild as some people she could name. In fact she’s announced that she’d like to compare livers with no less a wild man than Keith Richards. The wild girl thinks that, “I’m gonna touch his liver and let him touch mine. I want to see if his is putrified or something. We’ve both been very lucky.”

A HANDFUL: David Beckham has learned the hard way to keep Italian lady journalists at more than arm’s length. Elena Di Cioccio is reporter with an inquiring mind and she wanted to see if Beck’s Armani ads had really been all him. So, she just reached out and grabbed. A shocked soccer star was hustled away by security while the disappointed missed her aim and had only gotten a grip on his leg. What Di Cioccio didn’t realize was just how lucky she was that Victoria wasn’t there or she’d probably be doing her reaching through a full body cast.

HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: John Travolta recently got a shock. The star who is known for his long raven locks recently appeared with a shaved pate and goatee in From Paris With Love. What shocked him was the volume and intensity of female response to the shorn look. Even wife Kelly Preston found herself agreeing with an online survey that showed that ninety-nine percent of the women responding thought it definitely made him look even sexier! The Grease star is still not sure, but says he’s thinking about it.

MUSIC TO HIS EARS: Paul Bettany was thrilled with at least one part of his new hit Legion. He got to fire off a machine gun, actually he got to fire off a whole bunch of machine guns and still be the hero! The Brit hunk claims that Jackie Chan is one of his favorites and he feels that he finally got the chance to do a “Jackie Chan role.” He enthuses, “The fake firearms were fantastic. My machine gun was huge and made a lot of noise, but it didn’t hurt anybody. Now, I’ve shot off a big gun just like Jackie Chan.”

WAVES OF GIRLS: Nobody ever told fifteen year old Justin Bieber that singing could be a dangerous occupation. But authorities have stepped up security for his Valentine’s Day concert in L.A. And what are they afraid of? The teenage girls are the worry. No one has seen this kind of frenzy since the early Frank Sinatra and Elvis phenomena decades ago. What teen boy wouldn’t love being the center of just such a perfect storm?

GEARING UP: Matt Damon has been disappointed that he’s only been picked once for the Sexiest Man Alive title. While all his buddies have been given that crown multiple times. This time he’s hoping to change that. Now he’s got help. He’s got George Clooney in his corner. George says, “I’m going to train him and work with him because he’s going to need to run a strong campaign this year.” If anybody can do it, George can!

DOLLY SAYS: Dolly Parton is easily the most universally loved country singer. The reason for that is probably because besides her great voice and musicality, Dolly has a very active sense of humor and refuses to take herself too seriously. The proprietress of Dollywood, her own theme park, claims that she doesn’t think she’s overly attractive. Actually, she explains herself as, “I look just like the girls next door – if you happen to live next door to an amusement park!”

9-1-1: Things are never boring when there is a toddler in the house and when there are two, well, just ask Dennis Quaid. Quaid and his wife Kimberly live in a ranch way up in Montana where one of their twins Thomas Boone’s favorite phone number is 9-1-1. Quaid says that all of a sudden he noticed the boy was out of the room and when he was found he was hanging up a telephone. Thirty minutes later a sheriff’s car pulled up with all its lights going and asked what was going on.

JOB ACCOMPLISHED: Harrison Ford was so sick and tired of Brendan Fraser’s flubbing one short line in their movie that he took a page out of Marlon Brando’s playbook and grabbed a hunk of gaffer’s tape and wrote the line on it, then stuck the tape to his own forehead. That way Fraser was able to read the line and the Han Solo star got over his frustration.

A GOOD BREAK: Lindsay Lohan might be liking guys again. While shooting a commercial with French hunk Aurelein Wiik the sparks flew and they seem to still be flying. She even recently took him to a family gathering and he went over big with the ‘rents. It’s common knowledge that Wiik is very anti-drugs and is the kind of guy all parents would approve of.

HOTEL BLUES: Amy Adams admits that she gets ‘hotel depression’ if she spends too much time living in hotels while shooting a movie. The Enchanted actress who’s been with boyfriend Darren Le Gallo for about six years is now expecting her first child and is also talking about marriage. She says, “Being alone in a hotel makes you very strange. It’s like shutting a golden retriever in a bathroom for three days, then you open the door and take it to the dog park. I turn into a twelve year old trying to be best friends with everybody. It’s a bit manic.”

GIRL TALK: Jennifer Garner has finally got her good bod back. The actress, who knocked ‘em dead at the Golden Globes, finds herself in a situation where husband, Ben Affleck, is begging her to get pregnant one more time to give him a son. However, don’t count on it right now. Garner’s posse of girlfriends are egging her on saying, “You don’t want to do that all over again. You worked too hard to get your body back.” And, they seem to be winning for now.