- Matthew Broderick: Cheating on Sarah Jessica Parker? Having "sex in the city" with a gorgeous redhead half his age? More on this in Midweek Madness. [Star]
- Brad Pitt "pulled a Britney" and drove with Shiloh on his lap. But he was in a golf cart. In France. (Yes, there are pix.) [This Is London]
- Christian Bale's family is complicated. Did the so-called "assault" involve pushing? [LA Times]
- Bale's been released. [Telegraph]
- And he denies the assault. [LA Times]
- Christian Bale "went ballistic" on the set of Terminator 4 last week, screaming "I will kick your ass" and other stuff in a situation called "intense." Apparently he was "extremely tired and having a bad day." [TMZ]
- This report says that Christian Bale is "depressed" over Heath Ledger's death. A source says: "He has stresses in his marriage. He can have a terrible temper. Instead of lashing out at his wife, he sometimes lashes out at people around him. Without Ledger around he's found it more and more difficult to communicate with those around him, especially his family." [News.com.au]
- This headline reads: "If Batman's truly gone bad, has Christian Bale doomed his Oscar hopes?" [LA Times]
- Miley Cyrus admits that the Vanity Fair pictures were probably not a good idea. "I think I was just in a stage where I was just trying to get things done, and maybe look for an older audience. I was working with a big magazine just trying to go with what they were saying." [People]
- Maggie Gyllenhaal think Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker deserves an Oscar. "I would vote for him," she says. "To be that incredible in a movie that's this huge, that's about so many things, is really an accomplishment. In a way I feel funny thinking about the Oscars when he isn't alive, but at the same time I'm a member of the Academy and I would vote for him." [People]
- Matthew McConaughey, girlfriend Camila Alves and son Levi landed the cover of OK! magazine. Which is now "the baby magazine." He makes the birth sound like a drum circle: "Contractions started kicking in, and we found a great rhythm. We had a 14-hour session, her and I did. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it. We danced to it. I was DJing this native Brazilian music." [MSNBC]
- Jay McInerney making a cameo on Gossip Girl makes me so so so happy. I read him when I was in high school and his glittery druggy version of New York fits right into the GG aesthetic. Bright lights, big city, indeed. [NY Mag]
- Amy Winehouse on her husband's sentence: "Why Blakey? They said he was coming out." [The Sun]
- This is also Amy: "Blake and I can't wait to have kids. I want at least five kids. I want twins. Blake is gonna be the most amazing dad. When Blake was about we talked about it all the time. To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better." [Telegraph]
- Amy probably wasn't at court when Blake was sentenced because she hired a cleaning team to scrub the house, thinking he was coming home. Apparently the house was a mess and the team was armed with mops, dusters and bottles of concentrated bleach, which they used for five hours to get things sparkly. [Mirror]
- Amy's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London has been unveiled. Her dad says: Father Mitch joked: "We're going to take this one home with us and take the real one back. This one does what she's told and doesn't move." [Mirror]
- Post-breakup Sarah Silverman is "doing great." [UPI]
- The overdose story involving 19-year-old Peaches Geldof may have been "exaggerated," but now comes the news that she's entered a phase of "competitive dieting" with her younger sister Pixie, 17. Get it together, kids. [Daily Mail]
- This report says she collapsed due to dieting. [News.com.au]
- Oh look! Peaches' handwritten drug shopping list. Weed, coke, Diazepam and Viagra. Lovely. [The Sun]
- Cameron Diaz went to Drew Barrymore's psychic, Mrs. Grace. Apparently Cammie will have "marriage and kids" and a "beautiful future" with her boyfriend Paul Sculfor, that model who dated Jen Aniston. [MSNBC]
- Courtney Love's business managers are suing her, because she doesn't have enough problems. Apparently they didn't get their 5% of the sale of a portion of the Nirvana publishing catalog, which would be $975,000. [TMZ]
- Katie Price, the "glamour model" known as Jordan, admits that she does not write her bestselling novels. "I'm not going to lie, I don't sit there with a typewriter and write it, of course I don't," she says. "I don't have time to do that. I say how I want the storyline to be, each chapter is done, I read through it change it and then it goes away to be written. So I'm not going to sit here and say I write it word by word because I'd be lying. I actually say how I want the story and that's how it happens." [Daily Mail]
- Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are "adjusting" to life with a newborn: Starbucks runs and mattress shopping. Yawn. [People]
- The sequel to The Simpsons Movie will be out in like four years. [The Sun]
- Ashanti is now the tourism ambassador for Nassau County on Long Island. Uh, congrats? [AP]
- Freddy Krueger is coming back to the big screen! The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is being relaunched. Wouldn't it be cool if Johnny Depp would make a cameo appearance? [Reuters]
- Daisy Fuentes, 41, says: "I don't want to compete with the way I was at 21 – I love looking like a woman." She's on the cover of Fitness magazine looking amazing. [People]
- For an MTV special, Kanye West visited with a trio of soldiers who have returned home from Iraq. "There are hundreds of veterans out there who are falling through the cracks," says Kanye. "They make the ultimate sacrifices for us by laying down their lives, but it seems like a lot of them just get forgotten about." [Guardian]
- Heather Locklear is out of the treatment center she was in for anxiety and depression. She's most excited about being home with Ava, her daughter by Richie Sambora. [People]
- Sean Connery says his ex-wife is an "insane woman" who spreads "vicious lies." Connery claims he never told his son he would cut him out of his will. Messy family business. [Daily Mail]
- Richard Simmons has ideas for getting schoolkids more active. Sweatin' with the Youngies? [USA Today]
- "She's a phony. As long as she continues to be a fake and a phony, she won't be successful." — Omarosa on Wendy Williams. [AP]
- Coldplay was "snubbed" by Mercury Prize judges. In the running: Estelle, Adele, Elbow, Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets, British Sea Power. Have I mentioned I love Adele's voice? [The Sun]
- A source says Lauren Conrad "seems to have lost a grip on reality and thinks she is A-list material." This comes after she was paid to host a party and showed up 2 hours late. [Page Six]
- Blind item! "Which reality TV has-been can't even go to paid appearances anymore? His manager is too worried about how trashed he gets when he's on the payroll." [Rush & Molloy]
- There may be video of the incident in Shreveport, LA involving Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright getting tasered and pepper sprayed by cops. Sorta hoping it gets released. [Rush & Molloy]
- Supermodel-turned-designer Kelly Bensimon joins The Real Housewives of New York City next season. "Several of the housewives are nervous," a snitch says. "She's too blond and beautiful and energetic. They don't want to be outdone." [Rush & Molloy]
- Love this: Luke Russert made such a good impression on TV viewers (or producers?) after his father's funeral, NBC is recruiting him for its election coverage team. [Page Six]
- "I mean, what's my illness? I guess I could say I have a terrible case of I-wanna-smoke-weed-all-day." — Seth Rogen, explaining in Elle why he won't get a medical marijuana card. [Page Six]
