Celeb News Aggregate
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Jennifer Lopez will reportedly judge the final of Project Runway.
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Hollywood star Tom Cruise took talk-show host Larry King on a tour of a Scientology museum following his controversial attacks on psychiatry and antidepressant drugs.
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Actress Brooke Shields has offered help to Britney Spears, amid reports the troubled singer is suffering from postpartum depression.
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Actor Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes in a candlelit ceremony at Castello Odescalchi in Bracciano, Italy, Saturday.
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Actress Brooke Shields has proven she's forgiven and forgotten her bitter feud with Tom Cruise by flying to Italy for the movie hunk's weekend wedding to Katie Holmes.
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Hollywood wild man Mickey Rourke has blasted Tom Cruise for publicly criticizing psychiatry, calling the superstar actor a "c**t."
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Despite her public battle with Tom Cruise over the use of antidepressants, Brooke Shields has become close friends with his fiancée Katie Holmes.
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Paramount Studios boss Sumner Redstone's wife convinced him to sack Tom Cruise, because she "and women everywhere had come to hate him."
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6, 2000 -- Brooke Shields can let out a sigh of relief. She's safe now, well, at least for the next decade. A man who prosecutors say had been stalking the star of the now-defunct NBC series "Suddenly Susan" for the past 15 years was sentenced to probation and counseling after he agreed to stay away from Shields for the next 10 years.
Mark Bailey, 42, of New Jersey pleaded no contest to stalking and terrorizing the actress. Bailey will go to psychological evaluations twice a week and is prohibited from contacting the actress, her family and her employees.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 2, 2000 -- Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and the guy who did "The French Connection" (that's William Friedkin, by the way). With that lineup, what could possibly go wrong with "Rules of Engagement" (opening Friday, wide)? Besides having all the trappings of a trite military courtroom drama, probably not much. Based on a short story by James Webb (a former U.S. secretary of the Navy), the film follows the lives of two Vietnam vets (Jackson and Jones) whose paths cross many years later when one asks the other to defend him in court. Expect a lot of high-decibel screaming back and forth.
In other new movie releases this week:
Is there life after "The X-Files"? David Duchovny finds out this week by venturing into romantic-comedy territory with "Return to Me" (opening Friday, wide). The flick pairs Duchovny with a seemingly incongruous Minnie
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2000 -- Filmmaker Roger Vadim, best known for discovering Brigitte Bardot and keeping company with the likes of Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve, died today of cancer. He was 72.
The Paris-born Vadim was married to the then-teenage Bardot when he made his directorial debut in 1956 with "And God Created Woman." The film launched Bardot's career as a sex symbol and stirred much talk for its outrageous (at the time) unveiling of her skin. In the short run, "And God ..." was banned in several countries. In the long run, it helped launch France's New Wave film movement of the 1950s.
In 1965, Vadim wed a 27-year-old, pre-controversial Jane Fonda (his third wife). Two years later, the couple teamed to reveal Fonda's own assets on screen with the Vadim-directed sci-fi cult hit "Barbarella". The couple had one daughter, Vanessa, before splitt
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How could Brooke Shields top the news that she married Spin City writer-producer Chris Henchy in secret in April? By exchanging vows for a second time in less than two months. The Suddenly Susan star reportedly tied the knot in April on Catalina Island, but staged a more formal ceremony Sunday for friends and family at the Palm Beach, Fla., home of Broadway producer Terry Allen Kramer, according to People magazine. Columnist Liz Smith, however, reports that the Catalina Island ceremony was an elaborate ruse designed to keep paparazzi away from Sunday's real wedding. Shields was previously married to tennis champ Andre Agassi.
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The month of April welcomes the spring season, and with spring comes the season of love. Among the most recent weddings: Brooke Shields married television writer Chris Henchy on Tuesday. Last week, Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green surprised everyone by announcing that they had tied the knot.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 6, 2000 -- As the box-office turns: Is Julia Roberts still the best thing going? Or will Samuel L. Jackson open up a can of whoop-you-know-what and knock her off her pedestal? This weekend, four new movies hit theaters nationwide ("Rules of Engagement," "Black and White," "Ready To Rumble" and "Return to Me") but experts think that only "Rules," starring Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, has the cojones to kick Julia's box-office butt and end the three-weekend-long reign of "Erin Brockovich."
"I think it's gonna be tight for No. 1," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations Co.
Here's a look at the new players:
"Rules of Engagement" RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (See the trailer) The skinny: Samuel L. Jackson is a military man wrongfully court-martialed for murder; Tommy Lee Jones is his gruff lawyer
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2000 -- Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled his $50 million lawsuit against the Globe tabloid over a 1998 story concerning his health, his publicist said Tuesday.
After the 52-year-old Schwarzenegger’s 1997 surgery to repair a heart valve, doctors had said there was no reason the star could not continue his active lifestyle. The Globe printed an article saying he was in ill health and in danger of a heart attack. The Terminator himself then sued the tabloid, alleging that the article defamed him by saying his heart was a "ticking time bomb in his chest" and that he was "living in fear that … his heart will suddenly quit."
The Globe will donate an undisclosed amount of money to Schwarzenegger’s charity, the Inner City Games Foundation, admit the story was wrong and publish a retraction, correction and apology, according to Catherine Ol
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 11, 2000 - London real-estate agents, beware: There's a new seller - and buyer - in the market. Madonna ("Evita"), who bought a $6.55 million mansion there a few weeks ago, is putting it back on the market in the wake of ex-Beatle George Harrison's stabbing Dec. 30 at his London mansion. According to the London Times, the Material Girl's security advisers told her that the four-story home she bought in the city's trendy Chelsea district was "perfectly visible from the road" and thereby unsuitable for a celebrity. But Big Ben shouldn't feel shafted; the singer/actress reportedly is back in London today searching for a new home with better security.
WOMEN ACCORDING TO WOOD: In the More Than We Needed to Know department, we find James Woods ("Any Given Sunday"), who likes talking about manhood - his manhood.
In an interview with Movieline, the 52-y