--It's official. And, she's already 14 weeks along...

--Six years after declaring she was giving up live performances, Barbra Streisand returns to the stage on Wednesday to launch her first proper concert tour in well over a decade, and the biggest of her career. It will be only the second national tour by Streisand in the four decades since she became the toast of Broadway, launched a Grammy-winning recording career and won her first Oscar in the 1968 musical "Funny Girl." Insisting she has conquered the stage fright that made her a virtual stranger to the concert circuit for years, Streisand, 64, says her comeback tour was sparked mostly by her desire to raise money for her favorite charities. The money will be distributed through her own philanthropic foundation.

--PETA honchos Ingrid Newkirk and Dan Mathews and a horde of protesters spent Monday night in a Paris slammer. The group was arrested after busting into the Jean Paul Gaultier flagship boutique and dousing the designer's street-level windows with red paint while wearing "bloodied" donated furs and shouting, "Gaultier! Killer!," for over an hour. Brigitte Bardot defended the protest and told us via a rep, "I cannot believe that [Gaultier] is unable to [stop using fur]. Only imbeciles do not change opinions."

--Jessica Simpson and John Mayer were spotted at the posh Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Monday night, just weeks after their brief relationship reportedly ended. Mayer was staying at the hotel and chatting up various women in the bar, when Simpson arrived and met up with old friend and producer Romeo Antonio, who has written several songs for her. According to entertainment news website Tmz.com, when Antonio excused himself to go to the men's room, Mayer followed him and asked whether there was anything romantic going on between him and Simpson. Antonio said there was not. Mayer then went back to the bar and spoke with Simpson for 10 minutes before the pair exited together and took the elevator upstairs to Mayer's room.

--Bradley Cooper (Wedding Crashers, Three Days of Rain on Broadway) and Jennifer Esposito (Crash) are engaged.

--An Irish wedding for Kate and Pete?

--The women competing for the hand of Prince Lorenzo Borghese in "The Bachelor" may think they have a catch on their hands - but his former college pals at Rollins think otherwise. "He was kind of a tool," said one Rollins alum. "He was the khaki, button-down-shirt frat boy type who dated really annoying sorority girls. He was not very interesting at all and always dropped his name and 'title.' " Really? He doesn't look like that kind of guy at all...

--Anna Nicole SmithÂ’s ex-boyfriend and aspiring baby daddy, Larry Birkhead, filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, demanding that Smith return to the U.S. with newborn daughter Dannielynn Hope and submit the baby to a paternity test.

--Screetch's sex tape and sex tape partners have been exposed. Click here for the scoop.

-- "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker say their bizarre decision to dress in drag and sashay down the red carpet at the 2000 Oscars was made easy - thanks to LSD. "We took acid and tripped," Stone tells the November issue of FHM. "It seemed like the right day - drop acid and get on the red carpet in a dress." But lest anybody think he's a druggie, Stone adds, "I haven't taken acid since then."

--Paris Hilton has found herself a new love match in tennis star Andy Roddick. Photogs caught the couple flirting at Las Vegas' trendy Tao nightclub this weekend. Then two hours later, at 3am, they were spotted in the nearby Pure club getting very cosy on the VIP bed An onlooker said: "They were snuggling up to each other while drinking Grey Goose vodka and shots of Patron. "They were clearly a couple. She was very touchy-feely and he couldn't keep his eyes off her. "After a couple of hours they left together." Rumors about Andy, 24, and Paris, 25, started last week when the twice Wimbledon runner-up showed up at LA's Hyde club on the same night Paris was there. Oh Andy...Andy, Andy, Andy...

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