She was a glamour girl in a Bond movie and the maverick Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman, renowned for her ladylike image on screen. Now, at the ripe old age of 54, actor Jane Seymour dared to go topless on screen for the first time.

Mother-of-six Jane decided on the daring comeback to appeal to a new generation of fans but she was "anxious" about baring all for the new comedy movie Wedding Crashers, in which Owen Wilson rips off her bra and fondles her.

"I have never done anything quite like this and it seemed a little insane to be doing it now that I'm in my 50s," she said. "But I wanted to appeal to this generation. The script was the funniest thing I'd ever read. I thought the topless scene in particular was the funniest moment in the whole movie. Despite my anxiety I recognised this to be a great role."

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Scent of a Younger Woman:

A study of smells shows that the scent of grapefruit on women make them seem about six years younger to men. However, grapefruit fragrance on men does nothing for them.

The study by the Smell and Taste Institute in Chicago was conducted by Institute director Alan Hirsch. Hirsch smeared several middle-aged woman with broccoli, banana, spearmint leaves, and lavender but none of those scents made a difference to the men.

But the scent of grapefruit changed men's perceptions. Hirsch said that when male volunteers were asked to write down how old the woman with grapefruit odor was, the age was considerably less than reality.

--Looks like I'll be perceived as my age or older--I'm not in to smelling like fruit.

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A major collection of John Lennon memorabilia, including an oil painting from his student days and a handwritten "All You Need Is Love" manuscript, will go on sale next month.

The July 28 auction also will include a table from the home Lennon shared with his first wife, Cynthia; a tunic thought to have inspired the costumes on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover; and a bedspread from Lennon's "bed-in" for peace in Montreal with Yoko Ono, Cooper Owen auction house announced Monday.

Cooper Owen, which specializes in auctions of music and film memorabilia, said it expects to raise $2 million from the auction, to be held at The Hippodrome nightclub in central London.

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MTV became an integral part of the pop culture by morphing from a music video network to a channel carrying a wide range of programming.

Looks like ESPN is going to follow suit.

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Nothing says love like your fiance's mostly-naked picture on your shirt:

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Herbie: Fully Loaded star Lindsay Lohan followed in Tom Cruise's footsteps on Thursday night - by leaping onto a couch halfway through her TV interview.

Mission: Impossible star Cruise raised eyebrows last month, when he jumped up and down on Oprah Winfrey's couch as he repeatedly yelled he was in love with Katie Holmes. While his antics made him the target of teasing at the hands of comedians across America, Cruise went on to repeat his actions when he appeared on Leno's chat show. And while Lohan, 18, insists she's yet to find love since splitting with Wilmer Valderrama, she decided to continue the trend when she arrived on Leno's show.

When the funnyman asked her if she was in love, Lohan responded, "No, but I was watching the show the other day and I saw Tom Cruise and I know he's in love. So in honor of Tom Cruise, for everyone who's not in love, I'm gonna pull a Tom!" She then proceeded to jump on the couch, as the audience cheered her on. After composing herself, she explained, "I love Tom Cruise, but I just had to do it. Also for Dean, my security guard."

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Brit's the Oracle of Trashphi:

Pop beauty Britney Spears has declared her new maternal song Someday (I Will Understand) "a prophecy" - because she wrote it two weeks before she discovered she was pregnant.

Spears sings about having a baby on the track, which has now taken on extra-special meaning since she discovered that she and husband Kevin Federline will welcome their first child together into the world in the autumn.

She says, "I wrote this song at my piano, at my house. I wrote it two weeks before I found out that I was pregnant, so it was really kind of weird, because the song's about having a baby... and it's something that I'd been dreaming about for a while. It's kind of like a prophecy."

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Spies in Paris report that, in a stunning display of ignorance, the Hermes store in the City of Light refused entry to Oprah Winfrey.

"Oprah didn't have her hair done," says a source. "When she tried the door, they refused her entry because they have been 'having a problem with North Africans' lately' and obviously had no clue who she was." A rep for Winfrey says: "Oprah is in Paris," but declined further comment. Hermes didn't return calls.

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may have had a relatively tame 19th birthday – they celebrated with cake, balloons and sushi at an L.A. restaurant Monday – but it appears Mary-Kate saved the hard partying for Wednesday and Thursday night at New York nightclub Bungalow 8.

Mary-Kate arrived around 1 a.m. early Friday morning with an entourage of 10 to 15 friends (but not her sister) for a night of wild dancing, champagne, shots, cigarettes – and more cake. After heading to the bathroom with her tiny white minidress falling off her shoulders, Olsen stepped out clutching the hand of a short dark-haired man who became her dance partner (but not romantic partner) for much of the night. When the two of them reached the middle of the dance floor, they ran into Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova. Mary-Kate vaulted herself into Natalia's arms, and the model scooped Mary-Kate off the ground and cupped her rear-end as the pair exchange kisses.

Natalia's husband, Justin Portman, appeared with shots for the group and gave a short toast. Mary-Kate had a glass of champagne, and she later donned a cowboy hat and grinded with girlfriends to songs including "The Seed" and "Get Right."

When 50 Cent's "In Da Club" came on (complete with the "It's your birthday" refrain), friends gathered around Mary-Kate and two cakes frosted with roses were brought out. After she blew out the candles, the dancing continued, while a bodyguard stayed close to Mary-Kate's side. The group made their exit around 3 a.m.

"School's out. Summer's here and they were having fun," said Olsen's rep, Michael Pagnotta,.

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Ashlee Simpson is a fan of sloppy seconds.

Simpson dated Wilmer Valderrama after her pal Lindsay Lohan broke up with him, and now she's after her pal Ashley Olsen's ex. Spies caught Simpson snuggling with Scott Sartiano, co-owner of Butter who just got dumped by Olsen, at Los Angeles' club Mood on Wednesday night.

The spy reports: "They were definitely together."

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Warner Bros. is so happy with the box office of "Batman Begins," the studio plans to remake all the Batman movies — with Christian Bale firmly implanted in the Bruce Wayne/Batman role.

A source says, "Everyone is in agreement that the movie's strength is with Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman." Sadly, this leaves Katie Holmes out. "She won't be in the sequel . . . the next romantic interest will be a much stronger actress," says the spy. "Warner is happy that people are now focusing on who'll be playing the Joker rather than Katie and Tom [Cruise]."

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Shakira believes she's the "most shy person in the world."

The 28-year-old Colombian, who shows off her grease-painted curves as she writhes around in the video for her latest single LA Tortura, claims she's extremely inhibited. She tells Blender magazine this month, "I have way too many inhibitions "I'm shy. Super-shy. The most shy person in the world."

--Um, have you SEEN her new video? Not exactly exuding shyness.

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Guy Ritchie had wanted to hire 80's crooner Rick Astley to perform at the wrap bash for his latest film, Revolver. But Madonna banned the move.

A source says: "Guy and the production staff on the movie thought hiring Rick would be a cool thing to do for his cast and crew, who had worked so hard on the gangster flick. They'd been filming scenes on the Isle of Man and wanted to have a bit of a party when they had finished. "They were discussing how to make it a bit different and somehow came up with the idea of hiring Rick."

Madonna "[w]asn't into the idea at all and didn't find it amusing. "When word got out that they were going to ask Rick along, the staff thought it was a great idea. "Of course, he's cheesy but that was the point. It would have been a real laugh. Everyone was looking forward to dancing to Never Gonna Give You Up. "But no one can understand why Madonna didn't approve of him being the star attraction."

--Now there's a blast from the past.

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Leonardo DiCaprio was assaulted early Friday morning at a party at the Hollywood Hills home of Rick Salomon.

In a statement released to People, the Oscar-nominated actor's publicist, Ken Sunshine, says: "While leaving a small private gathering, Leo was attacked by a woman who was trespassing and had been repeatedly asked to leave the property. The attacker struck him with a glass object before being restrained by witnesses. The woman was reportedly looking for an ex-boyfriend, who she had apparently physically assaulted on prior occasions."

DiCaprio was at the party hosted by Salomon (Paris Hilton's ex, who starred with the hotel heiress in their notorious sex video), when at around 4 a.m., the woman hit him in the face with what appeared to be a beer bottle, a source reports. After the incident, an ambulance wasn't called but friends took him to a hospital for medical attention, where he received about a dozen stitches near his ear, says the source.

--Note to all: Bad things happen when you hang with Rick Solomon.

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Avril, on recent tabloid pics of her looking wasted:

"I was out for 10 weeks in Asia, (went) to L.A. for a weekend to meet my girlfriends, went out -- and yeah, we had some drinks, yeah -- and some paparazzi took some pictures and now everybody thinks I'm an alcoholic," the Canadian pop star tells the Sun during a phone interview from Germany.

"But the funny thing is, I've been on tour for six weeks (now), I've drank probably twice because I was in Italy and I had some red wine. "I'm on a vegan diet, I do yoga every day, I work out, I'm totally spiritual -- I'm completely opposite of what everyone thinks I am right now.

"Everyone thinks I'm this angry ... alcoholic and I'm losing all of my friends." "To me, I look at that and my friends look at that and we laugh," she says. "All those people who buy those magazines are dumb. Those who buy them and believe them are dumb."

"One good thing ... it makes me look more like a rock star."

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Robert De Niro got choked up at an exhibit of paintings by his father in northeastern France.

"This is a magnificent exhibit," said De Niro, whose father, Robert De Niro Sr., passed away more than a decade ago. "I'm sad that my father is not here," De Niro said Saturday, dabbing his eyes.

The 56-painting exhibit, in the recently opened La Piscine Museum in the town of Roubaix, is the first European retrospective of the elder De Niro's paintings. Hundreds gathered outside the museum, housed in a renovated Art Deco poolhouse, hoping to spot the actor.

In the 60s, the elder De Niro spent several years living in France, studying Matisse, Manet, Gaugin, Bonnard and other painters who influenced his work. "He said that painting is love and sensuality. He expressed these feelings with color," said art critic Valere Bertrand, who attended the opening.

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After calling it quits in January claiming that they were too busy for romance, reports have emerged that Orlando Bloom and Kate Bosworth are on the mend. MSN.com citing Australia's Daily Telegraph reports that Bloom, 28, flew to Sidney this weekend with the goal of "rekindling his love affair" with the Bosworth, 22, who is there working on Superman Returns.

"Orlando can't stay away from Kate," a tattler told the London Mirror. "They've tried to be apart but it's impossible when you are as in love as they are. He's determined to woo her back."

According to spywitnesses, the hot-and-cold couple are happy to see each other and have been spotted all over town while Bloom has been on his first break in filming the sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean. The Daily Telegraph also claims that Bloom reportedly surprised Bosworth with a $400,000 diamond engagement ring.

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No matter what the rumors, Kate Moss has certainly won Pete Doherty's heart, if his interview with the July issue of Vanity Fair is to be believed.

Kate, who has taken to wearing a red heart around her neck, is credited with persuading him to have an implant inserted into his abdomen to cure him of his dependence on drugs. "It was get an implant or die, really, the ways things were," he says. "I was fixing up, shooting white, shooting brown, and then entering a relationship – I mean, God knows, [Kate] saved my life, and, really, I had to choose. She's got a young kid, I have a young kid, and there's no way it could happen."

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Actor Tom Cruise said he and girlfriend Katie Holmes are engaged, after he popped the question early Friday morning atop the Eiffel Tower.

Cruise, speaking at a Paris news conference with Holmes, said: "Yes, I proposed to her." The couple often shared smiles and blushes as Cruise turned to look at her, with a massive diamond ring on her finger. "It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven't slept at all," he said. "Today is a magnificent day for me, I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."

Asked why he chose the famed Paris landmark, he said: "I've never been to the Eiffel Tower. It's Paris, it's a beautiful city, it's very romantic." Cruise said no date for a wedding has been set: "We haven't discussed that - one step at a time," he said. "Let's see. We're not sure."

Cruise, 42, was in Paris to promote the French release of the Steven Spielberg film "War of the Worlds" next month. He and 26-year-old Holmes went public with their romantic relationship in April. Holmes did not speak to reporters, but at one point, Cruise whispered to her: "Are you OK?" Afterward, the two hurried into a car before leaving for a promotional event in Marseilles, southern France.

--Well, I can certainly think of worse places to be proposed to. Wow. Wonder what Penelope, while cruising around in Matthew's mobile home (see story a few posts below) thinks right now. Hopefully, how lucky she is to be in the mobile home with Matthew.

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Britney Spears was left completely abashed when she invited the Disney bosses to her hotel room and found husband Kevin Federline watching porn. Both Britney and Kevin had been invited to celebrate the resort's 50th anniversary.

23 year old Britney, who is expecting her first child soon, did not know where to look after Kevin had left the video running but quickly recovered her wits thereafter. "Boys will be boys", Femalefirst quoted her as saying.

"Honey, you didn't tell me you'd brought along Sleeping Booty!", she added.

--I'm sure it's indeed a "small world" after all for Kevin.

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