Kevin Spacey, who shaved his head for his role as villainous Lex Luthor in "Superman Returns," will have to grow it back in a hurry to star in the sequel to "The Usual Suspects."

Bald as an egg in Sydney, Australia, Spacey told "Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer, who also helmed "The Usual Suspects," he'll co-star in the sequel to the 1995 caper flick.

--I'm not sure they should attempt a sequel. The orginal is just too good.

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Two couples who won't confirm they are dating and claim they are "just friends:"

Eva Longoria and San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker:

And Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal:

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1 I wish I had a friend like that.

Posted by: Kelly at July 12, 2005 11:01 AM (CglZz)

2 Handsome, wealthy and famous?

Posted by: at July 12, 2005 05:53 PM (Uwy7S)

3 Handsome and wealthy would be fine. Famous, not so much. I was just thinking that typically my 'friends' and I aren't quite that, ah, close. Well, most of em anyway

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Former Beverly Hills, 90210 mean girl Tiffani Thiessen married actor-artist Brady Smith on Saturday at a private estate in Montecito, Calif., her rep confirms.

The bride, 31, wearing a French lace and tulle dress designed by Vera Wang, and the groom, 33, in a suit by Kenneth Cole, were surrounded by close friends and family as their daytime garden wedding turned into a French Provencal feast by evening.

Thiessen, who originally hails from Long Beach, Calif., and Smith, a Houston native, danced until late into the night and wrapped up the reception with a Perrier Jouet Champagne toast before heading to Santa Barbara's Hotel Andalucia for their first evening as husband and wife.

A one-time model, Thiessen spent her teen years playing cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on NBC's Saved by the Bell, which was followed by a few seasons as Valerie Malone on FOX's 90210 and a lead role on the network's short-lived 2002 series Fastlane. Her movies include 1993's Son in Law and Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending (2002).

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Some BritNews for you:

--Mother-to-be Britney Spears has complained about the range of maternity lines available. According to BreakingNews, the singer is said to be frustrated by the current range of pregnancy attire.

She commented: "There's so much nasty stuff out there for mums-to-be, I can't work out why stores don't sell funkier stuff. I have ideas about more modern designs and it would be fun to utilize them."

--Britney Spears has made a $50,000 donation to Gilda's Club Worldwide, whose network of free cancer support communities throughout North America helps patients with the disease, the organization has announced.

"When children have cancer, or when their parents or siblings have the disease, there are few places they can turn to for support," Spears – whose first child with husband Kevin Federline is due later this year – says in a statement.

"Gilda's Club is one of those places. I passionately believe in helping children in need, and so I am very happy to make this gift to help children learn they can cope with what can be a terrible and devastating experience for them," adds Spears, 23.

--The ladies at Go Fug Yourself have outdone themselves this week with a post on K.Feddy. I was laughing so hard it hurt.

--I actually think she looks pretty good in the pic above (at the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiere). But, what the hell is on K.Fed's jacket? Looks like something Elton would wear.

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Hollywood star Owen Wilson is desperate to win an Oscar, insisting it would make him the "happiest person in the world".

The Wedding Crashers actor admits the coveted award is his driving force, unlike many celebrities who maintain the accolade is not important to their careers.

He enthuses, "I'd be the happiest person in the world. Even as I'm saying it, I can see how happy I'd be." "And I still believe it. Even as I'm telling you and realising this stuff doesn't make you happy, as I'm getting lost in it, it's becoming this grotesque conceit." "It's like that carrot, it just keeps you going."

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Producers of American Idol have asked Whitney Houston to be a judge on the fifth season of the show.

The 41-year-old R&B singer is the producers' first choice as a replacement for Paula Abdul if she leaves to become a judge on Fox' spin-off So You Think You Can Dance reality show, reports America's Star magazine.

Mariah Carey has also reportedly been approached to appear in the show the Star reports.

--Awesome. I can see some monster fights between Whitney and Simon.

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Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman have been signed up to appear in a big screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard.

Glenn Close will reprise her role as Norma Desmond in the film. Close won several awards for her portrayal of Desmond on Broadway.

The musical is based on the 1950 film starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden.

The film is expected to be released next Christmas.

--I am really excited for the release of this film. This is by far one of my favorite musicals. If Ewan has the lead role of Joe Gillis though, I'm just not feeling it. He doesn't put forth enough masculinity for that role, in my opinion. If she can sing, I think Rachel McAdams would be a great Betty Shaefer.

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Kylie Minogue made an impromptu visit to visit children suffering from cancer at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia on Friday.

The singer, 37, lavished time and affection on the ailing youngsters in her first public appearance since her own breast cancer operation in May.

Hospital spokeswoman Kate Dunston, says, "She spent a lot of time with the children individually and really connected with them." "She had her dad (Ron) with her and a couple of assistants. They all seemed to be very concerned for her."

The recovering singer intended to visit the kids' hospital when she was fully back to health, but since hearing about the terrorist attacks in London on Thursday she brought her plans forward. An aide says, "Kylie saw what was going on on the TV and decided she wanted to get up and do something positive." "She decided the time was right yesterday and rang the charities she is involved with. The children weren't told she was coming. Their faces lit up."

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Veteran television character actor Kevin Hagen, who left behind a string of Western bad guy roles to become the kindly Dr. Hiram Baker in "Little House on the Prairie," has died. He was 77.

Hagen died at his home here on Saturday a year after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, his wife, Jan Hagen, said Monday.

Born in Chicago, the son of professional ballroom dancers, Hagen did not start acting until he was 27, by which time he had worked for the U.S. State Department in Germany, earned a degree in international relations from the University of Southern California, and served in the Navy following World War II, his wife said.

After a year of law school at UCLA, Hagen decided to drop out, and try his hand at acting. "I just found it absolutely became part of me," Hagen said of acting in a 2004 interview with the Grants Pass Daily Courier. "It was something I couldn't walk away from. Do it or die."

--Um, did you know there is an entire Doc Baker website? Wow.

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Party girl Kimberly Stewart has claimed she no longer has time for her notorious red carpet antics because of work pressures. The 25-year-old daughter of rocker Rod Stewart complained her new modelling career leaves her with no time to party.

She said: "I just don't have time to go out the way I used to when I was 16."

Kimberly recently revealed she is heading to Australia to pursue her modeling career. She is planning to quit her base in Los Angeles and move to Sydney, according to The Mail on Sunday. "I've decided now is the time I should be traveling," she said. "I'm planning to move there for a couple of months - I've always wanted to be in Sydney."

The model was recently named face of Australia's iconic clothing company Antz Pantz, along with fellow socialite Nicky Hilton. The pair will also act as talent scouts to find an Aussie girl to appear in the company's campaign.

Kimberly said it means she will not see dad Rod for a while. She said: "Dad and I are used to spending months apart." She added: "It's a great opportunity for the Australian market to see more of me - literally."

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Keith Richards has finally been signed up to appear in one of the two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

The Rolling Stone will play Captain Jack Sparrow's father, co-star Bill Nighy has confirmed reports Contactmusic.com.

He said: "I can confirm, Keith Richards will appear in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 or 3. I'm not sure which one, because they are being filmed back to back."

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Willie Nelson is so "prolific" that sometimes even he forgets he has another record coming out. At a recent show here with Bob Dylan, Nelson performed a long list of hits, but not a single song from his new long-awaited reggae album.

"I keep forgetting," Nelson said a few days later by telephone from the road, which he's called home for most of the last 30 years. "The set is so short."

Nelson is indeed releasing a new reggae album, "Countryman," out Tuesday, and, at least sporadically, he's been working some of the songs into his shows.

Produced by Don Was, who's worked with the Rolling Stones and Bonnie Raitt among others, the album includes reggae versions of Nelson songs such as "Darkness On the Face of the Earth" and "One in a Row." There also are covers of Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" and "Sitting in Limbo," and a song called "I'm a Worried Man" by Johnny and June Carter Cash that Nelson recorded as a duet with Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals.

"When he (Cash) found out I was doing a reggae album, he said, 'Hey, I've got a reggae song that I wrote when I lived there,'" Nelson recalled. "Toots heard it and liked it."

While the music on "Countryman" might raise the eyebrows of country purists, so will the cover. With green marijuana leaves on a red and yellow background, the cover art makes the CD look like an oversized pack of rolling papers.

The marijuana imagery reflects Jamaican culture, where the herb is a leading cash crop and part of religious rites, but it also reflects Nelson's fondness for pot smoking. Universal Music Group Nashville is substituting palm trees for the marijuana leaves on CDs sold at the retail chain Wal-Mart, a huge outlet for country music that's also sensitive about lyrics and packaging. "They're covering all the bases," Nelson joked.

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1 Um, where the hell is everyone today?

Posted by: Lawren at July 11, 2005 01:27 PM (bJB+W)

2 I love Willie Nelson. I might go see him again this year at the Vogue. Nothing like walking a couple blocks from your home to see an American music legend perform in your 'hood.

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Madonna was a disappointing girlfriend, according to ex-lover Dennis Rodman.

The cross-dressing basketball player, who dated Madonna for almost a year in the '90s, claims although the pop queen was "good" in bed, she didn't blow his mind.

He confessed: "I've had my share of sleeping with beautiful women Madonna was alright. It was back in 1994, we were together for about a year. "It was alright man, she wasn't all that".

And Dennis also had an opinion about her music: "I told her that I never liked her music, she sucks, and all this stuff like that," Rodman revealed.

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And here is Monday's TomKat update:

--Her nutjob Scientology chaperone speaks for her: Katie Holmes appears in the August issue of W magazine posing in a Commes des Garcons wedding dress and continuing to gush about her fiance. The couple, who went public with their relationship in April, haven't announced a date for their marriage.

"Tom and I will always be in our honeymoon phase," Holmes says in W, on newsstands July 22. In the interview, a theme emerges with many similar comments, including "Tom is the most incredible man in the world."

During the W interview, the actress wouldn't part from Jessica Rodriguez, who is described as her "Scientologist chaperone." Rodriguez's role in Holmes' life remains vague, though Rodriguez says they're "just best friends" since meeting around the time Holmes met Cruise.

"You adore him," Rodriguez told Holmes when the actress was at a loss for words to describe her love.

--Save the children: Tom Cruise is raising his and Nicole Kidman's children as Scientologists. According to the May issue of Source, a magazine endorsed by the Church of Scientology, Cruise's 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, has completed the "Basic Study Manual," an introductory level course in the sci-fi-based religion that's been embraced by a swarm of Hollywood celebrities.

Isabella and her 10-year-old brother, Connor, live with Cruise in Beverly Hills, where they're being home-schooled by his Scientologist sisters Cass and Marian, according to Cultnews.com.

If Isabella and Connor follow their famous father into the L. Ron Hubbard-invented ideology, it will be a victory for Cruise over his ex-wife. When Kidman and Cruise's marriage fizzled in 2001, many close to the couple blamed Scientology.

The thorny issue of whose faith their children would adopt was cited as a major factor in the split. Kidman is a devout Catholic, while "War of the Worlds" star Cruise has been one of Scientology's most outspoken proponents. But their divorce settlement reportedly stipulates that both parents would make joint decisions about their children's education and religious upbringing.

--And in news related to the sane few who have publicly stood up against Cruise and Scientology: Brooke Shields is returning to Broadway in September to play Roxie Hart in Chicago. Shields has previously starred as Rizzo in the Grease revival and as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.

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Movie beauty Kate Hudson is thrilled she's inherited her mother Goldie Hawn's psychic abilities - because she loves talking to ghosts. The 26-year-old actress has developed a special relationship with dead people ever since Hawn took her to a real-life haunted house in London.

She tells movie magazine Empire, "I've seen ghosts and experienced mystical things. I've seen many ghosts. My mom is super into that stuff, we swap stories of our experiences all the time. I think I got my psychic abilities from her.

"One night I woke up and saw a beautiful woman in my bedroom. I was with an ex-boyfriend. I woke him up and said, 'Do you see what I'm seeing?' He said, 'No, what are you looking at?' I turned around and she was gone.

"Another time when I was young, I was in London with my mom, and we were staying in a house that was so crazy-haunted that she just packed us up and got us out of there."

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Nothing says love like Botox injections:

Jessica Simpson reportedly treated her manager/father to a new look as a Father's Day gift - Botox injections.

The singer handed dad Joe, 47, a $2,500 gift certificate so he could reduce his wrinkles.

A pal tells the magazine In Touch, "She wanted her debonair daddy to look his best."

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Madonna says she wrote the Kabbalah-themed children's books "Mr. Peabody's Apples," "Yakov and the Seven Thieves" and her latest, "Lotsa de Casha" — but an inside source says otherwise.

"All of Madonna's books are written by the Kabbalah Center's official ghostwriter, Eitan Yardeni," we're told. "Eitan also writes all of Yehuda and Phillip Berg's books and the Kabbalah Books for the Center. Last summer, he flew to London to help Madonna write the last book, but she didn't really do anything."

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Nearly four years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will direct a film based on the story of two police officers who were trapped in the rubble on Sept. 11, 2001.

Nicolas Cage, who won a best-actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," will star as Port Authority police Sgt. John McLoughlin. McLoughlin and fellow officer William J. Jimeno became trapped during rescue efforts after the collapse of the twin towers. Paramount Pictures said the movie is expected to be released next year.

"It's a work of collective passion, a serious meditation on what happened and carries within a compassion that heals," Stone said in a statement Friday. "It's an exploration of heroism in our country - but it's international at the same time in its humanity."

Paramount said the film also will focus on the officers' rescuers and their families. McLoughlin and Jimeno are said to be the last two men rescued.

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Hip-hop star 50 Cent has reportedly struck up an on-set romance with his new movie co-star Joy Bryant.

The rapper - real name Curtis Jackson - is currently filming the semi-autobiographical crime drama Get Rich Or Die Tryin' in his native New York City.

Bryant was linked to Usher earlier this year after she appeared in his untitled short-film.

An insider of the set of the film tells the New York Daily News, "Joy has a history of hooking up with her leading men. "But her and 50 are keeping this quiet. They avoid each other on the set, but there is a lot of sneaking into each other's hotel rooms."

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Leonardo DiCaprio will produce a film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.

The film will follow the race to recover the world's most dangerous substance, Ice-Nine, which freezes at room temperature.

Filming is expected to start later this year reports Variety. It has not been confirmed if Leonardo will star in the movie.

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