Gold-medal-winning gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner welcomed their first child, son Dylan Paul, on Saturday.

"He already has definition in his deltoids and his biceps," Conner, 48, tells the Associated Press. Conner won two gold medals at the 1984 Olympics and is the only American male gymnast to win gold medals at every level of competition.

Adds Comaneci, 44, the first Olympic gymnast to score a perfect 10, "We've been through a lot of high moments in our life in sports through what we accomplished, but this is just something that is totally unique."

Dylan was actually due to arrive next month, the 30th anniversary of his mother's seven perfect 10s at the Montreal.

Source: People

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Britney Spears has called in the lawyers to end her marriage to Kevin Federline as quickly as possible.

The popstar is expecting her second child with Federline, but apparently Britney is determined to push through a divorce after becoming estranged from the dancer-turned-rapper.

A source tells The News Of The World, “Britney has already started seeing lawyers about splitting with Kevin. “She is serious about it and even though she’s pregnant she knows that she has to get things moving. “It’s a very stressful time for her at the moment what with expecting her second baby.”

Source: Entertainmentwise

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TV beauty Teri Hatcher was appalled when she was told a picture of her face was going to be used as a demonstration for women who needed plastic surgery.

In an extract from her autobiography Burnt Toast, the Desperate Housewives star explains her disgust at the actions of surgeons who try to persuade people that they should go under the knife. She writes, "It's true 40 was an amazing year for me. I got my first beauty campaigns with Clairol and Hydroderm... So you might understand my surprise when a magazine emailed me, cheerily informing me that they were going to print my photo alongside the opinions of a panel of plastic surgeons making recommendations as to the kind of 'work' I needed. So I emailed back. I was horrified at the idea that some plastic surgeons who'd never met me and knew nothing of my medical history or my current health would make suggestions about how, under general anesthetic, I could have cosmetic manipulations to improve my face and body.

I wrote, 'Wow. First of all I am so sorry for your readers. I cannot believe this is what you want to put out there for women.' 'What kind of message do you think you are sending to women, when you tell them that a celebrity - Teri Hatcher, a woman who has had a second chance, who has a great year, a great job, won awards, made money, and has a beautiful daughter - that even she needs plastic surgery to be 'better?'"

Source: IMDB

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DonÂ’t be surprised if Tom Cruise becomes a NASCAR fan. Scientology is getting into the wildly popular race sport.

“Dianetics,” the book written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, is sponsoring a racing team — dubbed “Ignite Your Potential” — that will tour the NASCAR circuit. A Dianetics Racing Web site is being set up for fans.

Driver Kenton Gray credits Hubbard’s work with making him a good driver. “It’s markedly improved my focus and my consistency,” he said in an announcement from Hubbard’s publisher. “Through ‘Dianetics’ I’ve handled stress and increased my performance and ability to compete—both on the track and in life.”

“Scientology makes a point of recruiting celebrities as a part of it’s marketing appeal,” says a source. “If this is another marketing appeal — reaching out to the NASCAR crowd — it’s brilliant.”

“We’re not out selling a product,” Grant Cardone, the CEO of Freedom Motorsports, the company behind the car, told The Scoop. But he says, he too, is a fan of “Dianetics,” and if the Ignite Your Potential car helps troubled people, “that would be great.”

Source: MSNBC

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Illusionist David Copperfield is planning to go one better than rival David Blaine by impregnating a woman live onstage. The magician will carry out the stunt in Germany, without - he insists - even touching the volunteer.

Copperfield tells PageSix.com, "There is a great deal of new territory to conquer. I'm going to make a girl pregnant. Naturally there will be no sex. "Everybody will be happy about it, but I'm not telling you any more."

Source: Barbie Martini

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Metal god-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie has been tapped to revive the successful "Halloween" franchise, some 28 years after accomplished horror director John Carpenter's influential slasher flick first introduced the world to Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient who massacred his family on Halloween night.

Dimension Films issued a press release over the weekend, confirming weeks of online rumors that Zombie would be directing the film. Zombie will also serve as one of its producers, and act as the movie's music supervisor. "Halloween" will mark Zombie's third stint behind the lens, following his 2003 directorial debut "House of 1000 Corpses" and that film's sequel, 2005's "The Devil's Rejects," which centered around grease-painted sociopath Captain Spaulding and the murderous Firefly clan.

According to Zombie, his vision of the next "Halloween" film features an entirely new take on the legend of Myers, and should oblige fans of Carpenter's classic legacy while opening a new chapter in the Myers saga. He assured that this next film, slated for an October 2007 release, would not be a copycat of any prior "Halloween" flicks. Malek Akkad, who produced 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later," and Andy Gould, who worked with Zombie on "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," will be co-producing the project with Zombie.

The ninth installment in the "Halloween" franchise will be "a bit of a prequel and a remake, combined," Zombie said. The film will be set before the events of 1981's "Halloween 2: Halloween Resurrection," and will focus on Myers' origins and development into a serial killer — his youthful years before his commitment to a mental institution.

Source: MTV

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New Jersey might become the next state to legalize medical marijuana, if Montel Williams has anything to do with it.

The talk-show host is scheduled to speak soon at a hearing on the pain-killing herb in Trenton, and he's already been honored by the D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project. The former Marine, who has multiple sclerosis, will also be on hand Monday at Capitale in NYC for the group's gala emceed by Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling and hosted by Susan Sarandon and Mary-Louise Parker.

The most surprising face in the long-haired crowd might be Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau, a medical marijuana supporter.

Source: New York Post

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1 Anyone who wants to smoke pot should just move here to Denver. Yes, we're so proud. (

Posted by: Nanc' at June 06, 2006 07:09 AM (Ailrt)

2 Oregon also has legalized medical marijuana. Good for him.

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Before he flew to Paris to serve as commentator on the French Open for NBC Sports, tennis legend John McEnroe showed his darker side.

While playing against fellow New Yorker and Outback Champions Series senior tour rival Jim Courier at an exhibition match in Atlanta, the tennis brat showed his displeasure at losing a point to Courier by dropping his drawers and hanging a McEnroe moon. Tennis starlet Anna Kournikova was among the 5,000 horrified fans to view McEnroe's bare behind.

--God, I miss him. Or, tennis players with personalities in general.

Source: New York Post

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got top dollar for the first pictures of baby Shiloh - but they made the weekly celeb glossies work for it.

All the weekly magazine editors were summoned to the offices of the Getty photo agency at Canal and Varick late Saturday night. "We were sequestered into separate and un-air-conditioned offices," said one. "The photos were shown to us around 10 p.m. to midnight, and then we had to submit bids by 6 a.m. Sunday morning. No one got any sleep at all, as it was a manic game of phone-tag to top each other's bids. I'm convinced it was Brangie's revenge on the weekly magazines." The pictures went to People for $4.1 million.

Source: New York Post

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Woody Harrelson and his wife, Laura Louie, already the parents of two girls, celebrated the arrival of their third on Saturday.

"In this crazy patriarchal world we live in, we are doing our part to balance the energy. We are proud to announce the completion of our goddess trilogy with the birth of our third daughter, Makani Ravello, born on June 3rd," the couple said.

Harrelson, 44, Louie, 41, and their two daughters, Denni Montana, 13, and Zoe Giordano, 9, live on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

Source: People

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are getting tough with the paparazzi.

The lovebirds, worried that sneaky lensmen will get unauthorized shots of their June 25 wedding in Sydney, Australia, are planning to stage the ceremony at night. Their wedding planners say the service will begin after 6:30 p.m. as the sun sets, making it nearly impossible for snappers flying overhead in helicopters to take decent - and marketable - pictures.

Source: New York Post

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Three separate witnesses in Mexico have spotted Olivia Newton-John's missing boyfriend, who was thought to have fallen overboard during a deep-sea fishing trip nearly a year ago, Australia's Daily Telegraph reports.

Patrick McDermott, 48, a cameraman whom Newton-John met in 1996, disappeared on June 30, 2005, while on an overnight fishing trip out of San Pedro, Calif. Subsequent news reports revealed that he had amassed a mountain of debts and faced possible jail time over thousands of dollars in child support he owed his ex-wife, actress Yvette Nipar.

But according to a story on Monday in the Daily Telegraph – which says that McDermott is now suspected of faking his death – he has been seen in Mexico's Baja Peninsula over the past three months, and as recently as 10 days ago. Manuel Valdez, owner of a bar north of the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas, tells the paper he saw McDermott three months ago and was struck by McDermott's mood, saying "it was one of those situations where you don't know if the person is on drugs or normally quiet."

Source: People

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Actor Casey Affleck and his girlfriend of six years, Summer Phoenix, got married over the weekend.

Affleck, 30, is the younger brother of Ben Affleck; Phoenix, 28, is the younger sister of actors Joaquin and the late River Phoenix.

The couple first met through Joaquin Phoenix, Affleck's good friend since they costarred in 1995's To Die For. They became engaged in New York City over the 2003 Christmas holidays. Their son, Indiana August, was born May 31, 2004, in Amsterdam.

Affleck and Phoenix are both passionate about politics, animal rights and veganism. "He is a bleeding heart," Phoenix told Boston magazine of her then-fiancé. "He is the most generous guy I have ever met." Affleck is currently filming the movie Gone, Baby, Gone, brother Ben's directorial debut. He also starred with Ben's best friend, Matt Damon, in the Ocean's 11 movies and Gus Van Sandt's 2002 drama, Gerry.

Phoenix has appeared on ER and in the HBO docudrama The Laramie Project, as well as in such films as 1998's The Faculty and SLC Punk!

--Don't they look like a happy couple?!?!

Source: People

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Ever wonder if SPF was injured when he took a tumble out of his high chair awhile back? Check out his head dent:

Source: A Socialite's Life

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American Idol favorite Chris Daughtry has declined an offer to become the lead singer for the multiplatinum rock band Fuel, he said.

"I'm going to be doing my own thing," Daughtry, a 26-year-old from McLeansville, N.C., told The Charlotte Observer on Saturday.

The band had offered Daughtry the job only hours after his elimination from the FOX show last month. Bass player Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist Carl Bell told the TV show Extra that Daughtry was invited to replace singer Brett Scallions, who quit in February.

Daughtry said he expects to announce his next career move in a few months, most likely after this summer's American Idol concert tour ends.

Source: People

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Shannen Doherty was furious when she found out her former Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Tori Spelling made fun of her on her new TV show So NoTORIous.

The star was especially shocked because Spelling had specifically told Doherty she would never say a bad word about her on the series. She explains, "(Spelling) sent me a tape of the pilot and a very, very, very small note asking me to do the show, promising that she would never say a bad word about me ever, and we used to be best friends, and still care about each other." Doherty was stunned when friends began calling her to tell her about the on-air abuse after the show aired.

The star explains, "I was on a self-imposed hiatus. I needed time to myself and I said no. I don't know if it was something taken personally or maybe it was 'If we make fun of her, it will bring in the ratings and the publicity.' It did hurt. I hope it helped her. If mentioning my name made people write about it, then great. Good for you. I get it. It's a business."

Source: IMDB

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Jessica Simpson had to seek medical attention after suffering from a possible stomach ulcer.

The star was seen leaving a Beverly Hills, California medical clinic on May 19th. A source close to the singer tells the US edition of Ok! magazine she was seeing a physician and undergoing tests to confirm whether or not she has an ulcer.

Simpson is back in the studio working on her next album and is in the middle of a divorce battle with estranged husband Nick Lachey.

Source: Teen Hollywood

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Joseph R. Gannascoli, who played a closeted gay mobster on HBO's The Sopranos, is being sued by the manufacturer of a diet drug.

The maker of Stacker 2 filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming Gannascoli hasn't been doing enough to promote the product after receiving about $316,000 from the company over the last 2 1/2 years.

"He was very difficult to work with all the time," Robert Occhifinto, president of Sussex County-based dietary supplement maker NVE Pharmaceuticals, told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers.

Gannascoli, 47, disputed the company's claim, which came after a tough few episodes for his character, Vito Spatafore, who was beaten to death after his secret homosexual life was discovered. "I begged them to do things but they wouldn't," he told the newspaper. "They didn't like I was doing the gay thing" in his TV role.

Last month, Gannascoli signed with another company to endorse a competing diet pill.

Source: USA Today

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Results of the MTV Movie Awards:

Best movie - Wedding Crashers
Performance - Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
Comedic performance - Steve Carell (The 40-Year-old Virgin)
On-screen team - Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers)
Villain - Hayden Christensen (Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge Of The Sith)
Breakthrough performance - Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers)
Hero - Christian Bale (Batman Begins)
Sexiest performance - Jessica Alba (Sin City)
Fight - Angelina Jolie vs. Brad Pitt (Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
Kiss - Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
Frightened performance - Jennifer Carpenter (The Exorcism Of Emily Rose)
MTVU student filmmaker award - Joshua Caldwell (A Beautiful Lie)
Silver Bucket of Excellence - Spike Lee (Do The Right Thing)
MTV Generation Award - Jim Carrey

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Jessica Simpson can breathe easier. Producers of the prequel to "The Dukes of Hazzard" decided against having Simpson back as a younger version of Daisy Duke. Instead, they were considering younger, equally blond Kristin Cavallari of "Laguna Beach." But Simpson dislikes Cavallari because she hooked up with Simpson's ex, Nick Lachey, several months ago. Critical comparisons would have been painful.

But now Maxim model and "Deal or No Deal" showgirl April Scott has been cast in the role. Sadly for Scott, it's a straight-to-DVD release.

Source: New York Post

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