It’s a bird.  It’s a plane.  No, it’s the box office soaring faster than a speeding bullet this weekend with Superman Returns as its prime breadwinner.  The much awaited movie hits screens with 4,065 engagements this weekend.

The Warner Bros. Pictures film sped into 3,915 venues in North America Wednesday & cashed in more than $21 million in gross ticket sales.  The Wednesday premier was number 11 on the biggest Wednesday opening, of all time, just behind The Fellowship of the Ring which took in $18.2 million, with Spider-Man 2 taking the cake in 2004 with $40.4 million.

Superman Returns marks the first time in 19 years that the blue leotard-ed man has graced the silver screen.  With newcomer Brandon Routh donning the red cape, blowing-away-in-the-wind Kate Bosworth as newsie Lois Lane & Kevin Spacey as villain Lex Luthor, this new take on an old take will be an interesting couple of hours. 

See you bright & early Monday with more rumors & tales.  Happy weekend!

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PopSugar:  Victoria Beckham has a World Cup hair emergency

The Superficial:  Paris Hilton plays Noah in real life

Egotastic:  Thank heavens for little girls who help along Courtney Cox nipple slips

Celebitchy:  Tori Spelling reportedly learned of father Aaron’s death by text message, which does kinda makes sense with that family

Gossip or Truth:  Hilarious adoption anecdote inspired by Angelina Jolie, a must check-out

D Listed:  Star Jones is one crazy bitch

Defamer:  Brad Pitt & the case of the international embezzler

IDLYITW:  Britney Spears grows brains & considers move back home to Louisiana

Socialite’s Life:  Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey almost, forever no more

 

Well, it looks like a butt-load of paparazzi photos are coming out of the St. Regis resort in Bora Bora.  Nicole Kidman & new hubby Keith Urban privately jetted to Tahiti Monday for their honeymoon, only to find Eva Longoria & Tony Parker staying a few feet away.  So much for privacy…. 

Pictures of the Desperate Housewives star & her basketball lover have already surfaced along with honeymoon pics of the newlyweds Kidman & Urban.  
 
Longoria & Parker’s commercial flight touched down just minutes after Kidman & Urban landed in the main port city on their private Gulfstream jet from Australia.

The several high-profile guests have sent the Bora Bora resort into a code-orange like security mode, with staff on jet skis patrolling the perimeter regularly. 

Nicole & Keith have preferred to keep tucked away in their bungalow, which is equipped with a Jacuzzi & private pool while Eva & Tony have spent their time cruising around the island via golf carts. 

What a life.  I think I need to be whisked away to Bora Bora this weekend….

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Well it looks like we’re not rid of the mutants yet & hooray for that piece of news!  Twentieth Century Fox Studios is planning to keep the X-Men movie franchise going by making a spin-off movie about Wolverine starring Australian-born hottie Hugh Jackman as the title role, of course.  

Yesterday a Fox Studios spokesman confirmed that the film is in development with a script & is currently in the works but without a director as of yet.  The Wolverine film was originally slated for a 2007 release, per the Cine Expo conference in Amsterdam, but it really looks like we’ll be seeing more of our favorite mutants in early 2008.

Jackman has already signed on for the film, no word on the other stars such as Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen.
 
I can’t wait for new developments, and I will keep you up-to-date as the flittering rumors hit these ears.  Hmmm… I wonder what this goodie will hold.  Will we see Wolverine’s past sins & his reasons for volunteering for the adamantium project?  Woooo…..

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Pink is the New Blog:  Superman, the man of steel, gets waxed

Jossip:  Brad Pitt gets justice

D Listed:  Juliette Lewis is wacko

Defamer:  Eww!!!  Mary-Lynn Rajskub, spit & gargle- you were, for some reason, just smooching Rush Limbaugh, gag & gross!

Celebitchy:  Teri Hatcher spotted sporting her bikini

Gossip or Truth:  Lindsay Lohan- what the hell?

Egotastic:  Jessica Alba, don’t you wish you were her puppy?

PopSugar:  Jessica Alba- bottoms up!

The Superficial:  Paris Hilton attempts a prank & Paris Hilton fails at prank

Well, it looks like the adopting newborn twins rumor is on hold, as new reports are surfacing that Angelina Jolie & partner Brad Pitt may be adopting an older male child this week.

To add to their vast array of children, this older child will more than likely be from an impoverished nation & come already named.  The couple have two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, and a biological baby daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, born in Namibia last month.

A source told Us Weekly that the Hollywood duo plan to “adopt an (older) child to support the idea that people should adopt more children, not just babies.”

Maybe if I wear a dirty sheet with a big, shy smile & post all my mail from India, the Jolie-Pitt’s will adopt me.  Older female child up for adoption, parental units must be willing to travel….

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Amidst all the Star Jones quitting / getting fired ‘View’ drama, I thought we’d take a look-see at what Star had to say on the radio show “On-Air with Ryan Seacrest” this morning. 

If you’ve been hiding under a well-hidden rock, The View’s Star Jones did not get her contract renewed for next year’s 10th year as a co-host on the show.  Yesterday on the air, Jones admitted that she would be leaving the show in July which irritated Barbara Walters to no end, as Walters had no idea Star would approach this topic on-air. 

Jones was asked to appear on the show today or ever again, yesterday being Star’s last show on the nine-years-running morning talk show.  Here are Star Jones & Ryan Seacrest now, courtesy of US Weekly.

Star Jones: I was told yesterday that they did not want me to return today.
 
Ryan Seacrest: So you’re not going on today?
 
SJ: Nope, not at all. I was told yesterday was my last day.
 
RS: And originally you thought you would be on until when?
 
SJ: Originally they asked me to be on until July 13. This was a request from Barbara [Walters] and Bill [Geddie, executive producer], the date was chosen by them. They requested it. This was…negotiated They wanted to not leave the show without a fourth anchor. I agreed to do that for the show. I agreed to do it.
 
RS: But wait, their reaction, they’re asking you not to come back today for the show?
 
SJ: They told me.
 
RS: They told you do not come back to the show. Was that a result of what you said yesterday on the air?
 
SJ: No, no, no, it’s not a result of what I said yesterday on the air. It’s because I tell the truth, and it was a beautiful tribute to them, I’m not really sure. It was their decision. And I wasn’t called personally, my agents were called.
 
RS: So you haven’t spoken to any of the girls?
 
SJ: No that’s not true. I did speak to one and I don’t want to share because that’s very personal and private
 
RS: Out of respect did Barbara call?
 
SJ: No, not at all.
 
RS: Star, thank you for coming on this morning.

Gossip or Truth:  Jessica Simpson’s hot, public affair

Celebitchy:  I know you wanna see Cameron Diaz’s nipple

Jossip:  Pregnant Britney Spears in the nude for Bazaar

PopSugar:  BET Awards roundup

The Superficial:  Eva Longoria is a very expressive, cottage-cheese-ass woman

IDLYITW:  Spider-Man 3 trailer

Pink is the New Blog:  Jude Law insists on wearing bad shoes with Sienna Miller

Egotastic:  Ashlee Simpson considers nude Playboy layout

There goes the neighborhood!  Europe beware of chimpanzees, child snatching & spiked diet Coke, ’cause Michael Jackson is moving into a town near you.

Pop legend Michael Jackson has decided to move to Europe to escape the judgmental looks he receives in the US as well as take a stab at revitalizing his singing career from the dust bin.  Jackson has been residing in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the borderless island nation in the Persian Gulf, since his acquittal of child molestation charges in 2005.  Jackson himself seems to be a borderless island nation in the Gulf of Crazy Pants. 

A spokeswoman for Michael stated, “He’s just decided that with all of the projects he’s going to be involved with and all of the people he’s beginning to work with in the music industry, it’s easier (to live in Europe).  He’ll be going back and forth to Bahrain but Europe will be his principal residence.”

No word as of yet on where exactly in Europe the pop star will be living.  I wouldn’t be surprised if he moved to Canada because he thought it was Europe.  Michael just likes to get a buffet sampling of children around the world I guess.

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Talk show extraordinaire Rush Limbaugh was detained at a Florida airport yesterday after authorities confiscated a bottle of Viagra among his luggage without a prescription.

The 55-year-old conservative & Viagra-needer spent three hours in custody at the Palm Beach International Airport following a flight from the Dominican Republic.  The drug in Limbaugh’s possession had two doctors’ names on the bottle & was not in his name.   

Limbaugh’s lawyer Roy Black told the press, “(The bottle was) labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes.”

So much for that privacy….

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The Superficial:  The Backstreet Boys say goodbye to Kevin Richardson

PopSugar:  Lindsay Lohan loses latest stylist

Just Jared:  George Clooney spotted with new lady

D Listed:  Janet Jackson, in fact, is just another crazy-brained Jackson

Jossip:  Star Jones’ new window view

Gossip or Truth:  More Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban wedding pics

Celebitchy:  Snakes on a Plane trailer, silly, eh? 

Instant success British author J. K. Rowling has refused to change her mind about penning and more Harry Potter books.  Rowling is determined to retire the teenage wizard before he becomes something similar to a stale piece of bread, that may look enticing if you’re ravenous, but is still a stale morsel. 

Rowling is currently in the midst of writing the final Harry Potter novel & admits that she will find it difficult to cope without her famous Potter & pals.  

She says, “I’m going to have to learn (to live without him), I think.

“(But) you’ve got to go out on top.”

Too true.  Why I was just on top the other day…..

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Producer & Hollywood legend Aaron Spelling died last Friday in Los Angeles due to complications from the stroke he suffered June 18.  Daughter Tori Spelling had just made amends with her father before he passed away.

Over the course of his mighty career, Aaron Spelling produced over 200 TV shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Vegas, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, T.J. Hooker, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Charmed & 7th Heaven.  Spelling also produced more than 140 television made-for-TV movies.

Tori Spelling was relieved to have made peace with her father before he died as well as being able to introduce her second husband to her dad for the first time. 
 
She explains, “I’m grateful I recently had the opportunity to reconcile with my father and most grateful we had the chance to tell each other we loved one another before he passed away.

“It’s a true blessing to have had a parent that loved me unconditionally.

“He had a heart as big as his talent and today, along with many others, I mourn his loss. He was a great man and an even better father.”

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PopSugar:  The newlyweds Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban

The Superficial:  Paris Hilton & Britney Spears still going black

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Egotastic:  Keira Knightley’s naughties

Celebitchy:  Kevin Federline outtakes from Item shoot

I know this is a little bit late, but better now than never, right?  Apparently E. Pierce Marshall who was in a fierce legal battle with Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith died last Tuesday unexpectedly.
 
The 67-year-old business man died in the Dallas area after a “brief and extremely aggressive infection.”  I wonder, was the extremely aggressive infection named Anna Nicole Smith?

E. Pierce Marshall & Anna Nicole Smith were in a long legal battle after Marshall’s father & Smith’s husband, J. Howard Marshall died in 1995.  Smith married the 89-year-old oil tycoon in 1994 when the then topless dancer was 26.

J. Howard Marshall was at the time one of the wealthiest men in Texas, worth more than $1.6 billion.  Smith claimed that her husband promised her half of his estate, while his son E. Pierce stated that the more than $6 million in gifts she received from J. Howard was all that his father intended to leave her. 

In May, Anna Nicole won her chance to collect millions when the US Supreme Court Justices overturned a US appeals court ruling that stated the widow was entitled to nothing. 

So, what does this mean for Anna Nicole now?  Does she win by default?  Did she hire an infection to kill her legal combatant?  I’m sure there will be more to follow & I will be there to fill you in on all the greasy details.

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Nicole Kidman did go ahead & ask soon-to-be husband Keith Urban to sign a prenup agreement earlier this month.

The prenup between Kidman & Urban guarantees Keith $600,000 for each year they are married.  There is a clause that excuses Nicole from giving him a red cent if Urban, an ex-coke head, starts using again or abuses alcohol excessively.  The agreement was signed in Los Angeles & also calls for joint custody of any children the couple have together. 

The big wedding event will happen this weekend in a Catholic ceremony expected to be held at an old Gothic chapel overlooking the sea in a Sydney suburb.  The 39-year-old beauty will be wearing a long, white gown with Victorian-style high collar.  

Amoung the 200 guests who will toast the couple this weekend include Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Hugh Jackman & exes Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney.
 
Urban is expected to sing a few songs at the reception, including his ballad, “Making Memories of Us.”
 
Meanwhile US Weekly reports that Kidman held her bachelorette party at her sister Antonia’s home.  The stripper-free party was quite elegant & included a recipe swap.  I wonder if Zellweger was there…  She probably has a ‘Why Not to Marry Country Stars’ recipe.

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PopSugar:  Superman Returns Premier

Gossip or Truth:  The man in the white suit is trying to kill me, the man in the white suit is trying to kill me…..

Celebitchy:  Britney Spears:  Once you go black, you never go back

Egotastic:  Lindsay Lohan & the anti-bra campaign

D Listed:  Bon Jovi sports his uh… style?

The Superficial:  Reese Witherspoon sues Star magazine

Pink is the New Blog:  Kevin Federline making no cents

David Hasselhoff was caught crying on camera during the American Idol finale at the end of May.  Hasselhoff has endured the scoffing of many a media, but still keeps his head high & even wishes politicians would follow his lead & show some emotion as well.

The former Baywatch star was in the audience when the American Idol winner was announced, after the fierce Katharine McPhee v.s. Taylor Hicks showdown.  The actor was overcome with emotion when Taylor Hicks took the Idol crown.  Here he is now. 
 
“Is it wrong for a grown man to cry? Maybe if we had more emotion in the White House we wouldn’t be in this mess we’re in.

“What moved me was the person sitting next to me is my best friend–he has brain cancer. It was his birthday and this was his present.

“When Taylor Hicks won I said, ‘Isn’t that cool? A guy gets the American Dream.’ Then I look over at my best friend who says, ‘Isn’t it great to be alive?’

“I find it kind of strange that you have to explain that in this world. What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with having emotion?”

Despite having posed nude with Shar Pei puppies, which was so totally strange, Hasselhoff wins points with those comments.

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Adding to the long list of Hollywood celebs that are sporting a pregnant belly, Philip Seymour Hoffman & his longtime girlfriend Mimi O’Donnell are expecting their second child together. 

O’Donnell is four months along & due in November which will make their three-year-old son Cooper a big brother. 

The couple met in 1999 when O’Donnell was managing costume design for the play In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, which Hoffman was directing & they’ve been together ever since.  And what an adorable couple they are. 

Wow.  I’m not sure I’m going to be able to keep up with all the stars that have gone belly up pregs!

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