Katie Holmes. The $5 Million Dollar Woman?

Ben Widdicombe has something very interesting to tell us about a recently engaged couple.

So here's what I'm hearing about that relationship. A source VERY close to the deal is saying there's a contract. It's worth $5 million.

It's for five years.

There will be no sex.

The deal was sealed June 7.

I am totally at a loss for who that could be. Who mad a contract with the devil? Well if he is talking about Tom and Katie, we apparently have to thank Oprah for their engagement.

He met up with Oprah in Paris — she was in town shopping and going to art galleries; Tom was promoting War of the Worlds. At the meeting, "Oprah said proposing on top of the Eiffel Tower was a brilliant idea," says a source close to Tom. "Oprah's been giving him all the advice he needs about how to look after Katie."

How he needs to look after Katie? Well, he may want to lay off on the Scientology. That's probably not going to happen. If a Scientology wedding does occur, here are a few details of the merging between the holy union and Scientology.

After their vows, the couple may exchange rings embossed with Scientology's ARC triangle, which stands for Affinity Reality Communication, says Rev. James Newell, a Scientology minister from Clearwater, Fla.

Communication seems key to a religion set on eradicating the "reactive mind," and most couples are encouraged to engage in counseling sessions with the sect's singular "e-meters," which reportedly sense the presence of negative emotion.

I have a feeling that Tom is just plain happy that he bought found a young and impressionable starlet to complete his charade life.

Jake "Coy" on Brokeback Love Scenes

Image hosted by Photobucket.com Gyllenhaal spoke briefly to Entertainment Weekly about how he's "mystified by the hoopla" surrounding his gay cowboy role in Brokeback Mountain:

"I really did approach it like I would any love story. No matter how weird people might think it is or how f---ed up they might consider a certain relationship to be, if there is love there, then that's all that matters." Asked about rumors that the film's love scenes break explicit new ground, he laughs coyly. "I mean...I don't know...Um, all I can say is that they're there." Another mischievous laugh.

Giggle, giggle.

In Hawaii for the Maui Film Festival, Jake also tells the Maui News, "[Choosing a topical story] wasn’t really a conscious move. With Brokeback Mountain, it just moved me deeply. When I read the script, I had never read a love story that was told in the way that one was."

Sharon Stone For Playboy

Image hosted by Photobucket.comSHARON STONE is set to pose nude for PLAYBOY - 15 years after her first photospread in the steamy magazine.

The 47-year-old, who posed for HUGH HEFNER's popular publication in 1990 before finding international fame in steamy movie BASIC INSTINCT, is expected to accept a generous offer to expose her physique again in a tropical location.

A source tells British newspaper DAILY MAIL, "Sharon's sizzling and Playboy noticed. And she has been asked to pose again before she hits the big 50.

"Sharon thinks it will be very sexy to pose in the sand."
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Aniston says, He Never Cheated

Image hosted by Photobucket.comThe NY Post stated that Jennifer Aniston told Vanity Fair that Brad Pitt cheated on her. However, her rep says that the Vanity Fair interview hasn't taken place.

Jennifer Aniston is denying the New York Post's breathless report that she blames Brad Pitt's cheating heart for the Golden Ones' split.

Her rep, Stephen Huvane, tells MSN Entertainment that the story, reportedly leaked from an upcoming Vanity Fair interview, is baloney. "Jennifer (had) a brief meeting with the writer of the Vanity Fair piece, but the sit-down interview has not yet happened."

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Quick News

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LITTLE SQUIRT: Tom Cruise drenched with water by a bogus British TV interviewer at the London premiere of War of the Worlds Sunday. The prankster and three other men--who were shooting the squirting gag for a British TV show--were arrested. Katie Holmes was with Cruise but managed to escape undampened. Three of the men were released on bail; one was detained for further questioning.

BACKLASH: Steven Spielberg telling Newsweek that he thinks the media "punished" Cruise for his public declaration of his love for Holmes during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, but downplaying speculation that Cruise's outspoken passion will hurt publicity for War of the Worlds.

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"Idol" Going Underground Online

Think you've got what it takes to be the next Carrie Underwood...or at least William Hung?

Wannabes hankering for a shot at American Idol, but who don't want to deal with auditioning in front of Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell for the Fox competition can now take their act online.

Idol's London-based producer, FreemantleMedia, has sealed a deal with Internet start-up company Fluid Audio Networks to launch American Idol Underground, a Web-based service that will give music hopefuls a chance to showcase their talents before a panel of celebrity judges.

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B.I.G. Trial Ready to Roll

Image hosted by Photobucket.comAccording to the Notorious B.I.G.'s family, the rapper's murder case is still very much alive.

Unfortunately, the family claims, it seems to be doing all the legwork.

"No family should have to do the job of the LAPD," said Perry R. Sanders Jr., the attorney representing the slain rapper's estate. Sanders spoke at a Los Angeles press conference Monday on the eve of the family's federal wrongful death trial against the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Attack Leaves Leo in Stitches

Leonardo DiCaprio might think twice before attending another party held by Paris Hilton's sex-tape costar, Rick Salomon.

As the actor departed a Hollywood Hills gathering hosted by the 1 Night in Paris player in the wee hours of Friday morning, he was bashed in the face by a woman wielding what appeared to be a beer bottle.

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Paris Quote

"Do not fuck with my people, mom! I have nothing to promote. I am not going on Leno with you!"
--Paris Hilton, quoted in Star, overheard shouting at her mom, Kathy. The elder Hilton was trying to get Paris to join her on Jay's couch to help pimp her mom's tacky, social-climbing-as-spectator-sport reality show, I Want to Be a Hilton. But it turns out Paris did have to promote something in the end: family harmony. Jay refused to book Mrs. Hilton without her spoiled-brat daughter, so Paris showed up

HomeyWood

The Wayans Brothers plan to transform a depressed area of Oakland into a movie studio surrounded by hotels, rides, shopping and other attractions. This is the greatest idea since Dollywood. No name has been mentioned yet, but may we suggest Homeywood?