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Brody Jenner and The Hills star Lauren "L.C." Conrad are "seeing each other," Jenner tells PEOPLE.

"I don't know what you consider dating, but we're seeing each other, we're having a great time with it," Jenner tells PEOPLE. "She's an amazing girl. That's all there is to say. She's fun to be around. She's sweet. She's kind. There's nothing bad to say about her."

There had been speculation about a romance between the pair, who arrived together at Wednesday's Rock & Republic fashion show at the West Hollywood club Area. Last week they were spotted twice at Hollywood hot spot Les Deux, where an observer said they looked "very cozy."

Conrad, however, was coy about her relationship with Jenner, saying only, "He's a nice guy."

Earlier this month, Jenner split up with Nicole Richie, whom he'd been dating since August. They began seeing each other just weeks after Jenner, 23, ended his year-and-a-half relationship with Laguna Beach star Kristin Cavallari. (Conrad also starred on Laguna Beach.)

Asked if he's still in contact with Richie, Jenner tells PEOPLE: "Yeah, of course. Me and Nicole remain good friends. Nothing will change that."

Jenner, a Guess model who starred in The Princes of Malibu, and Richie have known each other since they were toddlers.

Conrad split from her fellow Laguna Beach alum Jason Wahler in August.
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Lawyers for Duane "Dog" Chapman announced in a Honolulu press conference on Friday that a Mexican court will delay prosecution of the bounty hunter until more evidence in the case can be presented.

Chapman, 53, his son Leland, 29, and his associate, Timothy Chapman (no relation), 41, were arrested by U.S. marshals in Hawaii in September for charges stemming from their 2003 apprehension of Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster in Mexico, where bounty hunting is illegal.

Chapman said Friday that he's eager to clear his name in Mexico and return to that country to nab more fugitives: "These guys know where to run, they know where the Dog can't find them," he said.

Asked by reporters if chasing down Luster was worth it, Chapman replied, "Absolutely, life is but a trial, you just have to get through it and get stronger." He reiterated that his team believed they were operating within Mexican law at the time.

When they were arrested in September, Chapman and his co-stars spent the night in federal lock-up before posting $300,000 bond at a bail hearing the next day. "I was put in a cell – if you can imagine what Hannibal Lecter went through, minus the collar," Chapman said at the time.

The men were originally arrested in Mexico for not turning Luster – a fugitive convicted of raping three women – over to Mexican police and then jumped bail. Luster is currently serving a 124-year prison term in the U.S.

The televised arrest of Luster helped catapult Chapman to fame with his A&E TV show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, now in its third season.

Chapman, his son and his associate have been ordered to appear at an extradition hearing in Hawaii, but is now pending a ruling from the Mexican court. A date also has not been set for the hearing abroad, but Chapman's lawyers expect it will happen before the year's end.

Meanwhile, Chapman and his co-stars announced Friday that their ankle bracelets were removed last week and that they continue to film episodes of Bounty Hunter.
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Deadwood actress Molly Parker and her husband, Matt Bissonnette, have welcomed their first child, son William Strummer Bissonnette, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

William, who was born last Friday in Los Angeles, weighed in at 8 lbs. and 12 oz.

"Both mother and son are doing well," Parker's publicist tells PEOPLE.

Parker, 34, plays Deadwood's Alma Garret, a New York society woman who reinvents herself in a 19th-century South Dakota town. Recently she co-starred with Ben Affleck and Diane Lane in Hollywoodland.

Up next for the actress: her husband directs her in the upcoming drama, Who Loves the Sun.
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She's been happily married to Keith Urban since June, but Nicole Kidman has a reason to think about bumpy unions these days: Her new movie, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, takes a fictionalized look at the troubled marriage of the late photographer.

In Rome promoting the film, Kidman, 39, was asked her thoughts on fidelity. "I don't think that sexual faithfulness is the most important one," she said. "It is the easiest type to define, but mental unfaithfulness is far more subtle and dangerous. How far can you go in this type without being 'really' unfaithful? It's a difficult issue for which I don't have answers, only questions."

Arbus, who in 1971 committed suicide at age 48 in her Greenwich Village apartment, was acclaimed – and criticized – for her stark black-and-white photographs of transvestites, nudists and others on the fringe of society. She was also the mother of two daughters who managed a successful career at a time when it was rare for a woman to make her mark in the workplace.

"Reading Arbus's biography by Patricia Bosworth (on which Fur is based), I found many things in common with myself," Kidman said. "I have a passion for photography. I collect black and white photos by Man Ray and Lee Miller, also her wish to explore the world – to not give up on hopes and dreams and to live life in a brave way."

Kidman also noted that women face the same dilemma Arbus did in the 1960s: "Despite the fact that we live in a different era, women are still torn between having a family and a career. During the time I was divorced, I was able to explore different roads. Now that I am happily married again, there are limits."

In the film, Arbus develops a fascination with her neighbor (Robert Downey Jr.), who suffers from a rare disease that causes his entire body to be covered with fur.

Could Kidman herself ever fall in love with an ugly man? "Why not?" she said. "Of course I could fall in love with an ugly man ... even a very ugly man. True love is about loving firstly and, above all, the soul of the other person, and souls don't age. Nor do they develop wrinkles."
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Keith Urban has checked himself into a rehabilitation treatment center for alcohol abuse, less than four months after his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman.

The Grammy-winning country singer released a statement Friday that said he entered rehab Thursday night with his wife by his side. His publicist would not give the location of the rehab center.

"I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones that love and support me," Urban said in the statement.

Urban, who turns 39 on Oct. 26, has publicly acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine.

"One can never let one's guard down on recovery, and I'm afraid that I have," the statement read.

Urban's new CD, "Love, Pain, & the whole crazy thing," will be released Nov. 7 as scheduled, but he will postpone all upcoming promotional appearances.

Urban will also likely cancel a scheduled appearance on the Country Music Association awards next month, the publicist said.

Kidman and Urban, who were both raised in Australia, married on June 25 in Sydney. They then moved to Nashville, where Urban records.

Urban won a Grammy this year for best male country vocalist for "You'll Think of Me," and was named top male vocalist for the second year in a row by the Academy of Country Music.

A Country Weekly magazine reader poll this year named him country music's sexiest man.

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Spoony Singh, who once said he founded the world famous Hollywood Wax Museum to give tourists who couldn't find any real celebrities in Hollywood the next best thing, has died. He was 83.

Singh died Wednesday at his Malibu home of congestive heart failure, his family announced Friday.

It was while touring Hollywood looking for famous faces in 1964 that Singh thought of the museum. The closest he came to spotting a celebrity was seeing stars' footprints in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

"So, I thought, let's bring the stars back to Hollywood Boulevard. Let's allow people to get close and look into the eyes of their favorite entertainers," he recalled years later. "Believe me, I didn't know if it would even work."

People lined up for half a mile waiting to get in when the museum opened on Feb. 26, 1965.

The nearly 200 figures of Hollywood stars have changed over the years as their fame has ebbed and flowed. Marilyn Monroe, however, has remained a perennial favorite.

Singh, who handed over day-to-day operation of the museum to family members in 1990, shrugged off critics who called the museum cheesy over the years.

"Look, I know other museums are more stately and artistic," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1970. "But on Hollywood Boulevard, dignity kind of gets lost in the shuffle."

Singh helped develop the Hollywood Guinness World Records Museum, which opened in 1991, and another Hollywood Wax Museum, which opened in Branson, Mo., in 1996.

Singh was born in Punjab, India, in 1922, and moved to Canada with his family at age 3. He operated saw mills and an amusement park in Victoria, British Columbia, when he paid his fateful 1964 visit to Hollywood.

Singh, whose given name was Spoony Singh Sundher, is survived by his wife of 63 years, Chanchil, six children and 11 grandchildren.

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Actress Phyllis K i r k, famous for her role as the damsel in distress in the 1953 3-D horror classic "House of Wax," has died at age 79, her former publicist said on Saturday.

K i r k died on Friday from a post-cerebral aneurysm at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, publicist Dale Olson said.

Early in her career, the wide-eyed, sultry-voiced actress appeared in several Broadway plays.

After moving to Hollywood, she took on numerous television and film roles through the 1950s, including "House of Wax," where she was stalked by Vincent Price.

She is also well-known for her role as Nora Charles in the late 1950s television series "The Thin Man," with Peter Lawford playing her husband.

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Rick Springfield will perform a concert in southeast Missouri to help raise money for a 12-year-old girl's fight against brain-stem cancer.

The pop singer, whose string of hits in the 1980s included "Jessie's Girl," will perform Dec. 8 at the Show Me Center, center officials and Springfield's management firm, Doyle-*** Entertainment, said Thursday.

Proceeds will benefit Sahara Aldridge of Cape Girardeau, who was diagnosed with the disease this summer. Springfield is a longtime friend of Sahara's family.

When he learned of her cancer, Springfield began using his Web site to encourage fans to support the Aldridge family spiritually and financially.

"He is one of the nicest guys you could ever hope to meet," Sahara's mother, Amy, said. "He considers Sahara the daughter he never had."

Since her diagnosis, Sahara has spent most of her time receiving treatment at the Children's Hospital at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Amy Aldridge said Sahara has shown steady progress. The tumor's growth has been stopped, and Sahara has regained some of the motor skills the tumor interfered with.

Last week, Sahara came home for the first time in months and attended two benefit events that raised more than $20,000 to pay for travel and medical expenses.

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Oprah Winfrey headlined a fundraiser at a private college for black women, encouraging about 300 guests to support education and give back to their community.

"You can't continue to move forward unless you give back what you are given," Winfrey said Friday. "It is our calling."

The famed talk-show host spoke at Bennett College, which is in the midst of a $50 million fundraising campaign co-chaired by poet and novelist Maya Angelou, a close friend of Winfrey, and former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.

Angelou, who sits on the school's board of trustees, and gospel singer Shirley Caesar, a native of Durham, also attended the gala.

Winfrey said she limits her speaking engagements to events that "really matter" and decided to visit the central North Carolina school because "Bennett really matters."

"It is important that this institution continues to thrive," Winfrey said, "and offer opportunities for women in this country and around the world."

She spoke about the importance of education, touting the college's renewal, and about the leadership academy she founded for girls in South Africa.

The gala was part of college president Johnnetta Cole's plans to leave office after five years with the school on a firm financial footing.

Bennett was running a $2 million budget deficit and was on academic probation when Cole, the former president of Atlanta's Spelman College, took over in 2002.

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Harrison Ford says he feels "fit to continue" to play Indiana Jones despite growing older. Ford, 64, said at the inaugural Rome Film Festival on Friday that he was delighted to team up again with directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for the film. Lucas co-wrote and executive produced the earlier films, which Spielberg directed.

"We did three films that stay within the same block of time. We need to move on for artistic reasons and obvious physical reasons," Ford said at a news conference. "I feel fit to continue and bring the same physical action."

"Indiana Jones 4" has been in development for over a decade, but the production has recently gained momentum. Lucas has said he and Spielberg, who would direct, are working on a script, though no details have been disclosed.

Ford played Indiana Jones in 1981's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1984's "Temple of Doom" and 1989's "The Last Crusade." In the last film, Jones' father was played by Sean Connery, who Ford said might also appear in the planned fourth feature.

"He's part of the emotional fabric of these films. I think there may be an opportunity, I believe that Sean is still willing and I'd be delighted if he joined us," said Ford.

Connery, who attended the Rome event last week, has said that no offer had been made.

Ford declined to provide details about a shooting schedule or film locations, adding that the directors were not yet finished with the script.

"I think it's a real opportunity to make a film as successful ... as the ones we've made before," he said.

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Tennis champ Chris Evert and her husband, former Olympic skier Andy Mill, have split, the couple announced Friday.

"We are confirming that, after 18 years of marriage, we have decided to get divorced," the couple said in a joint statement. "The decision is mutual, and our main concern is for our three sons. We know we have some difficult times ahead, together and apart, and hope that our family's privacy will be respected."

The couple, who married on the grounds of the Polo Club in Boca Raton, Fla. in 1988, met two years earlier at a New Year's Eve party in Aspen, Colo. Their three sons are ages 15, 12 and 10.

"They're my life, they're the most important thing,'' Evert told The Palm Beach Post in 2001, of her sons. "I'm busy, but I'm 100 percent a mom first.''

Evert, 51, won Wimbledon three times during her career and is known as one of the tennis world's best ever female players. She was briefly engaged to another tennis great – Jimmy Connors – and also dated the actor Burt Reynolds.

Evert was married to the British tennis player John Lloyd for eight years. Mill, 53, a former American downhill ski champ, was also previously married.
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How do Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell – who first started seeing each other in August 2004 and then became engaged a year later – keep their relationship hot?

"I can't believe I'm saying this publicly," Crossing Jordan star O'Connell, 32, tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "We play a lot of badminton."

How much? "An entire weekend," says his fiancée. "We'll play for four hours a day straight."

The couple's next love match will be their upcoming wedding, which, O'Connell says, will be "something very small, with just our siblings. Rebecca has a sister and I have a brother."

The X-Men franchise actress, 33, was previously married to ER star John Stamos for 5 1/2 years. They split up in April 2004, and their divorce was finalized in March 2005.

Besides planning for the wedding, O'Connell says, "Rebecca and I are really into Dancing with the Stars. … We've been taking ballroom dance lessons as a result of watching the show."

Not that they plan to step before the TV cameras. "No way," he says of the prospect of being on the show. "First of all, I can't get the time off from work, but I would be too nervous."

How nervous? "They would be like, 'Here comes Jerry O'Connell,' and then I would pass out," he says. "And you can't get scored if you pass out. But we just love this show. We're reality TV crazy."

As for Christmas, "I think Rebecca's mom is going to cook for the holidays this year, which is interesting because my family usually buys a pre-made turkey at the supermarket or Koo-Koo-Roo," says O'Connell, adding, "I'm certainly not cooking the turkey because, if I did, there would be salmonella everywhere. It would be bad. We don't need any food poisoning going down."

More seriously, he says, "In terms of the holidays, we are just very festive. Rebecca and I really get into it. And we've already started on it. We've started purchasing lights, we've started untangling lights. I think I'm going to do some fake snow on the roof since we're here in Los Angeles."
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Jessica Simpson says she realized that her marriage to Nick Lachey was over when he opted out of accompanying her to Africa on a charity trip in October 2005.

"I went there on our three-year wedding anniversary," she tells Jane magazine for its November issue. "He stayed home"

Simpson was part of a travel contingent representing Operation Smile, a not-for-profit, volunteer medical services organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children in remote areas.

Although Simpson and Lachey had both been presented with the organization's Universal Smile Award at a Los Angeles Gala, Simpson ended up traveling to Nakuru, Kenya, with hairdresser Ken Paves, friend Cacee Cobb and her manger-father, Joe Simpson.

Once in Africa, according to the official Operation Smile Web site, Simpson aided the volunteer team with the medical evaluations of more than 280 patients and gave out gifts and spread cheer to the kids as they awaited their medical procedures.


Simpson, 26, says the trip changed her life. "On that day, everything became so clear. I was in hospitals with all these sick kids," she says. "I just knew I needed to find something more in my life, on my own."

She and Lachey separated in November 2005.

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Paging Patrick Dempsey: The competition for sexiest doc alive just got . . . McSteamy! Once a construction worker, Eric Dane joins Grey's Anatomy as surgeon Mark Sloane. The 33-year-old actor took a break from the OR – and revealing shower scenes – to give prescriptions for love, home cooking and washboard abs to PEOPLE's Lisa Ingrassia.

Okay, McDreamy vs. McSteamy – who wins the hotness contest?
I don't feel any competition with Patrick. But he keeps asking me when my calendar is coming out.

Besides the six-pack abs, how are you similar to McSteamy?
We both shower daily! There are a lot of things in common, but just so your mind doesn't go in the wrong direction, it's not the infidelity and deceitful, backstabbing side of him.

How do you maintain those abs?
Weightlifting – it gets the aggression out. No yoga! I'm competitive and you can't score points in yoga.

Unlike McSteamy and Addison, you seem very grounded with your wife, actress Rebecca Gayheart.
(Life with her) has been wonderful. On a whim, we ran to Vegas and got married (in Oct. ’04). We'd been together nine months and we just knew.

What's your ideal Sunday?
Sleep in – for me, that’s about 9:15 – make coffee, quiet my head, make an omelette for my girl and play music. I make a hell of an omelette. And I make great chicken soup too!

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What will happen when Jennifer Aniston hits the Broadway stage with less than 24 hours to prepare her role? Find out when the actress – and celebrity guests – take part in The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. PEOPLE gets an inside look at the event, plus other events to watch out for in the coming week:

SUNDAY, OCT. 22: He struggled with addiction (alcohol, steroids, you name it), tried to save his crumbling marriage and ultimately got clean on the VH1 reality series Breaking Bonaduce. But what will Danny Bonaduce do for his second season (9:30 p.m. ET)? Expect more angst from the former Partridge Family star as he tries to stay on the straight-and-narrow path.

MONDAY, OCT. 23: Fresh off her directorial debut, Jennifer Aniston touches down on Broadway for a limited engagement starring in the benefit event The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. The slapdash, fast-paced workshop has writers, actors and directors – including Erika Christensen, Edie Falco, Matt Dillon and more – competing against the clock to produce six 10-minute plays with just one day for the writing, casting and rehearsal process. Their results will debut at the American Airlines Theatre at 8 p.m. (and the proceeds support arts education in New York City schools). Phew! We need a water break after just thinking about that.

Dog owners bow at the feet of canine guru Cesar Millan and it's not hard to see why. The Dog Whisperer star, whose motto is "I rehabilitate dogs – I train people," can turn a biting, raging pooch and make him a calm, submissive four-legged friend. Watch the L.A.-based Millan work his magic as he turns clueless owners into pack leaders (National Geographic, 9 p.m. ET)

TUESDAY, OCT 24: As if his album's title, Once Again, isn't clear enough, let's state the obvious: John Legend is back. The silky-voiced R&B crooner gets behind his piano again for a new batch of songs that shake things up a bit by incorporating some rock elements into his sound. And, yes, mentor Kanye West has lent production help for his sophomore outing. Next, Legend will get on the road, embarking on a concert tour Oct. 26 in Washington, D.C.

NEW THIS WEEK:
• Movies (now in theaters): Flags of Our Fathers, starring Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker and Jesse Bradford; The Prestige, starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson; Marie Antoinette, starring ***sten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman and Rip Torn; Flicka, starring Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw and Maria Bello; Running with Scissors (limited), starring Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow
• Music (in stores Tuesday): Alabama, Songs of Inspiration; Gipsy Kings, Pasajero; Brooke Hogan, Undiscovered; Aimee Mann, One More Drifter in the Snow; My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade; Brian Setzer, 13
• DVDs (in stores Tuesday): The O.C. – The Complete Third Season; Monster House; The L-Word – The Complete Third Season; Mission Impossible III; Nacho Libre

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The father of the 1-year-old boy who Madonna plans to adopt is saying he didn’t realize the pop singer was taking the toddler "for good," the Associated Press reports.

"Our understanding was that they would educate and take care of our son just as they were doing at the orphanage," Yohane Banda, 32, told AP in a telephone interview on Sunday. "I am just realizing now the meaning of adoption."

The statement is a shift from earlier remarks Banda made when he struck out at human rights groups that have tried to stop Madonna from adopting his son, David.

"As David's father I have no problem (with the adoption), so what is their concern?" he told PEOPLE last week. "Are they jealous or what? What I want is good life, a good education for my child."

On Sunday however, Banda said he was confused about the meaning of the adoption papers he signed earlier this month in court, which allowed a Malawian judge to grant the singer and her husband, Guy Ritchie, a temporary order to take David, who was flown to England where the couple and their two children live.

"If we were told that she wants to take the baby as her own we could not have consented, because I see no reason why I should give away my son," said Banda, who put David into the orphanage when he was an infant. David's mother died a week after his birth.

Still, Banda said he does not want David to return to the orphanage. "We are still thankful Madonna has rescued him from poverty and disease; we pray for the good Lord to keep blessing her for her benevolence," Banda said.

Madonna's Malawian lawyer Alan Chinula had no comment when reached by the AP.

Last week, in a message titled "An Open Letter from Madonna," the singer said: "After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand our family."

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Five months after the birth of her son Kingston, Gwen Stefani managed to drop her pregnancy weight through a combination of healthy diet and exercise.

"Let's just talk about how hard it's been," Stefani told Ryan Seacrest during an interview Monday on his radio show on L.A.'s 102.7 KIIS FM. The singer called in to premiere her latest single, "Wind It Up."

"That's been really hard," she said of losing the weight. "But it's almost gone." Stefani said she's still nursing and that her exercise regimen includes jogging regularly.

"I've just been eating healthy," she said, adding, "I cheat every day at least once."

Stefani also said she's planning to shoot the cover art for her latest album, due out Dec. 5, and then head out on tour in April – with Kingston in tow.

"I'm excited to go out there and have the baby on the outside," said Stefani, who announced her pregnancy during her last tour. Of Kingston, Stefani said: "He's the greatest thing in the world. There was no transition. It was just like, 'Where were you?' "

Stefani – who designs her own clothing line, L.A.M.B. – told Seacrest (after his admission that he admires Kingston's faux-hawk) that she enjoys dressing up her son.

"He finally has enough hair to do something with it," she said. "I was trying to give him some cooler looks."

Stefani's new album – the follow-up to 2004's Love. Angel. Music. Baby. – is tentatively titled The Sweet Escape.

Her single "Wind It Up" features a sample of the song "The Lonely Goatherd" – complete with Julie Andrews yodel – from The Sound Of Music. "It was a dream of mine to put The Sound of Music to a beat, because it's my favorite movie," said Stefani, adding that she cried when she first heard her rendition.

Other songs set to make the album include "Yummy" and "Orange County Girl," a track that Stefani – who hails from Anaheim, in Orange County, Calif. – explains is "about me."

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The day after Anna Nicole Smith buried her son Daniel, a letter was hand-delivered to her house in the Bahamas ordering her to leave the residence by Oct. 31, PEOPLE has learned.

G. Ben Thompson, a Myrtle Beach, S.C., developer, says he owns the property in New Providence where Smith has been staying. He says he purchased the house for a bit less than $1 million in August as a favor to Smith, whom he befriended after he met her through neighbors in mid-2005.

Smith was then supposed to sign a mortgage to buy the house from him, he says, but she has refused to do so. "She said it was a gift," Thompson tells PEOPLE. "I never said that. I don't have that kind of money."

An attorney representing Thompson delivered the letter to the house on Oct. 20; if Smith does not leave, Thompson says, he will pursue a formal eviction. "I don't want to embarrass her or humiliate Anna," he says. "I just need my money, or collateral, back."
Ron Rale, Smith's attorney in the paternity case against her brought by photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father of Smith's 7-week-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope, would neither confirm nor deny that Smith had received the letter.

Rale did say, however, "If that's the case, it's amazing the sequence of events that poor Anna Nicole has had to endure, the one bright light being Dannielynn."

The possible eviction begs the question of whether Smith, who applied for residency based on home ownership, will have to leave the country. If she returns to her home in California, she could also face the paternity suit filed by Birkhead.

Smith's longtime legal counselor Howard Stern has said that he is Dannielynn's father; he's also listed as the father on the birth certificate. But Birkhead has said Smith told him he was the father, and has filed a request in a California court asking Smith to make Dannielynn available for a paternity test.

"We're going to get that paternity test," Birkhead's lawyer, Debra Opri, said last week. "It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but I'm not going away."

But Wayne Munroe, Smith's attorney in the Bahamas, told the Associated Press that his client has no intention of allowing the test.

The possible eviction is yet another strange twist in a story that began Sept. 10, when Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel was found dead in her hospital room three days after she gave birth to Dannielynn. Methadone as well as two antidepressants were found in his system. Bahamian police have investigated the death and authorities may order a formal inquest.

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While promoting his newest film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen on Friday poked fun at the anti-Semitic comments made by Mel Gibson when he was pulled over for driving under the influence in Malibu.

"I would like to meet the fearless anti-Jew warrior, Melvin Gibson," Cohen, who was playing his character, told reporters at a scripted junket in Santa Monica. "We agree with his comments that the Jews started all wars. We also have proof that they were responsible for killing off all the dinosaurs. And Hurricane Katrina – they did it."

Gibson has since apologized publicly for his anti-Semitic statements, telling Diane Sawyer in a televised interview earlier this month, "Let me be real clear here. I don't believe Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. I mean that's an outrageous, drunken statement."

Gibson was not alone in being lampooned by Cohen, who is Jewish, as he joked about O.J. Simpson, Pamela Anderson (who appears in Borat ) and President Bush. "Kazakhstan very much admires your mighty warlord, George Walter Bush," Cohen said. "He is a very wise man and also a strong man – but perhaps not as strong as his father, Barbara."

Cohen, the controversial star of HBO's Da Ali G Show, has won attention – not all of it positive – for the comedic faux-documentary feature due out Nov. 3.

Cohen, who has previously appeared in Talladega Nights, is doing all interviews for Borat as the film's character, a fake TV journalist from Kazakhstan.

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In an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show that taped Tuesday and will air Wednesday, Madonna defended her efforts to adopt 1-year-old Malawian boy David Banda – and said the boy's father has been manipulated into saying he didn't intend to give up his son, audience members at the taping tell PEOPLE.

Speaking to Winfrey via satellite from a television studio in London, Madonna was poised throughout the interview, though at times she appeared emotional, audience members say. "She's frustrated with the media because she believes it's the pressure of the media that's prompting the father to change his story," says Brook Carter, 24, from Miami.

Although Yohane Banda, 32, told PEOPLE he had "no problem" with the adoption, he later said, "Nobody told me by 'adoption' it means David will no longer be my son but hers." However, on Tuesday he told Time he does not plan to contest the adoption, saying that doing so would be "killing (David's) future" and that he is "just grateful to (Madonna) for helping my child."

The singer talked about the great lengths she went to in order to follow Malawi's proper adoption procedures and said she got no special treatment, according to audience members. "She said (of Yohane Banda), 'He looked at me straight in the eye and said I'm thankful for giving my son a future and a life because if he stayed with me I would have buried him,' " Carter says.
"Her biggest concern is that (the controversy) is going to stop other people from trying to adopt" from the region, says Susie Lazega, 38, of Atlanta. "That's her biggest worry."

On a happier note, Madonna showed photos of herself with her arms wrapped around daughter Lourdes, 10, son Rocco, 6, and David. Another photo showed the singer's husband Guy Ritchie lifting a beaming David up in the air.

"They look like a happy, loving family. You see her two other children have embraced David," says Robin Ayoob, 54, of Philadelphia.

Madonna said she first saw baby David in a video clip of a documentary she's funding about the region, audience members say. In the video, he was being held by an 8-year-old girl with HIV.

"She said she looked in his eyes and had an immediate connection to him," says Jody Goldstein, 40, of Atlanta. Adds Laura Rader, 38, of St. Louis, "She really wanted to help this little boy (who) had no chance at surviving."

According to audience members, Madonna said that when she met David, he was suffering from malaria, tuberculosis and pneumonia – from which he is still recovering; she also said no family members had visited David in a year. Still, Yohane Banda told PEOPLE, "When he was at the orphanage I visited him on my bicycle as long as I had the time, just to see him, play with him."

Banda also told PEOPLE that Madonna had told him "every three to four years she will be bringing him to me. … We have established family ties – mine and hers." Backing up his claim, Madonna said Banda could see David whenever he wants, and that she plans to visit Malawi once or twice a year with David and wants David to become a spokesman for the country, audience members say.

On the whole, the audience was left feeling sympathetic toward Madonna. Jessica Busch, 25, of Chicago, says she was skeptical when she first heard about the controversy surrounding the singer's adoption efforts, but "after seeing the interview, I genuinely think she loves the little boy. On the larger scale, this will help the village. On the smaller scale, this will help the boy."

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The View cohost Elisabeth Hasselbeck is fuming mad over an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in which a character, whose name is very close to her own, is raped and killed, she said on Tuesday.

"Last week Law & Order: SVU had an episode where a 30-year-old woman in New York City is raped twice and then murdered – and her name is Elizabeth Hassenback," Hasselbeck, 29, said on The View. "I found this a little disturbing."

Hasselbeck said that after hearing about the show from a friend, she called an SVU executive producer whom she declined to name – though co-host Rosie O'Donnell chimed in, "But you can Google it at home!" – to express her anger.

"I told him 'Look, I want to let you know that I think it's socially irresponsible and gruesomely suggestive to do this in today's day and age," said Hasselbeck, who has an 18-month daughter, Grace, with her husband, New York Giants quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.

She described the executive producer as "defensive right from the jump" and said that he told he her to "chalk up" the name similarity to "coincidence."

When she challenged the idea that the show, which is famous for ripped from the headlines scripts, had coincidentally used a character with a name so close to hers, the producer gave a terse apology, according to Hasselbeck, then said: "Goodbye lady," and hung up on her.

Hasselbeck said that incident made her feel like she never wanted to sit next to an SVU cast member again. "I think those are good actors and good people, but I can't sit next to them without feeling as though I have been disrespected and just put at risk."

A spokesperson for Law & Order: SVU told PEOPLE that before a character can be named on an episode, "all names have to be cleared through legal."

The spokesperson added: "The producers of SVU absolutely love The View and are totally thrilled when one of our actors are on the show. Mariska (Hargitay) has co-hosted the show. Chris (Meloni), (Richard) Belzer and Ice-T have all been on the show."

Barbara Walters, who founded The View, also praised Meloni and Hargitay as "favorite guests" of the show.


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Derek Luke and his wife, actress Sophia, are expecting their first child together, the actor's rep tells PEOPLE exclusively.

The baby is due in early March, according to Luke's rep, Samantha Hill.

Derek Luke is currently promoting his film Catch a Fire, which hits theaters this weekend. Luke stars in the real-life story of Patrick Chamusso, in the intellectual political thriller set in turbulent 1980s South Africa. The film also stars Tim Robbins.

Best known for his starring role in Antwone Fisher, Luke brought his wife onstage, handing her his 2003 Independent Spirit Award for best actor. Luke, 32, and his wife wed in 1998.


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Madonna says 13-month-old David Banda from Malawi, whom she plans to adopt, is healthy and thriving with her two other children in their London home now that he has overcome malaria and tuberculosis.

"David is amazing," Madonna, speaking via satellite from a TV studio in London, said during a half-hour interview that taped Tuesday and airs on Wednesday's Oprah Winfrey Show.

"What really surprises me is how great my children are with him and how he's transitioned so easily from living in Africa in an orphanage to living in our house," she said.

Madonna, who has two children – daughter Lourdes, 10, and son Rocco, 6 – and husband Guy Ritchie, traveled in early October to Malawi, where she is funding humanitarian initiatives.

David, whose mother died shortly after his birth, was brought to London last week after the Ritchies were granted an interim adoption order.
He has tested negative for everything – tuberculosis, malaria, HIV," the singer told Winfrey. "When I met him he was extremely ill. He had severe pneumonia and he could hardly breath. I was in a state of panic because I did not want to leave him in the orphanage because I knew they didn't have medication to take care of him, so we got permission to take him to the clinic and have a bronchial dilator.

"The doctor found he had pneumonia. He was given an injection of antibiotics and a course of antibiotics, which he took the entire time we were there. He's still a little bit ill. He's not completely free of pneumonia, but he's much better than when we found him."

Madonna also denied that Malawi's adoption laws were bent for her, as some human rights groups have claimed. "If only my wealth and my position could have made things go faster," she said. "I assure you it doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have, nothing goes fast in Africa."

She said a social worker warned her that "there were no known (adoption) laws in Malawi. They were more or less going to have to make them up as we went along. She did say to me, 'pick Ethiopia, go to Kenya,' (but) I'd already started my foundation, Raising Malawi. … It seemed absurd to me to adopt somewhere else.

"I did have my heart set on David," she continued, but because she knew she might not be able to adopt him, "I did meet other children that I was open to adopting, so if it hadn't worked out with David, I would have considered any of those children a blessing."

She also put to rest rumors that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie persuaded her to adopt a child in Africa: "I've never had any discussions with Brad or Angelina about adoption. I've actually never met Angelina Jolie."

Madonna says she met David's father, Yohane Banda, in court. "There is a customary law, a tribal law that if you adopt a child you have to get permission from some living member of the extended family. … No one from (David's) extended family had visited him since the time he arrived. From my perspective there was no one looking after David's welfare. The minister of children's welfare went and found his father, asked for permission, told him exactly what I wanted to do."

Banda needed to give written consent to the adoption, Madonna said. "He came into the courtroom with my husband and I and he looked into my eyes and said to me that he was very grateful that I was going to give his son a life and that had he kept his son with him in the village he would have buried him. I didn't really need any more confirmation that I was doing the right thing and that I had his blessing."

Ultimately, she said, "My goal is that I will give David an education and a chance for a better life. What a better way for David to go back and help his own people and help the Malawians and be a voice for his country than to first have a life?"

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart and University of Southern California basketball player Brynn Cameron welcomed a son on Tuesday, PEOPLE has learned.

Cole Cameron Leinart was born at 9:33 p.m. in California, and weighed in at 6 lbs., 7 oz.

"The baby is healthy, and both families are very excited," a source tells PEOPLE. "Matt is thrilled."

Leinart, who was present for his son's birth, had to rush to the hospital from his late afternoon practice. One of PEOPLE's 2006 Most Beautiful People, the football star, 23, graduated from USC in December 2005 and lives in Los Angeles and Arizona.

Cameron, who is a junior at USC, will sit out the 2006-07 basketball season.

"It's an exciting time in their life," a source who knows both athletes told PEOPLE in August when the two announced they were expecting. "They both have support from their families."

Leinart, a Heisman trophy winner and close pal of Nick Lachey, was linked romantically to Paris Hilton in the past.

Through his Matt Leinart Foundation, the football star helps raise money for underprivileged and disabled children. "Kids are important to Matt," his rep told PEOPLE in August.

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Lurid details of David Hasselhoff's ongoing divorce from his estranged wife Pamela Bach were inadvertently entered into public record on Wednesday.

A 66-page filing by Hasselhoff's lawyers alleges that Bach, 43, tested positive for cocaine two months ago and claims that she was intoxicated at their daughter Taylor Ann's sweet 16 party last May.

The documents also include numerous allegations of infidelity committed by Hasselhoff, 54, as well as alcohol, drug and physical abuse by him against Bach over 16 years of marriage.

Under court order by Judge Mark Juhas earlier this year, information pertaining to the couple's children would be removed from public record. But large portions of Wednesday’s filing, which also mentions concerns by both parents about how their daughters are being raised, were released by mistake.

"We're all outraged. This was a horrible mistake on behalf of the court," Hasselhoff's attorney Melvin Goldsman told PEOPLE. "David would never intentionally release anything that would be hurtful to his children. He's quite disturbed about this."

Goldsman added, "I don't believe it was intentionally misfiled. It's a mistake that happens, based on the volume of work the court receives."

Bach's lawyer, Susan Wiesner, stated: "I consider this an intentional attempt to besmirch (Bach's) character and reputation. She's a good mother and she wants to protect her children. I have no idea how these documents became public."

A spokesperson for the court told PEOPLE that neither side's lawyer submitted a proper redaction order, and therefore the judge did not rule on it.

Wiesner added that she intended to return to court Friday to unseal all her previous filings so there's "a more balanced record of (this case.) We don't want to have to go there because of the children, but I don't want their daughters to have a lopsided view of their parents."
This is the second time in this divorce that portions of legal documents were inadvertently leaked by the court.

Meanwhile Hasselhoff, looking upbeat, made a taped appearance in Los Angeles yesterday to promote the second season of America's Got Talent. Asked about the personal turmoil he's endured this year, he smiled and replied, "I've had a tough year, but despite all that painful stuff, my career's actually blossomed, thanks to my fans."

Citing irreconcilable differences, Hasselhoff filed for divorce from Bach on Jan. 12. Bach filed her own divorce paperwork the following day, which included claims of domestic violence. The couple currently share joint custody of their two daughters.

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Yohane Banda, the father of the 13-month-old Malawian boy Madonna hopes to adopt, says he's worried the controversy surrounding her plans will cause the pop singer to back out of the adoption.

"I am afraid Madonna may get angry and frustrated and decide to dump my son because of these people," Banda told the Associated Press on Thursday, in reference to human rights activists in Malawi who claim the law has been bent for the singer.

"These so-called human rights activists are harassing me every day, threatening me that I am not aware of what I am doing," Banda said Thursday. "I'm afraid David may be sent back and the orphanage may not even accept him back. So where will he end up? Here? He will certainly die."

A hearing in the adoption case is set for Friday. The Human Rights Consultative Committee has asked Judge Andrew Nyirenda to review the adoption process and make sure the laws have been followed.
Madonna has denied she's gotten any special favors due to her celebrity status. She told Oprah Winfrey on her show Wednesday, "If only my wealth and my position could have made things go faster. I assure you it doesn't matter who you are or how much money you have, nothing goes fast in Africa."

Banda said that the activists have pressured him to side with them in court: "They want me to support their court case, a thing I cannot do for I know what I agreed with Madonna and her husband."

Madonna also told Winfrey that Banda understood her intentions to adopt David. "He came into the courtroom with my husband and I and he looked into my eyes and said to me that he was very grateful that I was going to give his son a life," she said, "and that had he kept his son with him in the village he would have buried him. I didn't really need any more confirmation that I was doing the right thing."

Earlier this week, Banda told the AP that he didn't understand the full implications of the adoption papers he signed and was unaware that Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were going to take David "for good." However, on Tuesday he told Time magazine that he would not contest the adoption and that he wanted his son to have a good life.

But HRCC chairman Justin Dzonzi said the group would go forward with its petition in court on Friday. Dzonzi said David could suffer psychological damage if Madonna and Ritchie ever split up, and said that under current laws, David is not entitled to inherit any of Madonna's wealth.

"It's not like we are blocking the adoption, but we want laws followed to the letter," Dzonzi said. "We want these issues clarified."

NBC announced Thursday that Madonna will talk with Meredith Vieira about the adoption in an interview set to air on the Nov. 1 and 2 episodes of Today and Dateline NBC on Nov. 2.

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Country singer Sara Evans and her estranged husband, Craig Schelske, faced each other in a Tennessee court Thursday morning for the first time since Evans filed for divorce on Oct. 12, charging Schelske with adultery and pornography use. (He denied the allegations and later accused Evans of having an affair.)

Though the atmosphere was tense in the Williamson County, Tenn., court room, the couple agreed to divide some of their assets and Schelske, who is under a restraining order and not allowed in the family home in Franklin, Tenn., consented to look for new housing. They also agreed to discuss visitation rights for their three children, ages 7, 3 and 2.

Schelske had asked that the court allow him to move back to their home, saying the allegations of abuse and infidelity were false. His attorney, Anne Russell, told the court that Schelske had not seen his children since Evans filed for divorce and had only spoken to them once a few days earlier.

"Mr. Schelske has been evicted from his home and we do not see a single indication that there is a danger to anyone," said Russell, prompting Evans's lawyer, John J. Hollins, to object, saying that he has additional evidence of Schelske's pornography use and Schelske's profile is posted on a dating Web site.
Judge Robert E. Lee Davies recommended that the two maintain separate residences, saying, "By the nature of this proceeding, there is tension here and there will be tension in the home and the children are going to feel that."

Evans and Schelske decided to split in half a joint bank account of $274,000; Schelske, who told the court he has no independent source of income, was to use his share to find housing.

The two sides also agreed not to speak to the media, although a motion to close the proceedings to cameras was refused by the judge.

At the conclusion of the hearing, Schelske walked over to Evans, whose hair was pulled back in a bun and who was wearing a dark brown trouser suit with a gold cross necklace, and tried to speak with her, calling her name and whispering to her for several seconds. Saying nothing, Evans shook her head and turned away from him.

When asked by reporters outside the courtroom if he still loved his wife, Schelske said, "I do." Asked the same question, Evans made no comment.

Also in court was Ronald J. Burke, a lawyer for the couple's former nanny, Alison Clinton, who Evans claims had an affair with Schelske. Burke said that Evans's lawyers told him they have photographs showing his client and Schelske being intimate, but he says Clinton maintains her innocence.

"They won't show us any photographs and we are convinced that there are no photographs because Alison did not have a sexual relationship with him," he said. He added that Clinton denied any sexual contact with Schelske when she underwent, and passed, a two-hour lie detector test last week during an interview with TV's Entertainment Tonight.

A judge agreed to removed Clinton's name from court documents, a move Clinton priased. "I cannot thank the Williamson County courthouse enough," Clinton said in a statement later. "I'm really grateful."

Reps for both Schelske and Evans had no comment.

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Nicole Richie is seeking treatment for what her rep describes as an inability to put on weight.

"Nicole Richie has decided to undergo diagnostic treatment to determine why she's not been putting on any weight," her rep tells PEOPLE in a statement. "She is working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition. It is important to Nicole that she achieves this goal in a healthy way as this is not a treatment for an eating disorder."

Richie's thinness has been the subject of much debate – which she addressed in May when she told Vanity Fair magazine, "I know I'm too thin right now. I'm not happy with the way I look right now." She also said at the time that she was consulting with a nutritionist and a doctor, but blamed her weight loss in part on the breakup with her then-fiance, Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein.

"She's tired of everyone saying you don't eat, because she does," a source close to Richie tells PEOPLE. "She wants to gain weight. It wasn't anyone saying you have to go do this – it wasn't an intervention. It was her saying I'm tired of people saying this about me, I'm going to go get some tests. It was a personal decision."

Richie, 25, is starring in the fifth season of The Simple Life and will resume filming, as scheduled, in mid-November.

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Snoop Dogg was arrested Thursday afternoon at Burbank, Calif.'s Bob Hope Airport on suspicion of possessing marijuana and a handgun, police tell the Los Angeles Times.

The rapper (real name: Calvin Broadus), 35, was arrested by officers from the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police Department, who reportedly discovered the weapon and drugs after approaching him for parking in a passenger pickup zone.

After being taken into custody, the rapper was freed on $35,000 bond. His arraignment is scheduled for Dec. 12 in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Burbank.

His attorney, Donald Etra, said in a statement: "There was no basis for this arrest. We believe that once this is cleared up, all charges will be dismissed."

Last month, the performer – who has sold more than 17 million records and appeared in such films as Starsky and Hutch – was arrested after allegedly trying to board a plane at John Wayne Airport in Orange County while in possession of a 21-in. collapsible police baton.

And in a 2004 airport incident at London's Heathrow airport, Snoop Dogg and several members of his entourage were arrested after an altercation in the business class lounge, which they apparently did not have permission to use.


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Though Brad Pitt has been involved in some serious causes lately, the 42-year old actor showed a different kind of charity on the set of Babel, taking one for the team and giving himself a wedgie to lighten the mood.

In order to relieve some of the "frenetic anxiety" on the Moroccan set of his upcoming drama, he yanked up his pants to give himself a wedgie, stuck out his rear and waddled around like a duck, PEOPLE's two-time Sexiest Man Alive tells Entertainment Weekly in its Oct. 30 issue.

"Throughout the movie, I'd walk around like this," he said, demonstrating for the magazine.

The laughs Pitt provided were sorely needed during the location filming, where temperatures reached near 112 degrees and there was only one indoor toilet. "You've gotta find things to make you laugh during the shoot," he said. "Cate (Blanchett) called it the Hungry Bum. …When your bum's so hungry it's trying to eat your pants."

Pitt and Blanchett play a husband and wife whose vacation in the African desert is marred by tragedy in the Alejándro Gonzalez Inárritu-directed epic, which opens Friday.

"What I liked most (about the script) was this idea that we're all the same, and it's our lack of understanding and lack of communication that gets in the way," said Pitt, who has three children with Angelina Jolie.

"Our kids come from different parts of the world, and it's the perfect example of, if we didn't have these perceived differences we wouldn't be defined by geography," he said, referring to Maddox, 5, from Cambodia, and Zahara, 1, from Ethiopia.

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Charmed star Holly Marie Combs and her husband, David Donoho, welcomed their second child, Riley Edward Donoho, Thursday afternoon in L.A., PEOPLE has learned exclusively.

Combs, 32, gave birth at 12:57 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Riley weighed in at 8½ lbs. and was 19 inches long. He joins big brother Finley, 2½.

"Everybody's great," Donoho, 41, tells PEOPLE. "Holly is tired, but she's fine. Riley came right out and as soon as he heard Holly's voice, he smiled. He has hair like Elvis – a full head of black hair. The doctor said he came out looking like a 2-year-old."

Combs and Donoho met on the set of Charmed, in which Combs starred as the oldest sister among a trio of witches including Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan, and Donoho worked as a key grip. They wed on Valentine's Day in 2004.

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There's nothing sexier than a man in uniform, and in director Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers – the story behind the six U.S. servicemen who raised the flag over Iwo Jima – Jesse Bradford, 27, cuts one dashing figure. The onetime teen-movie heartthrob (Swimfan, Bring It On) unleashed his killer smile on PEOPLE's Kristen Mascia.

Ladie's Man: Historical accuracy demanded Bradford look sharp in Flags: The Marine he plays, Rene Gagnon, was known for looking "damn good in his uniform," says Bradford. "If you were on leave and you wanted to meet some girls, he was the guy to hang around." So Bradford would "double-stick my tie down" and use straps called "gators" to hold his uniform shirt down extra tight. "For me, getting dressed in the morning took 10 minutes longer than for everybody else."

Fit Boy: The former Norwalk, Conn., high school tennis ace (and homecoming king) works hard maintaining the lithe bod he showed off in Swimfan's Speedos. "I took swimming for the movie, and it's such a great way to stay in shape. And I play any sport I can get my hands on."

Living Single: Since recently ending a 2 1/2-year relationship, "I'm more single now than I have been in a long time, and I'm not comfortable with it yet," he says. "When you say that, does a girl go, 'Oh, God, emotional baggage!' or does she go, 'Oh, that's sweet'?"

His Favorite Female Body Part: "There's always something in the eyes. There's either this little extra thing that's there, or there's not."

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Salma Hayek – Ugly Betty's executive producer – makes a guest-starring turn on the hit show. PEOPLE takes a peek at her role, plus other events to watch out for in the coming week:

MONDAY, OCT. 30: Talk about getting a "classic" case of the chills! Just in time for Halloween, head to the theaters for a real fright-fest – a digital re-release of the 1978 Halloween flick, presented for the first time in surround sound (the better to hear all the bloodshed!). An extra bonus: a 20-minute featurette by rocker Rob Zombie (who'll write and direct Halloween 9, due out next October).

Tuesday, Oct. 31: Kevin Federline has chosen Halloween to release his hip-hop album debut Playing with Fire, which he promises will showcase his "edgy side." "If you want to hate me, cool, hate me," he tells PEOPLE about criticism toward him. "You know why? Because all it's going to do is help me." So, will Federline's musical debut start your fire or just give you the chills? There's only one way to find out…

Thursday, Nov. 2: As the executive producer of the ABC show Ugly Betty, Salma Hayek has a major hit on her hands. Now the actress, who had a cameo as a character in the telenovela within the comedy, gets to work her magic in front of the camera when she guest stars as a new love interest for Betty's (America Ferrera) playboy boss (Eric Mabius). Expect sparks to fly! (8 p.m. ET)

With everybody still reeling from the fatal car crash that killed Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton), expect plenty of drama on the season 4 premiere of The O.C. (FOX, 9 p.m. ET). Now there's also the lingering question of how the rest of the cast will move on after their high-school graduation, and it's a safe bet that their future will be wracked with juicy drama.

FRIDAY, NOV. 3: Since he first created his Kazakh TV journalist character Borat on HBO's Da Ali G Show, Sacha Baron Cohen has been courting controversy. Now the hilariously ignorant character (pick an –ism and he's got it – anti-Seminism, misogynism, racism) is hitting the big screen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Prepare yourself for big laughs as the clueless Borat makes his way around the U.S., bewildering unsuspecting citizens as he goes.

NEW THIS WEEK:
• Movies (now in theaters): Babel, starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal; Catch a Fire, starring Derek Luke, Tim Robbins and Bonnie Mbuli; Saw III, starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith and Angus Macfayden; Shut Up and Sing (documentary), starring Natalie Maines, Emily Robinson and Martie Maguire
• Music (in stores Tuesday): Willie Nelson, Songbird; The Who, Endless Wire; Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist; Flavor Flav, Flavor Flav; Lady Sovereign, Public Warning; Barry Manilow, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties; Nellie McKay, Pretty Little Head; Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell III
•DVDs (in stores Tuesday): C.S.I.: Miami – The Complete Fourth Season; V for Vendetta; It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)

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Reps for Brad Pitt are seeking trespassing charges against E! Networks after a producer and cameraman allegedly walked onto the actor's property in the Hollywood Hills last week.

"Yes, we have filed trespassing charges against E! and are exploring our legal options against both the crew that actually trespassed and the network itself," his rep tells PEOPLE.

A Los Angeles police spokesperson says the incident, first reported by TMZ.com, is still under investigation.

The cable network, meanwhile, is denying any intentional wrongdoing. "E! Networks is investigating allegations that a producer and cameraman who were filming locations for a program about Brad Pitt went onto property last week that is reportedly owned by Mr. Pitt," according to a statement from the cable channel.

"E! Networks did not instruct or authorize anyone working on its program to improperly intrude onto private property, and the individuals involved have been terminated. While neither Mr. Pitt nor his family were at the property when the incident took place, the network in no way condones or encourages such behavior and would like to offer its most sincere apologies to Mr. Pitt and his family."

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Kate Walsh's character Addison Shepherd may have broken up with Dr. McDreamy, but she isn't splitting from Seattle Grace any time soon. The Grey's Anatomy star, 39, talked to PEOPLE about heating up with McSteamy, facing off against CSI and her first big splurge (hint: Patrick Dempsey is to blame).

So what's the deal on the new guy, Eric Dane (a.k.a. Dr. McSteamy)?
He's like a statue. Every time he pauses, he's just gorgeous. And so nice and so talented.

Is this the end for Addison and Derek?
You'll see some interesting things play out. There aren't tidy beginnings and endings. It's always messy, and – no pun intended – there's always a gray area.

Your character wasn't too popular with fans at first. Has that changed?
Even if fans want Derek to be with Meredith they sympathize with Addison. She's just like every woman struggling to make a relationship work.

Were you stressed about Grey's going up against CSI on Thursdays?
Yeah, I was nervous. CSI is a great show – I was in it! (She played a transsexual informant.) But they are two different animals. There's room for both of us. You know, that's why we have the TiVo.

Do anything fun on hiatus?
I mostly did press. We went all over Europe promoting Grey's. It's huge everywhere. (The cast) went to Monaco and got an invitation to dinner with the prince. My stylist said, "So I see on your itinerary, cocktails at the palace. Is that, like, the palace?" I was like, "Yeah, (it's) not a club. . . . The palace!"

Has your life changed in the past year?
I (had one) big splurge, which I am driving now. It's a 1985 Aston Martin convertible. When I moved (to L.A. seven years ago) I got a station wagon. Then I got a little car crazy. I have to say, Patrick Dempsey did influence me a lot in that area.

Any buyer’s remorse?
No! This was hand-built. It's gorgeous – an elegant British muscle car. It makes doing errands much more palatable.

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Nicole Richie is seeking treatment for what her rep describes as an inability to put on weight.

"Nicole Richie has decided to undergo diagnostic treatment to determine why she's not been putting on any weight," her rep tells PEOPLE in a statement. "She is working with a team of doctors and specialists whose focus is nutrition. It is important to Nicole that she achieves this goal in a healthy way as this is not a treatment for an eating disorder."

Richie's thinness has been the subject of much debate – which she addressed in May when she told Vanity Fair magazine, "I know I'm too thin right now. I'm not happy with the way I look right now." She also said at the time that she was consulting with a nutritionist and a doctor, but blamed her weight loss in part on the breakup with her then-fiance, Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein.

"She's tired of everyone saying you don't eat, because she does," a source close to Richie tells PEOPLE. "She wants to gain weight. It wasn't anyone saying you have to go do this – it wasn't an intervention. It was her saying I'm tired of people saying this about me, I'm going to go get some tests. It was a personal decision."

Richie, 25, is starring in the fifth season of The Simple Life, but production is on hold until she recovers, according to a rep for the show's studio.


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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe have separated after seven years of marriage, PEOPLE has confirmed.

"We are saddened to announce that Reese and Ryan have decided to formally separate," a rep for the couple said in a statement released Monday. "They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time." TMZ.com first reported the couple's split.

Witherspoon, 30, and Phillippe, 32, have two children, daughter Ava, 7, and son Deacon, 3.

The couple met when a mutual friend brought Phillippe to Witherspoon's 21st-birthday party. Two years later, after they had costarred in 1999's Cruel Intentions, he proposed. They married in June 1999 and had Ava three months later.

Though the couple seemed to have it all – a successful relationship, thriving careers and beautiful children – they both spoke openly about having to work on their marriage.

In 2002, Phillippe told New York's Daily News that they were in couples therapy. "The biggest mistake," he said, "is not doing that, ignoring it and having the marriage fall apart because of laziness."

Similarly Witherspoon told PEOPLE at the time: "I'm not interested in the fallacy of the Hollywood relationship: 'We have perfect children who never cry; we never have problems; we never argue, we're always best friends,'" she said. "That's just not true. We're normal people with normal problems."

Witherspoon, who won an Oscar for her role in last year's hit Walk the Line, is next expected to appear in the drama Rendition. Phillippe is currently starring in the WWII drama Flags of Our Fathers.

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Oprah Winfrey had a special treat for each of the 310 members of her audience on the day before Halloween: a debit card worth $1,000.

Although no trick is attached, there is a slight catch. The card, sponsored by Bank of America, is actually part of a "gift of giving back" program – with the $1,000 having to go to a charitable cause, the Chicago-based talk queen says on the official Web site for her show.

"I can honestly say that every gift I've ever given has brought at least as much happiness to me as it has to the person I've given it to," says Winfrey, who, in the past, has given away such audiences prizes as brand new cars. "That's the feeling I want to pass on to you."

Winfrey calls this latest gift her "favorite giveaway ever."

In terms of giving, the audience members are free to present the entire sum to one person, though family members are not eligible. They also have the option of dividing the money among several causes.

To follow up on how the money does good, the audience also received Sony DVD recorders in order to film their stories for an upcoming show.

"You're going to open your hearts, you're going to be really creative, and you're going to spend it all at once on one stranger or spend a dollar on every person," Winfrey told those in the studio. "Imagine the love and kindness you can spread with $1,000."


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Jacob Roloff, the 9-year-old member of the Roloff family, who have their own reality show – Little People, Big World – on The Learning Channel, was seriously injured Saturday night in an accident involving a pumpkin launcher on the family farm.

Roloff, whose parents Matt and Amy are dwarfs (Jacob is normal size), was whipped in the face when a catapult at the Roloff Farm was inadvertently triggered, the Associated Press reports. As of Monday morning, he was listed in serious condition at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon.

Mike Detjen, 58, a family friend, was pinned briefly by the catapult's extremely heavy counterweight and was also in serious condition.

In a message posted to the TLC message boards, Matt Roloff wrote that his son needed surgery but that both patients are expected to make a full recovery.

The second season of Little People, Big World, began airing this month. Jacob has three siblings, one of whom, Zach, is also a dwarf. Much of the show is shot on the farm in Helvetia, Oregon, which is the ultimate playground.

Fed up with missing the height requirement for most amusement-park rides, Matt Roloff, a software salesman, spent four years building his own whimsical Disneyland on the farm. "I'm like the coolest dad around" he told PEOPLE in 2000.

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Anna Nicole Smith has broken her silence about the Sept. 10 death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, in the Nassau hospital room where he was visiting her and his 3-day-old half-sister, Dannielynn Hope.

In a series of interviews scheduled to begin airing Nov. 2 on TV's Entertainment Tonight, an emotional Smith says of her son, "I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me."

She also says of daughter Dannielynn, "She looks like Daniel."

ET correspondent Mark Steines, reporting on his meeting with Smith for the program's Web site, writes that his subject had been transformed from the previous times he had met her.

"She seemed calmer, sadder, a bit broken, yet she looked quite beautiful," he writes, adding that Smith beams when playing with her daughter and is gracious when introducing him to the man she calls her husband: her lawyer and confidante, Howard K. Stern.

"If I didn't have Howard, or my baby, I wouldn't be here," Smith says in a video clip on the Web site.

On Sept. 28, Smith, 38, and Stern, 37, exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony on a boat off the coast of the Bahamas' Paradise Island.

"She giggles like a schoolgirl when she talks about the first time she realized she was in love with Howard," Steines writes.

But she crumbles at the mention of Daniel, "tears pouring out of her eyes, her body shaking from the sobbing." (The results of official toxicology tests following Daniel's death have not been released, but a private pathologist has said Methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro were found in his system.)

Steines writes, "This is not just a controversial, misunderstood woman, this is a mother who has lost a child."

Coincidentally, on Tuesday, the day footage from the interview was revealed, Smith was hospitalized with pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, where she gave birth to Dannielynn and where Daniel died, one of her attorneys told the Associated Press.

"She has a slight case of pneumonia," said Wayne Munroe. "We've had a sudden change of weather here due to a cold snap."


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The Price Is Right host Bob Barker is retiring after 50 years on television, he announced Tuesday.

"I will be 83 years old on Dec. 12," he told the Associated Press, "and I've decided to retire while I'm still young."

The TV icon, who has hosted CBS's The Price Is Right for 35 years, will step down in June.

"I've gone on and on and on to this ancient age because I've enjoyed it," he said. "I've thoroughly enjoyed it and I'm going to miss it."

CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves called Barker's contribution to the network "immeasurable."

But the show was getting to be too much for Barker. "I'm just reaching the age where the constant effort to be there and do the show physically is a lot for me," he said. "I might be able to do the show another year, but better (to leave) a year too soon than a year too late."

As a young man, Barker was a Navy pilot, and in 1947, while trying to make ends meet while earning a degree in economics from Springfield, Missouri's Drury College, he landed a job as sportscaster and DJ at a local radio station. One day he was asked to pinch hit as emcee of an audience-participation show and came away loving it.

At the time, his wife, Dorothy Jo, whom he met while in high school and married while on leave from the Navy, told him: " 'This is what you should do,' " Barker recalled for PEOPLE in 1999.

Dorothy Jo, who died of cancer at age 57 in 1991, became Barker's sidekick, singing commercial jingles in a string of L.A.-based radio talent shows, until Ralph Edwards, the producer-creator of TV's Truth or Consequences, tapped Barker to succeed him as its host in 1956. Barker hosted the show, in which he egged on contestants to perform crazy stunts, for 18 years.

He first appeared on Price on Sept. 4, 1972.

In his retirement, Barker told the AP he plans to "sit down for maybe a couple of weeks and find out what it feels like to be bored." Then, he said, he'll work with animal-rights organizations, including his own DJ&T Foundation, founded in memory of Dorothy Jo and Barker's late mother, Matilda.

Barker added that he "doesn't have the words" to thank his fans enough. "From the bottom of my heart, I thank the television viewers, because they have made it possible for me to earn a living for 50 years doing something that I thoroughly enjoy. They have invited me into their homes daily for a half a century."

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Madonna has revealed more about her plans to adopt 13-month-old David Banda from Malawi – including that David's father, Yohane Banda, turned down her offer of financial aid to help raise his son – in an interview with Meredith Vieira scheduled to air both on the Today show and Dateline NBC Wednesday.

"When I met (Yohane), I said I would be happy to … to bring (David) back to your village and help you financially raise him," the singer tells Vieira in the interview. "And he said no … I think he truly felt in his heart of hearts that – and who knows if he was telling me the truth – that he would have a better life with me. So, when he said no, that was my sign that it was my responsibility to look after him."

The singer, who faced protests from human rights groups that claimed the law was bent for her and her husband Guy Ritchie, also reveals that the negative attention surrounding the adoption caused her – momentarily – to question her decision.

Asked if she would do things the same way, Madonna answers, "I mean, if you would have asked me a week ago when I was in...the depths of my depression, and just feeling so sad about the state of the world and how negative everybody was, I probably would have said no. But if you ask me today, I would say yes."

The singer, who practices Kabbalah, also addresses how her spiritual practices might influence David, who has been photographed wearing the red-stringed bracelet that is often associated with followers of the religion.

"I believe in Jesus and I study Kabbalah. So, I don't see why he can't too," says Madonna. "The essence of the Kabbalah is the teachings of Jesus. You know, love your neighbor as yourself."

She adds, however, that ultimately the choice will be up to David. "If David decides he wants to be a Christian, then so be it. Studying Kabbalah doesn't mean you can't be a Christian or a Buddhist or a Muslim or a Jew or whatever."

Madonna, who has two children – Lourdes, 10, and Rocco, 6 – also says that David fits right into her family. "He's got a terrible temper. He's very flirtatious. And he's hysterically funny," she says.

When Vieira pointed out that those qualities sounded a lot like Madonna herself, the singer laughed, saying, "I do have a terrible temper. ...I would say that's kind of me, yeah. But obviously he's going to come with his own baggage and his own DNA and I look forward to being surprised by what he's going to offer the world and how he's going to turn out."

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Child actress-turned-international diplomat Shirley Temple Black broke her wrist in a fall "a few weeks ago," her publicist said Wednesday.

Black, 78, is still wearing a cast on her right arm, said Rick Ross.

"She's fine," he said. "She's doing great."

The accident happened at Black's Northern California home, Ross said.

Black, who retired from acting when she was 21, was recognized in January by the Screen Actors Guild with a lifetime achievement award.

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The Stardust, the neon-wrapped casino with a mobbed-up past whose 1,065 rooms once set the standard for size on the Las Vegas Strip, witnessed its last roll of the dice Wednesday.

Wistful longtime employees and loyal gamblers gathered for a last farewell to the iconic 48-year-old institution, which is to be razed early next year to make way for Boyd Gaming Corp.'s planned $4 billion Echelon Place resort.

The Stardust opened July 2, 1958, as the world's largest hotel and catered to middle America with $6-a-night rooms and low-minimum stakes gambling.

But as bigger, classier casinos sprung up around it in the late 1980s and '90s and patrons began shelling out more for rooms, food and drinks, its luster began to fade.

"I'm really going to miss this place," said Jimmy Kunihiro, a 60-year-old Honolulu resident, as he took a last pass at the craps table. "It's a home away from home."

The resort became as famous for its familiar friendliness as its mob connections. In the 1995 movie "Casino," Robert De Niro played a character inspired by the finely tailored Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, who ran the hotel-casino in the mid-1970s.

"He truly was Cadillac sharp all the time," said Mickey Jones, a drummer and actor who appeared as a guest on Rosenthal's television broadcast from the hotel. "When the mob ran this town, everything functioned like clockwork."

Cocktail waitress Emma Houston remembered how Rosenthal sent money to make her mortgage payment when she was hospitalized for surgery in 1974.

"They knew everybody by name, not by badge," she said. "It was different back in that day."

In its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, Elvis Presley would drop by. Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown co-hosted a radio show from the sports book.

One night, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin showed up at the "Moby Dick" restaurant in the Stardust, just as chef Frank Perkins, now 60, was closing. He reopened in a hurry.

"Sinatra said, `You can cook for me anytime,'" Perkins said. "So I will never forget that."

With the 1980s came a crackdown by Nevada regulators on organized skimming from the casino cages. Boyd was brought in as an operator in 1983, and bought the Stardust in 1985 when the mobbed-up owners lost their gambling license.

While the explosion of upscale resorts — starting with The Mirage in 1989 — reinvigorated Las Vegas, it wasn't long before Boyd chairman Bill Boyd realized Stardust's best days were behind it.

"We saw a new wave of Las Vegas reinventing itself," he said. "We saw many new properties with new amenities that we didn't have. We started to realize before too many years that we would have to implode the Stardust and start over."

The property's decline could be charted in more ways than one.

In its last throes, Boyd signed crooner Wayne Newton in 2000 to a five-year deal to become its headline performer as the company focused its marketing on the older, nostalgic crowd.

But even its frequent players list was losing steam as the clients simply aged. For the past several years, the Stardust has resorted to a swinging couples convention, "Lifestyles," to fill its rooms for a week in the summer.

The new resort, Echelon Place, is expected to open in mid-2010 with more than 5,000 hotel rooms, two theaters, a shopping mall and more than 1 million square feet of meeting space.

Stardust memorabilia will not be lost.

The company is auctioning off equipment, photos and other mementoes beginning Nov. 17. And its famous 18-story Stardust sign is being donated to the Neon Museum, a local nonprofit group that hopes to restore it.

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Christopher Reeve's children are carrying on their dad's crusade: finding a cure for paralysis.

Alexandra and Matthew Reeve both serve on the board of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which Reeve established to fund research for therapies and a cure, People magazine reports in its Nov. 13 issue.

"Our dad's accident really did connect us to this community: 4 million people in the U.S. who are suffering from paralysis," Alexandra Reeve tells the magazine. "We understand how important it is not only to find a cure but also to improve quality of life."

She and brother Matthew will join their stepbrother, Will Reeve, 14, at the foundation's annual gala on Nov. 6 in New York.

Christopher Reeve was paralyzed in 1995 in a horse-riding accident. He died in 2004 at age 52. His wife, Dana Reeve, died of lung cancer earlier this year.

Asked about how her stepbrother, Alexandra responds, "Wills doing well. He loves school. He is playing hockey and football and keeping busy with friends."

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Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel had at least seven drugs in his system when he died on Sept. 10, toxicology reports indicate.

Dr. Cyril Wecht, a private pathologist hired by the Smith family, confirms to PEOPLE that the antidepressant Amitriptyline, as well as two over-the-counter cold medicines, were found in Daniel's body along with methadone and the antidepressants Lexapro and Zoloft. Sources also tell PEOPLE that a mild over-the-counter sedative was found in the 20-year-old's system.

However, Wecht said the other medications played no role in Daniel's death, and reiterated his assertion that Daniel was killed by the combination of Lexapro, Zoloft and methadone. Of the other medications, he said, "The levels are insignificant and they don't mean a thing. They're of no consequence."

Meanwhile, Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamian attorney, Wayne R. Munroe, tells PEOPLE Smith has sued South Carolina developer G. Ben Thompson in Bahamas Supreme Court over ownership of her Nassau residence.
He is going around claiming that the house is his. So we have sued him in the Bahamas Supreme Court for declaration that he is wrong," says Munroe, who alleges that Smith has a signed and sealed deed giving the house to her.

Thompson tells PEOPLE about this legal challenge, "I won't take it lightly. I'm certainly not going to roll over."

At issue is the nearly $1 million home where Smith, her newborn daughter Dannielynn Hope and Smith's partner Howard K. Stern have been living.

Thompson says he offered Smith financial help to buy the house. Smith was then supposed to sign a mortgage to buy the home from him, and a deed in her name would be filed in court. Instead, he says, she refused, so he had a new deed drawn up in his name.

Last week, a letter was delivered to the house telling Smith she would have to move out by Oct. 31. Thompson said that if she failed to leave, he would begin formal eviction proceedings. However, Munroe claims that Smith purchased the home for $900,000 from two men, neither of whom is Thompson.

According to Thompson's attorney, Michael Scott, there has been no registration of the deed for the property.

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Nicole Parker and husband Boris Kodjoe, who met on the television series Soul Food, have welcomed their second child, son Nicolas Neruda Kodjoe, PEOPLE has learned.

The boy was born on Tuesday in Atlanta at 11:13 a.m. Parker, 36, and Kodjoe, 33, already have a 1-year-old daughter, Sophie.

The couple, who also starred together in the UPN series Second Time Around, were married in Gundelfingen, Kodjoe's hometown in Germany's Black Forest, in May 2005.

"Our kids are going to be bilingual," Kodjoe told PEOPLE at the time. "So that's going to be a whole other tradition that I'm going to try to uphold."

While discussing his relationship with Parker and their successful careers, Kodjoe, told PEOPLE in 2004: "I count my blessings every day. I really have to pinch myself every once in a while. It's like, 'Wow! This is really my life.'"

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Britney Spears made sure not to steal the spotlight from husband Kevin Federline as he celebrated the release of his debut album, Playing With Fire, on Tuesday.

Spears donned a pink wig and oversized white sunglasses at the after-party in Hollywood, where she blended in perfectly with the Halloween night revelers, the rapper's rep confirms to PEOPLE.

Earlier in the evening, Federline performed his song "Privilege" on L.A.'s KIIS 102.7 FM stage at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval to kick off his promotional tour. But before going onstage, he admitted that the demands of his fledging career mean he's spending less time with his family – but, he says, his pop star wife is understanding.

"She's really supportive of what I'm doing, she knows I've been working on this for a long time," Federline told PEOPLE. "It's going to be tough because I'm not going to see my family as much as I want to, but I mean, those are the sacrifices you make as an artist."

Spears is busy taking off the baby weight, and has been especially supportive of his CD promotion, Federline said. "She's good, man. She's getting back in shape. Hopefully she'll come meet up with me tonight over at my album release party," he told PEOPLE before the event.

Though there have been reports that Federline's concerts have suffered from low ticket sales, the rapper says he's not expecting to sell out stadium shows like his megastar wife.

"I don't care if it's a room full of nine, five, nine people. I don't care if there's one person. I'll perform for you," he said. "I'm a rookie artist, you can't expect because of my name to sell out a show. People don't know me as Kevin Federline, the artist. They know me as Kevin Federline, the dude that's married to Britney Spears."

He added, "Eventually that will change. Once I start building up, doing events like this, showing crowds of people that I can get them turned on and hype, that's what I do."

Granted, he said, that may take time, but "it's all worth it. This is like my pet project. I've been working on it for a year and a half. Just to put it out there and not do anything about it would not be acceptable to me. … I'm just another artist that's having to pay his dues."

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Diagnosed with Parkinson's 15 years ago, Michael J. Fox hasn't let the ravages of the disease take his attention from what's really important: His wife, kids and quest for a cure.

"I'm so blessed with a great family, and I've had success in my career," the actor, who's been campaigning for candidates who support embryonic stem-cell research, tells PEOPLE in its new issue. "I feel this is a really unique opportunity for me to help out and try to effect change."

Fox, 45, says his condition is now so much a part of his life that even his kids with wife Tracy Pollan – Sam, 17; twins Aquinnah and Schuyler, 11; and Esme, 5 – barely mention it anymore. "They know it so intimately," he says. "It would be like asking your mother what it's like to be that tall."

The disease is also a learning experience for his children. "I think the thing it has taught my kids is resilience," he says. "And that's a great lesson and a great gift I've been able to give them just by example."

Although he first revealed his illness publicly in 1998, he's been in the public eye more than ever recently, in political ads and TV interviews that showcase the involuntary movements often associated with Parkinson's.

"I have less control over the way my body moves," he says. "The thing that gets tougher as you go along is that the medication gets less effective and has more side effects. So it's a lot more challenging."

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Two years after Christopher Reeve's death, his children are carrying on the cause that meant so much to him – finding a cure for paralysis, PEOPLE reports in its upcoming issue.

"Our dad's accident really did connect us to this community: 4 million people in the U.S. who are suffering from paralysis," Reeve's daughter Alexandra tells PEOPLE in its upcoming issue. "We understand how important it is not only to find a cure but also to improve quality of life."

Both Alexandra, 22, and her older brother Matthew, 26, serve on the board of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, founded by their father after his devastating 1995 horse-riding accident to fund research for cures and therapies for paralysis.

On Monday the pair will join their half-brother Will Reeve, now 14, onstage at the foundation’s annual gala in Manhattan. According to Alexandra, "Will's doing well. He loves school. He is playing hockey and football and keeping busy with friends."

Though all three Reeve children are involved in the work their father started, Christopher Reeve's wife, Dana, who died from lung cancer last March, was careful to make sure the kids were not burdened with their father's legacy. For that reason, she asked her longtime friend Peter Kiernan to take over as chairman of the foundation.

"I do not want Will's teenage years to be usurped by this," Kiernan recalls Dana saying. "It's fine to help, but I want him to have a teenage boy's life." Similarly she said of the older kids, who were from Reeve's previous relationship with Gae Exton, "I do not want them to feel like their sole mission in life is to carry on their father’s legacy."

Now Dana's wishes are being fulfilled. Alexandra is in her second year in law school in New York City, and her older brother Matthew, a filmmaker, is working on a documentary. Will is an accomplished athlete who started a new school this fall.

Still, the defining moment of life with their dad – an avid outdoorsman before his injury – was the accident 11 years ago that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
After that finding a cure and new treatments for paralysis became a family obsession. Today, keeping that excitement alive is just one way of remembering Christopher and Dana.

Matthew recalls attending a foundation meeting at which a 3-year-old boy burst into the room; he had recovered the ability to walk with a walker with treadmill therapy funded by the group. Christopher Reeve, Matthew says, would have been proud. "It just really drove home what we are all trying to do."

To learn more about the work of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, which offers extensive resources to those dealing with paralysis, go to: www.christopherreeve.org

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Justin Timberlake brought sexy back to Copenhagen on Thursday night, as the pop star picked up the awards for best male and best pop act – in between hosting duties – at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2006.

Timberlake kicked off the night in spectacular fashion, bursting through a giant exploding speaker to perform a medley of his hits, including "SexyBack," while giant glitter balls lit up the intimate auditorium.

"It's nice to pick up the most prestigious award tonight," said Timberlake, after winning his best pop trophy. "I'm convinced that you guys gave me this because you talked me into hosting the show."

The other big winners on the night were Atlanta-based hip-hop duo Gnarls Barkley, who walked away with the award for best song as well as the new Futuresounds award, voted on by other artists for best newcomer of the year.

"All of us – this is our song," singer Cee-Lo Green told the audience, as he received the award for the group's massive hit "Crazy."

Stand-out performers of the night included Muse, winners of best alternative, who rocked the Bella Centre with their performance of "Starlight," accompanied by a dazzling laser show, and Nelly Furtado, who set the venue alight with a sizzling performance of "Maneater."

Outside in freezing cold temperatures, The Killers, Snoop Dogg and Keane wowed thousands of fans in Copenhagen's main square with a 30-minute set. Back in the main venue, the star-studded show ended with a theatrical performance from Finnish goth rockers, Lordi.

The night was not without controversy, though, as Kanye West took to the stage to protest, after losing out in the best video category to Justice Vs Simian. "I had the best video," West said later. "Touch the Sky was a great moment in TV."

West did walk away with the award for best hip-hop, while Depeche Mode won best group, and The Killers won best rock.

Christina Aguilera beat out strong competition from Madonna and Furtado to win best female artist. Red Hot Chili Peppers won best album for Stadium Arcadium, and Rihanna took home laurels for best R&B artist.

Madonna, meanwhile, was on the receiving end of several jokes, including a spoof of her performance of "Hung Up" at last year's awards, by British comedian Avid Merrion, who sported an ill-fitting pink leotard and was accompanied by a troupe of dancing dwarves.

Earlier in the night, Kazakhstan's most famous TV reporter, Borat, alter ego of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, also asked after the queen of pop, whose recent adoption of a baby from Malawi has been hugely controversial. "My only concern is that the singing transvestite will not a be good farther," joked Borat.

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Adrienne Shelly, an actress best known for her roles in the Hal Hartley films "Trust" and "The Unbelievable Truth," was found dead in her office by her husband, her agent said Thursday.

Shelly was found about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Police said Thursday night that they are awaiting autopsy results before deciding whether to investigate the case as foul play.

An autopsy was performed Thursday, but the medical examiner's office did not have a cause of death.

Shelly, who was 40, appeared as Jerry in the 2005 film "Factotum" with Matt Dillon. She starred as Audry Hugo in the 1989 film "The Unbelievable Truth" and as Maria Coughlin in the 1990 film "Trust." She worked steadily during her career in film, theater and television but later turned to writing and directing, making her directorial debut with "Sudden Manhattan" in 1996.

Shelly was married to Andy Ostroy and had a 3-year-old named Sophie, according to her agent of about a decade, Rachel Sheedy. Ostroy is not in the movie business.

Born Adrienne Levine in Queens and raised on Long Island, Shelly lived in lower Manhattan with her family and had been focusing more lately on writing, directing and caring for her daughter, Sheedy said.

Shelly recently wrote and directed a film called "Waitress," which starred Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion.

"She was so psyched about the film," Sheedy said. "She gathered an amazing cast, and she was really happy and excited to hear back from Sundance about it."

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Former ‘Doogie Howser,’ star, 33, tells People he wants to quell rumors. Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary.

“(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest,” Harris tells People magazine’s Web site.

The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent “speculation and interest in my private life and relationships.”

Harris stars on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother.” He started on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series “Doogie Howser, M.D.”

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Flavor Flav, who’s dating “Flavor of Love” winner Deelishis, is expecting a child — his seventh — with another woman, his manager, Clifton Johnson, confirmed Thursday.

When things didn’t work out with Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander, who won the first season of his hit VH1 reality show, Flav resumed an “on and off” relationship with the baby-to-be’s mother — “hence, the conception,” Johnson said. The baby is due in early January, he said.

Johnson would not reveal the mother’s identity.

Deelishis (real name London Charles), whom Flav chose in the recent second-season finale of “Flavor of Love,” is reportedly standing by her man.

“She understands that this is definitely something prior to her involvement on the show and her involvement with Flav, and she says she supports him regardless,” Johnson said.

Flavor Flav (real name William Drayton Jr.), 47, founded the hip-hop group Public Enemy in the ‘80s. He found fame anew in 2004 on the third season of VH1’s “The Surreal Life.” He has since starred in the network’s “Strange Love” and “Flavor of Love.”

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Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has taken a job with Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund based in New York City, according to the New York Daily News.

Clinton, 26, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), was previously a consultant at McKinsey & Co., which she joined in 2003.

Avenue Capital Group was co-founded by Marc Lasry, who has contributed to campaigns for Democratic politicians including Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Bradley and John Kerry, Reuters reports.

Lasry has also contributed lesser amounts to campaigns for President George W. Bush, federal election records show.

Clinton, who graduated from Stanford University in 2001 and studied philosophy at Oxford University, could not be reached by Reuters for comment. A spokeswoman for Avenue said the company "does not comment on issues of company personnel."

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Neil Patrick Harris is gay – and wants to quell recent reports that he had denied it. The actor tells PEOPLE exclusively:

"The public eye has always been kind to me, and until recently I have been able to live a pretty normal life. Now it seems there is speculation and interest in my private life and relationships.

"So, rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love."

Harris, 33, currently stars in the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. He shot to fame in 1989 at age 16 when he played a teen-prodigy doctor on the hit Doogie Howser, M.D. "It was a very fast but wonderful education," he told PEOPLE in 1998.

After the show went off the air in 1993, he shook off his teen image with roles in the musicals Rent and Assassins and a wild turn as an unhinged version himself in the 2004 movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

"I'm enjoying my 30s," he told PEOPLE in 2004. "I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going."

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Hilary Swank was injured Thursday on the set of her new film, P.S. I Love You in New York.

During a scene with costar Gerard Butler, in which the actor performs a striptease for Swank, Butler's suspenders became snagged and hit the actress on her forehead, a source tells PEOPLE. Swank received medical treatment, which included sutures for the cut, and filming was halted.

Per the source, Swank is recovering and in good spirits, and production will resume on Monday.

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Paul McCartney spoke Friday night about remaining dignified amid his ongoing painful divorce from Heather Mills.

"I think when you're going through difficulties, the thing to do for the sake of all the people concerned is to keep a certain dignity and remember that it is a private affair, and that way you'll probably get through it better," McCartney told BBC's Radio 4 at the debut performance of his new classical music album, Ecce Cor Meum, in London.

"You'll put less noses out of joint, and I think it's a more dignified way to go about it, so that's what I try to do," he continued.

"I don't hold grudges against anyone, I don't blame anyone for the sadnesses that have happened to me. I'm sad about them because it would stupid to be otherwise. But I think life goes on, and it is what you make of it, so I am pretty optimistic."

The optimism showed at the packed Royal Albert Hall, where the 64-year-old ex-Beatle smiled, waved and blew kisses to the audience. Several fans held up homemade signs that read "You have my heart," a play on the album's title, which means "behold my heart" in Latin.

During the performance, McCartney sat next to his daughter, designer Stella McCartney, 35, and her husband Alasdhair Willis.

After a standing ovation for the performers – the St. Martin's in the Fields Orchestra, a boys choir and soprano Kate Royal – he strode onto the stage, excited and beaming, and said it was "a privilege to be in the presence of such fine musicians.

"This has been such a long labor of love for me," he told the audience. "And so many great people have helped me that I can't begin to name them. And I have so many wonderful people – my family, my friends from forever – who are here tonight."

He has said that the album was inspired by his first wife, Linda, who died from breast cancer in 1998.

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In an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show airing Monday, Charlie Sheen talks about working things out with his estranged wife, Denise Richards, for the sake of their kids – and says he's happy he knows her new boyfriend, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora.

Asked by DeGeneres how things are going with Richards, 35, Sheen, 40, says, "We're trying to put all that nonsense aside and just do what's right for the children and just be good responsible parents." The pair have two daughters: Sam, 2, and Lola, 1.

"It's hard enough to have a relationship that doesn't work out, and who knows what everyone's life is privately, but it's even harder when it's in the public eye and you see them with somebody else in magazines," Degeneres says.

Sheen replies, "Well, at least I knew the guy that she wound up with, Richie. To know that it's somebody decent and smart and a good parent to be around your children, that's a good thing."

Richards and Sheen formerly lived in the same Southern California neighborhood as Sambora and his then-wife, Heather Locklear.

Richards and Locklear, who filed for divorce from Sambora in February, were previously pals, but Richards has said their friendship had already ended before she and Sambora began dating in February.

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Shanna Moakler made the best of her split from Travis Barker on Friday with a divorce party at the Las Vegas nightclub Light at the Bellagio.

"I've been to past friends' divorce parties so I'm not the first person (to have one)," she tells PEOPLE. "I'm not groundbreaking or anything. I'm really doing it for myself to have closure and celebrate being single again and start a new chapter in my life."

The former Meet The Barkers star and Dancing with the Stars contestant hung out with a group of girlfriends all night, moving to various tables all around the club to get different perspectives.

Finally settling on a corner booth, Moakler joined an existing party's table to hang for the night. Wearing a short black dress, she was clearly having a good time as she drank vodka and did shots with her newfound friends.

The highlight of the evening came at dinner, when the Ballagio's Fix restaurant brought out a "divorce cake" for Moakler. The three-tiered cake featured a miniature knife-wielding blonde in a wedding dress on top, with a trail blood leading to a tiny groom sprawled at the bottom.

On hosting the oddly themed bash, Moakler tells PEOPLE, "I don't have any regrets about doing it. I am who I am and I make my own decisions. I totally respect people's opinions. I never thought I would be getting a divorce. I never thought I'd be here. At the end of the day, this isn't the worst thing in my life. People go through it every day. I respect people's opinions, but this is my opinion. This is how I'm showing the world that divorce is okay. I doesn't have to be the end of your life."

Barker, 30, the former drummer for blink-182, filed for divorce from Moakler, 31, in August.

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Hang out with Kellie Pickler long enough, and a few things are bound to happen:

1. She will gush about her biggest obsession: shoes. "There's a new brand – how do you pronounce it? Christian Loo-boo … " – Louboutin? – "Yeah! That is my favorite brand right now. I just got my first pair the other day. Black leather boots."

2. She will eat – a lot. "I like my food," she says over a lunch of fried chicken fingers, french fries and fried mozzarella sticks. "I can't eat healthy for one day."

3. She will belch, proudly and loudly. "My grandma always told me to be a lady, but I'm guessing I have not fulfilled that wish," she says.

At 20, the joke-cracking blonde with the honey-dipped drawl and the hard-grit youth is making good on plenty of other big wishes. After finishing sixth on last season's American Idol, Pickler is out to prove herself as a country singer with her debut album, Small Town Girl.

Inspired by her North Carolina roots, the album features five songs cowritten by Pickler, including the boot-scootin' first single, "Red High Heels." "She grew up in this music," says Joe Galante, chairman of Sony BMG Nashville. "And she brings an energy that you're just happy to be around. When you know the things she's been through, this woman has the right to be grumpy, moody, whatever. But that's never there."

As fireplug-perky in person as she was on American Idol, Pickler is also more focused and mature than her fizzy persona might suggest. "I'm only 20, but I almost feel like an old woman," she says. "I grew up fast."

Idol viewers may recall her story: Born in Albemarle, N.C., Pickler was 2 when her mother left (she later briefly regained custody of Kellie); her father, Clyde "Bo" Pickler Jr., was in and out of jail; and her grandparents, Faye and Clyde Sr., raised her.

Looking back on all of that, Pickler says the hardest thing she has had to endure was the death of her grandmother from lung cancer when Kellie was 15. "I called her Mom; she was my best friend," says Pickler. "We would always sit together on the front-porch swing. She had all these hymnals – with 'Amazing Grace' and 'Jesus Loves Me' – and I would sing to her on the swing."

Pickler cries at the memory of their final moments together. "The last thing she said to me was, 'I love you. Be careful.' "

Today she says that she and her father – who was most recently released from prison last May – "haven't really had time to catch up." Although she has no idea of her mother's whereabouts, "I think about her all the time," says Pickler. "Did she watch American Idol? How odd would it be if she had picked up the phone and voted for me?"

Says her close friend Summer Miller, who met Kellie when she was a teen pageant hopeful: "I remember asking her, 'Honey, where's your mom?' She said, 'Your guess is as good as mine.' No child should ever have to go through that."

Having just moved to Nashville – she made the drive herself in a U-Haul – Pickler is focusing on her new life. She has a boyfriend in Albemarle, but "we're