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Brad Pitt Seeks Trespassing Charges Against E!

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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Anna Nicole: Why Am I Here and Daniel Isn't?

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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Bob Barker Leaving TV After 50 Years

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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