June 18, 2005

Actor Billy Bob Thornton has signed to star in a feature film adaptation of "Peace Like a River," a Warner Bros. project on which Brad Pitt will serve as a producer. The movie, which is based on the book by Leif Enger, tells a tale of loyalty and revenge that revolves around an American family that gets into a deadly spat with some neighborhood thugs.

Was heartbroken with the June 12 blaze in the city's Kensington neighborhood that killed 5 children: Summer Cooke, 5; Samantha Bowers, 4; Sabrina Dickson, 22 months; Amber Johnson, 3; and Reginald Ringgold, 1, Stevie Wonder is planning to visit those children's family besides arranging to pay their funeral expenses. Ira Tucker, the musician publicist, said "Stevie feels good about this. It's been just a heart-wrenching thing."

The first three victims mentioned are all siblings, whose mother Shannon Bowers and boyfriend Lester Cooke escaped form the fire by jumping from a second-floor window into a children's wading pool on the sidewalk. Investigators are still trying to determine the causes.

Queen Latifah is reportedly failed to pay rent on her company Ghettoworks Inc's office space since November. It's also mentioned that the company has involved in a legal wrangle with her landlords over the 6,000 square-foot office space in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. In relation with it, a source told gossip site Pagesix.Com, "Her bill paying is the worst but the past five years of behavior has not been good. They're in litigation with her right now." The property owner David Raindorf, in contrast, refused to comment about that.

Who is today's "most punk" star ever? The answer is John Lydon of Sex pistols. The poll of listeners to Britain's Radio 1, the BBC's pop and rock station, has placed the singer on the top list surpassing the second Joe Strummer and the third who is Hunter S. Thompson.

Some other musicians listed in the poll, including Sid Vicious, late US country music superstar Johnny Cash, rapper Eminem and Oasis singer Liam Gallagher. Along with them is Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara and footballer Eric Cantona.

"Lotsa de Casha," is supposed to be Madonna's last book to be released. Yet, the star seems to part ways from retirement. She has in nowadays written a sequel about the tween girls who starred in her first book, "The English Roses," which illustrations are under way. In the book, slated for a September 2006 release, Madonna revolves the story of young girls who are jealous of a beautiful yet insecure classmate.

Rapper Cassidy has turned himself in to authorities Friday in relation with April shooting in Philadelphia. According to police, Cassidy was alleged as one of three men who fired repeatedly into a car parked in a driveway that killed one man named Desmond Hawkins and injured two others, Daniel Irvin and Bobby Hoyle.

Further police explained that the victims were unarmed and the motive for the shooting was unclear. Based on such fact, the rapper is now facing charges of murder, aggravated and simple assault, reckless endangerment, weapons offenses and related counts.

Come what may, love is worth everything you pay. This motto may work to the hot couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who both decided to go on continuing their romance no matter what people say about that.

Apparently, the couple has shown off public worldwide that they are really in love each other and that it's not just a bull. Their engagement in the early hours of Friday at Eiffel Tower is the very strong evidence that they really make it. No date has been announced for the wedding, yet they're "so happy."