June 21, 2005

No one has ever imagined that her engagement to actor boyfriend Tom Cruise costs Katie Holmes a very expensive price. Due to her highly publicized engagement, the actress has been dropped from second "Batman" movie. Commenting on this, a source tells Pagesix.Com, ""Batman" seeks a much stronger actress than Holmes and Warner is happy that people are now focusing on who'll be playing the Joker rather than Katie and Tom."

Meanwhile, actors Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman have all signed to star in a second Batman movie. Bale will reprise his role as Batman, Caine as butler Alfred and Freeman as Bruce Wayne's business associate Lucius Fox.

"Alias" actress Jennifer Garner has been reported to have visited Brandon Tucker's Briarwood Flower Shoppe in the town of Wheeling on Saturday and bought a bridal bouquet of ivory Virginia roses, Casablanca lilies as well as six bridesmaids poseys, for an alleged ceremony at the nearby Greenbrier Resort. This soon sparks rumor that she and boyfriend Ben Affleck have got married in West Virginia over the weekend.

Despite such fact, the celebrity couple has both laughed off that reports. Even more, Affleck's spokesman Ken Sunshine tells the New York Daily News, "He's totally lying. The guy got more publicity than ever in his life. Ben and Jen are not in West Virginia. They did not get married yesterday. They did not get married today."

Far aside from Warner Bros' plan to do the filming of "Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix" in Prague to save production costs, the parents of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe have their own reason regardless their son safety over filming in the Czech Republic. Thus, Alan Radcliffe and Marcia Gresham told producers that they're concerned at letting the turn to 15 Daniel spending long periods of time in a city increasingly famous for its wild nightlife and growing sex industry.

Their safety fears, indeed, acceptable and understandable. Hence, the filming of Harry Potter is returning to its original British location, which is the Leavesden studios.

Singer Martina McBride and husband John welcome a baby girl, which is the 3rd of their marriage, named Ava Rose Kathleen McBride. Born Monday at 2:25 p.m., the baby weighing 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and both the baby and mother are doing well.

Has been passing a difficult moment during her brother Michael Jackson's trial of child molestation charge, Janet Jackson has no longer had what so-called as a sense of humor. That's what she admits during the June 18 fundraiser held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Her lack sense of humor, however, doesn't prevent her to raise and donate millions of dollars for humanitarian causes, including the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation. And so Jackson received a standing ovation at the fundraiser.

Legend John Lennon's memorabilia will be auctioned July 28 at The Hippodrome nightclub in central London, through Cooper Owen auction house. Some major collections of his that will go on sale among others; his student days oil painting and handwritten "All You Need Is Love" manuscript.

Moreover, there will also be a table from the home Lennon shared with his first wife, Cynthia; a tunic thought to have inspired the costumes on the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover; and a bedspread from Lennon's "bed-in" for peace in Montreal with Yoko Ono. Cooper Owen expects to raise $2 million from the auction.

Their fifth album "In Your Honor" was released June 14 on Roswell/RCA Records. Just like usual, album release is incomplete without a tour. And so, still in support of their album, Foo Fighters held an exclusive Saturday album-release concert in "UFO City" Roswell.

The many of the band's fans won tickets and transportation to the concert through an online trivia contest run by Rhapsody, a new Internet music service, added the attendance into about 500 people, creating a more merry atmosphere of the gig.

"We simply don't have room for them," Live 8 promoter told The Scotsman newspaper. And as a result, the concert organizers have to reluctantly turn down 65 bands, one of them is Motley Crue, all of whom previously slated to appear at the July 2 Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park.

Why do we'll never know what we've got 'till it's gone? That's maybe so that we can appreciate more what we've had. Learn from singer LeAnn Rimes who at last realized that her voice is one precious thing she has and that singing is one thing she loves very much. Approvingly, the 22-year-old singer has learnt a lot from an injury to one of her vocal cords and an unspecified dental procedure, because of which she'd been ordered not to speak for two weeks and had to cancel her appearance at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tenn.

Now that she's recovered from those, Rimes is already on the road, heading her summer tour, which scheduled stops include Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Salt Lake City and Atlanta.