June 07, 2006

Woody Harrelson and Stephen Root, both have been added to the star-studded cast of the upcoming drama adventure flick "No Country for Old Men", joining the likes of Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem in the Joel Coen and Ethan Coen direction.

Based on the acclaimed Cormac McCarthy novel, the story tells the battle between good and evil and the importance of choice and chance in shaping destiny.

After gaining success with "Desperate Houswives", Teri Hatcher is now venturing into big screen production, again. The actress is joining the cast of the upcoming drama "Resurrecting the Champ", which Rod Lurie is directing.

Based on a Los Angeles Times article written by J.R. Moehringer, the story of the flick follows a reporter who finds a homeless man who he thinks is a famous boxer but turns out to be a lesser-known fighter of the same era.

Jerry Lewis, the actor who played "The Nutty Professor" in 1963, is planning to direct the Broadway musical of the flick, the first show of which is planned for January at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

Will be produced by The Michael Andrew Company, the show has been scheduled to have on Broadway by October 2008. Andrew, a comedian who fronts The Atomic Big Band, is set to play the lead, the bucktoothed Julius Kelp, who invents a potion that transforms him into the suave Buddy Love.

Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was on weekend photographed at the beach on a family day out, wearing a very loose summer dress that showed a big bulge for her belly. This then prompted rumors on the street saying that she is pregnant.

That's not all, media outlets have also reported that in recent months Witherspoon has taken to wearing floaty, loose outfits and has been sporting a more rounded tummy. She and husband Ryan Phillippe, however, have not yet made any public statement regarding this, but if the report proven true the baby would be the couple's third child.

Word got around that Sarah Harding, the member of music group Girls Aloud, has been secretly dating Stephen Dorff for the past few months.

Per The Sun, Sarah was spotted with actor Dorff in a nightclub after Girls Aloud's Wembley gig on Saturday.

A representative for Mary J. Blige confirmed that the queen of hip-hop soul is about to kick off a summer tour July 14 at the UMB Bank Pavilion in St. Louis with openers Jaheim and LeToya Luckett.

The tour, dubbed "Mary J. Blige: The Breakthrough Experience", will end September 8 at Concord, California's Chronicle Pavilion. Click on Mary J. Blige's official site for the singer's tour dates in complete.

Christina Aguilera seems more than ready to make a comeback to music industry with her new album "Back to Basics". Speaking about the soon to-be-released set, the pop crooner reveals that she at last decided to expand it into double LP after previously narrowed it down to one.

At Saturday's MTV Movie Awards, during which she performed her new single "Ain't No Other Man", Aguilera confirmed "The first half is based upon working with more beat-driven producers and will use samples and things like that, and then the second disc is all me and (collaborator) Linda Perry."

Question on who is going to play Daisy Duke in the upcoming prequel to "The Dukes of Hazzard" finally is answered. It's not going to be Kristin Cavallari like the film's producer had previously said, instead the choice has gone to April Scott.

"We decided to go with a Southerner and someone more reminiscent of Catherine Bach," producer Bill Gerber tells PEOPLE explaining on the final casting.

The legal suit Eminem brought to stop several companies from selling ringtones of his songs via the Internet has yet over. Though so, the rapper's publishing companies, Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, have settled a lawsuit that had been filed back in October with one of the ringtone firms.

As for you to know, Em's companies had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit against Cellus USA, FanMobile, Nextones.com, myPhonefiles and MatrixM, seeking court orders prohibiting these companies from illegally selling the ringtones. In February, Eminem's attorneys sued a sixth company, Florida-based Phattones Media Productions, making the same claims.

Doing good deeds for other human beings and hosting a very successful talk show are only some of the specialties possessed by Oprah Winfrey besides that of giving surprise for others. Last weekend, the star popped up at several receptions in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her Oprah Winfrey Show cameras in tow.

Wearing pink dress, Oprah attended at least two wedding ceremonies, which was that of Morgan and Bethany Francis and Ben and Heather Klein. What's more was that the star also brought the shocked first couple a wedding gift, dishes from Dillards department. While the "Oprah" show producers interviewed the bride and groom, Oprah chatted with wedding guests and signed the guest book before then went on to visit the second nuptial with the same gift in hand.

Soon after "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks signed a record deal, it's now the turn of runner-up Katharine McPhee to ink hers.

The young and talented singer has signed a record deal with the famed music mogul Clive Davis in conjunction with 19 Recordings Unlimited, the label managed by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller, it was announced Tuesday June 6th, 2006.

Rock singer Meat Loaf filed a more than $50 million lawsuit over trademark rights to the phrase "Bat Out of Hell" addressed to two members of his creative team, songwriter Jim Steinman and manager David Sonenberg. In his suit, filed May 26 in Los Angeles federal district court, Meat claimed that Steinman, who penned the epic song, wrongfully registered the phrase as his trademark in 1995.

Also Meat alleged in the suit that though he didn't actually come up with the signature phrase, he has used it extensively for 29 career-spanning years, starting with the 1977 album "Bat Out of Hell," and thus claimed its legal association should be with him, not Steinman. The suit further claims that the songwriter registered the phrase as trademark "out of nowhere."