June 14, 2006

Wednesday, June 14, is the third week for MTV's The Hills after its premiere show on last May 31.

In this third episode, Lauren discovers how challenging life has become when school and her internship responsibilities begin to pull in opposite directions and Heidi learns that she has to work as hard as she party. Visit the 3rd week promo video here.

Five-time Grammy winning R&B artist Usher has on Tuesday June 13th, 2006 joined dozens of volunteers to clear the overgrown lawn of the International School of Louisiana, the state's first foreign language-based charter school, which has been closed since Katrina hit August 29.

Just like the many other volunteers, Usher pulled on some work gloves, grabbed a pair of trimmers and chopped away at a patch of vines that had overtaken a fence at a New Orleans school shuttered by Hurricane Katrina.

Three-week-old baby daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt has become a trendsetter early on even before she could stand on her own feet.

Appearing on the cover of People magazine, the baby wore a vintage-washed grey cotton T-shirt with the words "The Pots & Pans Band", causing the $42 shirt to immediately fly off store shelves.

You need to congrats Tobey Maguire and his longtime love Jennifer Meyer as they are expecting their first child together.

The pair began dating in 2003, shared a home in Los Angeles before soon thereafter announced their engagement in April.

His divorce with wife Denise Richards has yet been finalized, though so Charlie Sheen has found new love. The actor has, at the 2006 Butterfly Ball in Los Angeles over the weekend, showed off new girlfriend Brooke Wolofsky.

The beauty is a 28-year-old real estate investor. About their romance, Sheen's publicist, Stan Rosenfeld, has confirmed his client is dating Wolofsky, adding, "They make a very happy couple."

The big day is coming close and as a preparation Nicole Kidman reportedly has now re-adopted Catholicism. It is said that the Aussie actress has become more involved with the religion as she prepares for her wedding with Keith Urban.

"For Nicole, you know this is a spiritual homecoming, coming back to the church and her faith in her old parish," says Jesuit Father Paul Coleman in the Catholic News Service. It described Coleman as "a longtime friend of the Kidman family who advised them on the annulment of Kidman's marriage with Tom Cruise."

They were previously close friends. Madonna and Britney Spears used to be close and good friends, but for now on religious differences have sent them apart.

The dispute is said to be prompted by Britney's comment posted on the Internet saying that "I no longer study Kabbalah, my baby is my religion".

"Contrary to recent press reports, Heather Mills McCartney will not be giving any interviews or commenting in relation to her pending divorce from her husband," said a statement issued by Mills' office Sunday June 11th, 2006. And so, the statement released indicated that the pair, Mills and Paul McCartney is "no longer separate but divorce."

Two days later, on Tuesday June 13th, 2006, Mills' lawyer released another statement, marked "urgent," saying that the model planned to sue a British tabloid later on after her divorce had been finalized. This is prompted for her becoming the subject of several unflattering newspaper articles that included pictures of her in naked or semi-naked poses. Naming one of many, it was Britain's News of the World which ran an article that she spent nights with wealthy men when she was in her 20s.

Rapper Eminem is eyeing a comeback to movie industry. After a long break following his treatment for addiction to sleeping medication and the death of his best friend Proof, Eminem has at least one big screen project to finish.

In somewhat a follow-up to his movie debut in 2002's semi-autobiographical "8 Mile", Em is attached to star in a movie remake of the 1950s TV drama "Have Gun - Will Travel." Variety reports that the show's concept will be updated to contemporary times and feature Eminem playing a bounty hunter, possibly based out of the rapper's hometown of Detroit. The movie is being produced by Interscope/ Shady/ Aftermath Films, with producer credits going to Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine and Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg.

Sad to say that the working on Tim Burton and Jim Carrey's film project "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" has been put on hold. Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey has sent the film, based on the adventures of newspaperman and oddities collector Robert Ripley, back to the drawing board due to its swelling budget, according to trade reports.

The film, starring Carrey as Ripley, had been scheduled to begin production in November later this year, but has now been pushed back indefinitely after its budget came in over $150 million.

Music icon Bob Dylan has announced plans to release "Modern Times," his first album of new material in five years and his 44th overall, in stores and online Aug. 29.

The set reportedly will carry in it 10 new tracks with such Dylanesque titles as "Thunder on the Mountain," "Spirit on the Water," "Workingman's Blues" and "When the Deal Goes Down."

Paris Hilton has had and gotten everything in her life, but a man? She has none, at least for now on.

The hotel heiress said "I always have a boyfriend all the time, so I've never really got to know me and, like, have time for myself because I spend all my energy on the boyfriend".

The tickets for Barbra Streisand's upcoming U.S. tour went on sale on Monday June 12, during which organizers announced that the classical-pop vocal quartet Il Divo will join her on the road as a guest act.

The tour, which actually is a 20-date charity trek, is set to begin October 4 at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center and will run through the end of November.