June 23, 2006

It is just the matter of hours towards the premiere of one of this year's highly anticipated movies, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". The good news is that Disney is collaborating with MSN® Video to also broadcast the premiere on an exclusive live webcast for worldwide audiences to join. The premiere is held at the Disneyland Park on Saturday, June 24, from 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. PT. On-line audiences can access the live webcast on MSN.

The MSN "Dish Diva", Taylor Johnson is going to host the live webcast along with a historian from Disneyland and a Disney Imagineer. The hosts will report from different remote locations at the premiere's red carpet. Audiences need not to worry upon the chance of missing interviews, since the webcast also covers interviews on the red carpet with the A-list celebrities. In addition, worldwide audition joining the premiere through the MSN webcast will also enjoy the fun and exciting history of Disney's attraction, which is apparently the movies' inspiration.

Speculation is mounting in Hollywood that Cameron Diaz has been dumped by longtime boyfriend Justin Timberlake. The reason behind, according to veteran gossip Janet Charlton, is because Cam is "too clingy" and Justin wants to sew his wild oats.

Still according to Janet, Justin broke the decision to Diaz just as she was about to leave Los Angeles to film some additional scenes for her latest movie.

Good news comes from Philip Seymour Hoffman and his longtime girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell who are expecting their second child together.

O'Donnell is said to have four months pregnant, with the baby is due in November later this year.

Eva Longoria gets in one more trouble after another, yet she quickly makes it good. The actress involved in a car crash June 21st, 2006.

The actress was leaving celebrity stylist Ken Paves' salon on trendy Robertson Boulevard with a friend when her vehicle hit a Ford Taurus.

Despite their being spotted together in many occasions, Heather Locklear and David Spade have laughed off rumors they are dating. In fact, a close source tells People that they are still "just friends".

As for you to know, Heather and David were on last Wednesday spotted at the West Hollywood eatery Jones, "kissing like a couple of teens", a witness reports.

After the plan of joining Billy Bob Thornton in the new movie, "Peace Like a River", Brad Pitt is heading for an aging role.

Pitt is going to play as Benjamin Button in the new silver screen drama, entitled "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". This piece will also reunite him with a Hollywood movie director, David Fincher, who once directed Jodie Foster in "Panic Room". Fincher also handled Madonna and Sting in some of their video clips.

After Naomi Watts, now Hugh Jackman. The actor was reported as the latest celebrity to arrive in Sydney for Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's wedding.

Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness flew into the city from Shanghai Wednesday June 21st, 2006. Responded to reporters' questions, Jackman simply replied "Wedding? What wedding?"

The enchanting teen princess in "Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement", Anne Hathaway, is heading for another biopic movie for Hollywood.

This young lady is going to play as one of the renowned writers of all time, Jane Austen. The movie project is going to take "Becoming Jane" as the title. While, the story itself is not revealing either of the author's pieces, but to her own personal life, instead. Austen had a complicated romance with Tom Lefroy, a pauperized Irishman.

Tommy Lee is giving hand at fashion. The drummer for band Motley Crue is starting a fashion line which he simply calls "PL for TL", stands for People's Liberation for Tommy Lee.

The limited PL for TL line, inspired by his extensive ink collection, will mostly consist of jeans, T-shirts and hats for men and women, with imagery from the rocker's many tattoos reflected throughout the graphics and detailing.

Clint Brewer, a 25-year-old celebrity photographer, was arrested Thursday June 22nd, 2006 on suspicion of trespassing after he was found hiding in the bushes outside the school where actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie send their son Maddox.

Brewer was detained by a private security officer for Pitt and Jolie at about 10:30 a.m. local time and jailed briefly by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies before being released on $1,000 bail.

The "L.A.M.B." label owner, Gwen Stefani, is going to join the remake of "Baby Doll". She is not going to put the outfit into her line, but she will play as the female leading role in the remake from the 1956 movie of the same title by Elia Kazan film.

Stefani is playing the role, as a wife who has put her husband into a whole year in waiting for some sexual intercourses. The movie, which was a controversial back in the 1950s, became the nominee for four categories in the Oscars. The categories included Best Screenplay, Best Black-and-White Cinematography and Best Actress for Carroll Baker as the leading female role. The movie had Tennessee Williams write the script.

The unique, uncanny Hollywood movie helm, Woody Allen, is determined to direct his new summer 2006 screenplay project, which is still an untitled one. His determination also includes his being fully stoked to attach the leading female role to the least-known British actress, Hayley Atwell.

Atwell is currently doing stage performances. She currently appears in "The Line of Beauty", a drama series by the BBC. Atwell is also attached for other two novel BBC projects. So far, she receives public exposures only from the BBC drama. Her involvement in Allen's project might be her sound debut for Hollywood to hear.

Taylor Hicks is rocketing even higher and higher in the industry, keeps reaping wining after winning from the day he was crowned season five "American Idol" champion. Has just signed his first ever recording contract, he shortly thereafter released his first single, "Do I Make You Proud", on June 13.

As many have predicted, the silver-haired Alabama native's set satisfyingly comes in at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Billboard Single Sales chart and the Billboard Pop 100 chart, making it the best selling song in the country with over 190,000 copies sold in its first week of release. What's more Hicks will perform this chart topping song on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday, June 22nd.

They may not be good friends any longer, but Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are still having particular similarities, one most apparent is 'crazy idea.'

The twosome is planning a 'Simple Life' lesbian wedding. Per In Touch Weekly it is reported that both celebrities have in an episode for "Simple Life" joined the Bowden Family, a lesbian couple raising two teenage daughters, and are surprised when they realize the Bowdens never married.

Though the confirmed storyline is still rather blurry and undecided, Ridley Scott might still be attached to direct a new biopic movie about the Gucci clan. Scott's firm decision on helming the movie or not will be based on the new draft of the screenplay script. It is the scriptwriter of "World Trade Center", Andrea Berloff who is going to pen and collaborate with Scott on the gob smacking, legendary Gucci family.

The Gucci clan is tremendously known as one of the famous labels in the fashion industry that has gained respect for decades. Nonetheless, the dynasty's real storyline behind the dazzling scenes is more like the one found in any given soap operas. The father in the family, Aldo Gucci, is trapped in tax fraud and nearly sent behind bars by his own son, Paolo Gucci. The family scandal also included the assassination of Maurizio Gucci in 1995. Maurizio's widow, Patrizia, is convicted as the main person behind the homicide.

Kevin Federline is more than just an aspiring rapper. The guy made an appearance in New York's Times Square Wednesday June 21st, 2006, joined forces with Virgin Mobile and Americans for Common Cents, an organization devoted solely to expounding the virtues of the penny, to launch 'Save the Penny' campaign.

It is a charity fundraising drive that will help demonstrate how much of a difference those copper coins can make if put to proper use. Did his bit in helping prevent the historic one cent coin being scrapped, and encourage people to maximize the use of their spare change, Kevin said to the crowd "Man, I feel good about the penny!"

The season five American Idol runner-up, Katharine McPhee, talks the truth. The starlet said in a new interview with People magazine published Thursday June 22nd, 2006 that she struggled for years with bulimia before seeking help.

McPhee, who struggled with the disorder since the age of 17, reveals that she, at her worst, would throw up as many as seven times a day, putting her singing career in jeopardy. "Growing up in Los Angeles and spending all those years in dance class, I'd been conscious of body image at a young age, and I went through phases of exercising compulsively and starving myself," the young beauty explained.

The American TV series have to share with a British one in the queue for the big-screen adaptation. Fox 2000 is the one taking the rights for a BBC TV series by Bharat Nalluri, "Hustle".

A series writer, Tony Jordan, writes the adaptation script. This next movie project has Nalluri as the producer, together with Paul Webster, Jane Featherstone and Simon Crawford-Collins. There has been no further detail on who will share the cast and also who is going to be the helm for this project.

What's new from Britney Spears? Her hair color. The pop superstar has her hair dyed.

Spears was photographed in New York Thursday June 22rd, 2006 with newly dyed black hair in East Village.

After only less than three years of marriage, actress Selma Blair and husband Ahmet Zappa finally decided to live separate ways. The couple are divorcing.

Blair filed the petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday June 21st, 2006 citing irreconcilable differences.

Bride-to-be Nicole Kidman stays cool while people out there are heavily talking about her marriage to Keith Urban which is said to be held by any day now. What's more, the Aussie actress even falling over herself to social matter.

Nicole has on Thursday June 22nd, 2006 accompanied by Connor Antony and Isabella Jane, her son and daughter with ex-husband Tom Cruise, paid a visit to Sydney Children's Hospital soon after the two kids arrived in Australia for the weekend ceremony.