September 19, 2006

In the recent survey on the Greatest Ever Hollywood Starlets, carried out by Yahoo! Entertainment, there comes up famous name Keira Knightley on the very top position.

The British actress has been chosen to top the poll, mainly because of her "class".

Wanna know who are "The Sexiest Guys in Sports"? Just look at the Top 5 list of In Touch magazine's poll on that category.

Top the Top 5 list is American football hunk Matt Leinart. Just one place behind is David Beckham, followed after by Derek Jeter.

Though the cast has not yet been completed, a date turns out to have been set for Peter Newman Productions' "Gospel According to Janis" to start filming production. Relying on Penelope Spheeris to direct, the biopic feature of legendary singer Janis Joplin is reported to finally begin rolling the camera on November 13 this year in Philadelphia with "Almost Famous" star Zooey Deschanel playing the title role.

In her preparation for the part, Deschanel has persistently spent four months being trained under a vocal coach to prepare to sing with Janis Joplin's gritty style. The actress previously beat down the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Pink, and Britney Spears to gain the coveted role.

Is Sarah Jessica Parker pregnant with her second child? Well it has yet been confirmed, but according to The Globe, the actress is expecting her second child with husband Matthew Broderick. So time will tell then.

Speaking on that report, a source hinted "They've been keeping a lid on their happy news because the pregnancy is still in the early stages, but once she's three months along, they plan to shout about it from the rooftops."

LL Cool J is invading the small screen as he's joined forces with the creator of the hugely successful "CSI" franchise to develop a CBS drama titled "The Man".

On production duty, the veteran rapper partnered with CSI creator/writer Anthony Zuiker besides also being booked to star in as a cop with a busy domestic life.

When Yung Joc does something, he always does it in the biggest way possible, especially when it has something to do with hip hop. The star, whose debut LP "New Joc City" gained a huge success, has hinted that he is about to release new album by Christmas.

"I'm doing my album called Feed the Hungry," he said. "I'm going to different cities, get some hot records from local artists and put bigger names on the records to help springboard their careers. I'm coming to a 'hood near you."

There it is, after chatters and speculation of romance hit "You, Me and Dupree" co-stars, Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson, soon following their being spotted vacationing in Hawaii, the twosome seemingly won't hide it from public for any longer.

Talk is heating up on Hudson and Wilson are, indeed, a couple after the hunk was seen visiting the actress' Pacific Palisades home this past Friday afternoon September 15th, 2006.

Taylor Hanson, the middle brother in the band Hanson, is doing daddyhood again. The singer and his wife, Natalie, welcomed the arrival of their third child Monday September 4th, the band announced on its official Web site.

The new addition to the family, a baby boy, was born in Tulsa, Okla and named River Samuel Hanson. "River is an incredible addition to our family. We could not be happier!" Taylor said on his newborn son.

NBA star Carmelo Anthony and his MTV VJ fiancee LaLa Vazquez will soon do parenting. The couple is expecting their first child together, due March next year.

"The couple is very excited and they can't wait until the arrival of their new baby", Vazquez's rep, Jack Ketsoyan, confirms the good news exclusively to People.

An amazing breakthrough has truly been made concerning the making of Tom Hanks-produced "My Life in Ruins." The movie will be the first feature in 2,500 years to use The Acropolis in Greece as its setting following the green light given by the country's archaeological council to feature the historical site in its scenes.

According to Britain's Guardian newspaper, it turns out that it was the star of the flick, Nia Vardalos, who had herself lobbied the officials to obtain the permission. Vardalos, a Canadian-born actress of Greek descent, is reported to have reached a deal on the matters after making her way to convince them that this could be an effective tool to increase tourism while promising that the ancient monument would be treated with respect.

Amidst media frenzy on his being arrested on DUI charges in July 2006 and the anti-Semitic comments he made during the arrest, Mel Gibson at least still has something good to be remembered. It is his daughter's wedding.

The actor's daughter, Hannah Gibson married platinum-selling guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd on Saturday September 16th in California.

Aaron Carter, the still young and grown-up singer, popped the question Sunday night September 17th to girlfriend, Playboy Playmate Kari Ann Peniche.

Aaron, 18 popped the question to Peniche, 22, who previously dated brother Nick Carter, in Las Vegas while they were onstage in front of 200 people during the Playboy Comedy Tour at the Palms Casino Resort.

John Dahl's latest directorial work of "You Kill Me" finally can make its way to commercial theatres. The dark comedy feature has been picked up by IFC Films to be distributed around cinemas in summer 2007, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Featuring stellar cast consisting of Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, and Luke Wilson, the movie follows an alcoholic hit man, played by Kingsley, as he lands a job at a mortuary when coming to California in order to take a break from his bad habits. There he meets and undergoes a romantic relationship with the wild stepdaughter (Leoni) of a corpse he's embalming.

Wanna have something from your idol to be possessed? Here we have one interesting offer, which is Madonna's custom-made guitar.

The singer's guitar technician, John Griswold, is selling off one of the two guitars made especially for the Material Girl's "Drowning" World tour in a bid to help him recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Veteran musician Willie Nelson created abuzz among public worldwide when he and several of his bandmates were cited for drug possession early Monday Sept 18th, 2006 when his tour bus was stopped in Saint Martin Parish, Louisiana.

Per Willie Williams of the Louisiana Highway Patrol, the country music crooner and his entourage were traveling along Highway 10 when "The tour bus was stopped on a common interstate vehicle inspection, and when the trooper approached the bus door a strong odor of marijuana was detected". A further search of the bus, moreover, found 1½ pounds of marijuana and slightly more than three ounces of narcotic mushrooms.

The executives at Picturehouse now can really draw a big smile on their mouths. The company has wonderfully gained North American distribution rights to biopic feature of "El Cantante" starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.

Spending almost $6 million to reach the deal, Picturehouse therefore beats down fellow competitors of Miramax, Focus Features, and the Weinstein Co to the punch. The studio is planning a July 2007 release for the movie.

Going for comedy genre, New Line Cinema has preemptively obtained the rights to a film project of David Hubbard entitled "God, the Devil, and Lucy."

Produced by Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill Productions, the movie revolves around God and the Devil who decide to come down to Earth as mortal men to compete for the love of one woman that they mutually choose in their effort to settle things on fighting for human souls. Relying only on human instinct and emotion, they have to get the woman saying "I love you" to win all the souls of humanity.

To know more about famous figures is always something interesting. And here it is we bring you one from Stacy Ferguson, the lead singer of Black Eyed Peas. The songbird, in a new interview with New York gay nightlife magazine HX, opened up about drug addiction and revealed she has had sexual liaisons with other women.

The sexy beauty, who has just had her new solo CD "The Dutchess" coming out Tuesday Sept 19, tells the magazine about her struggles with the highly addictive drug crystal meth and admits "You lose weight and look great for a while, but I don't care if it takes six months or five years, it will creep up on you." Fortunately, she then kicked off the bad habit in 2001.

Drawing one more big screen stint into her resume, "24" star Aisha Tyler has given her agreement to take a starring role in vigilante drama "Death Sentence", a new project from 20th Century Fox and Hyde Park Entertainment.

Playing opposite Kevin Bacon, Tyler will portray a homicide detective who assists Bacon's character while she herself actually has growing suspicions that he might have committed murder. James Wan is on duty to direct with Ian Jeffers penning the script.