May 31st, 2005

Oliver Stone
Director Oliver Stone was arrested on drug possession and DUI charges in L.A. on Friday night. Stone was stopped at a police checkpoint on Sunset Boulevard after showing signs of alcohol intoxication. A search of his Mercedes turned up drugs. Stone was released Saturday morning after posting $15,000 bail. You may remember Stone pleaded guilty to drug possession and no contest to driving under the influence in 1999 and was ordered into a rehabilitation program.

Angelina Jolie
If you're wondering about the timeline on that interview Angelina Jolie did with Marie Claire magazine in which she said she hadn't slept with Brad Pitt because she would never be intimate with a married man, it was done before those pictures of her and Brad on the beach in Africa were taken. The guessing game is back on!

Paris Hilton
People magazine reports that Paris Hilton is engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis. He proposed to Hilton Wednesday after she returned from a three-week publicity tour in Europe to promote her movie "House of Wax" and her new perfume. The couple celebrated the engagement over the weekend with a barbecue for 75 friends and family at their Hollywood Hills home. It would be the first marriage for both and Hilton's people say "They are happy and excited."

Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton is apparently flatly denying rumors of having breast implants. Paris admits that she was so desperate for larger breasts when she was 16 that she begged her dad for a boob job. However, Paris now considers her smaller assets an asset as she thinks surgically enhanced breasts look "deformed." Plus, she adds, "I'd rather not have any and not have to wear a bra."

Jessica Simpson
Jessica Simpson is eager to promote her upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie, but there is one thing she won't do – appear with co-star Johnny Knoxville. Rumors have gone around that they were more than just co-stars and Jessica doesn't want to do anything that may fuel the rumors. Not only that, Jessica's people have been working overtime to shoot down rumors that she and Knoxville's "Jackass" cohort Bam Margera did the deed. This came after Bam's father told an interviewer that his son admitted bedding Simpson and that "Bam has never lied to us." However, Bam later told the same interviewer that his father is an idiot.

Katie Holmes
You may not have to be Tom Cruise to get a look at Katie Holmes naked. Katie says she doesn't mind getting naked on-screen. Holmes has flashed her breasts in the psychic thriller 'The Gift' and says, "If the scene is integral to the film, I'm ready to do anything that the character needs to go through, adding "I'm not going to be prudish." However, Tom may not be too happy to hear that as he repeatedly discouraged ex-wife Nicole Kidman from appearing naked in her films during their 10-year marriage.

Winona Ryder
Did Winona Ryder steal the heart of Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay? Jay Kay claims they hooked up and that "She has these enormous breasts - bigger than they look on film." He went on to say that Winona wore him out with her "nonstop demands for sex." For the record, Ryder's rep said: "I will not dignify this with a response."

Rod Stewart
The stork has one less celebrity stop to make. Rod Stewart and his fiancee, Penny Lancaster, deny those tabloid reports that they're expecting their first child together. They say the story was based on a false rumor.

Elton John
Go out and buy those 'His and His' towels. Sir Elton John has announced he will marry his long-term partner David Furnish on December 21. That's the day same-sex marriage ceremonies become legal in Britain. You probably won't be invited, but guests are expected to include Liz Hurley and Victoria Beckham.

Tara Reid and Tommy Lee
Still together and not denying it are party girl Tara Reid and wild man rocker Tommy Lee. Despite the significant age difference, the two are still enjoying each other's company with Tommy telling friends, "We're just playing and having fun. She's rad." Lee also joked that he'd "kidnapped her for several days."

Christian Slater
Christian Slater apparently does a lot of talking at the urinal. Rumor has it that Slater approached another customer in the men's room at a New York restaurant. A guy claims that Christian told him that he met a girl at the bar and was hitting on her and he thought he could take her home. Christian then supposedly asked the guy if he had any of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis. Slater's rep didn't deny it, but did say, "He was just joking around."

Kendra Todd
New Apprentice Kendra Todd has been given her assignment by Donald Trump. Kendra will be in charge of renovating Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, mansion. It makes sense since Kendra is in real estate and she a Palm Beach County native.

James Spader
No word on who might want to see this, but James Spader says he and William Shatner will have a bedroom scene together on the upcoming season of Boston Legal. Spader says it was a very graphic, explicit, loving scene with he and Shatner spooning, wrapped around each other in bed. Spader also reveals that he and Shatner have struck up a close friendship after doing the scene. It gets even creepier. Spader says, "After we finished the scene, he sort of was dealing with me in a very different way than he had before... and he spoke in a different tone, a sort of closer tone - pillow talk. He mentioned that how interesting it was that it's rare that, except with the person that you're having sex with or a parent, you're never really that close to someone or that intimate, where you really get to smell their smells." Spader continued, "You can tell a lot about a person by that first impression, that first smell. He had a very sort of, a strangely very attractive sort of pungent sort of gamey, sort of a venison or a lamb sausage... and a little bit of rosemary with a touch of ranch dressing."

Mary Kay
There won't be any pink Cadillacs on Wisteria Lane. Mary Kay cosmetics has cancelled plans to advertise on Desperate Housewives after a conservative Christian group blasted them for it. The American Family Association questioned how Mary Kay, whose company philosophy is "God first, family second and career third," could buy into a show that they say promotes infidelity, seduction and promiscuity. Mary Kay then issued a press release saying it had re-evaluated its advertising plans as a result of calls from concerned employees and Mary Kay customers, and "will not have Desperate Housewives in that mix."

Katie Couric
Could tensions soon be running even higher on the set of the Today Show? Word has it that Katie Couric, who already makes $15 million a year, wants a new, 5-year, $100-million deal. Since co-host Matt Lauer only gets a lousy $8 million a year and is already miffed that Katie makes more than him, the rumor is that if she gets her raise, he may walk.

David Schwimmer
For those who might want to see David Schwimmer in his underwear, you could soon be in luck. On the opening night of his London play called Some Girls, he spied a member of the paparazzi taking pictures of him during a scene where he strips down to his underwear. Schwimmer says the photographer ruined the play and he nearly walked off stage. When asked if he thought the photographer had purposely come to catch him in his boxer shorts, he replied, "I don't know, but if he did, he needed a giant lens."

Hunter S. Thompson
Thanks to Johnny Depp, late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson will get his last request. Hunter had requested that his ashes be shot out of a cannon onto his Colorado ranch. The cannon will be placed atop a tower designed to resemble Thompson's "gonzo fist" emblem with Depp picking up the tab for it. The invitation-only ceremony is set to take place in August.

Tom DeLay
Embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is on the offensive against the TV show Law & Order. DeLay wrote NBC to complain after one of the characters on Law & Order: Criminal Intent said during an episode about the shooting death of a federal judge: "Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt." DeLay made some negative comments about federal judges while Terry Schiavo was in the news and called the quote a 'slur, manipulation of his name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security.' NBC says it's not unusual for Law and Order to mention real names in its fictional stories. However, the show's creator and executive producer Dick Wolf added: "I do congratulate Congressman DeLay for switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a television show."

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