Russell Crowe packed on 63 extra pounds for his role in Scott’s new suspense thriller Body of Lies.

Crowe, 44, says bulking up was a pleasure: “I’ll have that cheeseburger for breakfast, thank you!” he jokes of his attitude toward the weight gain.

Though the Aussie has been known in the past for his affinity to his native VB beer, he says he avoided drinking as a way of gaining weight – because of his boys, Charlie, 4, and Tennyson, 2.

“The drinking thing has sort of taken a different place in my life since I had kids,” Crowe says.

“There are a whole lot of things I don’t do anymore because it affects my level of patience. I don’t want to be in that place where I’m exasperated with these beautiful children.”

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have it all, don’t they.  As if being incredibly wealthy, successful, rich, and beautiful weren’t enough, look at the house they are currently staying in.

The Jolie-Pitts have moved their big family to these fancy digs outside Berlin, the Palais Parkschloss (Castle in the Park), a 12,000-square-foot villa set amid fairy-tale gardens overlooking the yacht-filled waters of the Wannsee.

It’s good to be Brangelina!

Her booty got the boot!

Kim Kardashian and partner Mark Ballas were eliminated on Tuesday’s Dancing With the Stars.

Her elimination isn’t completely surprising. She gave less than stellar performances.

In the words of Chris Rock, “All that ass and can’t shake it”.

Exactly!

Kim got voted off before 82-year-old Cloris Leachman!!!

How embarrassing!

Lindsay Lohan and girlfriend Samantha Ronson are vacationing in Mexico.  Because we’ve never seen Samantha in anything remotely feminine, we were quite surprised to see her walking the beach in a bikini.

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It was a delayed reaction to having heard her medical diagnosis – that she had breast cancer – that made Christina Applegate cry, she says.

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Samantha Who? star, 36, spoke candidly with Oprah Winfrey on a special installment of The Oprah Winfrey Show set to air Tuesday. On it, Applegate discusses her recent radical mastectomy.

“So you just made the decision that you were gonna let both go,” Winfrey asks the actress, in reference to the decision to have both breasts removed.

“Yep. I was just gonna let them go,” says Applegate, who then says, when asked if she cried, “You know, I – at first I didn’t. And then when I met with my doctor and I told him that was my decision and he brought the surgeon in and it was like the flood gates just opened up and I – I lost it.

In terms of first receiving her diagnosis (something “you don’t want to hear … ever”), Applegate recalls the doctor’s words as, ” ‘It came back positive.’ And I just – like right now I’m sitting here shaking remembering that moment. As you guys know, you don’t think it’s gonna happen to me.”

Applegate appears on the program with Nancy Brinker, who started the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which supports breast-cancer research and is named for Nancy Brinker’s sister, who died of the disease in 1980.

As she has in the past, Applegate also spoke of her 67-year-old mother, who twice survived breast cancer and whom her daughter refers to as ” a quiet warrior.”

“She’s had it twice and there was this part of me that sort of knew that the other shoe was gonna drop,” Applegate tells Winfrey.

Plane-crash survivor Travis Barker was discharged from the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Georgia today.

DJ AM, who also escaped the crash with Travis, was released Friday.

Engaged for four months and dating just over a year, Scarlett Johansson married Ryan Reynolds on Saturday night.

The pair had a small wedding in Reynolds’ native Canada.

This is the first marriage for both.

Congrats to the couple!

Recently rehabbed actress Heather Locklear was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or medication in the Santa Barbara area of California.

Now, more arrest details have emerged about what led to the Locklear’s arrest.

According to the LA Times, it was a concerned citizen who kept an allegedly impaired Heather off the streets.

The unnamed citizen called 911 to report that a woman, who turned out to be Locklear, was driving erratically.

The citizen told police that she saw a woman who was visibly impaired getting into a car in a parking lot at about 4:30 that afternoon.

Heather apparently went on to drive back and forth over a pair of sunglasses on the pavement and revving her engine. After leaving the parking lot, the former Melrose Place star then stopped her car on the street and stumbled into the traffic lane, according to the caller, who then proceed to follow the troubled star out of concern.

That is crazy!

By the time the California Highway Patrol caught up with Heather, she was parked on a highway lane and blocking traffic. An officer who talked to her determined that she was disoriented and “under the influence of something.”

She was then whisked away to police headquarters and tested for alcohol and drugs.

The alcohol test came back negative.

Her drug tests will be returned in a few days.

Thank goodness Heather didn’t seriously hurt herself or anyone else!

When Heath Ledger died earlier this year from an accidental overdose, his will left everything to this parents and three sisters. It was written, of course, before the birth of his daughter Matilda with Michelle Williams. Many believed Michelle would file a claim for the estate, but Heath’s family has given the entire thing over to Matilda.

“There is no claim,” the newspaper quoted Kim Ledger as saying in a report published Sunday. “Our family has gifted everything to Matilda.”
The actor signed the will on April 12, 2003. It lists assets and cash of just $118,000, but the actor’s estate is believed to be worth more than $16.3 million.

Heath Ledger’s life insurance company is ruling his death a suicide to avoid paying $10 million to a trustee for his daughter who has filed a lawsuit:

Sources say lawyers for the insurance company have claimed Ledger’s death was “suspicious” — possibly suicide, which would nullify the policy. The company alleges in its answer to the lawsuit, “ReliaStar is entitled to investigate Plaintiff’s claim to determine if the ‘Suicide’ provision is applicable.” That provision states, “If the Insured commits suicide … we will pay only the amount of premiums paid to us.”
ReliaStar’s lawyers have informed Matilda’s lawyers they intend to take the depositions of Mary-Kate Olsen, as well as the masseuse who was at Ledger’s home when he died, Ledger’s colleagues on his last film, his agents, doctors, psychologists and others. Lawyers for Matilda believe the insurance company is trying to scare and shame them into submission. They believe ReliaStar is trying to drag the process out, for what could be years, to avoid paying the money.

Matilda’s lawyers say ReliaStar is violating California law which does not allow insurance companies to reexamine applications after the death of the policyholder.

Her lawyers believe the company should have already paid and say the company is acting “maliciously, fraudulently and/or oppressively.”

Since officials have stated that Heath’s cause of death was an accidental drug overdose, and not a suicide, shouldn’t they have to pay?! We think so!

Paul Newman, the legendary actor whose steely blue eyes, good-humored charm and advocacy of worthy causes made him one of the most renowned figures in American arts, has died of cancer at his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 83.

Newman, who had been battling cancer, passed away on Friday, Newman’s Own Foundation said in a statement from Westport, Connecticut.

“Paul Newman’s craft was acting. His passion was racing. His love was his family and friends. And his heart and soul were dedicated to helping make the world a better place for all,” Foundation Vice-Chairman Robert Forrester said.

Newman played youthful rebels, charming rogues, golden-hearted drunks and amoral opportunists in a career that encompassed more than 50 movies. He was one of the most popular and consistently bankable Hollywood stars in the second half of the 20th century.

Newman attained stardom in the 1950s and never lost the movie-star aura, appearing in such classic films as “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Exodus,” “The Hustler,” “Cool Hand Luke,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Sting” and “The Verdict.”

He finally won an Oscar in 1986 — on his eighth try — for “The Color of Money,” a sequel to “The Hustler.” He later received two more Oscar nominations. Among his other awards was the Motion Picture Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Newman was also a philanthropist, a health food mogul — he once quipped that his salad dressing was making more money than his movies — a race car enthusiast and a leftist political activist.

Many however will remember him for his good looks: in 1990 People Magazine chose him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, and in 1995 Britain’s Empire Magazine picked him as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.

Born Paul Leonard Newman on January 26, 1925 in Shaker Heights, Ohio into a well-off middle class family. His father ran a successful sporting goods chain, but young Paul was taken with his mother’s and uncle’s interest in the arts. Newman acted in school plays as a youth.

“I wasn’t running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store,” he said later.

He joined the navy in World War II wanting to be a pilot, but tests showed that he was colorblind. Instead he served as a rear-seat radioman and tail gunner aboard Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific theater.

After the war Newman went to college, enrolled in the Yale drama school, and moved to New York where he acted in plays. That job eventually landed him television roles, and then in the movies.

Newman’s film career almost ended with his first movie — he considered his performance in the sword-and-sandal 1954 drama “The Chalice” so mediocre he paid for a page-size ad in a Hollywood trade publication to apologize.

Newman redeemed himself in his next movie, “Somebody Up There Likes Me” (1956), a portrayal of boxer Rocky Graziano, and by 1958 was nominated for an Oscar as an alcoholic ex-football player in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” starring alongside Elizabeth Taylor.

Hit movies rolled on from there, including “Exodus” (1960), “The Hustler” (1961), “Hud” (1963), “Cool Hand Luke” (1967), “The Towering Inferno” (1974) and “Slap Shot” (1977).

A committed liberal, Newman openly campaigned for several Democratic Party candidates — which got him onto Republican president Richard Nixon’s famous list of enemies in the 1970s.

“Being on president Nixon’s enemies list was the highest single honor I’ve ever received,” Newman said in a 2006 interview. “Who knows who’s listening to me now and what government list I’m on?”

In recent years, Newman talked about doing another film with his friend Redford, but the two couldn’t settle on a script. In 2007, Newman said he was retiring from acting, saying he’d lost confidence in his abilities. Still, he marveled at his own resilience.

“You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know - I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”

Newman, who was married to Jackie Witt from 1949 to 1957, is survived by his wife, Joanne Woodward, and five children.

Rest in peace, Paul. You will be forever missed!

Who knew?

When Clay Aiken’s son, Parker, was four weeks old, the singer was thrust into panic mode: The baby, who had been vomiting with increasing frequency, was slated to undergo emergency surgery for an intestinal condition that complicates digestion.

“He had been gassy for weeks and then he started throwing up,” Aiken, 29, tells People magazine. “Jaymes [Foster, the baby’s mother] and I were trying to be calm, rational parents, so we didn’t call the doctors too much, but it just got to a point where he was vomiting everything. He was starting to get dehydrated.”

Parker was soon admitted to a nearby hospital and diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition that prompted doctors to decide he needed surgery the following day.

Poor little, Parker!

It was in the early hours of the morning, shortly before Parker was scheduled for the surgery at a nearby hospital, that Aiken, who was at his home in North Carolina, “got really panicky.”

So the singer headed to the hospital around 2 a.m. – after second-guessing his impending visit.

“I was a little worried, like ‘I don’t think they’re going to let me in the hospital at 2 or 3 in the morning.’ Then I thought, ‘Wait a second, I’m the father! Of course they’ll let me in,” Aiken says. “It was the first moment when I thought, ‘I’m actually this child’s father!’ ”

Aiken came armed with a series of questions for the doctors. “I don’t like to nag people, but I asked every question I could think of, and I thought of some more and called them back. I wanted to know everything,” he says.

What a responsible daddy!

“I was like, wait a second, this is my responsibility, I need to take care of this child, and he can’t ask questions for himself. It was a reality check, like this is the real deal.”

As for Parker now, a beaming Aiken says, “He’s fine, healthy and doing well!”

Glad to hear it!

And, in case you’ve been in a cave this week, Clay officially came out of the closet via People magazine.

Leonardo DiCaprio had a Hills run-in that will sadly never make it to MTV.

How weird would it be to see a real-life star on The Hills?!

Sources say that the actor, along with his buddies, Entourage’s Kevin Connolly, Lukas Haas and a swarm of girls, natch, were hanging out at L.A. club Crown Wednesday night, where the Hills cast was also partying.

Because a party isn’t a party if it isn’t caught on tape and broadcast into millions of homes, MTV cameras were there to capture any “drama” between Lauren Conrad and Audrina Patridge, given that Audrina just moved out. Of course, there was no drama because it has become the most boring show ever.

Now, Leo’s a smart dude and knows it would definitely not be cool if he were caught on camera with this group, so he was extra careful to avoid being in any shots. However, once the MTV filming was over, Leo was ready to party.

Leo & Co. joined forces with Brody Jenner, sidekick Frankie and the dude too boring for even L.C., Doug Reinhardt. The ragtag team then carpooled to Dougie’s Hollywood Hills home for one raucous afterparty, where Leo “was alone and checking out all the girls,” says a source.

As for ever going public with his Hills buddies, a production source adds, “Leo wouldn’t be filmed on that show in a million years. But he definitely likes to party with the guys.”