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Jennifer Aniston dons black bikini, bends over for the paparazzi
Lindsay Lohan can somehow afford to buy diamonds in rehab
John Travolta & Kelly Preston’s friends congratulate them on “giving birth”
Brad & Angelina take Shiloh & Zahara shopping in Paris
Gwen Stefani takes Kingston to get his nails done at the salon
Nicole Kidman’s face is capable of showing some emotions, say critics
Natalie Portman talks about her weight loss & strengthened butt for ‘Black Swan’
Emma Watson on life beyond Hermione: “I want to be a Renaissance woman”

Jennifer Aniston dons black bikini, bends over for the paparazzi

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:14 AM PST

It must be a month ending in "y" or "er" because Jennifer Aniston is once again in a bikini, posing ass-out for the paparazzi. To her credit, her ass is spectacular, even though from here it looks a little sunburned. Of course, even from the distance, I feel more like her gynecologist (or proctologist) than a casual observer. This reminds me of that other time she posed ass-out for the paps. Or that other time. Or that other time. Aniston's ass is pretty much a Cabo San Lucas landmark at this point. And please, don't start in with the "she didn't know the paps were there" argument. She knew. She goes to this place - Joe Francis's resort/mansion - three times a year (at least) and gets pap'd every time. Her ass wanted attention, and The Ass got it.

Also - in many of these photos, Aniston is with that same Budget Johnny Weir looking dude (NOT Chelsea Handler!). Some sites are still trying to play it like he's the new boyfriend, but my guess is still that he's probably some new member of Aniston's entourage. Perhaps a hair or makeup guy? And I'd also guess that his boyfriend is seriously pissed that Budget Weir spent the holidays with Aniston.

Photos courtesy of Bauer-Griffin.

Lindsay Lohan can somehow afford to buy diamonds in rehab

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:35 AM PST

Remember how Lindsay Lohan is broke? Remember how she cried poverty to the judge and said that she needed to be out of rehab because she needed to work to pay her rehab bills? Remember how Lindsay said - in a submitted report to the judge - that she didn't have a few thousand dollars to rub together and that's why she needed to be out? Remember how PETA said they would pay her rehab bill if she tried vegetarianism? Yeah. Well, our Lindsay has spent her Thanksgiving holiday shopping… for diamonds. Because she's SO broke.

Yeah. According to Fame Pictures, Lindsay spent Saturday shopping in Palm Springs. First: how dumb is this bitch that she goes shopping for diamonds on a day pass from rehab just a month after she cried poverty? Second: Why isn't this crackhead LOCKED DOWN, for the love of God? She's barely spending any time in actual rehab. Her rehab experience has been all about shopping excursions and crack hustling and Starbucks and smoking cigarettes and lip injections and dressing inappropriately. In other words, just like home. Ugh.

Here are some more photos of Lindsay "in rehab" at Starbucks and the jewelry shop, smoking a cig and being a crackhead.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

John Travolta & Kelly Preston’s friends congratulate them on “giving birth”

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 07:13 AM PST

As CB reported last Wednesday, Kelly Preston and John Travolta welcomed their newborn son Benjamin last Tuesday. This is according to the statement Travolta's people released afterwards - other than a brief mention in People's article, there's no real proof that Kelly Preston ever checked into a hospital or "gave birth" to anything other than a pillow. But sure, I'll go along with this, just because why not? Kelly gave birth. Travolta is heterosexual. All is well with the world. This is the PR campaign unfolding - take People Magazine's report:

While no one is happier about the arrival of Benjamin Travolta, born Nov. 23, than parents Kelly Preston and John Travolta (with the possible exception of “ecstatic” big sister Ella Bleu), friends of the famous family are also reveling in the news.

“We are completely overjoyed about the birth of Benjamin,” says producer pal Keisha Whitaker, who along with her husband, actor Forest Whitaker, has been close with Preston and Travolta for years. “We love them so much. This feels like full circle.”

Benjamin certainly inherited a great sense of timing from his movie star parents. “It’s absolutely wonderful that Kelly gave birth to such a big strapping boy,” said producer Donald Zuckerman, who worked with Preston on both the upcoming movie Casino Jack, and 2006’s Broken Bridges. “His birthday will be [around] Thanksgiving Day, which is wonderful and very fitting after the ordeal that they went through,” he added, referring to the loss of the couple’s son Jett in 2009.

And how does Preston feel about being a new mom again at 48? “She was very much looking forward to having the baby. She hadn’t experienced any sickness,” Zuckerman said. “She is a magnificent person – fun, nice, upbeat. She deserves the very best in life.”

[From People]

Who talks like this? “It’s absolutely wonderful that Kelly gave birth to such a big strapping boy.” It's like issuing a statement saying "She GAVE BIRTH. Okay? The baby came out of her lady bits. I know it, for sure. And he's HUGE."

Anyway, John and Kelly both updated their websites with a "heartfelt thank-you" to their fans:

Baby Benjamin is “healthy and doing beautifully” according to new parents John Travolta and Kelly Preston who have posted a heartfelt thank-you note to the official websites.

Kelly, 48, gave birth to the baby boy in an undisclosed Florida hospital on Tuesday and he is said to have weighed in at just over 8 pound, as RadarOnline.com reported.

“We are overjoyed to announce the arrival of our son, Ella’s baby brother, Benjamin Travolta,” they wrote on their individual websites in a message on Friday. “Born November 23, 2010 in Florida, Benjamin is healthy and doing beautifully.”

“Thank you for the wonderful congratulations messages and wishes - we are beyond ecstatic and happy about the newest addition to our family. Love, John, Kelly and Ella.”

The couple’s eldest child, son Jett, died last year at age 16, when he suffered a seizure while holidaying with the family in the Bahamas.

[From Radar]

Yeah, we'll see. Maybe Kelly will "pull a Kidman" and wear white jeans on her "newly slim" post-partum body a few weeks after "giving birth." Otherwise… yeah… congratulations to the happy family. Good luck, Ben.

Header: courtesy of Fame.

Brad & Angelina take Shiloh & Zahara shopping in Paris

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:52 AM PST

I don't know if PopEater's gossip guy got it right, and Angelina Jolie refuses to allow her family to celebrate Thanksgiving, but the Family Jolie-Pitt did spend the holiday doing somewhat unconventional things. First, Us Weekly reports that the kids spend Thanksgiving on the beach… I don't know where, as in, what country, but Us Weekly claims the kids went with nannies rather than their parents (one photo here). Additionally, People Magazine reports that Angelina and Brad flew in to Paris with the kids either on Friday or Saturday, and spent part of Saturday shopping for the girls. Empress Zahara approves of black suede boots! Shiloh approves of zebra prints and medieval knight costumes. Take notes.

On the first day of Christmas, my sisters gave to me … a large plastic alligator?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took daughters Zahara and Shiloh holiday shopping in Paris Saturday and it looks like they’ll be able to check quite a few things of their gift list, including pants, pajamas, gloves, sweaters, boots, stuffed animals, knights’ costumes (complete with tunics, swords and shields) and one large green plastic alligator, according to staff at the Bonpoint boutique on rue de Tournon near the Luxembourg Gardens.

“Angelina was great,” an onlooker tells PEOPLE. “She’s patient, and a very hands-on mother, making certain everything fits.”

Pitt was “very agreeable, absolutely polite and excellent with the girls” as well, a store employee says.

In town to promote film projects – Pitt’s Megamind and Jolie’s The Tourist – the couple squeezed in more than an hour of shopping with Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4, at the celeb-friendly boutique, where Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba and Michelle Obama have visited.

“[Shiloh] wanted pants and picked out a pair of zebra-patterned boots,” a clerk says of Saturday’s stop.

Zahara, the employee says, chose “black suede boots and a ‘Duchess’ dress.”

The Bonpoint store contains one fun feature which the girls enjoyed: an entire room that holds a child-sized farmhouse with several levels, meandering passages and see-through walls. Both girls played inside, according to a witness, while a laughing Jolie took pictures of her daughters.

Helping Shiloh try on a medieval knight’s tunic, Pitt watched while she playfully waved around a wooden sword and shield. After deciding on both the costume and its accessories, Shiloh told the shop assistant that she wanted two complete sets. “‘One is for me,’ she explained,” the clerk tells PEOPLE. “‘The other is for my brother, Pax.’ ”

Pax may get his presents before the holidays – he turns 7 on Nov. 29.

And the large plastic alligator Shiloh selected at the last minute? “That’s good for Knox,” she told the sales staff.

[From People]

I love the image of Shiloh and the Empress working out their Christmas shopping lists beforehand. Shiloh's list probably consisted of "COSTUMES!!!" Meanwhile, I get the feeling that Zahara's list was probably more practical. The Empress was probably like "Maddox needs a scarf. And an iPad."

Older photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Gwen Stefani takes Kingston to get his nails done at the salon

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:21 AM PST

While some celebrities spent Black Friday (and Mauve Saturday - I just made that up) shopping their collective asses off, Gwen Stefani decided to go in for some upkeep. She headed out to the nail salon… with her older son Kingston. And Kingston got to have his nails done too! A lovely shade of blue, that's what he got. The professionally done nails are only part of Kingston's overall look, which includes bleached blonde hair, half-shaved in some kind of retro skater-punk look that was popular with boys when I was a tween. Oh, and Kingston's apparently as much of a clotheshorse as his mum too:

He is become quite the little fashion icon. Gwen Stefani’s handsome four-year-old son Kingston, with husband Gavin Rossdale, is taking after his fashionista mother by regularly rocking some very trendy outfits.

Just yesterday he accompanied Gwen as she ran some errands in Studio City, California wearing black skinny jeans with black bovver boots and a retro looking printed jacket. The young star-in-the-making was also sporting a new bleached and shaved hair cut.

The day before, as the family headed to Gwen’s parents house in Los Feliz to celebrate Thanksgiving, Kingston was spotted wearing some cool combat trousers with a funky red and black jumper and matching trainers.

Gwen and Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale have been married since 2002 and have another son, Zuma who is two-years-old.

Gavin, 45, recently talked about his sons and how fashionable they are both becoming.

‘Kingston and Zuma each love to pick out their own clothes so my role in that has diminished,’ the Bush singer told People Magazine. ‘They are both very stylish little boys and have huge opinions on their own clothes.’

Now that the boys are getting bigger, they’re getting closer too, he said. ‘I see a difference every day in their interactions, and this is a good thing. The boys are getting along great now.’

And with trend-setting youngsters like the Beckham boys amongst his friends, Kingston is sure to continue his love of fashion.

[From The Daily Mail]

Is it wrong that Gwen seems to allow her four-year-old son to bleach his hair, get his nails done and have all of the cool clothes he wants? Eh. There are worse things, I suppose. The thing is, I don't really think Gwen (or Gavin, for that matter) is "pushing" these style choices on Kingston. I think he's just a stylish little dude who likes to play around with clothes and stuff.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Nicole Kidman’s face is capable of showing some emotions, say critics

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:05 AM PST

It’s alleged that Nicole Kidman may have possibly have had work done on her face, notably Botox. Allegedly.

Now that Nicole has a new film coming out, her performance will be under scrutiny, as will the movability of her face, according to critic Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly magazine.

Next month Nicole Kidman stars in Rabbit Hole, the sad drama about a couple quietly falling apart after the accidental death of their 4-year-old son. She plays a grieving wife and mother opposite Aaron Eckhart as her husband; Dianne Wiest is her mother. The movie’s opening is some weeks away (it’s in limited release Dec. 17), but I can already anticipate two consequences in the national chatter: First, there will be prognostication about Nicole Kidman’s chances for an Oscar nomination. Second, there will be talk about Nicole Kidman’s face.

[Entertainment Weekly, print edition, December 3, 2010]

Nicole is known for her porcelain skin, but lately it seems as if she’s gone to extremes to keep it wrinkle-free. Allegedly. And to give an Oscar-worthy performance, shouldn’t an actress be able to express grief through subtle movements of her face besides fake tears?

This debate is a polarizing one for Hollywood. How an actress looks off the screen is often as scrutinized as her performance in a film, and in this day of instant digital cameras that get so close you can count nose hairs, some actresses have seemingly become addicted to trying to look youthful and instead look freakish. Right, Nicole? Allegedly.

For what it’s worth, Kidman’s famous features do move — a little more — in Rabbit Hole. By whatever methods she has employed, the actor currently looks somewhat softer and a little more natural, playing a woman nearly catatonic with grief. And insofar as increased facial pliability will expand her work options, refocus critical attention on her considerable acting skills, and get Internet snark off her case and back where it belongs on the cases of talentless celebutards with plastic-surgery addictions, I say, Great! Show us your flaws, Nic! So you at your “worst” are better than we are on our very best days!

…The fact is, physical enhancement is as much a professional requirement for an actor aspiring to Hollywood fame as strength training is for an athlete aiming for the NFL. With the pressures on movie stars (particularly female), first by an industry (particularly male) that pays lip service to “reality” while obsessively promoting what’s young and hot, and in turn by us, the audience, it’s a wonder more actors, both male and female, don’t lose sight of what’s right and natural about their own bodies.

[Entertainment Weekly, print edition, December 3, 2010]

Maybe life with husband Keith Urban and daughter Sunday has chilled Nicole Kidman out so that she’s starting to realize how lovely she is without Botox and lip-plumpers. Allegedly.

“Nic listened to her heart against people’s advice and even her own instincts,” he [Urban] says of her standing by him. “I can’t put into words how I feel about what she did. My life is one thank-you to her….There wouldn’t be Sunny without Nic, because she really saved my life, so my instincts are for Nic to know she’s the No. 1 girl in my life and Sunday is No. 2,” he says. “Mom and Dad have got to be tight with each other — otherwise the whole thing’s unbalanced.”

[People, print edition, December 6, 2010]

I think Nicole is one of the most talented actresses working today, and I’ve always thought it was a shame she feels the need to Botox her face into a blank wall. Allegedly. I’ve admired the way she carries herself although she admits that red carpets scare her to death. The Others is one of my favorite scary movies, and I wish her all the happiness with Keith that she had sucked from her soul by Tom Cruise. So, to echo Lisa Schwarzbaum, ease up, Nicole, on trying to look like all those 20-year-olds trying to make names for themselves — you can act circles around the Gossip Girls and 90210s.

Rabbit Hole opens in limited release December 17, just in time for Oscar season.

Natalie Portman talks about her weight loss & strengthened butt for ‘Black Swan’

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:56 AM PST

Natalie Portman is a toe-shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for her performance as a ballerina in Black Swan, and she worked her ass off for it. Or rather she worked her ass bigger.

Working out eight hours at a time. Swimming a mile a day. Dancing despite bruised feet, aching muscles, and a displaced rib. Natalie Portman didn’t take the easy road in preparing to play ambitious ballerina Nina Sayers in Black Swan. But the 29-year-old actress says there was no other option. “So many of the emotional scenes happen while she’s dancing that there was no real way of getting around it,” explains Portman, whose character suffers a mind-bending nervous breakdown while rehearsing to dance the lead in a glitzy production of Swan Lake.

[Entertainment Weekly, print edition, November 19, 2010]

Although Portman did use a double for some of the more complicated choreography, she still had to look the part of a ballerina.

Portman says that not eating — or, rather, eating very little — is an essential part of a dancer’s lifestyle. “I’m a very short person, and you’re supposed to look very long,” she explains. “And you don’t have the bulk on you — which is, like, sick. The whole thing, I’m aware that it’s sick.”

…For the record, not all of Portman got smaller while training. “Dancers, even when they’re really frailly skinny, have a very strong butt. So Mary Helen [former New York City Ballet company member Mary Helen Bowers] did a lot of work on my butt,” she giggles. The result? “Definitely a huge, huge, um…change.”

[Entertainment Weekly, print edition, November 19, 2010]

Playing the part also dispelled any illusions Natalie had about the glamour of being a ballerina.

“[Being a dancer] was a childhood dream. Then when I got to try it, it kind of erased the illusion that ballet is this easy, beautiful, light thing. It’s quite the opposite. It takes discipline and hard work and pain….It’s more competitive [than Hollywood]. It’s smaller, so there are even fewer spots to fill. And it takes physical perfection.”

[Us Weekly, print edition, December 6, 2010]

Off screen, Portman is quietly dating choreographer Benjamin Millepied, 33, who can currently be seen in print ads for Gap.

Director Darren Aronofsky, who may also get an Oscar nod, recently lost his partner Rachel Weisz to James Bond actor Daniel Craig.

I doubt I’ll see this film; it’s not my cup of tea, but (Star Wars notwithstanding) I think Natalie is a good actress and seems relatively grounded for a child-actor-turned-movie-star. Plus she’s vegetarian and launched a line of vegan shoes, which is cool.

Black Swan opens December 3.

Emma Watson on life beyond Hermione: “I want to be a Renaissance woman”

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:45 AM PST

It’s difficult to think of Emma Watson without picturing Hermione Granger, even with her new Mia Farrow haircut.

We’ve seen Emma grow from an awkward girl to a confident young woman attending university while simultaneously being an international star and fashion icon over the past 10 years.

The release of the final Harry Potter film next year is bittersweet. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for the films’ three young stars, especially if Emma is unable to find roles outside of Hermione, or if she even wants to.

Maybe it’s ignorance, naivete, but I really am not [afraid of always being seen as Hermione]. I don’t have this intense fear or a desire to separate myself from the role. I’m really proud of the work I’ve done. I’m a geeky Harry Potter fan myself, so it would be stupid to try and fight it….The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up doing four or five things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

[Time, print edition, November 29, 2010]

As much as she enjoyed playing Hermione, she was also ready to be free of her.

I love that she [Hermione] has an opinion, that she’s intelligent, that she also has a heart. Things I dislike about her: she’s a little bossy, a little mothering — which I’m sure could get very irritating….I’d had my hair long for 10 years while I was playing Hermione. When I finished filming, I needed something different. I think I [waited] two or three weeks. You really have to be in a good frame of mind to do something so drastic to your appearance. When I was feeling very confident, I was like, I’m going to cut it off.

[Time, print edition, November 29, 2010]

She played Irina in Chekhov’s play Three Sisters in a school production at Brown, yet had to make it through two rounds of auditions. The show played to packed houses and good reviews. At Brown, she also plays field hockey and shares a dorm suite with five other students, including Scout Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

She took a supporting role as a wardrobe assistant in the film My Week with Marilyn.

Emma is anxious to dispel one rumor about her college days. No one yelled “10 points to Gryffindor” after she answered a question correctly in class at Brown, which I thought was sort of clever.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 is in theaters now. Part 2 will open July 15, 2011.