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Daddies of the Year
1. Brad Pitt
2. Heath Ledger
3. Ryan Phillippe
4. Ben Affleck
5. Will Smith
6. Matthew Broderick
7. Chris Martin
8. Guy Ritchie
9. David Arquette
10. Dean Cain

Brad Pitt is Dad Of The Year according to a Life & Style Father’s Day poll. "He even skipped the Cannes Film Festival in anticipation of Shiloh’s birth," said L&S’s editor in chief Debra Birnbaum. Above: Brad was spotted chatting on his cell phone this past Monday from the balcony of his Malibu mansion.  And then just yesterday, Brad whizzed down the streets of Los Angeles on his custom-made motorcycle with a pal of his.  More pictures in the gallery!

UPDATE 1 :: Brad Pitt outbids Leonardo DiCaprio for zombie film rights!  Full article after the jump.

UPDATE 2 :: Apologies, Brad Pitt motorcycle pictures have been removed!

Pitt Outbids DiCaprio

It was a battle between Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, and Pitt emerged the winner.

The production labels of the two stars — Pitt’s Plan B and DiCaprio’s Appian Way — were engaged in a competitive bidding war through their respective studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, over an upcoming zombie horror book by Max Brooks titled "World War Z."

By Wednesday afternoon, the dust settled with Plan B/Paramount winning the movie rights.

In 2003, Brooks wrote "Zombie Survival Guide," which explained in great deadpan detail how to survive a supposedly impending zombie apocalypse. The book went on to become a surprise cult hit.

"World War Z" also tackles the zombie genre but is set 10 years after a great global zombie epidemic and is a serious oral history of the zombie future told from many perspectives around the world. Crown Publishing is putting the book out in the fall.

The galleys of the book went out around town late last week, but interest took awhile to ignite. By the time execs finally realized they had a potential "tentpole" franchise, the battle lines were drawn between Plan B and Appian Way.

The bidding went back and forth between the two into Tuesday night and carried over into Wednesday. Sources say the rights sold for six figures, with the deal going to seven figures if the film actually gets made.

Brooks was a writer on "Saturday Night Live" from 2001 to 2003 and did voice work on the "Justice League" cartoon series.

There are said to be no hard feelings between the companies, and DiCaprio is starring in "The Departed," the Martin Scorsese crime drama that Pitt and his Plan B are producing. [THR]

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Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:16 am

# 698 | Ciev Hi Ciev! I noticed the other day that you’d joined us and forgot to welcome you. It’s good to have you with us.I like going to the casino, but I hate losing money. But more than I hate losing money I hate all the smoke. It wouldn’t be so bad if people would at least be curteous enough to not blow it directly in your face! Ugh. You can sit there waving your hand in front of your face thinking they’ll get a clue and move their ciggie, but no, they go right ahead like you’re not trying to breathe. I know a lot of the larger casinos in have non-smoking sections, but the casino near me is too small for that, so the non-smokers have to put up with the smoke and going home smelling like an ash-tray.

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:20 am

# 704 | amazed Do I really think people change? Yeah…I’m hoping you’ll become one. Not that I’m holding my breath or anything.

just guessing @ 06/16/2006 at 12:21 am

I am just guessing that you all beieve the positive rhetoric the bamz publisists give to the press on them and all the negative press you all read or contrive yourselves on Jennifer anniston..I really do feel kinda sorry for bp he looks like a deer caught in the headlights.. like how do shiloh get out of here

Original jpf @ 06/16/2006 at 12:26 am

# 654 | sorry orginial I’d bet you’d believe it without any trouble at all if it wasn’t about X. Funny how that works. You probably have no issue whatsoever with buying into a tab lie supplied by an unamed source if it were about AJ, but show you something that IS quoted as being said not only by X, but by BP; serious words from both sides at a time when the newly defunct couple was serious front page news regarding their impending divorce being filed just two weeks before. Serious words quoted as being said out of their mouths, words neither of them have denied, or asked to be retracted because it’s all untrue?. Puhleeze. Yeah, turn off the lights and go BACK to sleep since it’s beyond obvious you’re yet another who refuses to wake up and smell the coffee about the real reasons that led to JA/BP’ going their separate ways.jpf

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:27 am

# 714 | Alexanderina Hey A - I stayed at the Luxor when I went to Vegas, too! Cool place. I went with 2 of my sisters and we just went around staring at all the hotels like we’d never been out in public before. Kinda pathetic really. Love, love, love the Bellagio.

tv guide listing says Anderson Cooper 360 is 2 hours. i’ve always liked him, i don’t know why i haven’t watched his shows. # 714 | Alexanderinayou’re going to laugh, we thought it’d be funny to stay at the new Hooters hotel. there’s 4 of us in a room so i only have to pay $30 bucks for 3 nights! yay more money for blackjack, buffets, and partying. (i was going to say booze, but you gotta love the free drinks while gambling with tip. not a big drinker, but if the casinos are eating up everyone’s money, at least get some drinks out of them.)

I agree-Passing Through makes my day and Night!I just laugh and shake my head-she is a force to be reckoned with-the phone fics are outrageousWelcome Ciev and African Girls friend(sorry I did not go back and remember how to spell your name)Thanks for all the lovely videos-Origin jpf-I read that article too-I actually think I heard it from JA’s mouthPT-So she isn’t a single parent-My grandma says "if it don’t come out in the wash, you’ll see it in the rinse every time!-I don’t know when or how-but the are MARRIED and I believe she is going to reveal this on CNN-Again PT-It’s a pleasure to read your commentsCliniqua-Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? There was a German dude in a black leather coat with gloves. He had beady eyes and he wore glasses-Everytime you attack the fanistons, I think of that guy walking through that desert oanting and wiping sweat from his brow-so much so until he had to sit down! I say that’s the effect your posts have if not more!Oh yeah PT-Angelina should be so kind as to donate some of that money to Jen’s hair stylist and wardrobe coordinator-She is not dumb or tacky-she looked really cute on Friends with the clothes, so I really don’t understand this type of wardrobe-but hey it’s her choice

he looks like a deer caught in the headlights# 729 | just guessingThis only happens when he remembers the 7 childless years he wasted on J. Maniston.

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 12:36 am

# 723 | guli | - Hey Guli, I don’t know, but I admire Angelina more and more each day. She is one of my role model, right behind my Mom.I was over on EA catching up on fanfics, oh I love them.

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:36 am

# 721 | Alexanderina I don’t feel one bit of sympathy for Britney Spears. Frankly, she’s giving white trash a bad name. In 5 years, after K-Fed has gone through all of her money, I’m looking forward to seeing her on VH1’s "Where Are They Now?" Fast-forward to a trailer park in Louisiana and there’s Brit with her hair in curlers, wearing a skimpy tank-top that’s skin-tight, cut-off jeans up to her pubes, barefoot, surrounded by 4 kids under the age of 5, pregnant for the 5th time, snapping her gum and talking about how hard it is to get food stamps or welfare and how she’s trying to make a comeback.

# 729 | just guessing Oh crap!!! i was just getting to go to bed, but you had to catch me as a "like a deer caught in the headlights" (your quote)Yep:) I was at your stupidity. Do you know how much money this family is making and will be making (with or without movies). Take a chill pill, they are here for a LONG time. Goodnight!

"The Break up" star Jennifer Aniston is reportedly furious and heartbroken after failing miserably to congratulate ex-husband Brad Pitt on the birth of his baby daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. As Pitt and Jolie have instructed their cell numbers not be given to Camp Aniston, the ex-wife reportedly called her former husband’s fan club manager in desperation, who also blocked the congratulatory call.Says Pitt, "When we were married she had a hit show, girls wanted the ‘Rachel’ hairstyle, and she was a celebrity not a clinging ex-wife. But Aniston doesn’t get it! Even after we broke up, she used to call and keep talking and talking in a conversation with herself until I hung up. I wouldn’t even say a word! And she kept calling! So we blocked her number. But she keeps trying! Even my fans aren’t that desperate! When will she get it? She is not my wife, she is not the mother of my child, she is not my friend, she is trying to turn me against Angie which isn’t going to happen - I am a father with a family of three children and don’t want ex-Friends actor people clinging on forever. Will she get the message? I hope so."The actress, who is dating co-star Vince Vaughn, told chat show Good Morning America: "Do I talk to Brad? Yes, we do, I do. That’s very peaceful. It’s a really peaceful thing." Says Pitt, "Because she’s the only one talking! Poor Jen, I said the birth of my daughter was peaceful, and now she is using the word peaceful like she was a part of it, or even there in Namibia, which she wasn’t, and never will be," exclaims the frustrated billionaire movie star.The former ‘Friends’ beauty, who shares her "little beach house" in Malibu with her dog, Norman, described her new life as generally "relaxed" and "comfortable" except for frustrating daily instances when her famous ex won’t take her calls, or respond to her emails, or reply to her faxes, write back to her letters, or engage in arguments via the tabloids. "It’s Angelina- she’s turned him against me!" says Aniston. "I was Rachel on Friends! I was the wife of Brad Pitt for four years, an eternity in my 41 years of life! All I wanted to say to my former husband Brad Pitt is congratulations on the new baby we never had together and remind him of those happy times back in the 90’s and say that I hope… she… isn’t telling him what to do, and that he really should take my calls more often. How dare his fan club manager not connect us!"

Get lost fool @ 06/16/2006 at 12:40 am

# 729 | just guessing |just like you believe all the positvie crap Jennifers publicist gives out to the press, and all the negative press that Brad and angelina get , right?

Just guessing-I think you were trying to say that BP asks himself "how do Shiloh and I get out of here?" Right? Well, Siloh is being breastfed by her MOTHER ANGELINA JOLIE, AND HER MOTHER AIN’T ABOUT TO LET SHILOH GO ANYWHERE. BP IS A GROWN MAN WHO IS WHERE HE WANTS TO BE . IF NOT HE WOULD BE WHERE EVER IT IS HE DECIDES HE WANTS TO BE, NOT WHERE YOU WANT HIM TO BE. BP AND AJ ARE AND HAVE BEEN INSEPARABLE FOR OVER A YEAR. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT THIS MAN IS BEING HELD CAPTIVE AGAINST HIS WILL? DID YOU LOOK AT BP’S EXPRESSION OF LOVE AS HE HELD SHILOH? DID YOU WATCH BP AND AJ INTERACTION IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE IN NAMIBIA WHEN BP AND AJ LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER AND SMILED AND APPEARED TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE EACH OTHER’S SENTENCES?

Ciev, heya there, I don’t know if you caught my congrats on the other thread. Way to go! Re: Las Vegas.. the gambling and party is fun, but imo the city in the desert has too high a profit margin. It might be fun to check out the local casinos in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico at the Indian Reservations. Of course, it’s tribal specific, but your money goes to improvements in their educational system, plus a portion is usually sent via dividends to enrolled tribal members. (Not trying to commercialize it, just letting you know.)Even the kids get dividend checks from casino profits, anywhere from 50 to 1,000 or more a month, depending on the tribe and BIA regulations. My aunt gets about 2,000 a month (married in fr. diff tribe), and never even set foot in a casino! But me? nooo.. my father is a public official who voted down the gambling issue! I was like, you gotta be kidding! He says it exploits our rights for moral self determination, or something. Nothing more frustrating than to have a family member in control of local politics, but disagreeing with you on key points.Anyway, nice seeing you here Ciev. If you’re interested in the tribal gambling, do a google search to find one close to you. It just seems better than spending where the gambling makes the rich richer. Cheers to your trip!

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 12:44 am

# 731 | Passing Through | - Hey PT, congrats on the Heat winning. I love Vegas, wish I could go all the time and not just for gambling but to see all the different hotels. I think the Luxor is my favorite. The Belliago is beautiful. When my friend and I went in January, we walked from the Luxor all the ways to the Mall, it was nice. We also went to the Venetian, what a beautiful hotel, it was like visiting Venice.

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:44 am

# 729 | just guessing I believe all of X’s negative press because I WANT to. And that’s the exact same reason all of her fans believe all of the negative BAMZ press. Grow up, would you? Why do people keep asking this question? People believe what they want to believe and that’s all there is to it. I don’t believe all the negative press about X anymore than I think B/A walk on water. They’re all human beings with their positve points and their faults. I can’t really come up with anything positive to say about X, but give me a few years…maybe she’ll do something to admire her for.

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 12:47 am

# 736 | Passing Through | - LMAO, I tried to watch Dateline but I can’t because she looks so bad, so trailer trash, my boyfriend even turned the tv off that channel.

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 12:52 am

# 732 | Ciev | - lol, the new Hooter Hotel, that should be fun. I love Vegas’ buffets. I swear that have the best foods. You have to tell me about your trip when you get back. Are you guys going to see any shows?

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:52 am

# 733 | malibumom Hey Mmom - I think it’s going to take a very special reason to wrangle the "we’re married" admission out of those two! So don’t expect to see it on the Anderson Cooper interview.Re: AJ donating money to X’s hair/wardrobe people - man, that black dress she had on at the British premiere of TBU was beyond bad, wasn’t it? Isn’t there a saying about does the woman wear the dress or does the dress wear the woman? That dress was definitely wearing X and not the other way around. I know she thinks she rocks the boobies, but X, girfriend, you ain’t got enough attitude for that dress you were trying to wear! (And can’t she do something different with her hair? Something that’s not a half-assed ponytail?)

The real lou @ 06/16/2006 at 12:54 am

#744 Alexanderina,I hate to admitt it,but Brit was rockin the trailer trash look.Why was she wearing those false eyelashes?

BTW, isn’t it a miracle that Darfur aid was funded in Washington? I feel at peace knowing that our voices were heard on this issue. Now we know what to do for the next one… call, write, visit.. it works!

Passing Through @ 06/16/2006 at 12:57 am

# 738 | Vince Von ROTFLMAO.

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 1:00 am

# 746 | Passing Through | - ITA with you PT, the dress was hedious and the same damn freaking hairstyle all the time. This woman to me is not appealing at all, to me she is just one of those average woman you will meet in a mall or walking down the street.

Alexanderina @ 06/16/2006 at 1:03 am

# 747 | The real lou | - ITA, plain old trailer trash and that whole outfit get-up, what the hell was that?

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