• Jessica Simpson was seen in a bikini on her birthday this past week!
• Paris Hilton is going to try to stop having sex…FOR ONE WHOLE YEAR. Good luck to her, eh?
• Beyonce says the big fitness trick is cereal. Eat enough of it and you may just get sick.
• There’s a town in New Jersey that’s full of Confederate Flags. Where’s the real appeal here?
• Christina Aguilera looks a bit too normal for Hollywood. Yikes!
• Granny panties on Lindsay Lohan on set of Georgia Rule.
• We might have seen Suri after all! That is, if she is the Starbucks cup that we see Katie Holmes clutching oh so tightly lately!
• In a head-to-head run, Pirates of the Caribbean is beating Superman Returns with no mercy. Sigh…

Superman Returns is still currently the #2 box office hit in US theaters after more than a week and a half into its debut. The movie stars young stars, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane and Brandon Routh as Clark Kent (aka Superman).

Except for the occasional cheesy lines between the two characters mentioned above, the movie was surprisingly good and entertaining (IMO, Hollywood has been butchering most comic-to-film releases).

Check outthe photos of Kate Bosworth and Brandon Routh looking good together in France for Superman Returns publicity.

 - Doobybrain

• Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth stop by TRL.  Superman Returns has already made $21 milion from midnight showings!
• HANDBAGS!  Free Kate Spade Larabee Noel Kat Handbag and Coach Handbag and Wallet.
• Charlize Theron at the Los Angeles Film Festival, where she won the Spirit of Independence Award.  Charlize has also has lured director Alan Parker  to helm her ensemble family drama "Ice at the Bottom of the World" about  a Navy captain who returns home to the Chesapeake Bay to find his daughter a heroin addict and the single mother of a multi-racial child.
• Pamela Anderson washes up PETA
• Hilary Duff leaving her NYC hotel following her appearance on TRL to promote her upcoming flick, Materials Girls.  Her sister Haylie also stars in the film.
• Lindsay Lohan gets farked up!!
• The Brangelina theives have been captured!  The FBI and Massachusetts authorities raided the culprit’s home Tuesday night.

• Anybody for some bikini-clad Teri Hatcher?
• Mariah Carey is trying to confine herself to only pink foods: salmon, ruby red grapefruit juice and blood oranges.  Rolls eyes.
• Josh Duhamel is Tough!
• Sienna Miller and Peter Sarsgaard to star in feature adaptation of Michael Chabon’s 1988 novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" about one wild and sexually adventurous summer in the life of a recent college graduate named Art Bechstein.
• The O.C. is cut down to a mere 16 episodes!
• Check out the Transformers Teaser Trailer (it didn’t work for me, but maybe some of you will have better luck).

• Effortlessly chic Kate Hudson takes the July 2006 cover of Vogue Magazine.  She poses with Owen Wilson in promotion of their upcoming film, You, Me, and Dupree, which opens July 14th.   Full Kate Hudson’s Vogue photoshoot here. (Apologies, images removed!)
• UPDATE :: Aaron Spelling dies at 83, succubing to cancer in his Los Angeles home.  SOB!!!!!!!!! Spelling set a record of producing more than 3,000 TV shows. Who will make all of the trashly 90210, Sunset Beach, and Melrose Places for the next generation?????????  We are all screwed!!!!!!
• Reese Witherspoon’s scary lawyer people are not only suing Star Magazine but they’re also requiring me to publish this canned apology since Reese is not pregnant, so here goes:
  

  RETRACTION & APOLOGY: We previously re-published a story which had appeared in Star Magazine claiming that actress Reese Witherspoon is pregnant with her third child. We now know that this story is false and unfounded. We regret the error and apologize to Ms.Witherspoon for any distress that the publication of this story may have caused.

  This is the aforementioned "story" (already revised), published about a month ago.  The funny thing is that I don’t even read Star Magazine.  Weird, huh?  In any event, SORRY REESE!! LOVE YA!!

• Free Gift Cards!!  $250 Victoria’s Secret Gift Card, $250 Banana Republic Gift Card, and $250 GAP Gift Card!
• Here are some more lovely pictures of Britney Spears with her jet-black hair dye job.
• Selma Blair files for divorce from husband Ahmet Zappa.
• Pictures of "Promiscuous Girl" Nelly Furtado performing at TRL.
• Kate Beckinsale reveals to Allure that she was anorexic: "I [wish] I had had a sensible magazine article to have read at the time from someone who was actually intelligent. I never really talked about that, actually. [But] when I was around 22 or 23, I decided I’d mention it because I decided I was one of the few people I knew who had that problem who didn’t remain a freak about it."
• Keanu Reeves doesn’t write emails… because he doesn’t own a computer.  Can you really live without one these days?
• Katherine McPhee is Katie Holmes‘ doppelganger.
• Here are the scans I was unfortunately forced to take down: Britney Spears in OK! Magazine.

• Jennifer Love Hewitt needs some extra support.
• Keith Urban’s bachelor party wasn’t wild…  wife-to-be Nicole Kidman and her parents were there!
• Look! Up in the sky!  Superman’s iconic S-Shield will be projected on popular landmarks around the country — Niagara Falls; the Time Warner Center in New York City, where it will be clearly visible from Central Park and other parts of Manhattan; the Queen Mary in Southern California’s Long Beach Harbor; the new Fantasy Tower of the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas; Chicago’s Sears Tower; and the giant Mall of America in Minneapolis. 
• Here are two new releases you may have missed along the way:
  

  Jessica Simpson - "A Public Affair" [mp3]
  Danity Kane (Making the Band 3) - "Showstoppers [mp3]

• Project Runway’s Daniel Vosovic doesn’t like Tevas either!

WOW WOW WEE WAA WAA! From the moment I saw the trailer last month, I knew Superman Returns was going to be a fantastic film. (Conversely, during the same week, I was severely disappointed in a 7-minute clip released for X-Men 3–and that movie wound up being terrible.)  And, before you could say kryptonite, Bryan Singer’s latest was boasting rave reviews from Variety, Time, Newsweek, and The Hollywood Reporter.  Will Superman Returns live up to expectations at the box office?   You betcha.

UP, UP AND AWAY!  The hot new Man of Steel Brandon Routh is a dead ringer for the young Christopher Reeve, but less steel and more soul. Kate Bosworth brings a softer side to the edgy Lois Lane we’re used to. And Kevin Spacey, well, was born to play the iconic role of Lex Luthor.  Or any other maniacal villian for that matter. 

SHHHHHHH!  It’s hard not to get riled up when John Williams’ theme music cranks through the speakers.  You’re bound to get goosebumps when it hits crescendos but the two best scenes of Superman Returns actually took place in dead silence: 1) After saving the planet from a ‘ginormous growing kryptonite crystal island’ gobbling up Earth, an unconscious Superman hurtles back to Earth.  Dead silence. Heart tug.  2) Lying in a hospital bed with shards of kryptonite embedded into his skin, a critically injured Superman is visited (and kissed!) by Lois Lane and her son. Dead silence.  Heart tug.

DUN DUN DUN!  Comics-obsessed dweebs can rest easy.  Superman Returns definitely comes close to matching up with last summer’s superhero film Batman Begins (barring Katie Holmes). Plus, there’s much to look forward to.  Executive producer Chris Lee has confirmed all of the actors "are signed on for three films." Will I see Superman Returns again?  YES! IMAX 3D, HERE I COME!

• Tom Cruise is still riding the crazy train doing promotion for MI3 in Japan.  Or shall we say, the crazy boat? 
• Free Samples!!!!  Mr. Clean Extra Power Magic Erasers, Bounty Paper Towels, and Pantene Pro V Restore.
• Somebody needs to empty this litter box… The Pussycat Dolls: The She-Beasts? 
• Diddy gives Lindsay Lohan the boot.
• You already know I am beyond excited for Superman Returns.  Lotsa video clips and TV spots here.
• Is Brooke Shields trying out for a role in The Flinstones?
• Paris Hilton is starting a new fashion trend…  the half-glove.  Okay fine, trying to start one.
• Nicole Kidman can look hairy scary.
• Brittany Murphy greets fans at the The Late Show with David Letterman in NYC yesterday afternoon.  But no thank-you. One too many collagen injections. 
• Every hero needs a sidekick…  that’s why celebrities were out in high gear at the launch of the new T-Mobile Sidekick 3.  T-Mobile, I want one.  Please and thank-you!

• Natalie Portman and Eric Bana will star in historical drama The Other Boleyn Girl, a story that revolves around the ferociously ambitious Boleyn sisters, Mary and Anne (Portman), who are rivals for the bed and heart of 16th century English King Henry VIII (Bana).
• Matt Damon is rumored to star as a young Captain Kirk in J.J. Abrahm’s upcoming Star Trek movie, centering on Kirk and Spock‘s early days at a space academy.  "[William] Shatner gave his blessing," says one source. "J.J. got his approval. J.J. wants Damon as Capt. Kirk. He really loves the idea."
• Naomi Watts has arrived in Australia for Nicole Kidman’s hotly anticipated weekend nuptials to country star Keith Urban.

"I don’t have a house yet, although I no longer live with my sister in the apartment," Routh smiled… Maybe I will buy a house after a couple of more films. I’ll need to make a little more money… And I don’t even have a car yet. I’m borrowing my girlfriend’s car at the moment… Yes, I’m very happy to not have to pour drinks (in reference to leaving his bartending job, where he met his girlfriend)." — Brandon Routh

Brandon Routh was spotted signing a few autographs this past Monday at LAX airport en route to NYC, accompanied by his long-time girlfriend Courtney Ford.  The first official showing of Superman Returns hits theaters June 27 @ 10PM EST and I. am. so. excited. More pictures in the gallery of Brandon leaving Nobu this past Monday, leaving NBC studios yesterday morning, and arriving at The Late Show with David Letterman yesterday afternoon.

Here’s a new candid picture of Iowa-native newcomer Brandon Routh (looking like Clark Kent?) at the airport with his girlfriend of two years, indie actress Courtney Ford (age ?). The couple first met at "Lucky Strike", where Routh was working as a bartender. To the right is Brandon and Courntey at WonderCon 2006 back in February 2006 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco, CA. The first showing of Superman Returns hits theaters June 27 @ 10PM EST.  More pictures in the gallery!

Brandon Routh and girlfriend Courtney Ford at Movieline’s
Young Hollywood Awards at the Music Box at The Fonda.
in Hollywood, California on April 30, 2006.