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Halle Berry is horribly in love (Go To Top)

      Washington: Hollywood beauty Halle Berry has spoken for the first time about her new love, Canadian model Gabriel Aubry. The twice-wed star, who has said she will never marry again, has been reluctant to speak about the relationship since meeting Montreal native Aubry on the set of a Versace advertisement in November (05). "It's so new and fresh. Canadian men are wonderful," she was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying. Recently, Berry has spoken of her wish to start a family. "I've reached a point in my life where I need more than a career. I think the next chapter in my life is family and children," she added.

Kidman buys a $4 m love-nest in Sydney (Go To Top)

      Sydney: Nicole Kidman has splashed out 4 million dollars for a penthouse in Walsh Bay, Sydney, Australia, that she and fianci Keith Urban reportedly plan to use as a love nest after they wed. The 303-square-metre penthouse is a two-storey apartment, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. It was initially listed for sale in August 2005, and was expected to fetch more than 4.5 million dollars. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the penthouse was purchased through the shelf company ACN 118 688 289 Pty Ltd, directed by Kidman's father, Antony, with its shareholding vested with her lawyer John Picone.

Jolie's baby-naming riddle (Go To Top)

       London: It seems that all the hullabaloo about Angelina Jolie's baby being named by the Governor of Namibia is nothing but a sham, as the latter has confirmed that he will not name the baby. Samuel Nuuyoma, the governor of the Namibian province where the child is to be born, had been quoted as saying: "When she goes to the hospital, as the father of the region, I will be informed and I will go there. "I will announce the good news and I will be naming the baby." However, he now claims he never made the comments. "No. No. That's absolutely not true. I never said such a thing. Never in history," Femalefirst quoted Nuuyoma as telling People magazine as saying. Meanwhile, the Namibian government has yet to decide whether or not to declare the celebrity child's birthday a national holiday.

Is Spielberg shooting Indiana secretly (Go To Top)

      Melbourne: Shooting for the much awaited 'Indiana Jones 4' movie has reportedly started in Queensland. According to Moviehole.net quoting News.Com.Au, via The Indy Experience, Spielberg is in Queensland working on a top-secret film project, filming nights. The filming is taking place at an Island location, with the director believed to be staying at the Palazzo Versace hotel. The script of the movie is being written by George Lucas, of 'Star Wars' fame, who also wrote and produced the previous instalment of the movie. Meanwhile, Harrison Ford, 60 looks all set don the role of the Jones for one last time. It has been 21 years since Harrison Ford first cracked his whip in ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (and 13 years since the third in the series, ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade''). George Lucas recently talking about the movie had said, "We're working on it, we're working on it. We've been working on it for 10 years. I think it'll be a great film, but it's completely different. It's still got a lot of action, and it's still very funny. I think it works like crazy."

Berry falls prey to food poisoning (Go To Top)

      Washington: Halle Berry seems to be going through some rather bad luck these days, for just days she fractures a toe trying to catch her plane, she was struck down with a case of food poisoning after eating shrimp. Berry, who was on a promotional trip for the movie X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND, onboard US Navy stronghold USS Kearsarge when she started feeling sick while meeting and greeting sailors. The Oscar winning actress was diagnosed with a case of food poisoning caused by eating shrimp - even though she isn't allergic to seafood. "I ate some shrimp on the boat and I'm not allergic to shrimp but I guess I am - bad shrimp. The funny thing was I went out and I wanted to shake as many hands as I could and I wanted to see as many people, so I'm shaking hands and all of a sudden my head feels like it's on fire and I notice some of the guys kinda looking at me funny. They must have been thinking, 'Well, up close, she is busted,' because these things started to pop up on my face and my body started to itch," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying. "I went down to the infirmary and I got a big whopping shot of Benadryl and it put me out. And then I went to sleep for two hours. So that was my experience... I was in some admiral's room, knocked out," she added.

$ 1,600 pen to crack 'Da Vinci Code' (Go To Top)

      Washington: Dan Brown's novel 'The Da Vinci Code' has inspired more than just a Hollywood movie, for it also motivated top pen maker Dante Del Vecchio to craft a new 1,600 dollar pen, which he's gifting to only select celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The pen features a hidden numbered code that helps solve a riddle that readers of the book are familiar with. And, the first person who breaks the code will be getting a solid gold ink well by Vecchio's label Visconti, reports Contactmusic. Vecchio was inspired by the idea for the handcrafted pen after reading Brown's best-seller and felt Cannes would be the ideal place to launch it. Up till now, actress Sharon Stone, singer Sir Elton John and director Sofia Coppola are among the stars Del Vecchio has given one of the special pens to.

Sir Paul McCartney is on 'The Streets' (Go To Top)

       Washington: British rapper Mike Skinner claims that his latest album contains one song that has been made in collaboration with Sir Paul McCartney. The 27-year old 'The Streets' rapper was explaining the reason why the track 'Never Went To Church' might sound familiar to fans of 'The Beatles', while talking on Scottish radio station XFM . "There's a revelation about my song Never Went To Church sounding like a Beatles song. Let's just say it involves a man going through a very costly divorce right now," Contactmusic quoted him as saying. McCartney who had last week announced his split with wife Heather Mills has offered her a 47million dollars quick divorce as long as she agrees to allow their daughter Beatrice to reside with him permanently. Newspapers, however, have speculated the former model could win anything upto 200 million pounds following two recent divorce settlement that may have set a precedent.