Fan hits Leonado DiCaprio with a bottle

Leonado DiCaprio was hit with a bottle while attending a Hollywood party given by Paris Hilton’s exlover and needed about a dozen stitches to close a wound near his ear, People magazine reported on its website.

The magazine said DiCaprio was at a party at about 4 a.m. Friday at the Hollywood Hills home of Rick Salomon, exboyfriend of Paris Hilton, when a woman struck him with what appeared to be a beer bottle. No ambulance was called but friends took the actor to a hospital where he received about a dozen stitches near his ear, People said.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s press relations office could not immediately confirm the report. (more…)

Bewitched is the romantic comedy

She looked bewitching in Yves Saint Laurent. But Nicole Kidman, who plays witch Isabel Bigelow in the romantic comedy Bewitched, did little press at the film’s world premiere in the US on Monday night.

The usually talkative actress was upset by the death of her close friend and makeup artist Robert McCann but nevertheless came to support the film, publicists said.

Kidman did tell reporters that she had had the most fun on this movie since shooting her Oscarnominated turn as sexy Satine in 2001’s Moulin Rouge. (more…)

In last 12 months she has earned $225million

Media mogul and TV talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has topped the new 2005 Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list. The annual Forbes list ranks celebrities according to their power, salaries and media presence. Winfrey was a clear choice to top the list after earning a staggering $225 million in the last 12 months, and her show is one of the worlds toprated. Golf ace Tiger Woods came in second and Mel Gibson, who topped the list in 2004, fell to number three. Star Wars creator George Lucas, who didn’t appear among the Celebrity 100, last year, crashes in at number four on the new list. Meanwhile, funnymen Will Ferrell and Dave Chappelle appear on the list for the first time at numbers 18 and 78 respectively and Denzel Washington is also a Celebrity 100 virgin at number 31. The ladies of Desperate Housewives have replaced the girls of Friends the cast of the hit new show debut on the new list at number 25.

Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirl is both actor and singer

In the past, Eddie Murphy has been an actor and a singer. In a new musical, he’ll get a chance to do both. Murphy will join Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles in the cast of the upcoming film Dream girls, DreamWorks has announced. To be directed by Bill Condon, Dream girls is an adaptation of the Tony Awardwinning musical that first ran on Broadway in the early 1980s.The movie follows the rise of a trio of women who form a group called The Dreamettes in the 1960s. Murphy will play James “Thunder” Early, a singer for whom the Dreamettes sing back up before taking over the spotlight themselves. Though Murphy is better known for movies like Beverly Hills Cop, The Nutty Professor and the voice of Donkey in the Shrek films, he has released several albums of soul and pop music. Dream girls is scheduled to begin production early next year.

Lucky Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton was recently seen taking off her engagement ring and passing it around to her friends to let them admire it and try it on for size. A friend cautioned her against such treatment of the pricey bauble, reportedly a 24carat yellow diamond, one carat for each of her 24 years. “Paris was told, ‘That’s a very expensive ring to be passing around like that. Besides, taking off your engagement ring is bad luck,’” according to a source, who says that Paris replied simply, “I don’t have bad luck. So nothing can ever happen to me.” Err…what about that little matter involving a tape and an exboyfriend? Such concerns are now far from the heiress’s mind as she prepares to tie the knot with her fiance, Paris. “Even her family is very amused by the fact that they both have the same name. Paris, of course could not care less. She is determined to prove to be an excellent wife once she walks down the aisle,” says a friend. On the professional front, Paris is getting ready to star in yet another reality show, this time involving her own family. It is a peek at how one of the richest families in America spend their days. Sounds like fun!

Sexy Knowles plans for solo project

Sexy singer Beyonce Knowles has announced plans to take on a series of solo projects, just days after saying that her group Destiny’s Child will disband. Survivor hit makers Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams announced earlier this month that they’ll no longer be a trio when their world tour comes to an end in September.
But Crazy In Love singer Knowles, who has enjoyed phenomenal success as a solo artist, is planning on going back to the studio to record a single for The Pink Panther soundtrack. And is hoping to do more music for the upcoming screen version of the musical Dream girls, which she starts shooting in December. She says, “I grew up listening to the soundtrack and hearing about that play. I wish I could have seen it in the flesh, but they’re redoing it, and I’m so excited. For the first time, I feel that I’m going to be challenged.”
But Beyonce is in no rush to record another solo album. She adds, “I’m not sure if that’s going to happen (anytime soon).”

Britney decleared Someday as ‘prophecy’

Britney Spears has declared that her] new song, Someday (7 Will Underl stand) as a “prophecy” The singer says’ that she wrote the tune, which refers to her imminent motherhood, two weeks before she realised that she was pregs nant. She says, “I wrote this song at my piano, at my house two weeks before I? found out that I was pregnant. So it was u really kind of weird, because the song’s 6 about having a baby.. And it’s some1 thing that I’d been dreaming about for a while. It’s kind of like a prophecy r Everyone m general should voice their u wishes more, because I think the more you ‘¦ throw it out to the ; universe,if you’re in the right space and place in your life, it’s weird how the universe gives it back to you.”

Musian out for social cause in Africa

Live 8 is a series of concerts set for July 2 con ceived in order to capture the attention of the G8 conference in Scotland, where leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries will gather to discuss the horrendous social and economic conditions in many parts of Africa. Its debatable whether a bunch of international fat cats gathered for longwinded symposiums and sumptuous meals will ever make a difference in the lives of the suffering, but its a sure thing that the artists involvedin Live 8 will raise awareness of the issues because they have a track record of having done so before.

Once again Bob Geldof, a member of the Boomtown Rats, is at the center of the event, although now he’s Sir Bob. This time, Sir Bob has arranged six concerts. Five will take place in five cities on July 2 London, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Philadelphia and a sixth will happen in Edinburgh on July 6. The last one will occur at the epicenter of the diplomats confab to remind them to spend less time stuffing their faces and pounding cocktails and more time on debt relief and aid to poor African nations. (more…)