I actually thought there could be some truth to this story - Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford have been together forever, or six years, which is forever in Hollywood time. Reports that began in the London tabloids said that Harrison Ford proposed to Calista Flockhart on April Fool’s Day, and that they plan to get married as soon as the promotional duties for Indiana Jones are complete. Unfortunately, his rep has denied that it is true.

“This is completely fabricated and the result of a British tabloid report,” the rep confirmed to OK!.

OK! Magazine

I highly doubt that Harrison Ford will ever marry again. His last divorce, from screenwriter Melissa Matheson, set him back no less than $90 million. The pair were married for 18 years and had two children together. According to Forbes, the most expensive celebrity divorces include Michael Jordan’s and Neil Diamond’s (at $150 million each), followed by Steven Speilberg’s divorce from Amy Irving at $100 million. Harrison Ford’s earned him the number 4 spot on the list.

Harrison will probably not be marrying Calista Flockhart, but if she does decide she’d like to tie the knot, I’d have to suggest to Harrison that he gets down on one knee as quick as a man of 65 can. At that age, even for a sexy old fella like him, it’s not as easy to attract women 20+ years your junior. Calista is 43, and looked absolutely amazing in that pink dress at the Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull premiere.

Calista has an adopted son, Liam, 7, that Harrison recently described as his ‘child’, and credited him with keeping him young and ‘involved in life’.

Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford are shown outside the Waverly Inn in NY on 5/21/08, thanks to WENN.

Cate Blanchett attended the Australian premiere of Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull wearing a gold lame wrap dress with too much fabric gathered with a plain black belt. It was an astonishingly bad look for Cate, who often takes fashion risks but pulls it off. She topped off the look with a pair of chunky black t-strap shoes that would have been at home on Gwyneth Paltrow’s feet.

Blanchett didn’t look as bad as Ashanti, who attended the NY premiere which was hosted by BET’s show 106 and Park. Ashanti wore a dress with peacock sequin detail around the the neck and thick blue eyeshadow under her eyes as if she was about to play football. It got us to publish her photo, so her makeup strategy worked.

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is out in the US tomorrow, May 22. Initial reviews are mixed and praise the excellent fast-paced action but say that the dialog and plot are lacking.

Also shown at the NY premiere are Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, Shia LaBeouf and Karen Allen. I love Calista’s simple pale pink dress. Thanks to WENN and PRPhotos.

If you have children, you were probably subjected to Nickelodeon’s 25th Annual Kid’s Choice Awards ceremony on Saturday night. You have my sincerest condolences. I, too, had to watch, and it was often eyeroll-inducing: lame banter between celebrity presenters; boring and unfunny “behind the scenes” skits; stupid slime stunts that dragged out the show even longer and wayyyy too much Disney product, in the form of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers. Miley Cyrus won favorite female television star and favorite female musical artist, much to my daughter’s delight.

There were a few bright spots in the broadcast, including host Jack Black’s over-the-top opening musical number, in which he wore a bright green superhero costume and rocked out with a giant octopus playing guitar to the Kiss song “I Was Made for Loving You,” with the lyrics changed to “I Was Made for Sliming You.” (In my opinion, Black was the only funny, high-energy part of the show and should have been allowed to riff and get crazy even more.) The theme of each Kids’ Choice Awards, you see, is that celebs and kids in the audience get buckets of green slime poured on their heads at random moments. Slimed celebs included Harrison Ford, who recreated a famous scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” which concluded with him being covered in green slime. Other mildly amusing segments included a celebrity belching contest that featured Jodie Foster attempting to burp along to the song “YMCA.”

All in all, the show had the same problems as most other awards shows: it went on too long, there was too much unfunny dialog, and the host didn’t get enough chances to do what he does best. But if you are at all interested in the winners, here they are.

Favorite TV Show: Drake and Josh
Favorite Reality Show: American Idol
Favorite TV Actor: Drake Bell (from Drake and Josh)
Favorite TV Actress: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Cartoon: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Favorite Movie: Alvin and the Chipmunks
Favorite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp
Favorite Movie Actress: Jessica Alba
Favorite Animated Movie: Ratatouille
Favorite Animated Voice: Eddie Murphy (Shrek The Third)
Favorite Music Group: The Jonas Brothers
Favorite Song: “Girlfriend” by Avril Lavigne
Favorite Female Singer: Miley Cyrus
Favorite Male Singer: Chris Brown
Favorite Male Athlete: Tony Hawk
Favorite Female Athlete: Danica Patrick
Favorite Book: Harry Potter Series
Favorite Video Game: Madden NFL 2008
Wannabe Award: Cameron Diaz

If anything, the Kids’ Choice Awards gives parents a glimpse into the music, movies, and other pop culture their kids like– which should scare the crap out of you. I know I had a hard time sleeping knowing that the youth of America wants to be just like Cameron Diaz.

Celebrities were out in LA yesterday to assist the Los Angeles homeless mission in serving an early Thanksgiving meal to the city’s homeless. Actors Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart and Nia Long were among the famous faces helping out and bringing attention to the cause.

Wearing red aprons and plastic gloves, they stood alongside volunteers at the annual feast at downtown’s Los Angeles Mission, doling out turkey drumsticks, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, vegetables and pumpkin pie.

Actresses Nia Long and Calista Flockhart and “The Hills” reality TV star Spencer Pratt were among others passing out almost 3,000 plates of food to lines of men, women and children.

“It’s very grounding,” said Long, who dished out vegetables and rolls with her 7-year-old son. “I feel grateful for all the things I have.”

A house band pounded out music as people sipped on bright green and orange punch at rows of tables outside.

[From The Huffington Post]

LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was there, and he actually washed homeless people’s feet as part of the event, getting down on his hands and knees to personally attend to the feet of the down-on-their-luck attendees. That’s an incredible gesture and I find it touching. One of the women whose feel Villaraigosa washed agrees. Yasmine Villalobos is quoted by Huffington Post as saying “He washed my feet, and it was so special. I will remember it forever.”

I love seeing 90 year-old screen legend Kirk Douglas out. He was most recently photographed looking incredibly surprised as John Travolta kissed him full on the mouth before presenting him with an award. Hopefully they’ll be plenty more photo ops for Mr. Douglas, and those pictures will soon fade from our collective memory.

Kirk Douglas has volunteered with the LA Mission for years, and helped establish their Anne Douglas Center for Women, named after his wife. Anne and Kirk Douglas oversaw the donation of ten computers to the center last summer. In a statement about the celebrities volunteering at the LA Mission on Thanksgiving, Douglas said “Their involvement will help their souls as much as it helps the guests being served.”

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone.

Shown below are Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Alana Curry, Spencer Pratt, Antonio Villaraigosa, Kate Linder, Nicholle Tom, Nia Long, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Calista Flockhart’s son, Liam. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Steven Spielberg has endeared himself to the entire blogging community by inviting quite a few movie bloggers to lunch and a personal meeting with him at Universal Studios to thank them for not publishing the stolen photos and all the plot details from the upcoming Indiana Jones movie. Bloggers from JoBlo.com, ComingSoon.net, Slashfilm, IGN, CHUD, IESB, and Latino Review enjoyed a catered lunch just off set and were treated to a few minutes of Q&A with the director. While their travel doesn’t sound like it was covered, they were treated well.

It was Spielberg’s own idea to hold the lunch for the movie bloggers, and although he only spent a short time with them it sounds like it was his own idea to invite them and that he made sure they enjoyed their visit. They were not allowed on set, where there were about two days left of shooting, due to those continuing issues with trying to keep plot details private, but they did get glimpses of several stars in costume, including Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf.

Spielberg talked proudly of using real film instead of digital footage for the upcoming movie, and said that Ford and LaBeouf do many of their own stunts. He is favoring old school movie making and editing for the production, and will use digital special effects sparingly. He praised LaBeouf’s acting and said he plans to work with him on another Transformers movie that they’re trying to fast track.

A few minutes later, we met Spielberg in a private screening room where he enthusiastically greeted us sporting his usual dressed-down-with-ball-cap look. Spielberg was gracious with his time and while he talked with us a few minutes, he was upfront about not wanting to answer any questions about the movie. Of course as journalists, we had to try and this is what we got:

Production is two days away from wrapping and the director raved about how great it was to have Ford back and how amazed he was that he did the majority of his own stunts. He said, looking back to the last film, which was 18 years ago, he couldn’t tell the difference between the action star from then to now because he’s still that good. He also told us that the Russians are the villains in the film and he hired Russian actors to ensure accuracy with their accents.

He went on to say that the fourth installment of the “Indiana Jones” franchise is shot on film and not digital, despite Lucas’ encouragements of doing so because he is old-fashioned, and he added that if the people before him, who he considered great directors, did it on film then that’s good enough for him.

Spielberg then talked about what a great addition Shia LaBeouf has been and how he’s been doing all of his own stunts, too. Speaking of LaBeouf, Spielberg told us there are going to be multiple “Transformers” films that the hot young actor is signed on to do and that there’s already a story for the second one, but production depends on the pending writer’s strike

[From ComingSoon.net]

He is also set to co-direct a series of three movie with Peter Jackson based on Tintin, a series of popular graphic novels, and he wants to increase awareness of how great the story will be as it’s not that well known in America:

The industrious director talked about Tintin, a project he’s working on with Peter Jackson, based on the popular graphic novels by Belgian artist Hergé. He said that as of now there are only two directors with Jackson directing the first installment, himself directing the second movie, and if they don’t hire another director, the two would co-direct the third. Jackson will shoot his movie in New Zealand and Spielberg will shoot in the States, and Spielberg said the two are very collaborative and that the film will be using motion-capture, which is still new to him.

[From ComingSoon.net]

At the end of the meeting Spielberg signed limited edition Indiana 4 posters for all the bloggers. While they weren’t allowed to take pictures and we don’t have any photos of the event, it was incredible of Spielberg to thank the bloggers and he gets major points for inviting them. A little kindness goes a long way, and you know that even jaded gossip bloggers like me will think twice before publishing spoilers for Spielberg movies in the future. He’s watching, and he knows that you catch more flies with honey.

Thanks to Fark for the heads up about this story.

As a child of the 1980’s I can’t wait for the new Indiana Jones movies – Remember when Steven Spielberg was the greatest movie director ever? E.T., Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, The Colour Purple…That’s how you get your name above the title people!

He’s back, and directing a forth Indiana Jones film. Harrison Ford is still going to be playing Indiana again, and everyone on the set has had to sign a confidentiality agreement – but some people just don’t know when to keep their mouth shut.

But Tyler Nelson - cast as a “dancing Russian soldier” - gave an interview to his hometown newspaper, the Edmond Sun in Oklahoma, in which he revealed that:

* Indy, played once again by Harrison Ford, and the Soviet army are both searching for a priceless skull made of crystal in the jungles of South America.

* The Russians take Indy hostage and then blackmail him by threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and mother of his son, Marion Ravenwood, portrayed by Karen Allen. Cast as the son is Shia LaBeouf.

* Cate Blanchett plays an evil Russian who grills Indy. “I saw Harrison Ford strapped to a chair and being interrogated,” Nelson told the paper.

Daily Telegraph

The title of Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull is as yet unconfirmed. It has mostly been referred to as Indiana Jones 4.

Oh, and what happens to you when you void your confidentiality agreement and get on the bad side of Spielberg? First, he cuts your scene from the movie. The big scene in question for Nelson is when he dances to balalaika folk music when Indy is captured.

In the words of Spielberg’s rep, Martin Levy, “Who knows whether that particular person will ever work in this town again?”

The forth Indiana Jones movie hits cinemas in May.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Pictures and wallpaper from the upcoming Indiana Jones film thanks to AllMoviePhoto.com. Pictured are Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Ray Winstone, Karen Allen and Harrison Ford on set. Shia needs to get rid of that facial hair because it detracts from his cute look.

Now two Hollywood men have come out against the Internet. We can expect our favorite blogs and picture forums to be shut down soon. First Harrison Ford bemoaned the fact that he can be quoted and mocked online by anyone, effectively multiplying the power of the gossip rags exponentially.

Now George Clooney is amazed that Gawker had the idea to merge celebrity sightings with Google maps, cutting out a single step for rabid fans. Clooney is advocating what is indeed already going on - that people send fake celebrity sightings to Gawker, which of course has no way to verify them:

That’s right, Georgey, use the Internet to fight the Internet.

The NY Post notes that Gawker had a lot of sightings yesterday, which may suggest that Clooney’s plan to foil the popular Gawker Stalker maps is working. Damn him.