Johnny Depp is reason enough for many people to look forward to a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  He’s classic as Captain Jack Sparrow and men, women and children will sit through a barely adequate script just to watch Depp become the charismatic pirate.  Now rumor has it there may be two more reasons to anticipate the upcoming Pirates movie.  Jack may have a brother, and Tim Burton may be directing!

Our proven informant (who we’re forced to keep anonymous) wants you to know the following info should be taken with a “grain of salt and a dose of pepper,” things are still in motion, but here goes anyway. Wondering how they’re going to make a whole Pirates movie with just Jack Sparrow? Or who else might return? Read on!

Most excitingly, there are talks of Captain Jack having a brother in the next movie, possibly to be played by Sacha Baron Cohen (perfect!) or Russell Brand (even more perfect!) Of course, that’s probably just fantasy casting, but why would either of those comedians turn the role down? As we’ve mentioned before, the new movie might kick off a trilogy, which would revolve around Captain Jack’s search for the Fountain of Youth.

Geoffrey Rush and director Gore Verbinski are apparently both planning to return, but… and this is a big maybe… Tim Burton might direct instead. Tim Burton! If there is a single director who could make people excited for a fourth Pirates movie, it has to be Burton.

[From CinemaBlend.com]

Russell Brand and Johnny Depp could be magic.  They have a general resemblance, especially with the eye makeup.  They’re both fearless and could certainly dial up the comedy playing off each other.  My personal preference would definitely be Brand over Sacha Baron Cohen.  It goes without saying that Geoffrey Rush is essential to any sequel, but it might be time for Verbinski to consider other projects and let new blood take over the Pirates franchise.  I think most people agree that the movies’ magnetic charm has weakened as the series has progressed.

Depp and Burton have proven time and time again how well they work together.  Tim Burton is a prolific hit movie maker and has capably handled everything from stop-motion animation to musicals.  He brings a depth of color and scenery to his movies that would serve him well in a Pirates movie, too.  If anyone could make a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie truely interesting again, beyond Depp and Rush, it’s Burton.

Header photo is of Burton and Depp at the Sweeney Todd premiere in Paris on 1/16/08. Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos. Photos below are of Burton on 1/23/08 speaking to fans in Rome Credit: Insidefoto / PR Photos

Wow, that Lynne Spears sure was smart to go running to OK! Magazine when she learned her 16-year-old daughter was pregnant. Since then, Jamie Lynn has been able to nab two more covers of the celeb-friendly magazine: the first one to premiere her baby with fiance Casey Aldridge, Maddie, and the latest to combat all the stories about Casey’s serial cheating. Jamie Lynne and Casey are on next week’s cover, looking like the perfect, airbrushed couple, to “set the record straight” about Casey’s alleged extracurricular activities.

In a rare, exclusive interview, new parents Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge have reached out to OK! to defend themselves and their relationship against the tidal wave of rumor that has nagged them since the June 19 birth of their adorable baby daughter, Maddie Briann.

A recent series of scurrilous tabloid stories have alleged that not only has 19-year-old Casey been unfaithful to Jamie Lynn, but that he’s also gotten another woman pregnant. The stories insist that the couple’s relationship is a sham and that he is still seeing other girls!

On the topic of former friend Kelli Dawson, who claims to have been romantically involved with Casey, even after Maddie’s birth, he tells OK! these allegations of infidelity are “not the least bit” true.

“In a small town, everybody knows everybody,” he explains. “But when money’s involved, you find out who your friends are.”

As for reports he impregnated Kelli, a stunned Casey told OK!, “That’s news to me.”

“That is just completely fabricated,” adds Jamie Lynn. “He never had an intimate relationship with her, so how would that be possible? Around here, that particular girl is known to make up stories.”

And then there’s Whitney Seals, who supposedly romanced Casey. Says Jamie Lynn, “What happened was that one of those girls did it, and in this small town when one of them does it, they’re all like, ‘Good idea.’ They all jumped on the bandwagon.”

The tall tales have taken their toll on the young parents. “It hurt me to hear those things,” reveals Jamie Lynn to OK!. “Because my family has to read it. It’s not fair to them.”

Another factor making things worse is that the Aldridge family has been thrust unwillingly into the spotlight. “Casey’s family is not used to this,” the former Zoey 101 star explains. “They might assume it’s true. My family knows it’s not. It was definitely harder for Casey’s family to deal with it, but you just explain that it is part of this business.”

The new mom says that her family has stood beside her through the entire ordeal. “They know if I were in a relationship like that, I wouldn’t put up with it,” she tells OK!. “My family supports me, and they support Casey also. They read those stories and take them with a grain of salt.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Notice how Jamie Lynn does most of the talking here - which is odd, considering the rumors are all about Casey. And rather than presenting some concrete proof, the couple just categorically denies everything and calls these other women liars. “That’s news to me,” isn’t exactly an iron-clad alibi - especially when the girl, Kelli Dawson, supplied intimate photos of herself with Casey and could name specific days and locations where she and Casey would meet up. To me, this whole interview rings false- if there’s nothing there but complete fabrication, then Jamie Lynn and Casey should have easily been able to prove it. Perhaps they would have done themselves a greater service to stay silent.

Paris Hilton is so empty and useless and transparent that she’s really getting to the point where she’s starting to put her safety at risk. Why? Because I find her so annoying that my blood boils over when she dares to even speak. Nothing worthwhile or even new ever comes out of her mouth. It’s just the same old empty crap. All she’s been able to talk about since kinda/sorta/not really best friend Nicole Richie got pregnant is how much she wants to have babies; what a great mom she’s going to be; how much she loves kids, etc.

Oh, and how it’s all just around the corner for her.

However she’s still dating Benji Madden and their relationship doesn’t seem to be moving forward at all. They got pretty serious pretty quickly, and it’s like they moved to level six on the dating scale and just stopped. Paris is still doing absolutely nothing but partying way too often and drinking way too much. Yet she seems to think as long as she keeps telling People and Us about how much she wants kids, she’ll magically get them and be a great mother overnight.

Even while sipping Grey Goose out at a club, Paris Hilton has babies on the brain.

“I definitely want three or four [children],” she told PEOPLE in Las Vegas Saturday night, while partying at Pure Nightclub for her sister’s birthday.

As for a timeline? “Soon,” she said. “Maybe a year or two.”

In the meantime, she’s just enjoying domestic life with beau Benji Madden. “We just had our 7 month anniversary,” she gushed. “We are just so happy.”

[From People]

Seven months? That’s practically fifty years. I’m sure Benji loves that Paris has practically settled down and popped out four kids without his ever saying or doing a whole lot to indicate he was interested in her as anything more than an extended booty call. It’s probably time for Paris to shut her mouth and either make good on this kid threat or find something else to talk about.

Here’s Paris and Benji (along with Paris’ parents) celebrating sister Nicky’s birthday at Pure nightclub in Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino on Saturday. Images thanks to WENN.

Now that her relationship with director Robert Rodriguez is finito, actress Rose McGowan isn’t going to be playing the Jane Fonda role in his remake of Barbarella. In fact, she’s now being tapped to play famed porn star Linda Lovelace in a new biopic. The part has been passed around to some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Angelina Jolie. Most recently, “House Bunny” actress Ana Faris had been offered the role and turned it down. Looks like Rose got the high visibility she needed out of her roles in Rodriguez’ “Grindhouse” films.

Could Rose McGowan wind up getting deep?

The talented, beautiful star of “Planet Terror” from the Robert Rodriguez part of “Grindhouse” and TV’s “Charmed” is considering joining the cast of “Inferno,” producer Brian Grazer’s film about legendary “Deep Throat” star Linda Lovelace.

I’m told that already cast are Bill Pullman as Hugh Hefner and Josh Lucas as Linda’s husband, Chuck Traynor, the one who got her into porn. First time writer-director Matthew Wilder will direct from his own script. I’m pretty sure he’s not the same Matthew Wilder who sang, “Nobody’s gonna break my stride…”

“Inferno” isn’t the first attempt at telling the story of the famed Deep Throat star. In past years, both Angelina Jolie and Meg Ryan were mentioned as being interested in the role.

The movie won’t just be about Deep Throat. Lovelace’s life was full of ups and downs. Born Linda Boreman, she wrote two bestselling memoirs, “Ordeal,” and “Out of Bondage.”

According to one bio, after Linda made “Deep Throat” in 1974, she became a feminist. She joined up with Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and testified before Attorney General Ed Meese’s Commission on Pornography in 1986. Lovelace died in Denver on April 22, 2002, due to severe injuries in a car accident.

McGowan, meantime, is deservedly busy. She just filmed a bunch of episodes of “Nip/Tuck” and has three or four film projects ready to go since breaking up with Rodriguez. A planned remake of “Barbarella,” however, has thankfully been scotched.

[From Fox News]

Brian Grazer is a very powerful TV and film producer, with such credits at TV’s “Arrested Development,” “24″ and “Friday Night Lights” and films like “A Beautiful Mind” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” If he’s putting his considerable weight behind this film, it stands a good chance of being made- and being a hit. This role could make Rose McGowan an A-list status actress if she pulls it off. Playing a porn star sure boosted Mark Wahlberg’s career - it’s not out of the realm of possibilities. But the question is: will she put the moves on her director again?

Rose McGowan and her geek glasses are shown out to dinner at Madeo on 10/3/08. Credit: The Media Circuit/ Fame Pictures

Actress Halle Berry and her yummy boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, are enjoying parenthood with their daughter Nahla so much, they’re going to try it again. Aubry revealed in an interview that he and Halle are currently working on baby number two. Lucky girl!

Newborn Nahla Ariela Aubry may have a little sib soon.

Halle Berry’s beau Gabriel Aubry tells Usmagazine.com that he and the 41-year-old actress are trying to have another baby.

“Yeah, we are working on that!” he told Us at Elle magazine’s 15th Annual Women in Hollywood event in Beverly Hills, where Berry was honored on Monday.

Despite wanting to expand their family, Aubry said, “We have no plans for marriage. We are more married than ever, really.” (After two failed marriages, Berry has famously vowed to never wed again.)

Since welcoming their daughter in March, Aubry said he is amazed at how the actress has embraced motherhood.

“I mean, look at her - she is unbelievable!” he told Us. “She is the best mom that anybody could ask for — or wish for!”

As for Nahla?

“She is on the verge of walking,” Aubry said. “She is walking with assistance, let’s just put it that way.”

“I had no expectations so everything is a surprise,” Aubry told Us of fatherhood. “There is no best part. Everything is amazing!”

[From Us Weekly]

Wow- Nahla is already trying to walk! These two are going to have their hands full with a little daredevil, I bet. Anyway, this news sure puts to rest all the Internet rumors that the couple broke up- sounds like they are very much together. I get the impression that they try to keep their relationship out of the papers as much as possible. They don’t go out together all that often, and when they talk about their private lives, they mostly speak about the baby and that’s it.

Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry are shown at Elle’s “Women in Hollywood Event” on 10/6/08. Credit : Nikki Nelson/ WENN. There are also some photos of Berry at the park with her mom and baby Nahla on 9/26/08. Credit: WENN

The McCain/Palin campaign is discussing the best way to rebut the ever increasing popularity of Tina Fey’s spot on performance of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.  Advisors to the ticket are split on the prospect of Palin actually going on the show, but the VP candidate, herself, wants to follow in the steps of all the latest political contenders and make a late night appearance.

As the comedian’s impressions of the GOP vice presidential candidate draw laughs from Republicans and Democrats alike, a top honcho from the John McCain campaign tells me there’s a debate going on about how to respond.

Some key McCain staffers are content with Palin joking about the “SNL” routines on the campaign trail — as when she scribbled “I’m not Tina Fey” on a supporter’s cell phone and said she’d dressed as Fey on Halloween. But others — including the governor herself — think a return punch on the NBC airwaves is what’s needed.

[From the Chicago Sun Times]

Palin is talking about spoofing Fey’s American Express commercials, which won’t be easy as they’re pretty much Tina Fey spoofing Tina Fey, anyway.  It’ll be interesting to see what Sarah can do in this genre.  Hillary Clinton more than pulled it off with Amy Poehler, and McCain did a pretty funny skit last season about releasing an album.  Barack Obama was scheduled to appear on the season opener this year but cancelled due to Ike, so his only appearance was a short Halloween party sketch last year that was really short, and not all that funny.

Sarah Palin takes herself pretty seriously, so it’s not a surprise that she’s talking about hitting back.  I’m just not sure she’ll be able to send someone up and come off likable and good natured with it.  She’s good at mocking people, but it’s not usually in true good humor.  There’s no doubt she’ll do it with a smile on her face, and a wink of her eye, though.

This coming Saturday’s SNL will be a repeat, but they have a political primetime special airing this Thursday.  That would be the optimum opportunity for Palin to do her best Fey, but there are only a couple live show left before the election.

Both Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have managed to handle themselves with a lot of grace regarding their marriage and divorce. Though they did eventually discuss some of their deeper disappointments, neither of them did it in a salacious or defamatory way. They also seem to have been very gracious and congratulatory with each other when they moved on to new phases in their lives: getting remarried, having new children, etc.

Nicole was recently asked by Elle magazine about her relationship with husband Keith Urban. Said that she never dreamed that she’d meet someone that she felt something deeper for with than she felt for Tom, but she did. She also said Tom has that same deeper connection with Katie.

“I didn’t foresee it, that you can meet somebody who you have a deep and more profound love with,” the actress - who divorced Tom Cruise in 2001 - tells November’s Elle.

“I don’t mean to take away anything with Tom, but I would hope that he has the same thing - I know he has the same thing with Katie,” Kidman adds. “You move into a stage where you’re able to be a more fuller [sic] person in your relationship.”

She continues, “I want to be really careful with that because I don’t want to take away from 11 years with that man that were really important. Really, for our kids — they were amidst a lot of love. It wasn’t bad. And now we’re amidst a more evolved love.”

Does she have any regrets about marrying Cruise at the young age of 22?

“Um, no. Would I want my kids to get married at that age? No!” Kidman says. “But that was an extraordinary thing for me. [Tom] taught me an enormous amount — as a girl into a woman. Absolutely, I would do it again.”

[From Us Weekly]

It’s interesting that there clearly isn’t the same level of interest in Nicole and Keith’s relationship as there is in Tom and Katie’s. Almost every article that talked about this headline was titled something like “Nicole Kidman: Tom Has a “More Profound” Love With Katie Holmes.” Which is technically what she said, but completely misses the context. But Tom and Katie probably sell more because their relationship confuses and intrigues people. Though Nicole and Keith seem a little unusual, they don’t seem whacky by any stretch. Tom and Katie’s relationship seems so superficial – at least the part that they show to the rest of the world – that you’re just left sitting there befuddled, trying to figure it all out.

Nicole also talks about giving birth for the first time at 41 and the ways it’s different to be a mother at this age than when she was younger. The way she puts it, it sounds like there’s a lot more anxiety for her now, and like she actually feels more intensely about motherhood.

On becoming a mother later in life:
“At 41, it’s a more painful love. I look at that little girl, and I’m, like, Oh, no, what’s going to happen? It’s almost like my heart is stretching; I’m feeling all these muscles stretch with emotion. It’s a beautiful love but there’s a lot of fear and pain for her life, and for Bella’s and Connor’s life. I like to believe that nothing was stopping Sunday from coming into the world.”

On natural childbirth:
“It was the most beautiful thing to go through with him [husband Keith Urban]. I had a great team of women, too. At one point there were nine women in the room and Keith.”

[From the Huffington Post]

Nicole seems to have to catch herself every so often and include Conner and Isabella in her statements. In the one above, it sort of seems like they’re added in there as an afterthought.

Nicole pays the ultimate compliment to Keith in the article, saying, “‘He’s the greatest man besides my dad I’ve ever met,’ the actress says. ‘He’s loyal and he’s a soul searcher.’” It sounds like they’re clearly a much better fit for each other, and have an entirely different kind of love than Nicole ever had with Tom. If nothing else, it seems like they’re both really happy in their lives and their families.

Here’s Nicole and Keith stopping for coffee in Nashville on Saturday. Images thanks to Fame.

Matt Damon crossed the finish line in the Escape to Miami Triathalon as part of a team of three on Sunday.  Encouraged to participate to get into shape for his next movie by his brother, Kyle, Damon finished his 6.2 mile portion of the race in just under an hour.  Kyle Damon, who is training for the Ironman competition, finished the entire triathalon in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 40 seconds in 27th place.  Matt’s relay team, which included his stepfather and a family friend, both experienced swimmers and bikers, finished in 2 hours, 40 mintues and 56 seconds and his stepfather called Damon the team’s “weakest link.”

“I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me,” he joked.

Damon got into the race, he said, because, “‘I was doing this movie this summer The Informant where I had to put on all this weight, and my brother told me, ‘October 5, save the date.’ ”

Besides, he said, ”I’ve got to get in shape for the next thing I’m doing.”

[From People]

People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive got very unsexy for his recent role in The Informant where he played FBI informant Mark Whitacre.  Damon put on alot of weight and facial hair, the latter of which made him look eerily like Ned Flanders, and while the glasses and overstimulated mustache came off easily, the weight takes a little more work.  A fourth Bourne movie is rumored to start filming in the next year and Jason Bourne isn’t carrying any extra weight.  I’m still convinced Jason Bourne was really the Sexiest Man Alive, Damon just got it by default.

Though Matt and his family live in Miami, no one was expecting the Oscar-winning Damon brother to be running the last leg of the race, so the finish line observers were surprised to see the movie star.  Other runners were also a little star struck.

”I think I need to start running right now, too,” shouted competitor Maria Jimena Neveda as she watched Damon sprint out of the ”transition” area where Hetherington passed off the team’s ankle monitor to the star.

Damon spent a few minutes before his run posing for pictures with Neveda and her friends.

”I wish I could be running after him,” she said.

[From the Miami Herald]

Matt was met at the finish line by his wife, Luciana, and their new daughter, Gia, so it all would have been for naught, Maria.  Matt Damon would be a hell of a carrot on the end of a stick to chase to the finish line, though.

Matt Damon is shown arriving in NY on 9/26/08. Credit: DAVID KRIEGER/bauergriffinonline.com. He is also shown at the Clinton Global Initiative later that day. Credit: L. Gallo / WENN

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Troubled-celebrity predators, the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Centre, have made contact with the very troubled Amy Winehouse to try and bring her into the fold and rehab her through their Narconon program.  Winehouse recently said that she couldn’t continue living like she was and that appears to have been the COS cue to swoop in.

Amy has told mates she received a “welcoming” phone call from the religious sect’s “celebrity centre” in LA.

My spies tell me she’s now seriously considering joining Hollywood stars including Tom Cruise, Katy Holmes, John Travolta and Juliette Lewis.

I’m told the church recommended their Narconon drugs programme, which they claim has helped hundreds of addicts kick their habits.

One of Amy’s inner circle tells me: “She had a call from the celebrity branch of the Church Of Scientology. She thinks they got her number through one of the American music producers who worked on her Back to Black album.

“They told her they wanted to help her beat drugs and could tailor-make a programme so she wouldn’t have to go to a residential centre. She liked that idea because her husband Blake is out of prison soon and wouldn’t want to be away from him when he’s finally freed.”

[From Mirror.co.uk]

It wouldn’t surprise me if Amy was receptive to the phone call.  As much as people around her might say they want her to get help, no one has actually done anything to get it for her.  She’s clearly in a desperate state and after her collapse at her God-daughter’s singing debut she admitted that “Life can’t go on.  I can’t do this anymore.”

The Scientologists have done their homework.  Telling Amy she could get clean without having to leave the comfort of home, and her Blake, any more than the occasional visit to their rehab facility in Hastings, E Sussex plays right into her never-waning need to have her pipe and smoke it, too.  It doesn’t take a psychology degree to see that Winehouse suffers from low self-esteem and problems with authority.  This is exactly the kind of person L. Ron designed his cult to prey on, rich and idle, with psychological issues who feel the need to be told that nothing is really their fault, it’s all the thetans. 

Amy needs help, but I don’t think it’s a permanent “best friend” appointed by the COS, Tom Cruise’s sister doing her PR, or Kirstie Alley going to dinner with her, although, that could certainly help in one way.  If we see Oprah coming to have a cozy, sit down interview with her in the country home she wants to buy with Blake, we’ll know we lost her.

Amy Winehouse is shown at The ‘End of Summer Ball’ charity event in Berkeley Square, London on 9/25/08. This was the night she “ruined her goddaughter’s debut singing performance.” Credit: Gabor Scott /WENN