Halle Berry is set to shave her head for an upcoming film role, in ‘Nappily Ever After’.

The star plays a woman whose hair is starting to fall out, so she decides to shave it all. Afterward, she must deal with people’s perceptions of who she is and how her hair defined her.

Berry said her character “is forced to look at what beauty is, and it comes from inside.”

“I still struggle with this hair issue,” she said. “I’m going to get the lesson on film, and hopefully other women will get it, too.”

Halle is hardly the first actress to shave her head for a role - Demi Moore and Natalie Portman have both shed their curls for publicity. After all, it’s hardly compulsory in this day and age in make-up.

Perhaps this is an attempt to follow Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman to Oscars glory - both actresses underwent physical transformations in their winning roles, for ‘Monster’ and ‘The Hours’ respectively.

Halle’s last few roles following ‘Monster’s Ball’ haven’t set the tone for winning - ‘Catwoman’ notable for winning her a worst actress award at the Razzies. Halle showed good grace and was the first actress ever to receive the award in person.

“You guys,” she said, as if overcome with emotion, “thank you so much. I never in my life thought I would be up here. It’s not like I ever aspired to be here.” She then held up her Oscar. “And no,” she insisted, “I don’t have to give this back. It has my name on it.”

Maintaining her straight face, and outfitted in a dazzling long, brown silk gown (similar yet less grand than what she wore on her big Oscar night), Berry went on to say: “I have so many people to thank, because you don’t win a Razzie without a lot of help from others.”

Among those she acknowledged: “Warner Bros., for putting me in a godawful piece of s— movie.” She also brought her manager out on stage. “Next time,” she advised him, “read the script.”

Perhaps things are looking up for Halle, earlier this week she was awarded a belated star on the Walk of Fame, and seems really comfortable in her own skin, declaring she will never get married again, and openly admitting to suicide attempts.

Halle is also a spokeswoman for Revlon, so maybe she just knows what we all suspect - she’s going to look beautiful with or without her hair.

Here’s Berry getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [via]

I thought it was a bad idea when Russell Crowe was allowed to have one…

Kevin’s Music LLC, the company Costner owns which represents The Kevin Costner Band (ego trip, anyone?), filed a breach of contract suit Tuesday against Mahee Worldwide Ventures, Inc. for failing to promote his band.

Here’s the summary from E! News Online:

Despite their “numerous promises regarding their capability to promote Mr. Costner’s music,” Mahee Worldwide “ultimately disappeared, refusing to cooperate or even to communicate with KML and its representatives,” court documents, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, state.

KML alleges in the suit that Mahee Worldwide approached Costner in December 2006 and offered “millions of dollars in guaranteed fees” if the promoters could capitalize on the Oscar winner’s celebrity to set up a multifaceted promotional campaign for his musically oriented side project—a campaign that both parties were ostensibly supposed to cash in on.

Per the complaint, the two sides inked a two-year deal on Jan. 25, 2007, calling for Mahee Worldwide to plug the group through various Websites and mobile content, create a site specifically for the Kevin Costner Band, and organize up to five concerts per year featuring the actor and his mates.

Citing Lindsay Lohan as a previously satisfied customer, Mahee Worldwide promised KML 85 percent of revenues from the proposed “Costner Music Website”; 50 percent of the dough gleaned from cobranding sites; $160,000 per concert and several other guaranteed lump sums, the lawsuit states.

Costner’s company is asking for $8.5 million in damages and unapid fees. Costner is credited for singing that unknown hit “You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice” off his (Razzie) award winning film, The Postman.

Judging from what I have seen of this YouTube clip, Mahee Worldwide did the world a favor. The clip is of Costner performing his song called “Porch Song”, performed at The Field of Dreams site (man, this guy loves himself) and he dedicated to all the “mommies out there, and the girls who are going to be mommies”.

I’m a “mommie”–I would die if this song were ever dedicated to me.

Joe Francis is defying U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak’s decision to make him serve time for contempt of court charges by calling Smoak a “judge gone wild”.

Gee, Francis is original with his catchphrases, isn’t he?

Here’s a re-cap from The New York Post website:

The 34-year-old Francis, who makes an estimated $29 million a year through the videos of girls exposing their breasts, drew the contempt order Wednesday after lawyers for the women said Francis threatened them during negotiations.

Francis told The Associated Press late Thursday that Smoak “had lost his mind.”

“This judge has gone as far as to call me the devil and an evildoer,” he said. “It is a case of a judge gone wild.”

Francis’ attorneys appealed the order that would send him to jail; the court had not issued an opinion Thursday evening. Smoak denied a request by Francis to stay the order pending the appeal.

My question is this: Why wasn’t Francis placed on citizens arrest right then and there when they found him, instead of allowing him to go free so he can continue being generally obnoxious? He can breach court orders and insult judges via the media, refuse to turn himself in to the court, and just go about his day as per usual!

That’s the kind of freedom having loads of cash and being a celebrity can buy you. I wish I had that kind of leniency when the Transport for London were hunting me down for failing to pay my £10 ($20) congestion charge when I drove through London a while back.

Update by Celebitchy: Many of you have mentioned Claire Hoffman’s August, 2006 profile of Francis in the LA Times. She details an incident in which Francis plied an 18 year-old virgin with alcohol and then raped her on his tour bus. When Francis learned that Hoffman’s article would not be favorable toward him he made accusations to her editor that she tried to hit on him and then threatened her repeatedly. Multiple counts of abuse have been levied against Francis, who seems to threaten and intimidate anyone that he has a slight beef against. He’s a cunning manipulator and can turn violent quickly, according to the journalist, who talks about how he tried to get her to kiss him at one point but assaulted her, pressing her face up against the hood of a car while holding her hands behind her back, at another.

Pictures from Chicagoist, and Radar Online.

Is a pre-baby wedding in Naomi Watts and Liev Schrieber’s future? Watts is pregnant with the cute couple’s first child and word is that they’re planning a small wedding in her native Australia and will follow up with a big bash in the US after the baby arrives:

NAOMI Watts and her boyfriend, Liev Schreiber, have decided they don’t want their unborn child to be illegitimate. The couple once planned to marry after their first child is born. But now Watts wants to tie the knot with Schreiber, 39, before she gives birth in late summer. “There’s not enough time to plan a big wedding,” an insider told In Touch. “They’ll have just 25 guests for the nuptials in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, with a lavish wedding reception for all their stateside friends after the baby is born.” Watts’ rep declined comment.

Liev, 39, confirmed his girlfriend Naomi Watts, 38, is pregnant on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in late February. He made jokes that he was useless around the house and said that Naomi wanted to “party” since she got pregnant. (Thanks Millie!) Naomi was definitely showing at the Academy Awards, and they must have figured it was time to make an announcement.

I hope these two do get married - not that they have to if they’re having a baby. They make a cute couple and it’s been fun to see them become more comfortable going public with their relationship.

Watts is set to star in a new film about exotic animal training which will be a romantic comedy.

Thanks to Socialite’s Life for the header picture, taken in mid-March. Naomi is also shown in a recent bump picture, found at People.

Anna Nicole Smith’s scrawled diaries are on the auction block. Two tomes filled with giant childish writing and drab grammatically challenged accounts of her daily concerns from 1992 and 1994 are expected to fetch $50,000 to $100,000 at auction. These are the same diaries that were owned before her death by an LA memorabilia shop andwent for 1/2 a million to a German collector, who is said to have sold them to the auction company.

The auction house, Heritage Auctions, which describes itself as “The World’s Largest Collectibles Auctioneer” has the journals. This kind of shows how stupid celebrity worship can get, although I have to admit that I got a perverse pleasure out of reading them, which is surely what sellers are banking on.

Anna goes on about how she’s hung over, talks about her messy house and need to diet, and uses the diary like a friend to talk to, saying goodbye and that she’ll talk later. She adds a little smilie face at the end of each entry that details her mood. She seemed to geniunely love her octogenarian billionaire husband, whose health was failing. In a 1994 entry she called on Jesus to help her get through his illness and said she didn’t know what she’d do if she lost him, which was inevitable soon:

Jesus loves you yes he does Jesus love me to. He looks from up above at me and you… My husbands [J. Howard Marshall] very sick and weak, Theres nothing I can do I want each hour to comfort him with medicines and prayers… When you touch him Im afraid he might break… Sometimes he tries to smile and give me such hope, he a fighter and I believe he can make it…If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I’ll do. I love him so much… I wish Pierce [Marshall's son] would stay out of our lives and let us be…He took all the money away from me would not pay my bills… they should have never let him out of the hospital with namonia…God I just love him so… Sometimes I think of awlful things like hes going to die…I dont think I would be stable enough to go to his funeral if he died… I need some support and I have none. But I do have Jesus and my Director is comming down to support me. He’s the one who brought me back to Jesus… I can’t dare sleep cause he will pull out that breathing tube. No one else stays here but a few minutes. But im his wife and I want to be here… Ive cried so much I dont have any tears… My husbands much better…I believe hill live to a hundred and 10 and still keep fighting untill the End… My husband has had a miracle. Jesus let him stay he new he shouldnt take him away… I’d die for him hes so precious to me… I am now devoted for life to Jesus…”

That Jesus business seemed to have been short-lived.

Other entries in the diary detail the beginning of her relationship with Guess head Paul Marciano and her struggle with her weight:

Smith, whose real name is Vickie Lynn Smith, noted — in a very freeform style — the beginning of her relationship with Paul Marciano, CEO of Guess Inc., where she eventually replaced Claudia Schiffer in the company’s jeans advertisements.
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“O my Gosh!! Paul Marsiano called today to see if I got his books also I’m gonna go to San Antonio to do photo shoot,” she wrote on June 23, 1992. “I’m so excited!! I can’t believe this. This could be it.” The entry ends with five hand-drawn smiley faces.

Two days later she details a trip to a Nieman Marcus store where she bought $3,000 worth of clothing.

“I’m so happy they look great,” she wrote. “I hope it empresses Paul Marsiano. … I’m starving!! I’ve been starving myself.”

By August, Smith revealed a disdain for eating and sex, and growing frustration with Marshall, who was 63 years older than Smith. The two married in 1994.

“I’ve been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can’t quit eating. I feel like a pig. Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes,” she wrote. “I don’t no what to do about Paul hes strange guy. I hate for men to want sex all the time.”

The entry ends with a large underlined “Chow!”

In these samples from her diaries, which I painstakingly pieced together from the zoom on the smaller flash versions available on the auctioneer’s website, you can see that her handwriting is kind of quick and sloppy, and looks like a messier version of Paris Hilton’s writing, as seen in the diaries unearthed on the Paris Exposed site.

Other meaningless personal effects of Annas at auction include a 1992 check she wrote to FedEx with a cutesy puppy print, a reminder note she wrote to herself, a 1992 Bloomgindale’s receipt for $17,000 and her Texas ID card, which expired in 1994.

Here are excerpts from Anna’s Diaries.

And here is Anna in 1993 as the voluptuous face of Guess jeans. Thanks to marlies84 on Oh No They Didn’t! for finding these.

Penelope Cruz and her sister Monica are set to design a line of clothing together for cheap retail outlet Mango in Spain. The article says it’s the Spanish equivalent of H&M, but I’ve also seen that chain in Germany. It’s one of those stores that’s full of cheaply made clothes that teens and 20-somethings would wear out. I’ve tried a few things on, but it’s always in vain beause they didn’t fit well and seemed made for stick figures and/or girls who don’t mind wearing super-tight revealing clothing.

Time to add another celebrity designer to the mix. It was announced Wednesday that Penelope Cruz and her 25-year-old sister Monica will design a 25-piece collection for Mango, the Spanish equivalent to H&M.

Not ones to remain backstage, the Spanish beauties will also be the faces of the company’s fall-winter campaign. But what most don’t know is that this not a freshman effort for the acting sisters - they already design a collection of jewelry and handbags for Samantha Thavasa, as well as own a store, Amarcord, in Madrid’s Salamanca area.

I guess it might not turn out so bad. I’m not a fan of H&M, either. To me those are the type of clothes that always look better on the hanger and end up being dissappointing one you try them on.

Header picture of Penelope and Monica, who UrbanDK says “has a touch of the Eva Longoria gone right about her” from their appearance at the premiere of Monica’s movie The Inquiry at the end of February. Monica Cruz, 30, is an actress and is well known in her native Spain. Thanks to PopSugar for this picture.

FOX News Online is running a piece on Britney Spears in which it says she can’t stand her manager, Larry Rudolph. Larry Rudolph was her manager for a decade up until October 2004, and it’s thought she re-signed her contract with him at about the time she split up with K-Fed.

Spears, for example, has been telling friends that she “hates” Rudolph and never intended to sign with him again after leaving his orbit in October 2004. That’s when Spears severed her relations with Rudolph after nearly a decade.

But then, when Spears went off the deep end last year following her separation from the infamously impaired Kevin Federline, Rudolph stepped in and got Spears’s name back on the dotted line.

“She signed a five year contract with him,” says a source. “She says she didn’t know what she was doing at the time, and can’t stand him. But what can she do? Bring in a lawyer and say she signed under duress? That she was drunk or stoned?”

The article proceeds to go on about how they attempted to contact a rep for Spears for any comment, but both her lawyer and Rudolph were unavailable for comment:

If Spears did want to call a lawyer then the next question is, who would that be? Her music business legal rep, Gary Stiffelman, didn’t return calls yesterday. I speak for a moment to her high-powered Hollywood divorce attorney Laura Wasser, wife of Dennis Wasser, who only said, “I can’t discuss anything.”

Rudolph also didn’t return calls yesterday. His ReignDeer Management company has a telephone voice answering system that doesn’t work. More curious: His Myspace.com page features another artist, not Britney, whom I guess he’s representing now.

Spears also has no proper publicist in place. Leslie Sloane-Zelnick, who got her through years of scandals, is off the case. Spears’ record company publicist, Gina Orr, doesn’t respond to emails or calls.

It doesn’t seem that Britney is getting proper guidance at the moment, and this is not good news for a recovering star who had a very public nervous breakdown, got out of rehab, and is looking to relauch her name on the music scene. She needs to stop spending her money on going out and buying bad wigs and invest it in people who can actually help her get her personal and professional life back on track.

If she does hate Rudolph that much and wants to get out of their contract that badly, maybe she can use the same excuse she used to annul her 55-hour marriage?

Picture is from news.xinhuanet.com

- Easter candy porn [The Evil Beet]
- Fug Kirsten Dunst making an Easter basket [I'm Not Obsessed]
- Entertainment Tonight celebrates Dannielynn’s first Easter. Do you think they should move on now? [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Melanie B named her baby - get this - Fortuna Daphne Bay! [Rhymes with Snitch]
- David Beckham doesn’t shake dry [Agent Bedhead]
- Lauren Conrad of The Hills says there’s no sex tape that exists because she thinks she destroyed it [DListed]
- Gemma Atkinson in Loaded Magazine [The Grumpiest]
- 50 Cent disses the “Je-Je-Je-Jews” that presumably charge him for legal assistance when he gets into trouble for beating the shit out of people [yeeeah]
- Taryn Manning never got paid for Hustle and Flow [ICYDK]
- George Michael is in Texas [Mollygood]
- Star Jones still trying to score freebies [Celebslam]
- Pete Wentz tries to raise awareness of depression [Buzznet]
- Kate Moss is so pretty [CelebWarship]
- Scarlett Johansson is coy about if she’s still with Justin Timberlake, kind of suggests she’s not [Socialite's Life]
- Lots of dumb ass new movies are coming out, because they do well at the box office [Pajiba]
- Tori Spelling, her houseboy and their new baby Liam [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Has been Tiffani Thiessen still looks good [Bastardly]

British paper The Sun is reporting the Britney had lipo, but they seem to have just picked up paparazzi photo agency X17’s speculative story that Britney went AWOL in Las Vegas with just enough time to get a little treatment done on her problem areas. X17 says she didn’t have actual lipo, though, just a lipo-like treatment that tries to dissolve fat using an injected solution. It doesn’t sound as invasive as regular liposuction. This isn’t a known fact, Britney was just seen visiting a clinic that specializes in lipo-light:

Here’s what X17 had to say about it:

Sources tell us that last Saturday, Britney went to Vegas and stayed just long enough to get some lipo done! But this wasn’t some ordinary fat-sucking expedition; apparently Britney was spotted coming out of a clinic offering the (pardon the pun) hip new treatment LipoDissolve, which involves injecting areas where fat has built up with a soybean-derived solution which literally melts the fat right away without the need for surgery!

But The Sun’s re-telling of this story is misleading, and when I first read their brief article I thought it was real liposuction, not just a step up from a spa treatment:

So she decided to Do Somethin’ about it and nipped to see a liposuction specialist in Las Vegas.

The Advanced Lipo Dissolve centre specialises in a non evasive treatment of a series of injections which claim to permanently dissolve fat.

It sounds painful and Britney looked a bit tender as her minder helped her on with her jacket.

Maybe it was the “liposuction specialist” part that threw me. Regardless I’ve never heard of that and would give it a try, if uh, I needed it. I doubt that it’s worth the trouble, though. Real liposuction is painful and has a long recovery period. I always thought if I felt like I needed to get some suction on my fat areas I may as well kick my own ass in the gym for similar results in 4-6 weeks. It’s a lot cheaper and the pain is spread out. That lipo alternative is probably pricey and I doubt it works that well.

Britney was seen out on Easter weekend at a Lakers game and shopping for clothes for herself and her boys. Her kids were said to be at home, but she did not take them out with her and if they had an Easter egg hunt it must have been at Britney’s place.

Thanks to Flynetonline for these pictures of Britney out on Robertson Boulevard. She’s still seeking attention.

Halle Berry isn’t going to be giving another interview to Sunday supplement Parade Magazine any time soon. The Oscar winning actress says she didn’t talk to a journalist about a suicide attempt after her failed first marriage to baseball player David Justice. Parade just repurposed interviews she gave in the past in which she described the incident:

“It wasn’t my wish to go into all of that again in this time of my life. I talked about it on Larry King Live and Oprah when it was relevant, and I felt like it was important to help other women and share it with them,” she says.

“But it’s just not where I am today and I really hate that it’s been presented like it is… I’m in such a great time in my life right now, it wouldn’t be my wish to really revisit that period, but this outlet did and made it seem as if it were current again.”

Catwoman took one more swipe at Parade, saying, “Because I have a movie out, some magazine has sensationalized some old material and it’s not something that I want to talk about. It’s 10 years old and I’m so past it.”

Instead of talking about her suicide attempt, Halle is talking about her online activities to try and drum up interest in her silly Internet-themed thriller with Bruce Willis, Perfect Stranger. She says she sometimes goes into chat rooms to talk to people, and likes to tell them she’s Halle Berry but is quickly shot down, “I have tried, many times, to have a normal conversation when celebrity was not a part of it. Sometimes it works and at others it gets a little weird.” I’m not into chat rooms at all, I mean I was in 1994 when IRC was a big novelty, but I find it annoying now. Perfect Stranger is out in theaters on April 13th.

Here’s Halle headed to a skincare center. The paparazzo who took the picture at Out of Sight Media speculates that she’s covering a pimple.