Here’s the trailer for A Mighty Heart, the movie starring Angelina Jolie as Marianne Pearl, wife of murdered South Asia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl.

A lof of controversy has been made regarding Angelina playing this role, as Marianne Pearl is of mixed race and people thought a mixed race actress should have been picked to play the role. I’ve seen the trailer, and I’m not usually an Angelina fan personally, but she looks rather good in the clip below.

Jennifer Aniston was rumoured to have wanted the part while she was still married to Brad Pitt, but I think the right decision was made when they chose Angelina for this project.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are some stills from the film from AllMoviePhoto. One was also e-mailed to me from the PR company for the film, along with the movie poster, which looks rather amateurish. Maybe that’s what they were going for. There are some more pictures on the official website. (site has automatic music)

Tom Cruise must be upset about the negative reports of his marriage to Katie Holmes, because it looks like he’s whipped out his celebrity friend phonebook and asked his chums to validate his marriage to the media. A lot of the people defending Tom are fellow Scientology members like Leah Remini and Jenna Elfman, but a few are people that Tom has worked with like director J.J. Abrams and Yahoo! mogul Terry Semel.

You know what would make me believe this defensive — if Katie’s parents, friends, or even Katie herself say the stories about her marriage floundering are a bunch of crap. Isn’t it strange that all the naysaying is coming from Cruise’s camp?

Here the excerpt from the article on MSN Enterntainment:

Friends and fellow Scientology members are rallying to the defense of Suri’s rumor-plagued parents in the latest issue of People, which describes their oft-mocked relationship as “shockingly normal.”

According to the mag, members of TomKat’s inner circle are utterly “mystified” by recent headlines questioning not only their commitment to one another but Holmes’ ability to roam freely (see Us Weekly’s cover story, “Her Painful Choice: No Way Out — in love with Tom, but confined by Scientology, a conflicted Katie struggles to find happiness,” and Star’s more succinct, “Divorce!”).

“We’re shocked when we read that stuff,” says Yahoo! mogul Terry Semel. “Kate is bright and has opinions.”

“When you come over, the first thing [Katie] does is say, ‘Are you hungry? Let me make you something,” minutely details Internet mogul and L. Ron Hubbard adherent Sky Dayton. “Tom and Katie will get in the kitchen and make this amazing popcorn with chocolate. Suri is there playing. Kate feeds her a bottle and then Tom feeds her.”

Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible III” director J. J. Abrams doesn’t paint the same scene of domestic bliss and “amazing” snack foods, but he, too, expresses befuddlement over the under-Tom’s-thumb tales, saying of Holmes, “She’s hardly a shrinking violet.”

Meanwhile, longtime Cruise pal Jada Pinkett Smith proclaims that the once bright-eyed starlet, who is often photographed clinging to Cruise’s back like a baby possum, is actually a force to be reckoned with.

“I think everybody has this image: Poor little Kate, she doesn’t have the strength to take care of herself,” rails Jada, who, like Semel and Dayton, uses the Cruise-shortened moniker for his missus (in other words, he took the “I” out of “Katie”). “People don’t know that behind all that grace is a tiger … People think Tom and the Church of Scientology got something on Kate? They don’t. Kate is running her own show.”

Continues Will’s more pint-sized half, “Let me tell you: Kate ain’t no little wimpy kitty cat. It’s not that ball game. For real.”

She goes on to characterize “Kate” as having both “a quiet thunder” and a “quiet power” and gushes that she’s “smart” and “a great mother,” before adding for good measure, “Tom don’t run nothin’ in that house! It is Katie’s house. It’s her world!”

Jada, who declares the TomKat clan “extremely happy,” fumes over how “people want to focus on ‘She’s tied up in the basement and he throws steaks to her at night and she gets to see Suri only on Sundays.’ It’s ridiculous.”

And because no positive Cruise and Holmes spin would be complete without a word from church member Leah Remini, she throws in her two cents on the duo’s domestic bliss (another go-to proselytizing pal, Jenna Elfman, did her part last week, telling People, “They have a great life and they love each other. For some reason, the media cannot experience that.”)

“I really don’t get it,” the “King of Queens” actress tells the magazine. “They’re married, they love each other and have a beautiful baby. They do ‘weird’ things like take care of their kid and go to baseball games.”

But Katie isn’t the only one making compromises, says Jada, who crows about Cruise’s “devotion” to his wife, “and the places he’ll go to make her happy — spiritually, where he will go as a man for his woman.”

Does anyone want to know what places Cruise would go to make his woman happy? I shudder at the thought of that.

Did anyone other than me notice that no one from Dawson’s Creek, Batman Begins, or Mad Money came to Katie’s defense? Joshua Jackson didn’t come out and say that Katie Holmes is a force to be reckon with and that she has Tom whipped, and Christian Bale didn’t read out a statement saying that he believes Katie is deliriously happy being married to Tom (although that being said, Christian Bale can read the back of a Wheaties box and I’d still be happy).

Tom Cruise needs to learn that if he is going to launch a PR defensive like he obviously has now, it would be useful to have your wife’s friends give their two cents about the state of the union for consistency. But maybe that’s the problem — he might not be happy with what they have to say about how they feel about Katie being married to him.

Pamela Anderson is quoted as saying Scarlett Johansson would be her number one choice for a spread in Playboy. Anderson has posed in Playboy 12 times, and she says she’s rooting for Johansson to appear, but doubts she’d do it:

Pamela Anderson… believes the Lost In Translation star would be ideal for Hugh Hefner’s raunchy publication.

She says, “Scarlett Johansson would definitely be my number one choice. But I doubt she would agree to do it.

“On the other hand it’s kind of cool to be on the cover of Playboy, but on the other hand, for many actresses, it’s not at all.”

Johansson doesn’t need to do Playboy. She can just strut her stuff in lingerie and retain some of the mystery.

Johansson has said she’ll do a nude scene in a movie at some point, probably an arty flick. She also appeared semi-nude on the cover of Vanity Fair, covering her breasts and lying on her stomach to reveal her bare butt. Keira Knightley and Tom Ford were also on the magazine, with only Keira undressed.

With all those opportunities to tastefully tease, it’s doubtful she’d ever do Playboy.

Here is Scarlett Johansson at the launch of the Louis Vuitton “Love” collection in New York. I love her hair and makeup. The dress is a little wild for my taste, but she wears it well.

Thanks to Photorazzi for these pics.

Haylie Duff and Kim Kardashian have joined the list of (C-list) celebrities who are using MySpace to have a war of words with each other.

The story goes like this: Haylie wanted to bury the hatchet with Kim over some feud they had going on and asked Kim whether she wanted to hang out with her. Kim agreed, said she was cool with chilling out with Haylie, and added that Paris is a lesbian. Haylie agreed that Paris was doing some muckraking (but refused to be dragged into it herself) and tried to get Kim to agree to hang with her. Kim then went all snotty and called Hayley a slut and a horse. Haylie got mad and called Kim a bitch. Then they had a catfight outside of Parc, pulling out their hair extensions and scratching their eyes out with their fake nails, while Paris watched in the background and laughed like Mutley out of the Wacky Racers (OK, I admit I added that last sentence).

Here are the screen shots from Haylie’s MySpace Blog. She seems to have posted screenshots of their myspace mail from her Mac computer, and added the comment “Stuff like this REALLY PISSES ME OFF. I try to reach out and be nice and instead it just gets shoved back in my face. This is why you should never move to Hollywood, the place is full of arrogant, immature, and offensive bitches who can’t hold their liquor and can’t keep their legs closed.”

Here are screenshots of her blog post in reverse order so you can follow the messages. The first three are the individual messages and the last one is a screenshot of the entire page:

If this is authentic (a lot of MySpace celebrity accounts are created by other people or are just hacked into), then poor Haylie. All she did was try to be nice to Kim, and Kim dissed her for no reason. I hope Hayley isn’t smarting too much about the rejection — it’s not like Kim is known for doing anything other than making a nasty sex tape and being Paris’s BFF.

I hate to admit it, but I have a MySpace account that I am absolutely addicted to. I use it to keep in touch with my family and friends. However, I do not use it to publicly bitch out my frenemies. I find it’s far more effective to scribble nasty things about them on the bathroom wall before gym period.

Update by Celebitchy: The account “KimsaPrincess” that supposedly sent those messages is Kim Kardashian’s official myspace, and has been for some time. It could be a poser as Haylie, but I think this is legitimate as it’s a supposedly official myspace page for her. (Site has automatic music) We’ll have to see. I would bet she removes this post and issues a statement once it’s morning on the west coast.

Thanks to Cindy for e-mailing me this. Jessie picked it up on her own though.

The new issue of Life & Style is set to say that Angelina broke up with Brad. The cover features one of those cheesy torn-looking photos of the two of them side by side and reads “Angie says: ‘It’s Over!’ Why she left Brad. Exclusive: All the intimate breakup details, PLUS, a newly single Angie parties in NYC!”

I sincerely doubt they broke up considering they’re now in Prague while Angelina films her new movie. The two were seen enjoying a romantic dinner together in Prague, and they looked perfectly happy. While those pictures may have been staged, that doesn’t mean they’re having trouble, they could just be responding to the rumors.

Here’s what Life & Style reports:

But Brad Pitt remained in LA with the kids while Angie used the night to party like a single gal, schmoozing with a slew of attractive men, including reported onetime fling Olivier Martinez!

“The whole time Angie was away from Brad, she felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of her shoulders,” says a friend. “She told me, ‘I’m looking forward to having that freedom ”

Soon enough, she will. As Life & Style reports in our cover story this week, Angie recently made a shocking confession to a second friend about her two-year romance with Brad: “It’s over,” she said. “It wasn’t meant to be.”

It sounds like someone is making up shit based on the known news that she was out in New York promoting her new documentary without Brad. Sure she partied with her ex, the recently single Oliver Martinez, but it’s doubtful whether she gave him a lap dance, as US Weekly and we reported, or if she was just dancing and messing around.

A considerably more positive story about the two has Angelina buying Brad a custom made Bucati Ducati motocycle as a romantic gift. Brad was out riding on the bike that day, and the next day they got a suite at a hotel, just the two of them, and spent a few hours of alone time together:

Angelina Jolie found a way to bring the romance back into her relationship with Brad Pitt - by surprising him with a custom-built motorcycle. A friend says that Angelina gave Brad, 43, the bike on the weekend of April 21, and he was seen riding it in LA that same day. “She wanted to do something special for him,” the pal tells In Touch…

On April 22, the couple of two years took some time away from their four children… and checked into a luxury suite at Hollywood’s Roosevelt hotel. “They stayed for a few hours, just the two of them,” says an insider.

[From In Touch print edition, May 7, 2007, via Sammie's Effluvia]

Not that it’s any of our business, technically nothing we gossip about is, but if they’re spending a few hours in a nice hotel suite there’s got to be some loving going on.

These two are busy working parents, and sure they have problems like everyone, but I don’t think they’re breaking up this week. It sure sells a lot of gossip rags to say they are, though.

Colin Farrell was recently on vacation in Italy with his new fellow Irish girlfriend Muireann McDonnell. McDonnell, 21, was working at a gourmet food store near Colin’s hometown of Dublin when she met her old boyfriend, John Marc Knight, a 22 year-old college student who tended bar across the screet.

McDonnell and Knight had already broken up when she met Colin Farrel around Christmas time. In fact Farrell met McDonnell at the very bar where Knight worked. Apparrently the hapless barkeep still had a torch for McDonnell and couldn’t bear to see her happy with a famous star.

Knight killed himself this February, but it was also right after his college exams, so maybe he was depressed for a bunch of different reasons:

John Marc Knight, 22, was said to have been “devastated” when fellow student Muireann McDonnell fell for the Irish film star.

Two months later he committed suicide. Last night stunning brunette Muireann, 21, was said to be still battling to come to terms with the tragedy.

The pair had already split when she met Phone Booth actor Farrell, 30, over Christmas.

Before that she and John had been a “really good couple”, according to friends. One source said: “They’d been going out for some time and gone travelling…

Farrell met Muireann when he went to a party at a bar in Dalkey, near Dublin — opposite the gourmet food store where she worked.

A pal of John’s said: “They must have hit it off immediately. They began to go out. John was devastated.”

The former altar boy was found dead in February at his home. He had just finished his college exams — and the day before had joined pals to watch Ireland’s rugby clash with France.

The article says that no one blames anyone for what happened. Clearly this was just a troubled guy, and it’s a sad story all around.

Colin Farrell is a busy guy. According to IMDB he has four movies coming out next year, and has completed a Woody Allen film, Cassandra’s Dream, which is out this October.

Here are pictures of Colin and Maureen on vacation. [via] Inset picture and story from The Sun.

Matthew McConaughey was seen enjoying a barbeque lunch outside his airstream trailer yesterday. He chatted with a friend or neighbor, enjoyed a Corona and was seen cleaning up afterwards.

McConaughey’s hot young girlfriend, Brazilian model Camilla Aves, brought her entire family over to his trailer for Easter lunch on April 8th. The two have been spending quality time together and now it looks like they’ve taken the next step of meeting family:

Matthew McConaughey, 37, and Brazilian model Camilla Aves, may have been dating for only 11 days, but their relationship appears to be heating up! The stunning brunette brought her family to Matthew’s Airstream-brand trailer home for an Easter lunch on April 8. The dish of the day: Matthew’s grilling!

“It looked like Matthew and Camilla’s family got on really well,” an observer tells Star

[From Star Magazine print edition, April 30, 2007]

The article goes on to say that they were affectionate toward each other and that Matthew was feeding her.

McConaughey may look scruffy when he’s schlupping around his trailer, but there’s a killer body underneath those wrinkled clothes. He took the top spot in Life & Style’s list of great abs.

Thanks to Splash News for these pics.

Naomi Watts was seen with her baby bump at the opening of the Escada boutique in Beverly Hills. She looked gorgeous in a low cut loose capped sleeve purple dress that accented her growing assets. Naomi’s boyfriend and father of her soon-to-be born baby, Liev Schreiber, has said that they don’t know the sex of the baby and are not sure what names they like yet.

As for how Naomi is handling her pregnancy, Liev said “she’s amazing”:

Naomi hasn’t had any strange cravings. She’s great. In fact, I’ve never seen anyone handle a pregnancy so well. She’s amazing.

Celebrity Baby Blog reports that Naomi is due in late June, as Liev said he will be done with his work commitments at that time and “after that, I’m going to have a baby.”

The Escada opening was hosted by Hillary Swank. Other celebrity attendees included Mario Bella, Jewel and Sophia Bush.

Thanks to Splash News for these pictures.

- Lohan attended Britney’s shortest ever comeback concert and Britney supposed gave her a dirty look (site NSFW) [Drunken
Stepfather]
- Britney Spears’ comeback, part III [CelebWarship]
- Someone scrawled “Britney Brittney evil” on Britney’s jean shorts, straight out of eighth grade [Evil Beet]
- Shiloh is walking, Brad is still watching her [I'm Not Obsessed]
- The Spice Girls could get $2 million each for a Christmas reunion concert [DListed]
- Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake reunite for Shrek 3 [PopSugar]
- Six new posters for The Simpsons movie [The Blemish]
- Matt Groening says that Liz Taylor was hired to voice Maggie Simpson’s first word, but after 25 takes she gave up and told him to f off [Socialite's Life]
- Gisele Bundchen for Louis Vuitton [Derek Hail]
- Chris Noth in his swim trunks with a parrot [Best Week Ever]
- Natalie Portman side boob [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore cuddle on a boat next to Bruce Willis fishing in a new photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair [Celebslam]
- Natalie Portman sideboob [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]
- Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore are going to star in a new western together [Gabsmash]
- Sculptures of Kate Moss doing yoga, not that she actually does yoga, are on display in a NY museum [Agent Bedhead]
- Swimcoach dad slugs daughter [Buzznet]
- Adriana Lima and Ana Beatriz Barros in bikinis [The Grumpiest]
- Tori Amos’ album release party [popbytes]
- Kelly Clarkson’s new album sucked so bad that it was scrapped [Mollygood]
- Hilary Swank at the Escada flagship store opening. Is it wrong of me to think she needs to get work done? [ICYDK]
- Fergie wore 8 outfits in one day, and she never should have bothered to change [CityRag]
- Would you do the bikini grandma? [Bastardly]

Paris Hilton showed up ten minutes late to a hearing in which the judge sentenced her to an incredible 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her DUI probation by driving twice with a suspended license. Paris was crying, her mom brazenly asked the lead prosecutor for his autograph afterwards, telling him that it was “pathetic,” and her lawyer called it “outrageous.”

The judge told Paris’ talking head, Elliott Mintz, that his testimony was “worthless,” and it seems that all the circus surrounding Paris coupled with her extreme celebrity helped prompt the harsh sentence.

Before the judge announced the sentence, Paris realized that the hearing didn’t go well and it wasn’t going to be easy for her. She struggled to hold back tears and said “I’m very sorry and from now on I’m going to pay complete attention to everything. I’m sorry and I did not do it on purpose all.”

Paris’ crime, just barely a DUI
Paris was pulled over in early September, 2007, after she was seen driving “erratically” at 12:30 a.m. in LA. She was given a breathalyzer, and blew a .08, which is the minimum level for DUI in the state of California.

Paris said she had just on margarita, and that she had nothing to eat that day and was tired after spending all day working on a music video.

Paris kept driving on a suspended licence, did not enroll in alcohol education program
The real reason Paris is going to jail is because she was pulled over twice for driving with a suspended license, once on January 15 and again on February 27. Her license was suspended for a full three years after her DUI, and while that suspension was recently lifted, it was still in effect both times she was busted driving. The judge said she was fully aware that she was not permitted to drive, and it seems that’s why he made an example of her for violating probation.

Another term of Paris’ probation required her to sign up for an alcohol education program by February 12. As of April 17, she had not signed up for one.

Where Paris will do time
Unlike Martha Stewart, who was able to select where she would do time in exchange for paying room and board, the judge ruled that Paris must do time in the Century Regional Detention Center, which is LA County’s women’s jail, and cannot buy her way out of it.

She must report for jail on June 5, and if she fails to show up her sentence will be doubled.

What Paris’ days in jail will be like
Paris will be segregated from the rest of the prison population for her own safety, and will either have her own 12-by-8 foot cell or one other roommate. The cell where she’ll spend 23 hours a day doesn’t have a television, and is outfitted with just a sink, toilet, and a 6 inch wide window. There is one mirror made of polished metal.

Paris will only be allowed one hour of freedom outside her cell a day. In that hour, she’ll have to cram in a shower if she wants one and all her telephone and television time. Cell phones and Blackberries are forbidden in prison, and she’ll have to make all her calls using a prepaid phone card in the time allotted.

The prison serves three low-sodium meals a day, with dinner being the only hot meal. Hopefully Paris likes chicken because it’s the only meat they serve.

Paris will wear a prison jumpsuit that is either white, blue, brown, or orange.

Paris might get out within hours or days
We all talked a lot of smack about this, but I never thought that the twit would have to go to jail. This was her first DUI, and her real crime was continuing to drive in violation of her parole conditions. I think she should have had to do a few days at most, and indeed that may be what happens.

TMZ reports that Michelle Rodriguez was given even more time, a full 60 days, in the same facility. Rodriguez only served four hours in prison for that sentence, although she did spend nearly three days in jail out for an earlier 5 day sentence. Paris should take heart, Michelle Rodriguez claims she loved jail and bragged about how she sang showtunes and made crafts with her fellow inmates. If Paris wants to make friends, she can help the other inmates with their hair and makeup.

I really do feel sorry for her and hope she’ll learn some humility in jail without having to cope with bullying or intimidation. No one deserves that. Maybe she’ll get a much-needed taste of what it’s like to live without having your every frivolous whim met.