Posted Feb 27th 2007 6:54PM by
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The Los Angeles Times' Claudia Eller reports that Team Cruise is in financing that would be spread over several years at United Artists.

Now, we hate to admit this, but Cruise's career almost appears to be stabilizing.

After the of last summer, Cruise's team has gone into overdrive: First the smart, classy deal that put Cruise into Robert Redford's next movie, "Lions for Lambs," in which in which Cruise plays a congressman.

(Even better, we hear that the congressman's name is not Mark Foley; Capitol Hill Blue, a non-partisan blog, wins our award for best recent Foley headline with " " which in Foley's case could really mean anything.

But we digress.)

More encouragingly, the LAT points out that Lambs had everyone, including Cruise, deferring their upfront fees so as to get the movie made for $35 million. Imagine: A Tom Cruise / Robert Redford / Meryl Streep movie for less than the price of a nuclear submarine?

But don't worry: Cruise still has a chance at blowing up this deal: Viz, "People close to the talks cautioned that the deal with expected lead investment bank Merrill Lynch wasn't final, and that terms were still being negotiated. They said an agreement could take an additional 10 days to two weeks to complete."

You hear that, Tom?

Only ten days left to get the into your financial fridge. Better get cracking.

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Posted Feb 26th 2007 3:02PM by
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Thetan-in-training Katie Holmes brought her hypnotic charm to the ultra-chic Giorgio Armani fashion show Saturday night, where she posed for pics on the red carpet and even took time to answer a few questions.

Sounding like she was reading from a script, Holmes talked about the Beckhams, the Oscars, her upcoming project and baby Suri.

It's nice to see the anatomically correct doll, er, actress speak.

Posted Jan 28th 2007 3:04AM by
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Jennifer Lopez's dirty little secret is out.

J.Lo and hubby Marc Anthony continue to cozy up to TomKat, possibly preparing to become Scientology's latest celebrity recruits.

In fact, her father has been a Scientologist for more than 20 years, according to

"It's weird people want to paint [Scientology] in a negative way," she says. "It's just sad that people would look at it in that way."

It sure sounds like Jenny, who's Catholic -- just like Katie was before falling under Tom's spell ndash; is well on her way to joining the church.

Then Tom can turn all his attention to roping in Posh and Becks!


The night before Tom Brady was spotted leaving supermodel Gisele Bundchen's NYC apartment building, the Patriots QB partied with a flock of beauties. According to , Brady was out celebrating a buddy's birthday and had a hot blonde by his side at downtown hotspot Gin Lane.

Then a gaggle of models followed him to another bar, where Brady kept the women at arm's length by telling them it was "guy's night" and repeatedly checking his cell phone. Wonder whose call he was waiting for?


Eddie Murphy snubbed the "Dreamgirls" premiere in London because he didn't want to run into ex-girlfriend Melanie Brown.

A source tells the that Murphy was afraid the fans' reaction to him wouldn't be good "because of what he did to her" -- namely dumping her on a Dutch talk show and denying he's the father of her unborn child. Eddie's rep claims he was just tied up with publicity obligations for his upcoming film "Norbit."


"Monster Garage" host Jesse James was slapped with a $271,250 fine by California air regulators, claiming his custom bikes didn't comply with the state's clean-air laws.

The bikes were spewing 10 times the legal limits of hydrocarbons ...

While traveling to the U.S. to receive an environmental award, Prince Charles opted to take a commercial plane instead of his private jet because he didn't want his visit to cause unnecessary pollution .

.. An escaped prisoner who stole singer Crystal Gayle's tour bus was arrested in Daytona Beach after a five-day manhunt.

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Earlier in the day, at a few other celebrity hotspots -- Kitson and Fred Segal. Donning sunglasses and in the care of giant security guards, Mrs.

Beckham battled her way into the shops, pretending to loathe the attention every step of way. Nicole Richie was spotted across the street ..

. but nobody seemed to care.

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