Keanu Reeves

The Matrix star Keanu Reeves rather laugh off those rumors about him loving other guys in a gay way than spend money on lawyers. Keanu tells Playboy:

I try not to live my life by what other people say . . . People were gossiping about what the king and queen were doing way back when. It’s just human nature. We like talking about other people.

As reported by PageSix, even made up gossip about him being married to movie mogul David Geffen in 1995 couldn’t piss off the actor into getting the lawyers involved. I bet he realized any publicity is good publicity.

Charlize Theron

Actress Charlize Theron is reportedly over boyfriend Stuart Townsend after more than five years into their relationship. After going to various events without Stuart by her side the rumor mill started about them being over. Now a pal of Charlize tells The Sun:

Charlize is free and single again. Her relationship with Stuart is well and truly over. They just grew apart. It wasn’t always easy because filming often kept them apart for months.

All this was bound to happen given what Charlize has said recently about marriage with Stuart:

It’s not really what I want — or what he wants.

[The Sun]

• Christina Aguilera wants to be a young mommy. [The Sun]
• Tour the Sopranos sites. [AP]
• Lou Ferrigno suing brother Andy Ferrigno for using the family name. [E Online]
• Wafah Dufour Bin Ladin gets her own reality television show. [Reuters]
• Sir Sean Connery undergone surgery to remove tumor in lung. [Telegraph]
• Nirvana up for sell. [Contact Music]
• Renee Zellweger lucky to be alive. [Digital Spy]
• Tom Hanks join forces with son Colin Hanks, for a magical comedy. [Rotten Tomatoes]
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon gonna get three prequels and a sequel. [The Independent]
• Ozzy Osbourne set to rock Ozzfest solo. [MP3]
• Paris Hilton is cheap. [Starpulse]

Tonight’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien will focus on Conan’s trip to Finland, where he is hugely popular due to the fact that he resemble President Tarja Halonen. Conan tells the Associated Press about his trip in a phone interview:

The whole experience was surreal. It was a fevered dream. (David) Hasselhoff is big in Germany, but I’m the king of Finland.

When you see a telephoto lens shot taken from some bushes by a paparazzi, what you’re used to seeing is Brad Pitt making out with Angelina Jolie or Michael Jackson being rushed through a mall in a weird disguise. But the shots of me were of this very pale guy staring sadly at the Baltic Sea.

I was treated with the same dignity and gravitas as Nelson Mandela meeting with Mother Teresa. My feeling was, `Is this really happening?’

You can bet if anything ever happen to President Halonen, Conan will be called upon to replace the president secretly with no one in the country finding out, just like the movie Moon Over Parador.

[AP]

• Boy George is lucky he won’t be someones bitch in prison. [Digital Spy]
• Michelle Rodriguez swollen from coming into contact with roches. [Contact Music]
• U2 cancel most of their tour, due to mystery illness affecting a member of of the group’s family. [Female First]
• Eva Longoria’s lesbian crushes. [The Sun]
• Dennis Quaid had manorexia. [Page Six]
• Nicolette Sheridan and Michael Bolton to marry. [MegaStar]
• Neverland Valley Ranch is no more. [Mirror]

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

When I say more babies I don’t mean the kinds that come from her own love canal. How time fly, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has been together for more than one year now. The dynamic duo has pack more into those short 12 months than most people do in two lifetimes, from traversing to countries like Kenya, Switzerland, Ethiopia, and France. To those flying lessons, motorbike riding, fatherhood, and adoption. With all that fun, Angelina has another suprise for Brad, as reported by In Touch magazine:

Following on the heels of Angelina’s declaration that she wants to give birth to their child in Africa, she had another surprise for Brad — she wants to adopt again — preferably twins, and soon!

Their life has turned into a baby chase. Instead of taking the time to relax and enjoy themselves, Brad and Angelina have been jet-setting across Europe and the couple is believed to have looked into adopting children from various parts of the world — including Haiti and Somalia.

“Angelina wants the adoption to happen as soon as possible,” says an insider.

All this and Brad still can’t marry Angelina with a traditional wedding unless Brad agree to have an open marriage. Is Angelina only using Brad so her adopted children can have a daddy?

There are speculations in a column by Ben Charny of eWeek that NBC may eventually buy out YouTube. It won’t be the first time this type of thing has happened, the best known case was when Napster was eventually bought out by a record company.

This whole talk about buying YouTube came after NBC had to tell YouTube.com for the second time in a couple of weeks to remove a Saturday Night Live skit, this one featuring Natalie Portman rapping gangsta style. The skit in question were uploaded within a few minutes of the skits airing, but was removed within a few days after NBC sent a demanding letter to do so.

It also didn’t hurt that after NBC conducted an investigation into these online viral video websites that they seen just how many of it’s programing were being downloaded at the websites, with well over 5 million downloads. An NBC Universal spokesperson says the following in an interview:

So it’s not out of the question that NBC could approach an alleged offender and turn it into a business partner. We recognize there’s a demand.

When this happen expect YouTube to turn into crap and another site come out and steal all the YouTube users away.

[eWeek]

Nick Lachey

Looks like Nick Lachey really needs some money from soon to be ex-wife Jessica Simpson. Nick’s plans of staring in his very own TV show has imploded, the newly form TV network CW has put an axe on Nick’s plan. A source for the network says:

There are only so many openings on the new network. Nick’s show didn’t make the cut.

The whole axe deal for the TV show about a baseball player was confirmed by someone close to Lachey:

The network loves Nick – they just weren’t into the baseball show. They’re putting together another project for him.

As time passes we will all forget about Nick, it has already started with bother Drew Lachey getting all those publicity from being on “Dancing with the Stars.” How much would it suck if Drew got a show before Nick, I bet it will suck big time.

[WENN]

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson will emulate Angelina Jolie and her do-gooder way. Later this month Jessica will be heading to Washington DC to meet members of Congress to lobby on the behave of Operation Smile.

Operation Smile is a group that help provide needed surgery for children that are suffering from deformed facial condition. A source close to the charity says:

She’s in the phase of her life now where she wants to use her celebrity for good. She’s flying in on her own dime. This is her Angelina moment.

Jessica must not really know what this entails. Maybe Papa Joe Simpson is behind all this, to revive Jessica’s image with the public and to throw people off from all the divorce stories surrounding her and Nick Lachey. I will bet she just like the name Operation Smile.

[Female First]

• Failure To Launch (Paramount)
• The Libertine (Weinstein Co.)
• The Shaggy Dog (Buena Vista)
• The Hills Have Eyes (Fox Searchlight)