Nicole Kidman

Former Radar editor Remy Stern's Web site chronicling New York's influentials has finally gone live with (exclusive!) pictures of Eliot Spitzer's daughter's prom and a handy survival guide for the city's trophy wives to get us going. Click through for more. [Cityfile] 

Lazard Freres banking heir Justin Lazard is planning to sue the Caribbean hotel where he and his wife, former Project Runway contestant Shannon Fluet, were married in early June. Mr. Lazard claims that his then-pregnant wife was assaulted by the hotel's manager and security guards. [P6]

Alex Rodriguez' friends are reportedly accusing his estranged wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, of going on a spiteful spending spree amidst their public divorce.  read more »

A "source" at last night's Obama fundraiser hosted by Michelle Obama, Anna Wintour, Calvin Klein, and Andre Leon Talley says that Mr. Talley might have his sights set on styling Mrs. Obama. [P6]

The Trump kids found out about their parents' marital troubles when they saw covers of the Post, one of which read, "Marla Boasts to Pals about Donald: BEST SEX I EVER HAD." [P6]

Taking a cue from Katherine Heigl, Lindsay Lohan has taken herself out of the Emmy race in hopes of improving her chances next year for her appearances on Ugly Betty. [US Weekly]

Kate Moss, Daria Werbowy, and Lara Stone posed for a group "summer camp" spread in W Magazine that doesn't look like any kind of summer camp we've ever been to.  read more »

Josh Schwartz has denied rumors of a Taylor Momsen-headlined Gossip Girl spin-off. [E!]

Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl says she withdrew her name from the Emmy nomination list because she was not given Emmy-worthy material by the show's writers. [LA Times]  read more »

The jewelry collection belonging to Christina Onassis, daughter of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, will be auctioned off at Christie's in London. It's expected to bring in about $5.8 million. [WWD]

Brandon Davis stopped into Lily Pond and Dune in the Hamptons over the weekend, but didn't pay for the bottle service. [P6]  read more »

In a new unauthorized biography of Tom Cruise, Andrew Morton—the author who made a small fortune with Diana: Her True Story—makes some pretty serious and inflamatory claims.

The book, which is scheduled to be released later this month, alleges that Katie Holmes was impregnated, a la Rosemary's Baby, with the preserved semen of deceased Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It also says that Mr. Cruise’s ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, “feared blackmail” over auditing tapes she made with Scientologists in which she discusses her sex life. Moreover, Mr. Morton writes that Mr. Cruise is the second most powerful person in the church’s hierarchy; and, according to the book, he now plans to recruit soccer phenom David Beckham to the religion.  read more »

It looks like Britain’s Daily Mail is playing tug-of-war with the Nicole Kidman pregnancy story they broke a few days ago. After publishing the article, which asserted the 40-year-old actress was expecting her first child with musician and husband Keith Urban, also 40, Ms. Kidman’s publicist came up swinging.

“[The pregnancy report] is incorrect...[Ms. Kidman] must have had about 30 babies by now,” the rep said soon after the Daily Mail story was published. In no hurry to skirt the issue at hand, the paper’s headline was rather direct: ‘“I’m pregnant’ says delighted Nicole Kidman”  read more »

Despite contrary reports from Britain’s Daily Mail, Nicole Kidman is not expecting a child, according to the 40-year-old actress’ publicist in Australia.

“It is incorrect...she must have had about 30 babies by now,” Ms. Kidman's rep told E!, adding: “She's in Australia making a film, and her family are in Australia. She's happily ensconced away somewhere having a few days' break. It's the silly season. As far as we're concerned, it's another rumor out of London.”

 

Despite talk of marital strife, Nicole Kidman and husband Keith Urban are expecting their first child. According to Britain’s Daily Mail, the 40-year-old actress and the country musician—who has, since they married in June of 2006, been dealing with substance abuse issues—broke the good news to their families over the Christmas holiday.

If all goes well, the child will be Ms. Kidman’s first successful delivery. During her marriage to Tom Cruise, the divorced couple adopted two children together—Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, The Golden Compass star also revealed that she suffered a miscarriage when married to Mr. Cruise. “[T]that was really very traumatic,” she told the magazine at the time.

The actress and Mr. Urban spent Christmas together in Sydney, where Ms. Kidman finished working on director Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming Australia.

UPDATE: Since the Daily Mail story broke, an Australian publicist for Ms. Kidman has publicly denied that the actress is pregnant.

Atonement Is My Favorite of the Year!

BY REX REED

The genuinely talented Joe Wright has made a film to make us believe in movies again. MORE ...  read more »

Last weekend, family fun ruled the box office as Enchanted, that Amy Adams-Patrick Dempsey Disney fairy-tale romp, was again No. 1, bringing in another $17 million, totalling more than $70 million overall (that’s a lot of Mcdollars). This might be good news for New Line, ready to unveil its big hitter for the season, the ambitious The Golden Compass. The epic film is based on the popular trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, and if this movie does as well as the studio is hoping (New Line was also responsible for The Lord of the Rings franchise) get ready for years of this stuff. And by stuff we’re talking about whole other fantastical worlds and rules to learn, including that of our heroine’s, 12-year-old Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards), where everyone gets a talking spirit animal, or daemon, to travel beside them. (Which would really be kind of awesome … depending on what your animal is. Most people seem to get really cool, ones like snow leopards, but you know someone’s stuck with a squirrel.)  read more »

Nicole Kidman played a fearlessly dedicated United Nations employee in director Sidney Pollack’s The Interpreter, but now, it seems, she has been promoted at the international organization in real life. Today, Reuters reports that the Aussie superstar has agreed to back a program launched by the U.N.’s women’s agency. The 16-day campaign, “Say NO to Violence Against Women,” which this morning began collecting signatures on an Internet petition, rejects worldwide violence against women, urging supporters to help stop it on a local level. Ms. Kidman, who is already a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), did not attend the campaign’s launch event in Turtle Bay. She did, however, release a statement, saying that violence against women is “an appalling human rights violation.”

Today brings a new development in the ongoing war between terrified celebrities and the world’s growing army of paparazzi. Nicole Kidman testified in a New South Wales state Supreme Courtroom this morning in a defamation suit brought against a celebrity photographer, Jamie Fawcett, in her native country. In the actress’ statement to the court, she detailed how two years ago she was chased by the aggressive paparazzo. Fearing a car accident during the ordeal, Ms. Kidman claimed, she was “reduced to tears.”  read more »

Noah Baumbach’s latest is a tangle of subplots and ugliness that falls short of The Squid, but with a weird dream logic.  read more »

For all his winning charm, Tom Cruise is despised by his Lions for Lambs co-stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, an insider told the Huffington Post. When the subject of Ms. Streep and Mr. Redford’s absence from a recent dinner honoring Mr. Cruise was raised at the event, the source reportedly spilled the beans.

“Meryl and Bob can’t stand Tom. In London, Tom kept trying to push himself into interviews. Bob said, No. Tom wouldn’t listen. Meryl has done almost nothing for the movie. She wants nothing to do with him.”

Another source, however, tried to take the stirring spoon out of the pot, saying, “That’s mean. They’re great friends. Just look at their interview on Good Morning America.”

Oh, and Nicole Kidman said that her life didn’t feel “relevant” when she was married to him. Oh, snap!

Tom’s Co-Stars Meryl Streep And Robert Redford Skip Tribute Dinner [HuffPo]

 

 

The ability to artfully keep Kate Moss’ acne and George Clooney’s wrinkles out of glossy magazines is more lucrative than one might think.  read more »

Nicole Kidman has publicly confronted the possibility that her marriage to country Kiwi musician Keith Urban, who has been battling a substance abuse, might not make it into the hereafter.

In a recent interview with US magazine, Ms. Kidman, 40, explained:

“You never know where something’s going…My husband and I are committed to each other and deeply in love. That’s how I would put it. We are working on staying in that place and hopefully we will for the rest of our lives.”

She then went on to refute the interviewer’s insistence that the couple seemed happy together. “I don’t ever say that,” Ms. Kidman reportedly said.

Nicole Kidman is deeply in love, but not happy [Daily Mail via Huffington Post]

 

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Left, RADAR (via Gawker); Right, Esquire, April 1968. Update: It turns out that the art director with the balls to rip off George Lois' legendary Esquire cover was none other than... George Lois. (Very sneaky, RADAR!) From a press release just received at Mob HQ:

Radar magazine's Maer Roshan has brought legendary adman and cover designer genius George Lois out of retirement to design the issue's September/October issue, on sale August 16th. [...] "Magazines don't even try to do covers with actual ideas any more," Lois says in the forthcoming issue of Radar. "I get calls from these big magazine conferences -- always some big goddamn deal -- and they're always the same thing: 'Could you come down, George, and make a speech about why all magazine covers suck?' Screw that! Everybody knows that already! You can't just slap a picture of Nicole Kidman on your cover and expect people to say, 'Wow! What a cover!' It's just another picture of Nicole. Who gives a shit?"

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--Matt Haber

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