Sideshow | Face launched 1,000 mags
The face you can't live without; the face you want staring at you from your coffee table (staring and judging your hair, your weight, your humanity); the face you stare at on those lonely she/he-dumped-me-and-I-had-a-flat-tire days and on the desperate sleepless nights that follow is . . . Jennifer Aniston. So says Forbes.com in its first-ever analysis of top-selling celeb faces. Forbes, which seems to have abandoned business journalism in favor of compiling celeb lists, studied People, Us Weekl
The face you can't live without; the face you want staring at you from your coffee table (staring and judging your hair, your weight, your humanity); the face you stare at on those lonely she/he-dumped-me-
and
-I-had-a-flat-tire days and on the desperate sleepless nights that follow is . . .
Jennifer Aniston
. So says Forbes.com in its first-ever analysis of top-selling celeb faces. Forbes, which seems to have abandoned business journalism in favor of compiling celeb lists, studied People, Us Weekly, In Touch, Life & Style, OK! and Star for six months (max time before saturation leads to suicide). During that time, Jen's mug sold 5 mil copies of mags. Jen's ex,
Brad Pitt
, is No. 2 and
Scarlett Johansson
is third. Meanwhile, some gossipers ask if Jen's love is "in (
Orlando
)
Bloom
?" - to quote MSNBC.com. Life & Style says the pair "bonded" at the recent wedding of a mutual friend where they acted "super flirty." But does bonding
always
lead to love? (Or at least a snog?) Ah, the mysteries of the human heart.
Her own lil' Punky
Perpetual TV teen Punky Brewster, who grew up to become the lovely 31-year-old
Soleil Moon Frye
is expecting her second baby with her hub,
Punk'd
producer
Jason Goldberg
, 36, People reports. The baby, who is due this spring, will join her sis
Poet Sienna Rose Goldberg
, who was born in August 2005.
Babies, babies! We want babies!
Frye's announcement is the latest in a labor-intensive week: Potential sexbomb
Teri Polo
of
Meet the Parents
fame tells People she and her bf
Jamie Wollam
are three months away from having a girl. And Olympics champion skaters
Jamie Salé
and
David Pelletier
welcomed their first baby, a boy named
Jesse
, on Sunday.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday Halle Berry went on Oprah's TV show to give a big, deep, emotional share about her exhausting struggle to achieve pregnancy with her man Gabriel Aubry.
And 45-year-old American Idol nutter Paula Abdul tells USA Today she so craves a baby that she plans to have one "definitely within the next two years." Paula volunteered her bf of five months, 32-year-old youngster-restaurateur J.T. Torregiani, as the . . . um, sire.
"I thought by now I'd have three grown children," Paula said.
On the other side of the gender divide, one guy, John Stamos, dared join these wonderful women to share his deep desire, his holy hankering to raise a flock of Stamoses, to shape young minds.
"If I don't have kids soon, I am going to adopt," Stamos, 44, told OK! mag. "I always thought to myself that I would be a better father later on in life." (Just hope it's not so late he'd forget who the kids are.)
Country rules charts
Country music trio
Rascal Flatts
this week had its third straight No. 1 on Billboard's album charts with
Still Feels Good
, which sold 547,000 copies in its debut week, becoming the highest-selling sum for a country act since the same band's CD
Me and My Gang
sold 722,000 last year.
Keyshia Cole
's
Just Like You
was No. 2 on the chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan, having moved 281,000 units. And
Foo Fighters
'
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
debuted at No. 3 with 168,000.
Rock: Pam lied, she lied
The ugliness seems to grow between rap-rocker
Kid Rock
and
Pam Anderson
, who were married for like 11 seconds last year. Mr. Rock tells Rolling Stone that on one occasion, Pam, who was up in Vancouver for a movie shoot, laid a big guilt trip on him by claiming she had just had a miscarriage, thus forcing him to forgo hanging with his biker bud
Jesse James
at an L.A. Lakers game. Kid said he didn't know his then-wife was even pregnant. He said he booked it to Canada, only to find Pam "drinking champagne, jumping on the tables" at some hot spot. A rep for Pam, who recently got a marriage license with beau
Rick Salomon
, basically said if Kid had nothing constructive to say, he should stop talking about Pam.
'Gladiator' rules, dude!
American Gladiator
, that loser '90s TV show that had competitors show off their man- and womanliness - with such events as jousting, tug-of-war and, of course, the human cannonball - is
baaack
! NBC, which is remaking the show, yesterday announced that
Hulk Hogan
will host.
In youth is pleasure
Feel that buzz in the air? Moviefone (movies.aol.com) has released its list of the awesomest up 'n' coming youngster thesps in the movies, USAToday.com says! The first annual 25 Under 25: Hollywood's Hottest Young Stars features like 25 names, including
Abigail Breslin
,
Zac Efron
,
Shia LaBoeuf
,
Michael Cera
,
Emily Blunt
.
Brad bristles
"That's idiotic,"
Brad Pitt
tells Parade (via the N.Y. Post) about the idea that he does charity work only to please his bosswoman,
Angelina Jolie
. "I do it because I'm a member of the human race."
Britney regroups
Britney Spears
, who temporarily lost custody of her two boys to ex-hub
Kevin Federline
, in part because of her propensity to drive all around L.A. with the kids but without a California driver's license, applied for - and late Tuesday was granted! - a real, valid, non-pretend California driver's license.
Brit, who seems seriously out of her depth, is optimistic this gesture will help get the kids back. We'll see: The child-custody jihad K-Fed has unleashed on her was to resume yesterday in Lalaland.
TMZ says Kev showed up first for the hearing, wearing an eye patch.
Natalie in mathematical thriller
Natalie Portman
has signed on to star in
Jim Sheridan
's remake of
Susanne Bier'
s perfectly wonderful and watchable '04 Danish-language film
Brothers
. Portman plays a woman in a love triangle: Her husband (
Tobey Maguire
) has shipped off to fight in Afghanistan, leaving his brother (
Jake Gyllenhaal
) to care for her. What passionate embraces ensue? What betrayals?
Concert tix on sale
Neil Young
will play the Tower Theater in Upper Darby on Dec. 9. Tix cost $64 to $159 and go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Info: 215-336-2000, 856-338-9000 or
» READ MORE: www.Ticketmaster.com
.
American legend Stevie Wonder will be at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City on Oct. 27 and 28. Tix cost $65 to $150 and also go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Info: 1-866-900-4849 or www.theborgata.com.