Sideshow: Jack Black spills both beans
Brangelina is pregnant. That's not really a surprise, given the pictures of Angelina Jolie on the Internet lately. And, yes, it's twins for Jolie and Brad Pitt, as the gossips have speculated. Or so says Jack Black, who costars with Jolie in Kung Fu Panda. He let the news slip during a Today show interview in Cannes with Jolie by his side.
Brangelina
is pregnant. That's not really a surprise, given the pictures of
Angelina Jolie
on the Internet lately.
And, yes, it's twins for Jolie and
Brad Pitt
, as the gossips have speculated. Or so says
Jack Black
, who costars with Jolie in
Kung Fu Panda.
He let the news slip during a
Today
show interview in Cannes with Jolie by his side.
"You're gonna have as many as [the] Brady Bunch when you have these," Black said.
"It's confirmed?" asked interviewer
Natalie Morales
.
"Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already," said Jolie, who has four children now. "Well, Jack's just confirmed it, actually."
"Is that true?" Black said, jokingly.
"Yeah, you did," Jolie replied.
"Sorry," said Black. Interview excerpts were to air last night on
Access Hollywood
, followed by the whole interview today on
Today
.
Macca attacked over hybrid car
Who's running the environmental movement in England these days,
Heather Mills
? You could forgive
Sir
Paul McCartney
for thinking that his ex is in charge of the greening of Britain after the Affair of the Hybrid. Seems that Sir Paulie, a vegetarian whose devotion to animal rights runs so deep that he doesn't wear leather shoes, has run into a teapot-sized tempest for having a hybrid Japanese car flown to him in Britain rather than having it sent by ship.
The car, a $158,000 Lexus LS 600h, is a high-performance luxury job that uses an electric motor at low speeds. The car is a gift to the ex-Beatle from Lexus, which sponsored McCartney's U.S. tour.
Environmentalists quickly noted that shipping the car to England by air negated the auto's green impact. "It's like driving the car 300 times around the world," says
Gary Rumbold
, the director of the British branch of co2balance, which helps businesses and individuals gauge their carbon emissions footprint. "It seems like somebody at Lexus made an error in judgment."
It wasn't clear if McCartney knew the vehicle would arrive by air. His rep,
Stuart Bell
, said he couldn't comment about the decision to use a plane until he had the details. Lexus also declined comment.
No charges for Winehouse
Police in England have decided not to prosecute
Amy Winehouse
in connection with a January video that showed her apparently smoking a pipe commonly used for crack, her rep announced yesterday.
Investigators questioned the Grammy-winning diva about the video, shot during a party at her north London home, for nine hours last week. The cops started their probe after The Sun newspaper published photos from the tape.
Spokesman
Chris Goodman
said police had finished their investigation and confirmed no charges would be brought against the 24-year-old singer.
"Amy is pleased to be able to move on and concentrate on music and particularly looks forward to seeing her fans again at eagerly awaited festival performances this summer," he said in a statement.
Don't mean a thing; Halle bought the ring
Oscar-winning
Halle Berry
is sporting a fancy little Amrapali-designed diamond bauble on the third finger of her left hand. Could it be that Halle is ready to plight her troth with bf
Gabriel Aubry
? Definitely not, reports People.com. The Web site confides confidently that a friend of Halle's confesses, "It's not an engagement ring. Halle just saw it and thought it was beautiful so she bought it for herself."
Quaid takes pharma fight to Congress
Actor
Dennis Quaid
, whose newborn twins received a nearly fatal overdose of a powerful blood thinner at a Los Angeles hospital in November, told a congressional committee yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration should not be able to shield pharma companies from lawsuits.
Quaid and his wife,
Kimberly
, are suing drug maker Baxter Healthcare Corp., which makes heparin. Baxter is seeking dismissal of the lawsuit on the grounds that the FDA approved the labeling, thereby preempting a lawsuit.
"Like many Americans, I believed that a big problem in our country was frivolous lawsuits," Quaid testified. "But now I know that the courts are often the only path to justice."
Quaid said that if FDA approval is used to preempt lawsuits, "it will basically make us uninformed and uncompensated lab rats." The Quaids' children recovered from the overdose, though "we don't know what the longer-term effects will be," said their dad.