Sideshow: Timberlake and Biel uncouple
We at "SideShow" are in mourning. Justin Timberlake has split from Jessica Biel. One of the prettiest celeb couples since January 2007 are pfffft, adiós, kwa heri, I see you never. In a statement Thursday night, their reps confirmed fission and said, "The two remain friends and continue to hold the highest level of love and respect for each other." Rumor: He dumped Jess for Mila Kunis.
We at "SideShow" are in mourning.
Justin Timberlake
has split from
Jessica Biel
. One of the prettiest celeb couples since January 2007 are pfffft, adiós, kwa heri, I see you never. In a statement Thursday night, their reps confirmed fission and said, "The two remain friends and continue to hold the highest level of love and respect for each other." Rumor: He dumped Jess for
Mila Kunis
.
Tony and Tracy say bye
Tony Danza
has filed for divorce from wife
Tracy
, citing irreconcilable differences. Married 24 years, they'd been separated since 2006. Strike two for Tony: His first marriage, to
Rhonda Yeoman
in 1970, lasted four years.
Jewel in crash
Jewel
's car collided with a fire truck Friday morning in Stephenville, Texas. Hospital tests say she and her babe-in-progress are OK. She and husband
Ty Murray
can draw a sigh of relief. She learned she was with babe the very first day of her reality TV thing, Bravo's
Going Platinum
.
Doin' the wave
The
Japanese tsunami
did impact celebrityland. Everyone on the set of
Twilight: Eclipse
was evacuated from the Vancouver Island beach area of British Columbia, Canada, where they were filming. That included stars
Kristen Stewart
and
Taylor Lautner
. And
Jimmy Kimmel
got off an unnamed French Polynesian island as the tsunami neared. Jimmy did, however, find time to tweet: "we are evacuating the island. dogspeed."
Nice books get awards
The National Book Critics Circle awards came out Thursday night. These are big career-makers - and often idiosyncratic surprises.
For fiction, it was A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Nonfiction went to The Warmth of Other Suns, a great book about the migration of African Americans from the South to other parts of the United States in the 20th century, by Isabel Wilkerson. Autobiography went to Half a Life, by Darin Strauss. Biography went to the wonderful How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Sarah Bakewell. (Raise the roof for Michel de Montaigne, yo! He's our bo-oy!) We're excited about the poetry award, which went to C.D. Wright for One With Others, a lovely book. Criticism went to Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, by Clare Cavanagh.
LiLo sentencing kerfuffle
Lindsay Lohan
stands at a perilous turn. She faces trial for allegedly shoplifting that necklace in January. If she gets rung up on felony grand theft, max sentence is a year in state prison. But
Judge Keith Schwartz
, trying to avoid a trial, reportedly has offered a sentence of three months, and reportedly LiLo don't wanna - which seems nuts to us. If she refuses, goes to trial, and is convicted,
Judge Stephanie Sautner
would sentence her while looking at LiLo's probation report. And that report, say
Unnamed Sources
, is stinky, with all sorts of violations. LiLo faces another year in the fridge for busting parole. LiLo might be about to parlay three months into two years. Think again, LiLo.
Jackass Stooge?
Driving the final nail into the coffin of Western culture, rumors circle, like buzzards of disease, that 20th Century Fox is seeking
Johnny Knoxville
, head jackass of
Jackass
, for the role of
Moe Howard
in a
Three Stooges
movie. See, producers
Peter and Bobby Farrelly
have been fiddling with a Stooges remake for years now. Fox wants to ink a Moe before searching for a
Larry Fine
and a
Curly Howard
. Rumored names include
Benicio Del Toro
,
Sean Penn
, and
Jim Carrey
. No wonder it's taken so long: It's a terrible, terrible idea.
Old Charlie
Police paid
Charlie Sheen
a visit Thursday night. Isn't that neighborly? If you call five cop cars and a police helicopter neighborly, yeah. LAPD responded to a call saying Sheen had threatened to harm himself with a gun. He's a registered owner of firearms, but he's barred from having them under a restraining order filed by his dis-spousing wife,
Brooke Mueller
.
All the police found was an 1800s-era rifle and some bullets. No arrest. Chas tweeted later: "the LAPD were AWESOME. Absolute pros! they can protect and serve this Warlock anytime!!!" Kewellll!
Small stuff stew
Everybody's getting shorter hair.
Kate Winslet
,
Jennifer Aniston
, even
Justin Bieber
- we had to mention him. Now
"Krazy" Katherine Heigl
has curtailed her curls, adopted a less girlish look. Certainly does change her aspect. Any rumors that
R.E.M
.'s
Michael Stipe
is doing the same are just silly, and we abjure them. . . .
Unnamed Sources
, for whom Us mag is named, tell Us the name of
Isla Fisher
and
Sacha Baron Cohen
's widdle scrumbiddly punkin bimpy boo:
Elula Lottie Miriam Cohen
. The babe was born last August, and they named her Elula,
August
in Hebrew.
. . . Colorful, happy, all ready for spring break, the
Girls Gone Wild
bus pulled into a Fort Myers, Fla., beach. Its crew was hoping to find young lovelies to film for their adult vids. But only minutes after their arrival, local cops came and invited them to get the heck out. Seems they needed a "special event permit." Heh-heh.