Playboy has responded to the demands of an irate Jessica Alba that it pull its March issue, which depicts a bikini- clad Alba on the cover.
Alba, 24, who is threatening a lawsuit, says Hugh Hefner‘s flagship has violated her rights and is misleading readers into believing the magazine contains a nude pictorial of the actress. (It does not.) She wants compensation for damage done to her image.
“Playboy has done nothing wrong, so there is no reason to pull our issue off of newsstands,” a Playboy rep said.
The magazine says Alba is on the cover because of her lovely image. The issue’s cover story is about the 25 sexiest celebs. And readers voted Alba, who starred in “The Fantastic Four,” the “sexiest star of the year.”
Ace Young, the “American
Idol” contestant favored by several online gambling sites to win the talent show, has a girlfriend.
TMZ.com reports that the 25-year-old Boulder native is dating Essence Atkins, an actress with a regular role on the UPN series “Half & Half.”
Young is “one of the most consistently sweet people I ever met,” she says.
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A new soundtrack award honoring artists for their contributions to Texas film will be presented to Lyle Lovett, the Austin Film Society announced.
Lovett will receive the AMD Live Soundtrack Award at the sixth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards on Friday.
Former Gov. Ann Richards will preside over the ceremony, which also will recognize inductees Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey, Cybill Shepherd and JoBeth Williams.
The society lauded Lovett’s soundtrack for Robert Altman‘s “Dr. T and the Women” and the 2003 album “Smile,” a collection of his covers from various soundtracks.
Shepherd will accept the Frontier Award on behalf of the 1971 Texas movie “The Last Picture Show,” about an isolated Texas town and its lonely inhabitants.
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Jon Voight says the ring he kept from his role playing the late Pope John Paul II helps him be a better person.
“I feel him. I think, ‘Wait a minute, Jon, if you are wearing this ring, you’d better think a little better,”‘ Voight said at a news conference Friday, the day the movie “Pope John Paul II” opened in cinemas in Poland, the late pope’s homeland.
The ring, given to him after starring in the movie, “makes me better,” Voight said, adding that he’ll probably wear it the rest of his life.
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John Waters, the king of kitsch, will be celebrated next year in no less a vehicle than a Hollywood blockbuster featuring no less than John Travolta and Queen Latifah.
The remake of Waters’ low-budget 1988 “Hairspray,” which spawned a Tony- winning musical, will feature a housedress-clad Travolta as housewife Edna Turnblad, played by Divine in the original, and Latifah as civil-rights activist Motormouth Maybelle.
The search goes on for Tracy Turnblad, originally played by Ricki Lake.