Los Angeles – Dennis Quaid and his wife, Kimberly, are expecting twins later this year by a surrogate mother.
The 53-year-old actor and his wife are the biological parents, Quaid publicist Lisa Kasteler said Monday. The couple married in July 2004.
Quaid has a teenage son, Jack Henry Quaid, from his marriage to Meg Ryan.
His screen credits include “The Right Stuff,” “The Rookie,” “Far From Heaven,” “The Big Easy” and “Great Balls of Fire!” Quaid is now filming “The Express,” Kasteler said.
Cannes, France – Angelina Jolie says she plans to take a year off from filmmaking to spend more time with her partner, Brad Pitt, and their children.
“We’re getting work out of the way at the moment,” said the 31-year-old actress, who has been shooting the thriller “Wanted” in Prague, Czech Republic.
After that, she said, “I take two months off, then I work for two months. Then I take a year off.” Jolie and Pitt, 43, have four children: 5-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia; Pax Thien, 3, from Vietnam; 2-year-old Zahara, from Ethiopia; and daughter Shiloh, who was born to the couple last May 27.
She told a Vietnamese newspaper in March that she would stay at home to help Pax adjust to his new life. “I have four children and caring for them is the most important thing for me at the moment,” the Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper quoted her as saying.
The celebrity supercouple are in Cannes to promote the Michael Winterbottom-directed “A Mighty Heart,” in which Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Pearl was abducted by Islamic militants while researching a story in Pakistan in 2002 and later beheaded.
Pitt is a producer on the movie, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday. Jolie has drawn praise for her portrayal of Mariane Pearl, a strong woman put under unbearable pressure.
The two women are friends, and Jolie said she felt a responsibility to get the depiction right.
Jolie said “A Mighty Heart,” which was shot in India and Pakistan, had made her “even more determined to go to those areas and spend time with those people and look for great relationships across the world and look for different truths and try to understand deeper.” The actress said Daniel Pearl’s grisly fate had made her think about the risks of traveling to troubled parts of the world – but it wouldn’t stop her.
“I don’t want to live inside a box,” she said. “I will be smart, but I will lead a very bold life and I will learn about the world.”
Sydney, Australia – Country music singer and recovering alcoholic Keith Urban he was back in Australia when a Qantas flight attendant welcomed him with a bottle of wine.
The Grammy winner and country music chart topper, who has publicly acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine, recently completed a three-month stint in rehab for alcohol abuse.
Urban, 39, who grew up in Australia, was offered a complimentary bottle of red wine during a recent Qantas Airways flight from Sydney to the South Australia state capital, Adelaide – part of a world tour for his latest album, “Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing.” “I knew I was back in South Australia when the host came up to me, smiled, gave me a bottle of red and said, ‘Welcome to Adelaide Mr. Urban,”‘ the country music star told a packed stadium on Sunday, according to a report in News Ltd. newspapers today.
“So I drank it,” he quipped.
Urban’s manager Rob Potts rushed to assure fans the singer was only joking.
The New Zealand-born Urban checked himself into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., last October, less than four months after his wedding to Australian actress Nicole Kidman
South Australia is home to some of the country’s most productive wine regions.
New York – Jessica Alba – ranked No. 2 on this year’s “Hot 100” list by Maxim magazine – has a rebellious side.
“I love challenging authority,” the 26-year-old actress tells InStyle in its June issue, on newsstands Friday. “It probably wasn’t easy being my parents. The second somebody says ‘no’ to me is the second I’m going to jump up and say ‘yes!”‘ Alba, whose screen credits include “Sin City” and “Into the Blue,” reprises her role as Susan Storm/Invisible Woman in “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” set for release June 15.
“My experience in this business is that if people think you’re going to put people in seats because you have a fan base, it’s more important than anything,” she says. She’s finally “getting to play characters and dive into things and not just be sort of this version of ‘this girl,”‘ says Alba, who found she was typecast as “some kind of little tart.” “Because obviously, if you have a womanly figure, you’re not allowed to have a brain or any idea of the world whatsoever. You just have to be hot and use your body to get ahead.” But that body helped win her countless male fans, and, in turn, increased her value to movie producers and casting directors.
“I had womanly curves at a young age,” says Alba, who starred as a mean high school student in 1999’s “Never Been Kissed.” “Usually kid actors are a few years older than the roles they play. I was two or three years younger.” “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” a Twentieth Century Fox release, also stars Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.
