Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for carrying a bag with a political slogan that evoked painful memories in Peru. Diaz visited the Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru’s Andes carrying a bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong’s most famous political slogan. The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world capitals, but in Peru the slogan evokes memories of the Maoist Shining Path insurgency that fought the government in the 1980s and early 1990s in a bloody conflict that left nearly 70,000 people dead. “I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have inadvertently offended,” Diaz said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press.
Renee Zellweger sure is good at keeping people guessing about her love life. The latest rumor doing the rounds in Hollywood is that she could be quietly seeing an agent at CAA, the management company that represents her. One spy who had heard the same rumor kept her under surveillance at the recent Renee Zellweger Women in Film Awards. The word from her rep is that Zellweger is not dating an agent.
Victoria Beckham accepted undisclosed damages Monday from a celebrity magazine that claimed the crew of her U.S. TV show considered her “picky, demanding and rude.” The former Spice Girl sued Star magazine over an April article that claimed staff working on the NBC show had also described her as “full of herself and not very nice.” Beckham’s lawyer, Gerrard Tyrrell, told Britain’s High Court that filming hadn’t started at the time the story was published.
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People compiled by Lori Smith from wire and Internet reports
