CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY SPOTLIGHT

Hilary Ann Swank

Born July 30, 1974

Age: 34

Place: Lincoln, Nebraska

Hialry Swank has a brother, Dan. Many of her family members are from Ringgold Count, Iowa. Swank came from humble beginnings, particularly as a child growing up in a trailer park near Lake Samish in Bellingham, WA.

When Swank was nine years old, she made her first appearance on stage starring in The Jungle Book. She went to Sehome High School in Bellingham, WA until she was sixteen. Swank also competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming; she ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics (which would come in handy when starring in The Next Karate Kid (1994) years later).

Swank's parents separated when she was thirteen, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment. Swank has described her mother as the inspiration for her acting career and her life. In California, Swank enrolled in South Pasadena High School (although she later dropped out of school) and started acting professionally. She helped pay the rent with the money she earned appearing in television programs such as Evening Shade and Growing Pains.

Hilary starred in The Next Karate Kid (1974), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1997), Boys Don't Cry ((1999). Swank reduced her body fat to seven percent in preparation for the role in Boys Don't Cry. Many critics hailed hers as the best female performance of 1999. Her work ultimately won her the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Actress. She subsequently won the Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globe again for playing a boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 Oscar-winning film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent training in the ring and gained 19 pounds of muscle.

In early 2006, Swank signed a three-year contract as spokesperson for Guerlain (a women's fragrance). In 2007, Swank starred in and executive produced Freedom Writer, a drama about a real-life teacher who inspired a California high school class.

Swank received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, January 8, 2007. Hers was the 2,325th star presented.

Swank developed potential health problems, including elevated mercury levels in her body, through certain preparations for her roles, including weight gain and loss for Boys Don't Cry and The Black Dahlia.

Swank married actor Chad Lowe, September 28, 1997. However, in January 2006, the couple separated. Swank announced in May 2006 that they were divorcing. In December 2006, Swank confirmed that she was dating John Campisi, her agent.

CELEB BIRTHDAYS AND TRIVIA

Celeb Birthdays

JULY
27 - Peggy Fleming - 60 - San Jose, CA
30 - Hilary Swank - 34 - Lincoln, NE
30 - Arnold Schwarzenegger - Thal, Styria, Austria
30 - Delta Burke - 52 - Orlando, FL
30 - Lisa Kudrow - 45 - Encino, CA
30 - Paul Anka - 67 - Ottawa, Ontario
31 - J. K. Rowling - 43 - Yate, South Gloucestershire, England

AUGUST
1 - Dom DeLuise - 74 - Brooklyn, NY

Trivia

Delta Burke is best known for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in Designing Women. She still keeps in touch with all of her Designing Women castmates. Delta Burke has compulsive hoarding syndrome. At one time she had 27 storage units. She claimed she didn't have a big enough house. She recently lost about 60 pounds, due to her nearly 10-year battle with type-2 diabetes. Delta has most recently done a film for the Hallmark channel, title "Bridal Fever" which aired February 2, 2008. She currently has a recurring role on Boston Legal as a former flame of William Shatner's character, Denny Crane.

CHEECH AND CHONG

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong have reunited two decades after parting ways and plan to tour once again.

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, who are now 62 and 70-year-old respectively, have reunited after a 20-year hiatus. In 1987, they split due to creative differences.


Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong got together again and concluded that neither was getting any younger and that there was still fun to be had. The duo told reporters that the upcoming tour is going to be “very theatrical.”

There "Light Up America" tour will kick off Sept 12th in Philadelphia.

J. K. ROWLING

"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling announced on Thursday that she will publish a book of wizarding fairy tales in December and donate an expected $8 million (4 million pounds) in proceeds to her charity for vulnerable children.


"The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which will be published on December 4, is mentioned in the seventh -- and final -- Potter book as having been left to Harry's friend Hermione Granger by Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of their school Hogwarts.


She said the proceeds from the book would be donated to the Children's High Level Group, a charity she founded in 2005 to help the 1 million children across Europe still living in large residential institutions.

PRINCE WILLIAM

Prince William, now 26, is set to add another cap to his military collection – that of Special Forces soldier.

He will spend some time with the elite corps as he nears the end of his time in the British military.

His posting will be "non-operational," according to a palace statement, but will help teach him about the "discreet but important contribution" the services play in the British military.

In the fall, he will also spend some time with the Army Air Corps and the Central Staff of the military, gaining an understanding of how the British military is coordinated and directed in support of policies laid down by politicians.

KATE HUDSON AND LANCE ARMSTRONG

Just three months after Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong began dating, they have split.

The actress and cyclist ended their short-lived relationship over the weekend during the Lance Armstrong Livestrong Summit in Columbus, Ohio.

Despite only dating for a few months, their relationship seemed to move at warp speed. The couple introduced each other to their respective families soon after they began dating.

While they were often photographed together, the couple never publicly commented on the nature of their relationship.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY SPOTLIGHT

Kevin Spacey Fowler

Born: July 26, 1959

City: South Orange, New Jersey

Kevin Spacey was born Kevin Spacey Fowler. He has two older siblings; a sister, Julie and a brother, Randy. Spacey attended Northridge Military Academy from which he was expelled, Canoga Park High School (in tenth and eleventh grades), and then Chatsworth High School in Chatsworth, CA where he graduated valedictorian of his class. At Chatsworth High, he starred in the school's senior production of The Sound of Music, playing the part of Captain Georg von Trapp. While in high school, he took his mother's maiden name, "Spacey", originally a Welsh name, belonging to his great-great-grandfather (spelled "Spacy"), as his acting surname.

Spacey's first professinal stage appearance was as a spear-carrier in a New York Shakespeare Festival performance of Henry IV, part 1 in 1981. The following year he made his first Broadway appearance as Oswald in a production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

His fame as a stage actor really began in 1986, when he was cast opposite Jack Lemmon, Peter Gallagher and Bethel Leslie as Jamie, the eldest Tyrone son in Jonathan Miller's lauded production of Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey into Night. He made his first major television appearance in the second season premiere of Crime Story. Although his interest soon turned to film, Spacey remained actively involved in the live theater community.

In 1996, Spacey played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill, and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997 with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media. In 1996 he made his directorial debut with the film Albino Alligator. The film was a failure at the box office but Spacey's direction was praised.

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Spacey is well-known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

In February 2003, Spacey announced that he was returning to London to become the artistic director of the Old Vic, one of the city's oldest theatres. Spacey undertook to remain in the post for a full ten years. In September 2006, Spacey announced his intention to stay on at the Old Vic for at least another nine years, and that due to his continuing UK residency he intends to take up British citizenship when it becomes available to him.

CELEB BIRTHDAYS AND TRIVIA

Celeb Birthdays

JULY

20 - Gisele Bundchen - 27- Horizontia, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
20 - Carlos Santana - 43 - Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico
21 - Robin Williams - 55 - Chicago, IL
21 - Jon Lovitz - 50 - Los Angeles, CA
22 - David Spade - 43 - Birmingham, MI
22 - Danny Glover - 60 - San Francisco, CA
23 - Woody Harrelson - 46 - Midland, TX

23 - Don Imus - 67 - Riverside, CA
24 - Anna Paquin - 25 - Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
24 - Jennifer Lopez - 37 - The Bronx, New York City, NY,
25 - Brad Renfro - 25 - Knoxville, TN
25 - Matt LeBlanc - 40 - Newton, MA,
26 - Kate Beckinsale - 34 - London, England
26 - Sandra Bullock - 43 - Arlington, VA
26 - Kevin Spacey - 48 - South Orange, NJ

Trivia

Woody Harrelson has received honors from many environmental organizations for his environmental actions that include Rainforest Action Network, PETA, the American Oceans Campaign and the Colorado Hemp Initiative Project. He is known as pro-active campaigner for the legalization of marijuana.

ED MCMAHON

Ed McMahon, who has recently had some money problems that have been a topic of national news coverage, has found himself a job. He was Johnny Carson's longtime Tonight Show right hand man.

He will be delivering a series of funny commercials for Pontiac cars that will be aired on Monday on ABC's late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Associated Press reports.

Mr. McMahon has said “I spent my whole life doing commercials, so here I was back doing a commercial again. It was very comforting. Believe me."

BRITTANY SPEARS

Brittany Spears and her ex husband Kevin Federline have reached an agreement. The custody settlement was signed Friday by a judge, officially ending their nasty two-year custody battle.


In the deal Kevin will retained sole custody of Preston, 2 1/2, and Jayden, 1 1/2. Brittany who is currently allowed two visits and one overnight per week will get an additional sleepover by year's end, barring any setbacks.

Laura Wasser, Brittany’s attorney, has been quoted saying she’s thrilled, "To have more time with her kids has been her motivation to get well. In light of her outstanding conservatorship, she couldn't have asked for anything more."

ANDY DICK

After being arrested early the morning in Murrieta, Caliph at a Buffalo Wild Wings last week, Andy Dick has checked himself into rehab. He was arrested for multiple charges: suspicion of drug possession and sexual battery.

He will battle his addiction for our viewing pleasure on a future reality show called "Sober Living". He will be getting paid for his part in the show. We wish him the best!

BRIGITTE NIELSON

Have you seen Brigitte Nielson lately? She is 45, recently received a facelift, eyelift, liposuction, breast lift and new teeth. She apparently has done this live for a Germen reality TV show.

She has been on a few reality TV shows like the Flavor of Love and a rehab show. Also she had appeared with Flavor Flav on the VH1 Big in '04 Awards.

This former model has appeared in such films as "Red Sonja," "Rocky IV," "Cobra" and "Beverly Hills Cop II." She was married to Sylvester Stallone in the 1980s.

BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE

Apparently two paparazzi went way too far to get pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's family. They were dressed in camo and illegally trespassing on the couples' property.

Their security on the premises tried to escort the men off the property. Then things took a drastic turn and things got violent. One of the paparazzi allegedly started kicking and biting security, saying he had Hepatitis C.

When the police finally arrived, they claimed security attacked him. Both sides have filed legal complaints accusing the other of battery and injury. They have been quoted saying “That they will prosecute this matter to its fullest extent.”

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY SPOTLIGHT

Donald McNichol Sutherland
Born: July 17, 1935
Age: 72
Birth Place: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada





He was the son of Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol) and Frederick McLea Sutherland, who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company. Being raised in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he took an early interest in the entertainment industry, becoming a radio DJ by the time he was fourteen years old. He was a sickly child; he battled polio, rheumatic fever and hepatitis.

He trained in London and worked on stage and television there early in his career, then broke into film with a tiny part in the 1963 British romantic drama The World Ten Times Over. He is an actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. His most notable movie roles included offbeat soldiers war movies as The Dirty Dozen, in 1967, and M*A*S*H and Kelly's Heroes in 1970.

Off-screen, he spent a great deal of time protesting the Vietnam War, and, with the participation of fellow protestor and Klute co-star Jane Fonda, made the anti-war documentary F.T.A. in 1972. Unlike many Canadian actors, Sutherland never became an American citizen.


His first wife was Lois Hardwick she was a retired actress. His second wife, Shirley Douglas, is a well-known actress in Canada. Their son is Kiefer Sutherland, star of TV's 24. His third and last wife is the Canadian actress Francine Racette, best known for her work in numerous French-language films. They moved to France in the early 1980s to raise their family.

CELEB BIRTHDAYS AND TRIVIA

July

13 - Cheech Marin - Age 61 – Los Angeles, CA
13 – Harrison Ford – Age 65 – Chicago, IL
14 – Woody Guthrie – Age 95 – Okemah, OK
14 – Mathew Fox – Age 42 – Crowheart, WY
15 – Forest Whitaker – Age 46 – Longview, TX
15 – Linda Ronstadt – Age 61 – Tucson, AZ
16 – Corey Feldman – Age 36 – Chatsworth, CA
16 – Will Ferrell – Age 40 – Irvine, CA
17 – David Hasselhoff – Age 55 – Baltimore, MD
17 – Donald Sutherland – Age 73 – Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
18 – Vin Diesel – Age 40 – New York City, NY
18 – Kristen Bell – Age 28 - Huntington Woods, MI
19 – Jared Padaecki – Age 25 – San Antonio, TX
19- Anthony Edwards – Age 45- Santa Barbara, CA



Trivia





Harrison Ford films in total have earned approximately 6 billion US dollars in box offices worldwide. So this makes him the second highest box office earner of all time, just behind Tom Hanks.

KATIE HOLMES

Katie Holmes will be back on the tube. She apparently will be staring in an episode of Abs’s Eli Stone.

This should give the rating a nice boost for the show. It is said she is looking forward to the reunion and happy to be on the small screen.

Next month she will be heading to New York for rehearsals for the Broadway play she is starring in. The whole Holmes and Cruise clan is living in New York while the play is running.

JENNY MCCARTHY

Celebrities Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy are trying to use their celebrity power to raise awareness about autism by leading the Green Our Vaccines march and rally in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

Jenny’s 6-year-old son has autism, and she has become a vocal advocate for more autism-related research.


Her best-selling book, "Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism," tells her story about helping her son overcome his systems.

HEATH LEDGER

Monday night was the primer for the movie the Dark Knight. This was also a tribute to the late Heath Ledger. His father Kim and his wife Ines along with Heaths older sister Kate, Heath's mother Sally Bell and her husband also attended.

The director of the movie Christopher Nolan has been quoted saying "What we wanted to do was create a villain that's iconic and terrifying, I think, but also recognizably human," director Christopher Nolan told the Associated Press.
"And I think Heath does that in a very interesting way - I think people are going to be blown away."

Ledger died of an accidental prescription drug overdose at age 28 in January.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Michael J. Fox will be going home so to speak. He will be guest starring on the hit TV show Rescue Me on FX.

He will play the boyfriend of Denise Leary’s ex-wife on the sitcom. It is also said that his character will be confined to a wheel chair.

After leaving Spin City, Michael has been busy with raising awareness for Parkinson’s Diseases. Making guest appearances on Boston Legal and Scrubs. He is also very busy with his wife and kids.

ANGELINA JOLIE

Angelina Jolie gave birth to her twins on Saturday at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France. She gave birth to a baby boy Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarean section. Knox weighed 5.03 lbs, and Vivienne 5 lbs.

Her partner Brad Pitt was by her side for the whole thing he had even cut the babies umbilical cords. It is said they were both calm and were in good spirits for the delivery. The mom and babies will be staying at the hospital for 4-5 days for recovery.



The babies are the fifth and sixth children for Jolie, 33, and partner Brad Pitt, 44, who are already parents to Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY SPOTLIGHT

Kevin Norwood Bacon

Born: July 8, 1958
Age: 50

Birth Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

He was the youngest of six children and raised in a close-knit family in Philadelphia. His mother, Ruth Hilda, taught elementary school and was a liberal activist. His father, Edmund Bacon, was a respected urban planner. Kevin knew that he wanted to be an actor by age 13. He left home four years later to pursue a theater career in New York, where he was one of the youngest students ever admitted to the Circle in the Square Theater School.

He has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988. They were introduced on the set of the PBS version of Landford Wilsons play Lemon Sky and they were married a year later on their farm in Connecticut. They have two children, Travis Bacon (born June23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California) and Sosie Ruth Bacon (born March 15, 1992). Kevin's son, Travis Bacon currently plays in the 4-member rock-punk-funk band Idiot Box. They live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The two insist that neither work on separate projects at the same time. In 1994, when Kevin was shooting The River Wild, he was accompanied at the set by his family. He prioritizes his relationship with his children and his wife, something his father never did for him.

In 1995 he was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history. He was number 61. He was the first choice for the Charlie Sheen part in Being John Malkovich in 1999. He has never lived in Hollywood or Los Angeles. He received the 2,238th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Ivar/Cinespace Nightclubs on September 30, 2003.

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY

Matthew McConaughey and girlfriend of two years Camila Alves have welcomed a son Monday night. The baby, the first child for both, was born at 6:22 p.m. in Los Angeles, weighing in at 7 lbs., 4 oz.

Levi Alves McConaughey is the first child for McConaughey, 38, and girlfriend Camila Alves, 25, a model and handbag designer. The baby's name is another name for the apostle Matthew in the Bible. (The baby's middle name, Alves, is in honor of the actor's girlfriend.)

McConaughey was spotted carrying the baby out of UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, around 3:45 p.m. Thursday. Looking tired, Alves, 24, got in the passenger seat of a car; McConaughey got in the back seat, holding the baby.

CINDY MCCAIN

Love is love when Cindy and John McCain met for the first time they both lied about their age one wanting to be younger and the other one wanted to be older.

When they had applied for a marriage certificate in the state of Arizona they publish it in the newspaper. She has been quoted saying; “Of course when they published the application, we both found out together our true ages."

The result? "It didn't matter anyway," she said. "I felt like he wouldn't be interested in someone as young as me – and he felt I wouldn't be interested in someone that was older, like he was. So it was for true love that we did it. And it's been a funny joke for our kids ever since."

CELEB BIRTHDAYS AND TRIVIA

Celeb Birthdays


JULY

6 - 50 Cent – Age 33 -New York City, NY
6 - George W. Bush - Age 62 - New Haven, CT
7 - Jorja Fox - Age 40 - New York, NY
7 - Ringo Starr Age 68 - Liverpool, England
8 - Kevin Bacon -Age 50 - Philadelphia, PA
8 – Anjelica Houston- Age 57 – Santa Monica, CA
9 - Fred Savage –Age 32 - Glencoe, IL
9 - Tom Hanks – Age 52 – Concord, CA
10 - Jessica Simpson – Age 28 - Abilene, TX
10 - Adrian Grenier – Age 32 – New Mexico U.S
11 - Justine Chambers – Age 38 – Springfield, OH
11 - Sela Ward – Age 52 - Meridian, MS
12 - Topher Grace –Age 30 – New York City, NY
12 - Richard Simmons – Age 60 - Beverly Hills, CA

Trivia


Tom Hank's younger brother Jim doubles for him in the movie Forrest Gump, it is Jim that you see in many of the mindless running scenes. Tom's daughter has a role as an 'extra' in Forrest Gump, she is the little red-haired girl on the school bus that he rides.

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook are getting a divorced. She says he was having a steamy affair with his 18 year old employee, Diana Bianchi.

Both Cook and Brinkley signed a pre-nup agreement so; the trial is over the custody of the two children.

Cooks team has also pointed out publicly that despite Christie’s squeaky clean image, he was her fourth husband. One of her ex husbands include music superstar Billy Joel who immortalized Christie with the song “Uptown Girl”.

This Thursday was the close to Christie's divorce. She won custody of their two children and some property. Her ex-husband Peter Cook will get 2.1 million dollars from the settlement.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY SPOTLIGHT

Daniel Edward Aykroyd
Born: July 1, 1952
Age:56
Birth Place: Ottawa, Ontario, CA



He grew up in the Canadian capital where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd. Was a civil engineer who worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine (nee Gougeon). He has a brother, Peter, who also became a comedy actor. His grandfather was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Aykroyd was raised in the Roman Catholic Church and had intended to become a priest until the age of seventeen. He attended St. Patrick's, where he was briefly expelled from, he dressed up a pig to look like the pope and brought it to school for show and tell. He went on to study criminology and sociology at Carleton University but dropped out before completing. He worked as a mail sorter for Canada's national postal service before he became an actor. He also worked as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and ran an after-hours bar (Club 505) in Toronto for several years. He later went on to gain experience in The Second City comedy troupe and in the National Lampoon stage shows.

He is a Natualized citizen of the United States. In 1983, he married actress Donna Dixon, they both starred in the movies Spies Like Us, Doctor Detroit and The Couch Trip. They have three daughters: Danielle (born 1989), Belle Kingston (born June, 1993), and Stella Irene August (born April, 1998). He was once engaged to Carrie Fisher. He has syndactylism, a birth defect where several digits are fused together. In Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979), he takes his shoes and socks off on-screen, to reveal this anomaly. As a child he was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and Asperger syndrome. The symptoms had mostly subsided by the time he was 14.

Aykroyd was good friends with John Belushi, who recruited him for Saturday Night Live. According to Aykroyd, they met in a speakeasy Aykroyd frequented. He would put on a blues record to play in the background, and it stimulated a fascination with Blues in Belushi, who was primarily a fan of heavy metal! So Aykroyd educated John on the finer points of blues music and, with some encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.

On July 1 (Canada Day) which is also his birthday every year he performs some sort of civic duty. He is very interested in the supernatural and has an extensive collection of books on the subject. He also co-owns the House of Blues chain.

CELEB BIRTHDAYS AND TRIVIA

Celeb Birthdays

JUNE

29 - Sharon Lawrence - 47 - Charlotte, NC
30 – Mike Tyson – 42 – Brooklyn, NY

JULY

1 – Dan Aykroyd – Age 56 – Ottawa, Ontario CA
2 – Lindsay Lohan – Age 22 – New York City, NY
3 – Tom Cruise – Age 46 – Syracuse, NY
3 – Montel Williams – Age 52 – Baltimore, MD
4 – Geraldo Rivera – Age 65 – Brooklyn, NY
4 – Neil Diamond – Age 81 – New York City, NY
5 – Edie Falco – Age 45 – Brooklyn, NY
5 – Huey Lewis – Age 58 – San Francisco, CA

TRIVIA


Tom Cruise has three sisters Marian, Lee Ann and Cass. When he was twelve, his mother left his father, taking Cruise and his sisters with her. He briefly attended a Franciscan seminary in Cincinnati and aspired to become a Catholic priest. He eventually graduated from Glen Ridge High School in New Jersey in 1980. Tom does most things with his left hand except for writing. Tom took up acting after he lost his place on the high school wrestling team due to an injured knee. Tom started the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project to help people who were exposed to chemicals after 9/11. Tom, always an animal lover, has two dogs called Basil and Murray and a cat called Harvey.

HEATH LEDGER

The Australian hometown of the late actor Heath Ledger named a theater in his honor Tuesday for his commitment to acting.

The $87 million, 575-seat Heath Ledger Theater in Perth is a fitting tribute because Ledger was always supportive of other young actors, Western Australia state Premier Alan Carpenter said at a naming ceremony.

Ledger died at 28 of an accidental prescription drug overdose in New York in January.

ANGELINA JOLIE

Angelina Jolie has checked into a hospital in the south of France where she is expected to give birth to her twins.

The seafront Lenval hospital in Nice in the south of France said Tuesday that Angelina Jolie had checked in at its Santa Maria maternity clinic to be kept under doctors' surveillance and get some rest before she gives birth.

Jolie is staying on the hospital's fifth floor which features an "unobstructed view" over the Bay of Angels. She reserved four rooms on the maternity ward, with a bodyguard keeping watch, according to the report.

UMA THURMAN

Uma Thurman is engaged to Swiss multimillionaire, Arpad "Arki" Busson. The engagement ring is said be 9-pluse carats. They began dating last summer after attending a private dinner together.

This will be Umas third marriage. She has two children with her ex Ethan Hawke; she was also married to Gary Oldman. They split in 1992. Busson has two children with his ex Elle Macpherson. They split in 2005.

There has not been a date set for the wedding. But if the wedding will be anything like the ring it will be big and beautiful.