Ya'll ain't ready for these kids!

Finally! There's stuff happening in the entertainment world, just in time for the weekend! While I'm a little frustrated that all of this stuff is happening on a Friday (which tends to be one of my busier days) I'm also relieved that there's finally something to write about aside from custody battles and movie trailers.
The biggest news that broke today was the confirmation that People Magazine bought the first pictures of the Brangelina twins (Hello Magazine got the international rights for the pictures) for an undisclosed sum (rumored to be between $11 million to $14 million). Here are the details:

Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon are, at long last, ready for their closeups. Their outlandishly overpriced, highly anticipated, paparazzi-thwarting closeups. As expected, the deep pockets over at People magazine won the bidding war for the U.S. and Canadian rights to the twins' first photoshoot, with Hello! magazine snagging the international exclusive. Though there's no official word on how much the publications shelled out to show the world Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's genetically blessed double act, or whether the newborns can out-cute big sis Shiloh's People debut, sources have placed the camera coup at $14 million. Vivienne and Knox, not yet one month old having entered the world to much fanfare on July 12, will make their cover debuts on both People and Hello! on Monday. (Source E Online)

You can get your first glance of the cover of People on their website on Sunday at 4 pm PST, so set your alarms and get put it in your date books. I know I for one will be sitting in front of my laptop all day Sunday to make sure I don't miss the unveiling of the world's most genetically blessed twins. I wonder if there will be a picture of their also genetically blessed older sister Shiloh with them. I bet there's at least one family portrait. Of course, Brad and Angie have made sure that the world knows that the millions of dollars they get paid for a picture of the blessed ones with go straight to charity, it will not past Go it will not collect interest. Oddly enough, People Magazine had no story about the pictures, just a banner on the top of their website promoing the unveiling on Sunday. Maybe they're a little ashamed of the kind of dough they shelled out for this particular photo shoot. You know they spent more than the rumored amount on making sure those babies are photo ready.

Other happy news comes from someone a bit lower key than Brangelina and their photogenic brood. Actress Heather Matarazzo announced her engagement today. Here are the specifics:

Heather Matarazzo, best known for playing an awkward seventh grader in Welcome to the Dollhouse and then an awkward high school student opposite Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries, is engaged. Matarazzo’s publicist, Lisa Jammal, tells E! News exclusively the 25-year-old actress “is engaged to Caroline Murphy. They’ve been together for over a year.” And because the couple does not have a specific “male or female role,” they both proposed! “It was really cute. First Heather proposed to Carolyn, then Carolyn proposed to her,” says Jammal. She goes on to say the two are very supportive of each other and are totally in love—“it was love at first sight.” (Source E Online)

Very cute. Congratulations to the newly engaged couple! I love it when celebrities seem genuinely happy with their partners and aren't just doing it for publicity.

On to less pleasant news, the Shia LeBeouf controversy just won't go away it seems. The kid's still in the hospital, but that doesn't stop the media from getting quotes from as many people around him as possible, even though the sheriff's has already ruled that the accident wasn't his fault, there's still that pesky DUI. Access Hollywood pestered Transformers director Michael Bay into giving them a quote. As always, he was ever so tactful:

Shia LaBeouf may have been arrested for DUI after Sunday's car accident – but Transformers director Michael Bay insists the actor was not impaired. "He was not drunk," Bay tells Access Hollywood in an interview slated to air Friday. "He was drinking hours and hours before." But the director – currently working with LaBeouf on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – claims that he did warn his young star about road safety shortly before the crash. "We had a little heart to heart the week before when he bought a brand new motorcycle," Bay told the TV show. "I [said], 'Dude! You cannot ride that motorcycle! If you crash, you put 1,500 people out of work.' He said, 'Ok, I won't ride it, I won't ride it. I'll just drive my truck.' (Source People)

Well, we can see how well just driving his truck around went. And I'm glad that he was drinking hours and hours before the accident. While this particular interview doesn't give me much hope for Shia, statements made by the police at the time of the accident do seem a bit suspect. I don't believe they ever did a breathalyzer test, probably because his hand was all mashed up, so they arrested him on the basis of his "intoxicated behavior". Could that behavior have been shock? Will know soon enough I'm sure.

Well, that's about all for me today. I've got more stuff to do here today and I'll be broadcasting live tomorrow night from the final concert of the 39th annual Summer Festival at Robert Mondavi Winery. UB40 will be performing, so it should be a pretty good show. Kellie will be broadcasting live tomorrow afternoon from the Think Green World Music Festival as well, which should also be pretty fun. You can get more info on that concert here.

Its going to be another busy weekend, so I'm out of here.

Later!

Bittersweet Events

What started out as an uplifting post today has kind of turned into a downer! When I came to work this morning, I was all excited about writing about the Branglina twins and speculating about how much PEOPLE Magazine would pay Brad and Angie for the first pictures of the two, undoubtedly gorgeous, babies. But when I returned from lunch, I was greeted with some sad news. I think I'll just start with the sad and move on to the happy, in hopes that I will cheer up by the time this post is completely written.
So the saddest news so far today has to be the Sarah Silverman-Jimmy Kimmel split. The couple, who have been dating for five years, were never afraid to share too much about their relationship with the world. I fear we'll never see another viral video about fornicating with Matt Damon from this pair again. That alone is enough to break my heart. But what makes it worse is the fact that I really liked them as a couple and thought that they were perfect together. Here's the official story:

The next time Sarah Silverman makes a video about which celebrity she's f--king, Jimmy Kimmel may not find it quite so funny. The late-night talk-show host and the bawdy object of his affection have separated after five funnybone-tickling, viral video-goofing years, E! News has confirmed. "Jimmy and Sarah are no longer dating...and will have no further comment," Lewis Kay and Amy Zvi, the respective reps for Kimmel and Silverman, said in a joint statement today. (Source E Online)

I'm serious, this news totally depressed me! Both Sarah and Jimmy are really funny people and I thought they really complimented each other's personalities. Sigh. Well, lets remember the good times.

And Jimmy's rebuttal:

Ah, the good old days back in the winter of 2008. Will things ever be the same?
Moving on to less depressing news. Well, less depressing if your not Josh Brolin or anyone attached to the filming of W. It seems the cast and crew of W, the Oliver Stone movie about President George W. Bush that's currently filming in Louisiana, went out to party on Friday night and got themselves into a spot of trouble. Here's the low down:
Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and five others were arrested early Saturday morning in Shreveport, La., in connection with a bar fight. Brolin and Wright – who are reportedly in town shooting Oliver Stone's President George W. Bush film, W – were arrested at the Stray Cat bar after a call was made regarding a rowdy patron, Shreveport police Sgt. Willie Lewis told the Associated Press. Brolin was booked and posted $334 cash bond, according to the Times of Shreveport. Brolin's rep could not be reached for comment. (Source PEOPLE Magazine)
While this isn't really a big deal, I found this story interesting for a couple of reasons. One, it takes place in Shreveport, where I spent quite a bit of time in my college years. Mainly in the airport and on the casino boats (which are pretty overrated in my opinion), but I still spent a bit of time there and tend to single out any story that takes place there. The other thing I found funny about this story (aside from Brolin's mugshot, which is pretty hilarious all on its own) was the fact that he only had to pay $334 to get out of jail. This makes me think that the police weren't terribly interested in arresting him in the first place and if he had just kept his mouth shut he would never have been subjected to the ridicule his mugshot has been given by the bloggerazzi. Maybe he'll think twice before doing that again.
And finally, the big news of the weekend, which we will be hearing about constantly for the next three months to a year, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the proud parents of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. Here are just some of the details:
Brad Pitt was at Angelina Jolie's side as she gave birth to a son and daughter Saturday at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France, PEOPLE has confirmed. "The babies are doing well. The operation went just perfectly," Dr. Michel Sussmann told PEOPLE Sunday. "Angelina is in very good spirits. Brad Pitt was at her side. He was there and all was well." Sussmann confirmed the Nice-Matin newspaper report that Jolie gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarean section on Saturday night. Knox weighed 5.03 lbs, and Vivienne 5 lbs. (Source PEOPLE Magazine).


So I was a week off on my Brangelina twin prediction and the media was three days off on theirs (there were numerous reports circulating that Angelina wasn't supposed to give birth until this Tuesday so that her doctor could celebrate Bastille Day. Guess she was done cooking sooner than everyone thought.) Since the birth of the golden children on Saturday night, there have been at least three press conferences and numerous web stories about this, that and the other. I've seen at least three different stories on the meaning of the twins' names (I never realized that all of the Jolie-Pitt male children's names end in X, but its true. Maddox, Pax and now Knox, I wonder what that's all about) and what effect these names will have on naming trends in the next few years. And, of course, everyone is speculating how much the first baby pictures will go for. Many are projecting between $10 and $20 million, which Brangelina will donate to charity. How surreal it would be to grow up knowing that your baby pictures could have bought a third world country. Something tells me the Jolie Pitt children's lives will never be as "normal" as their parents insist they are. Seriously, $20 million for a baby picture! Which will probably be taken by Annie Leibovitz and will probably end up costing PEOPLE or OK or whoever forks the money over another $2 million just to get them produced and to keep them from leaking on to the Internet before the magazine hits the news stands. Craziness I tell you, just pure craziness.

Well another Monday is almost over and we're off and running again into the week. Its been a crazy week or so for me. Aside from work and our adorable kitten (who is not as angelic as her name implies), my husband also had his wisdom teeth taken out last week. So its been Nurse Tracy at your service since last Thursday. Though, I must say that he is a pretty good patient. He doesn't complain much and was already back at work by Friday. And he humored me and let me be the over protective wife for a while. He's had a pretty fast recovery and was able to make it to the Dave Koz and David Benoit concert at Robert Mondavi Winery this past Saturday where we were broadcasting live. It was a pretty good time, if only for the amusing commentary we kept going throughout the concert. If you haven't checked out the Summer Festival at Robert Mondavi Winery, I highly suggest you do. I'll be at all the rest of the concerts this season (there are three left) and the line up is only getting better! You can get all the info at robermondaviwinery.com. Here's a few pictures from the evening. The guy with the puffy cheeks is my husband (isn't he cute!).




That's pretty much it for me today. There are still at least two more celebrities that are due to pop any day now, so I should have lots to write about this week.
Later!