Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount, went on the record today claiming that Paramount was ending its contract with Tom Cruise as a result of his recent behavior. I’m calling B.S. on Redstone and Paramount: he was bitter about the prospect of losing his moneymaker and was playing dirty pool by trying to tarnish Cruise’s public image.

The truth is that Tom Cruise and his business partner, Paula Wagner, were setting up a private financing group that will allow Cruise to make movies without Paramount - most likely at far more favorable financial terms than Paramount was offering him under his current contract. So he was getting ready to leave Paramount anyway…

So how does Redstone react? Like a child throwing a temper tantrum by trying to tarnish Cruise’s image so that he would be so untouchable that the only way Cruise could make further films is to come crawling back to Paramount (under far less favorable terms to be sure)…That’s just nasty below-the-belt business…

The truth is that Tom Cruise is a bona fide box office draw, and there’s no way that a studio would let him go no matter how bizarre his antics. To put it plainly, Sumner Redstone is a liar and even his subordinates are trying to distance themselves from his remarks…Shame on Redstone and shame on Paramount for not disowning his comments..

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August 2006 is going to be a month for Brooke Burke to mark on her calendar as a big one. First, Tommy Lee broke the news to the world on an L.A. radio show last week that she is expecting her third child. Then, she received a surprise proposal Saturday night from former Baywatch star David Charvet.

She says that she and Charvet have known each other for years but only started dating last year during the filming of last year’s “Rock Star: INXS” which she hosts. From the tenor of the article, it seems like this marriage may have some legs other than the soon-to-be baby. Unlike many Hollywood marriages, the couple have known each other for a long time and neither of the two is currently in the harsh spotlight of A-list living.

Given the timing of the pregnancy, I’d expect to see the two tie the knot in the next couple of months before the birth of the baby. Good luck to them both on their engagement and the pregnancy.

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The New York Times reviews Christina Aguilera’s latest release, the double-CD Back to Basics, but it’s difficult to tell if the critic liked the CD or not. Much of the review is a lament over the shrinking celebrity of pop singers and today’s tabloid culture.

From the critic’s comments, the CD set is full of autobiographical lyrics including a couple of odes to her new husband, Jordan Bratman. From where I’m sitting, if it is his influence that has redirected the focus of her career than he has earned whatever accolades she gives him.

While the X-tina persona she put on for some time was kind of sex-personified, she was always a better talent than that. Her voice is far better than that of her contemporaries, and if she wanted to be more than a flash-in-the-pan it was always going to need to be her focus. By toning down the sexuality and turning up her talent, she has returned to discussion to her “freakishly huge voice” rather than her latest outrageous adventure.

The turnabout seemed to come around the same time as her relationship with Bratman, so which came first? I would assume that one of the reasons she is so devoted to him is that he gave her a direction which she was quite obviously lacking at the height of her X-tina phase.

She has the potential to move beyond the limits of the pop genre and become a true vocal superstar if that remains her focus, so I’m glad to see she has refocused herself on becoming more than just your typical pop tart…

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According to an upcoming cover story for Us Weekly, that very well may be the case.

If you parse the statements carefully, it appears that the chronology probably went something like this: Kate Hudson was having marital problems while on the set of You, Me & Dupree, and she turned to Owen Wilson to talk about them. He was attentive and showed concern for her feelings, something she most likely was not getting at home. At some point, the light bulb went off in her head that it was time to leave her marriage because of deficiencies in her relationship with Chris Robinson. Once she had made up her mind that her marriage was over, things developed between she and Wilson.

So, in a technical sense, did Owen Wilson break up Kate Hudson’s marriage? No. But he may well have shown her what was lacking in it. In my experience, no one ever broke up another person’s marriage. Only a marriage already on its way to divorce is vulnerable to outside influences, and at first glance, that appears to have been the case for Hudson.

To my eyes, she and Wilson are a much likely couple than she and Robinson ever made. But whether or not they’re “built to last” remains to be seen, especially in the whirlwind world of Hollywood marriages and divorces…

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If you want the truth, don’t look to Jennifer Aniston or her people. Even so, Jennifer Aniston made a call to People magazine to ’set the record straight’ and deny reports by Us Weekly that she and Vince Vaughn are now engaged.

Given the media storm around her marriage to and break-up with Brad Pitt, one can certainly understand her desire to keep any engagement/marriage to her new beau under wraps. However, her track record of denying obvious truths only to have them revealed days or weeks later isn’t exactly the greatest, so what to make of her latest denial?

My guess? Not a lot. Us Weekly is standing by its story for which it claims to have four different sources. Neither she nor Vince will even admit that they’re seriously dating despite loads of evidence to the contrary, so is it any surprise that she would deny something as serious as an engagement?

The smart money says the wedding bells will ring before they even admit to being engaged….

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