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Impossibly adorable couple John Mayer and Minka Kelly enjoyed some courtside seats for last night’s Knicks game at MSG alongside Ellen Pompeo and her fiance. Unfortunately, the NY Knicks lost to the Miami Heat by just a few points, but that didn’t get in the way of John and Minka’s fun and eye-gazing. Love her blue sweater, btw. Minka’s Friday Night Lights took a little while to really get rolling this season, but is totally back to its excellent self (yay). Thankfully Minka seems like a little more down to earth (and a little less preachy) than her on screen counterpart. Plus, how could you not just love her with John? Don’t they look like college students coming home from the library together?

Lots more of John and Minka looking so adorable together, and Ellen with her man too so

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She’s been doing some crying!

The day after news of her split with Prince Harry was made public, Chelsy Davy attempted to go back to business as usual.

On Monday, the Zimbabwe-born beauty was seen walking to university with some friends.

According to the local papers, Chelsey is fed up with life in Leeds and plans to head back to her home in Africa.

Sad. Lonely. And no longer a future princess!

[Image by BARM via Fame Pictures.]

Paris Hilton appeared at JJ Mahoney’s in South Korea over the weekend. It looks like she may have some lipstick on her teeth. I bet Paris was pissed when she saw these because, well, now she just looks like an idiot. Had it not been for the lipstick, these shots would have been a work of art. You could’ve put them in a museum, that’s how non-retarded she looked. I’m always amazed at the general elegance of a woman awkwardly posing with her arm straight up against a wall. It’s almost like something out of a Da Vinci. You know, if he had the foresight to paint a trampy blonde fixing the crotch of her dress. But I guess he wasn’t such a genius after all.

As your Hollywood employer has probably decided that this Veterans Day doesn’t warrant the show of respect of a day off (strike-related layoffs notwithstanding), celebrate the sacrifices of those who’ve served our country in the most meaningful way available to you: by observing a moment of silence as you review the weekend’s box office numbers:

1. Bee Movie - $26 million
Jerry Seinfeld has performed so many acts of promotional heroism (such as staring into the cold, dead eyes of the world’s worst-prepared interviewer and emerging with his sanity intact) in trying to raise the public’s awareness of Bee Movie that we’d almost forgotten the daring stunt that kicked off his journey: that death-defying high-wire act at Cannes that easily could have ended in tragedy for either the comedian or his studio stunt-mogul had their ziplines snapped or harnesses failed, sending them to a grisly–but well-publicized–demise in front of thousands of international movie fans on that resort-town beach. After the jump, relive the historic Flight Of The World’s Richest Bumblebee:

2. American Gangster - $24.319 million
While former Harlem drug kingpin Nicky Barnes thought Cuba Gooding Jr. did the best he could with an underwritten part, he still had enough issues with his portrayal as a too-minor character in American Gangster that he decided to phone in some complaints from an undisclosed location in the witness protection program. Barnes did, however, refrain from griping that superproducer Brian Grazer couldn’t convince Universal to put up the money to get Don Cheadle for the supporting role, greatly increasing the chances of an Oscar nomination.

3. Fred Claus - $19.225 million
What happened? Reimagining a four-year old Christmastime blockbuster with a watered-down, family friendly Vince Vaughn seemed like such a no-brainer for the holiday season. Perhaps there are only so many “normal-sized person having difficulty sleeping in a tiny elf-bed” jokes the moviegoing public will pay to see.

4. Lions For Lambs - $6.71 million
We’re willing to hold off asking the uncomfortable question of whether or not Tom Cruise still qualifies as a movie star until the release of Valkyrie, as the extent of the audience’s willingness to embrace the actor while borrowing Hitler’s haircut seems like it will provide a more accurate indication of his box office viability than watching him play smarmy in a talky political drama.

8. P2 - $2.20 million
Virtually all of the garage-bound horror flick’s box office take came from within the Los Angeles city limits, where audiences were eager to relive the blood-chilling fear they’ll die in the cars that they experience each time they’re stranded inside The Grove’s Parking Structure of the Damned following an ill-considered weekend-night trip to the multiplex.

• Weekend Box Office November 8-4, 2007 [Box Office Mojo]

David Copperfield is currently under investigation for allegedly raping a woman at his private resort in the Bahamas. David has an elaborate system set-up with his employees to help him meet women. This system is so detailed that David Copperfield provides his workers with an instruction manual for locating “scorpions” which is a code used for women the magician is particularly interested in. TMZ reports:

The document describes how the assistants need to be heads-up for attractive women whom David can meet backstage after the performance. We’re told the plan is to keep boyfriends and husband in the arena, adding “from time to time, boyfriends and husbands will give us a hard time and refuse to stay. If that is the case, try your best to get them to stay and refer to the “What to Say” sheet for help.”

And it gets creepier.

According to the document, “On occasion David will have you pull in both scorpions even if he is only interested in one of them, just for comfort.”

Another part of the document sounds eerily similar to the circumstances surrounding the rape allegations against David Copperfield:

The assistants are told to sell the women before David arrives backstage. They’re supposed to say: “Do you know that David has recently bought some islands in the Bahamas? Well they are BEAUTIFUL and we are doing a lot of project (sic) for these islands: Ads, TV, Radio and many other promotions. So we like (sic) to keep in touch with you in case there is a job in the future we think you would be interested in.”

Maybe instead of all the cloak and dagger bullshit, David Copperfield should just end his show with a simple offer: “Hey, I’m freaking rich beyond belief and recently purchased my own set of islands in the Bahamas. If you’re a young woman no older than thirty and is into that sort of thing, we should totally do it backstage. Thanks for coming out tonight, folks. Have a wonderful evening.” See, it works on so many levels. It’s simple. It’s honest. And, I dunno, no one has to fly twelve hours home to take a rape kit. Sorry, David Copperfield, but that’s usually not a cool way to end a date. At least not the first one.

Between making playlists for charity, speaking about her various causes or imparting life lessons, it’s hard to believe that Natalie Portman has time for a boyfriend. But here she is being all cute and cozy in NYC with her man (and co-founder of Rag & Bone) Nathan Bogle last week. We first saw these two back in September at the US Open and since then Miss Portman has been all over the world. I’m sure she’s got men fawning over her everywhere she goes, but it looks like when she’s ready for some time in NYC there’s only one guy on her mind.

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It has just been confirmed….

Daniel Radcliffe will be reprising his role as the horsey-loving lead in Equus for American audiences.

The revival of Peter Shaffer’s play will open on Broadway next year.

All the perverts in New York are eagerly awaiting for tickets to go on sale!

By the time you read these words, the striking members of the WGA will have already taken their positions at the entrances of every studio lot in the city, hoping that the inspiring sight of scores of red-shirted, spindly armed picketers (unless some Teamsters decided to join the first-day mix and add some muscle to the walkout) toting eye-catching signs will inspire at least a view of their peers to turn their cars around and head home in solidarity. We begin, as has been our custom, with a round-up of strikes news, leading off with the dueling™ WGA and AMPTP statements explaining why yesterday’s last-minute talks ended in not-unexpected failure:

· At yesterday’s marathon Oh, Shit, This Strike Thing Is Really Going To Happen Tomorrow, Isn’t It? meeting, the Guild withdrew the DVD proposal the Companies called a “stumbling block” to reaching an agreement, but the studios are still making a variety of demands that would effectively establish the internet as their residual-free happy place, where they wouldn’t have to pay to stream video of theatrical product, can reuse movies and TV shows for “promotional” purposes, and have a window of free online reuse of content that “makes a mockery of any residual.” [WGA.org]

· The Companies blame their exit from yesterday’s bargaining session on the Guild’s refusal to put off the strike while they were still in last-second negotiations, a situation so frustrating that AMPTP president J. Nicholas Counter III was moved to issue this haiku in lieu of his usual statement: “Writers, so greedy/decided to strike, even though/talks were ongoing.” [AMPTP.org]
· If you’re looking to collect your own red t-shirt and picket sign as souvenirs of Writers Strike 2007, here’s a list of the locations where the writers will be gathered for eight hours a day until the strike ends. [WGA.org]
· Whereas Hollywood was once a place full of love and warmth, the strike has hardened the hearts of studio executives now forced to make dispassionate decisions based solely on efficiency and profitability: “It has become about cold, hard business, where everyone is going to look at all their commitments and eliminate the ones that aren’t necessary. Everyone will be reshuffling their businesses to make them run more efficiently, and it is going to happen fast and hard. That goes for studios and talent agencies.” [Variety]
· The United Hollywood blog warns its fellow writers to be mentally prepared for the psychological warfare to come, advising them not to believe the inevitable whispers that studio execs have pledged to hand each picketer a Hefty bag full of hundred dollar bills if they’ll return to work: “Expect to hear rumors that get your hopes up, only to be dashed when the truth comes out. It’s an emotional roller coaster ride intended to demoralize the troops - understand that it is merely strategy. Move on - full steam ahead.” [United Hollywood]
· Conflicted TV showrunners struggle with the reality of having to cross picket lines to perform their non-writing duties. One proffered solution: doing their editing from home, eliminating the need to drive on to the picketed lots. [THR]
· Network and studio execs would like writers to know that if they don’t come to their senses and drop this silly strike business, they may have no choice but to scrap most of pilot season. [Variety]

First off, lose those damn boots already!

Secondly, Britney Spears went shopping for chandeliers (WTF?) in LA this past weekend while she left her kids in the car.

Yes, they were supervised, but still. Come on!

She couldn’t find any other time to shop for fucking chandeliers????

Unfitney doesn’t have that much time with her kids per week. She should make the most of it!

And that poor baby. Look at his teeth! And his dirty face!

What does the court-appointed supervisor think of this?????

[Images via WENN.]

Guess who is waiting at the valet?

The tour is almost over. Thankfully!

J. Lo needs to focus on being an expectant mom.

The singer/actress, who looks five to six months pregnant, is rumored to be carrying twins. And she can’t hide that massive bump any longer!

Here is La Lopez and children-to-be at the American Airlines Arena in Miami on Friday night.

She should have two little girls. Two mini divas!

[Images via Mavrix Online.]

Looks like there is at least one celebrity these days who doesn’t mind admitting the obvious. We suspected Cate Blanchett was carrying her third child and you all seemed to agree the rumors were to be believed. In Sydney at the premiere of her latest film Elizabeth: The Golden Age Cate was asked if she was expecting and she said, “Yes, I am. It’s early days yet. It’s due in April.” She referred to her expected newborn as “it” in response to not knowing the sex since the press was already starting rumors that she was having a boy. Congrats to the beautiful actress and her growing family.

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The Spice Girls debuted their new video this afternoon on The Today Show website. And, let me tell you, girl power is back, baby! If you’re a woman out there who doesn’t think you can stand around in a room, or, I dunno, sit in chair, this video is for you. Consider yourself empowered, lady. If these five friends can do it, so can you. Sure one of them has crazy sick abs that resemble my own manly set, but, hey, Ginger Spice just had a baby. And you can relate to that. She’s just trying to show you that, unless you turn that prego tummy into Tyler Durden, there’s really no point in living. Girl power!

Tyra Banks is devoting her entire show on Monday to the vagina. Yes, that’s right. The female vagina. It will be an entire hour-long episode about the ins and outs of the mysterious lady part. People reports:

“I have wanted to do this show for two years,” says Banks, 33. “I know for a lot of women talking about what is going on in our bodies is extremely difficult, but it is incredibly important.”
She added, “We should be able to talk to our daughters, sisters, mothers and friends about our bodies and not be embarrassed. I hope after this show women will not be ashamed about what’s up down there.”

Great. So now I know what’s really been on Tyra Banks’ mind all these years. Burdened with this information how am I supposed to enjoy reruns of America’s Next Top Model? I’ll be sitting there wondering if Tyra was really upset when Caridee insulted Nigel or was she just thinking about vaginas? When Janice Dickinson spoke was Tyra actually listening or was she noticing that Janice’s collagen lips look like a huge vagina? And how would she make a segment out of that for her show? Haven’t you heard? It’s about vaginas.