Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, who play husband and wife in an upcoming film, have taken the roles to heart.
Robin Baun of Slate PR, which represents Craig, said on Saturday that the actor and Weisz have married. She did not offer any details. The British actors had been quietly dating.
Craig is the latest James Bond and will star in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Weisz won an Academy Award for The Constant Gardener and starred in The Mummy. The pair costar as a married couple in the unreleased film Dream House.
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The 43-year-old Craig had a longtime girlfriend, Satsuki Mitchell, and has a daughter from a previous relationship. The 41-year-old Weisz was in a relationship with director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), with whom she has a son.
Speaking of children, the house party is over for Lindsay Lohan, at least while she’s on house arrest.
Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner chided Lohan for having rooftop parties at her home while serving house arrest on a probation violation but said the actress hadn’t violated any other rules.
“If you are guilty of some violation of your probation, I don’t see it,” Sautner said. “What you are guilty of is extremely poor judgment.”
Lohan tearfully hugged her attorney, Shawn Holley, after the hearing.
Earlier, the actress told Sautner she wanted to put her court troubles behind her.
“Do you want to get on with your life, tell me,” Sautner asked.
“Yes, I do,” Lohan replied. It was the only time she spoke during the hearing.
The judge said Lohan didn’t violate her probation by testing positive for alcohol during a recent test. The testing requirement, imposed by another judge, ended in February.
Holley said after the hearing that Lohan, 24, had undergone more scrutiny than any other defendant and has been abiding by the terms of her sentence.
“She has done nothing wrong,” Holley said, noting that drinking alcohol is not illegal.
Some of the parties at Lohan’s home in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles were photographed by paparazzi.
“Don’t give people a reason to hate you,” Sautner told her. “Don’t do stupid things that fly in the face of the court’s order.”
Sautner said Lohan can only have one friend over at her house at a time, but she is allowed to host family and business associates.
Sautner ordered Lohan to appear in court on July 21, but said she wouldn’t incur any additional penalties if she abided by the terms of her probation.
Sautner is the fifth judge to handle Lohan’s case since she was arrested twice in 2007. In April, Lohan was found in violation of her probation for taking a necklace without permission.
Lohan is nearing the end of what is expected to be a 35-day term on house arrest on a four-month jail sentence. Sautner made it clear she didn’t approve of the house arrest or Lohan’s early release, but noted it was out of her control.
All of Lohan’s jail stints have been shortened due to jail overcrowding.
Her house arrest has been far from uneventful — authorities went to the actress’ home four days after she began her sentence on May 26 because her ankle monitor reported being out of range.
The battery in Lohan’s ankle monitor was going bad, authorities determined, but also noted in a probation report that she had hosted friends the night before and one of them had spilled a drink on some of the equipment.
Meanwhile, the creator of Michael Myers and Halloween is returning to horror after a 10-year hiatus.
John Carpenter is back to his beloved genre with The Ward, which opens in the US on July 8.
The film stars Amber Heard as woman who finds herself in a mysterious mental institution in the 1960s with no memory of her life before.
Carpenter, who is 63 years old, calls it “a character study.”
“It was the first feature opportunity that I had since 2001,” he says. “It was a limited vision, a limited location, and limited cast. It was something I could do and thought it would be a lot of fun.”
He took a break from filmmaking after 2001’s Ghosts of Mars, saying he was “burned out.”
“I was really tired from making movies,” he says. “I thought, ‘I got to stop for a while. I can’t do this anymore.’ And the public agreed with me, ‘Stop.’”
But he couldn’t stay stopped. He was drawn back to telling stories on the big screen and to horror, which he calls “a universal emotion that we all feel.”
“Every person in every country, every human being alive feels, has the same fears. We all are brothers and sisters together in fear,” he says. “Horror crosses international boundaries in terms of an audience. Sometimes comedy doesn’t travel. Sometimes other dramas don’t travel, they don’t translate. But horror, fear does.”
Rap star Missy Elliott on Friday insisted her battle with the thyroid malady Graves’ disease has not sidelined her career, a day after it was revealed that she has the ailment.
“I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease about three years ago, but it really hasn’t slowed me down at all,” Elliott said in a written statement.
Elliott, who gained fame in the 1990s and whose hit songs include Get Ur Freak On and Work It, has won four Grammys but has not released an album since 2005’s The Cookbook.
Some media reports on Thursday speculated that the long delay since her last album could be due to the illness, first diagnosed in 2008.
The 39 year-old Elliott talks about her Graves’ disease in a taped interview for the VH1 cable show Behind the Music set to air on Wednesday. She describes how it shut down her nervous system and caused her hair to fall out.
But on Friday, Elliott said her condition has recently improved.
“Under my doctor’s supervision, I’ve been off medication for about a year and I’m completely managing the condition through diet and exercise,” she said.
Patients with Graves’ disease have a thyroid gland that overproduces the hormone thyroxine, which can affect a person’s appearance and energy level.
The disease is incurable, but symptoms can be handled with treatment, according to medical organization the Mayo Clinic.
Elliott said on Friday that, far from being inactive, she has since her diagnosis toured Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and written and produced Grammy-nominated songs for Monica, Keyshia Cole and Jazmine Sullivan.
Elliott is working on an album tentatively titled Block Party, with producer and rapper Timbaland.
In other uplifting news, cable network MTV on Friday denied reports it was planning to recast Snooki, The Situation and other young stars of its hit reality show Jersey Shore about hard partying Italian-Americans.
The debut episode of the show’s fourth season, which was shot in Florence, Italy, will air on Aug. 4.
But on Friday, celebrity news outlets TMZ and US Weekly reported, based on anonymous sources, that MTV will recast the show after the stars finish shooting season five, in a reported cost-cutting measure.
MTV quickly denied the reports.
“We love the present cast and their summer adventures have just begun,” an MTV spokesperson said in a statement. “We currently have no plans to recast the show.”
Jersey Shore made an immediate splash when it debuted in 2009 and went on to become a US pop culture phenomenon and MTV’s biggest ever series. Last season was watched by some 7.9 million US viewers a week.
The show stars Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and Jenni “Jwoww” Farley — all of whom have negotiated spin-off deals for other projects. They are known for all-night parties, sexual conquests and sometimes jaw-dropping antics.
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