Not even labor was going to stop Kimora Lee Simmons from tweeting.
The Baby Phat CEO announced her impending delivery and the birth of her new son in the most immediate and modern way possible on Saturday: Twitter.
"It's a boy! Thanks to ...
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Per the Reporter, Scarlett Johansson has joined the ensemble cast of He's Just Not That Into You (playing a pilates instructor who has an affair with a married man), will play a femme fatale in Frank Miller's adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit, and will don a crown as Mary Queen of Scots.... Chris Evans, Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning and Camilla Belle are on board for the supernatural thriller Push.... Jamie Foxx is biopic'ing again, playing homeless musician Nathaniel Anthony Ayers in The Soloist.
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Laurence Fishburne is adapting the best-selling novel The Alchemist into a feature film fancied as "Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones." Fishburne will also direct.... Rapper 50 Cent is in final talks to join Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the crime thriller Righteous Kill, playing a drug dealer who helps track a serial killer.... Djimon Hounsou is a mixed-martial-arts coach in Get Some, an indie drama also starring Sean Faris, Amber Heard (Hidden Palms) and Cam Gigandet (The O.C.).... Alfred Hitchcock's first film, The Lodger, is being remade as a modern-day urban thriller set in Los Angeles.... Oliver Platt will play television exec Bob Zelnick in Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon film.
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There is yet even more kudos for The Departed and Martin Scorsese, which earned best-picture and -director honors from the Florida Film Critics Circle on Tuesday. Sweeping the lead-actor categories, again, were Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), while Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) copped supporting wins. Winning the documentary, foreign-language and animated categories were An Inconvenient Truth, Pan's Labyrinth and Monster House, respectively.
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The Island, the big-budget action flick directed by Michael Bay, had blockbuster written all over it, but finicky moviegoers decide to skip the flick in favor of a certain candy man and some wedding crashers. To date, the film has grossed only $30 million, but we doubt that will keep one of its supporting stars, Djimon Hounsou, down for long. The 41-year-old actor, who was nominated for an Oscar for 2002's In America, tells TVGuide.com that he's already got his next role in his sights.
TVGuide.com: Since you usually tend to do quieter, indie kind of movies, were you skeptical about starring in an action film like The Island?Djimon Hounsou: No, there's nothing wrong necessarily with bein
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