During their downtime with the strike going on, it seems more stars are getting ready to start or grow families. Currently on production hiatus, 24 star Mary Lynn Rajskub is now pregnant with what we expect is a mini computer genius. It will be her first baby with live-in boyfriend Matthew Rolph.... Ethan Hawke and girlfriend Ryan Shawhughes are expecting their first child together. Hawke already has two children with ex-wife Uma Thurman.... People reports that Paris Hilton, meanwhile, had a "sleepover" with Nicole Richie and baby Harlow, who Paris said looks like both parents. Upon seeing the baby, the typically stolid Hilton said, "I was crying. I am so happy for [Madden and Richie]." — Anna Dimond
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• Jessica Simpson and Cowboys QB Tony Romo on Saturday "flirted up a storm" at Hollywood hot spot Teddy's, cozying up to one another in a secluded booth and later locking lips in the middle of the club, says People. Romo recently has been linked to Sophia Bush and (being a warm-blooded male) Britney.• Brody Jenner is denying that he and Hills hottie Lauren "LC" Conrad were ever romantic, telling People, "It's never really been like that."• Ethan Hawke has been keeping secret a two-year-long romance with his children's former nanny, a source tells the New York Daily News, pointing out that the affair didn't begin until after Hawke's marriage to Uma Thurman ended.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm's Cheryl Hines will make her feature-directing debut with the indie Serious Moonlight, from a screenplay by the late Adrienne Shelly.... Also per Variety, Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal are a New York City couple in crisis in Mammoth.... From the Reporter, Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke play Boston-bred thugs in the true-life crime drama Real Men Cry. Amanda Peet is Hawke's missus.... Cuba Gooding Jr. is a paramilitary operative who discovers a conspiracy in the action thriller The Way of War.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Grindhouse's Robert Rodriguez is in talks to helm a live-action take on The Jetsons, and has also met with Will Ferrell to discuss a big-screen Land of the Lost.... Ethan Hawke investigates a year 2017 plague which turns people into vampires in Daybreakers.... Hilary Swank is hunted by vampires in a film version of the John Marks novel Fangland, says the New York Post.... Per Variety, Stanley Tucci and Jane Krakowski have come on board Abigail Breslin's American Girl feature, while Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in talks.... Disney has grabbed rights to the life story of Triple Crown winner Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery.
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In an interview appearing in this weekend's Parade magazine, Ethan Hawke hints at the circumstances surrounding his 2004 split from wife Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children, ages 8 and 4. Confessing that he "never wanted to be too hot,” but instead prefers to fly under the radar, Hawke says being wed to another celebrity took its toll. "I didn’t like being famous when I was single, and what it did to my celebrity status to be married to another famous person was a huge pressure," he shares. "One I didn’t enjoy." Citing half of today's most headline-making duo, Hawke marvels, "I don’t know how Brad Pitt does it.”
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