Former Suddenly Susan star Brooke Shields returns to NBC on March 29 playing Nina's (Wendie Malick) fresh-off-the-farm baby sister on Just Shoot Me. That same episode, viewers will get to choose one of three scenarios for the final scene by voting at JustShootMe.NBCi.com.
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Actress Ann Sothern, who played the lead role in the 1939 film Maisie and supplied the voice of an automobile in the 1960s sitcom My Mother the Car, died of heart failure Thursday at the age of 92... Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, gave birth to a son, Jackson Slade Pasdar, on Thursday in Austin, Tex. This is the first child for Maines and husband, actor Adrian Pasdar (Mysterious Ways). — Michael Ausiello
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Hollywood may not be able to use Steven Seagal as a punchline anymore. The actor's seemingly dead career roared back to life over the weekend when his latest film, Exit Wounds, entered the box office at No. 1 and ranked as his biggest opening to date. The action-comedy — co-starring rapper DMX — grossed $19 million from Friday to Sunday. Debuting in second place was the World War II drama Enemy at the Gates, which raked in $13.6 million. After two weeks at No. 1, the Brad Pitt–Julia Roberts caper The Mexican slipped to third with $8.1 million. Rounding out the top five were See Spot Run (No. 4 with $5.2 million) and 15 Minutes (No. 5 with $4.4 million). Meanwhile, Oscar contenders Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic crossed the $100 million mark.
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Mexican star Brad Pitt reveals that he and wife Jennifer Aniston currently are in talks to expand their family. "The planning is under way, negotiations are taking place, and I'm willing to predict a successful conclusion," Pitt told Britain's Sunday Express magazine.
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Meg Ryan insists that her brief romance with Gladiator hunk Russell Crowe was not behind her split with Dennis Quaid. "My marriage with Dennis had already fallen apart before I met Russell," the actress told the German edition of InStyle magazine. "It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols." (Where's the fun in that?)
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Madonna's at it again. The video for the pop diva's latest single, "What It Feels Like for a Girl," will debut Tuesday at 11:30 pm/ET simultaneously on MTV and VH1. But due to the video's violent content, that's the only time the sister networks will air it. Directed by Madonna's husband, Guy Ritchie, the video features an angry woman on a crime spree. Madonna's spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, told The Associated Press that "there are many other possibilities that we can explore, but our first choice has always been for VH1 and MTV to play this video, and more than once." In 1990, MTV refused to air Madonna's "Justify My Love" video because of its sexual content.
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UPN has ordered a high school comedy pilot created by a 19-year-old newcomer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Whatever — the brainchild of actor-writer Jarrett Grode, who penned the script shortly after graduating from high school in 1999 — revolves around the daily grind of a 10th grader. — Michael Ausiello and Daniel R. Coleridge
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The jury in Sean "Puffy" Combs's trial for bribery and gun possession wrapped a second day of deliberations on Thursday without handing down a verdict. Jurors wrote the judge they were "very exhausted, and any further deliberations would be counter-productive."
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Kevin Costner says that the late Princess Diana was "genuinely excited" about co-starring with him in a sequel to his hit film The Bodyguard. "I had talked with Princess Di a couple of times," the actor told British talk show host Michael Parkinson in an interview to be aired Saturday. "I explained to her that I was going to try to make this movie for her, and she was genuinely interested." Costner — who reportedly received the final draft of the script the same day Diana was killed in an August 1997 Paris car crash — admits he was "devastated by it. She was a very graceful woman and it is a great loss to all of us." The original 1992 film co-starred Whitney Houston and grossed $121 million.
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The widow of beloved baby book author Dr. Benjamin Spock scrapped plans to scatter his ashes at sea on Thursday, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Mary Morgan, 58 — who was 40 years her late husband's junior — said she found media coverage of the event too intrusive. Spock, who wrote the 1946 bestseller Baby and Child Care, passed away three years ago at 94.
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