A man who would only identify himself as a hitchhiker from New York sits on a street corner, Saturday, April 22, 2006, in the Georgetown section of Washington. The man said lots of people take a look at his sign referring to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and some leave spare change.
Namibian authorities are clamping down on journalists trying to follow Brad Pitt, pregnant Angelina Jolie and her two adopted children after the couple asked for some privacy, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
South Africa's Sunday Times said the couple's security chief gave a local journalist a statement asking that they be left alone.
"We love Africa and to be here in Namibia with our family is very special for us," the statement said. "To the local people who have been so kind and gracious, thank you for making us feel at home.
"As for the press, we kindly ask for privacy so that we can enjoy this beautiful country with our children."
The statement was signed by both Jolie and Pitt.
The Sunday Times said its own photographer and three French photographers were ordered to leave Namibia or face arrest. Journalists require accreditation to work in the country.
Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula defended the move, saying the couple should be left alone.
"This lady is expecting," he told the Sunday Times. "You guys are harassing her. Why don't you allow her some privacy? Harassment is not allowed in Namibia.
"If a person says they don't want to be photographed then, of course, that person deserves protection."
The couple and their entourage are staying at the luxury Burning Shores resort hotel between the scenic old colonial German town of Swakopmond and the resort of Walvis Bay, in an area where the desert sand dunes descend spectacularly to the sea.
Despite tight security, photographers have managed to snap images of Hollywood's hottest couple.
The Sunday Times said Jolie and Pitt were spotted last week at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet with her children, Maddox and Zahara, and then went to a pet store to buy a turtle.
They also visited a jewelry shop.
A Namibian official said last week that Jolie might have Pitt's baby in the southern African nation.
Jolie, who starred with Pitt in the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," was first in Namibia when filming the movie "Beyond Borders" in 2002.
Namibia, rich in diamonds and strategic metals and home to 1.8 million people, gained independence from neighboring South Africa after a 23-year war in 1990 and has since been ruled by a democratically elected government.
The country is a popular tourist destination for South Africans for its brilliant scenery and teeming wildlife.
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Super Model Arrested for Airplane Uproar!
May Anderson
Supermodel May Anderson, who’s partied with the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Nicky Hilton, has been arrested for throwing a hissy fit on a trans-Atlantic flight and hitting a male flight attendant.
The leggy, 23-year-old blonde, who’s modeled for Victoria’s Secret and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was arrested in Miami when she stepped off her Martinair flight from Amsterdam on Friday, April 21.
The allegedly intoxicated Anderson was “loud and disruptive all throughout the flight,” according to police, before she “violently” struck the flight attendant.
She “continued her belligerent, loud and violent behavior” even after she was met by cops at the airport, police say.
She was charged with battery, resisting arrest and disorderly intoxication. While the charges are misdemeanors, Anderson is not a U.S. citizen, so she was being held until authorities could check her immigration documents.
A rep for Elite North America, Anderson’s agency, says they’ve never had a problem with the model. Anderson has been romantically linked with actor Stephen Dorff and Jackass star Steve-O.
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WEEK AHEAD: Kelly Monaco Hosts Daytime Emmys
Kelly Monaco
Dancing with the Stars champ Kelly Monaco is tackling a new challenge: hosting the Daytime Emmys on Friday.
TUESDAY, APRIL 25: The Tribeca Film Festival opens its fifth year with the controversial film United 93, which details the chaos behind the September 11 flight that crashed in Pennsylvania. In with the indie offerings at founder Robert De Niro's 12-day movie extravaganza, new dad Tom Cruise's mega-budget Mission: Impossible III will make its world premiere on May 3. The festival runs through May 7.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26: Let the conspiracy theories begin anew: Invasion, ABC's sci-fi drama about a town recovering from the aftermath of a hurricane, is back from hiatus (ABC at 10 p.m. ET). In the new episode, park ranger Russell (Eddie Cibrian) realizes his job may be on the line because of his investigation of the alien-human hybrids. And could another storm be on the way?
THURSDAY, APRIL 27: American Idol singer Lisa Tucker didn't make it past the Final 10, but she's not giving up on her showbiz dreams: The 16-year-old from Anaheim, Calif., is guest-starring as – who else? – herself on The O.C. (FOX at 9 p.m. ET).
FRIDAY, APRIL 28: First, she conquered Dancing with the Stars. Now Kelly Monaco is taking on hosting duties at the Daytime Emmys, which for the first time will move from New York to L.A.'s Kodak Theatre. The General Hospital star won't just be helping to hand out awards: She's also up for best actress for her soap opera. The event will be broadcast live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
NEW THIS WEEK:• Movies (now in theaters): The Sentinel, starring Michael Douglas, Eva Longoria and Kiefer Sutherland; American Dreamz, starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Mandy Moore; Silent Hill, starring Radha Mitchell and Sean Bean; Standing Still, starring Mena Suvari and James Van Der Beek.
Music (in stores Tuesday): Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions; Goo Goo Dolls, Let Love In; Rihanna, A Girl Like Me; Streets, Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living; Amel Larrieux, Morning; MercyMe, Coming Up to Breathe; Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris, All the Roadrunning.
• DVDs (in stores Tuesday): Match Point; Shopgirl; Aeon Flux; Casanova; Tristan & Isolde; Law and Order: Trial by Jury – The Complete Series; Apollo 13.
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Nicole & Keith Go Hand-in-Hand
Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban enjoyed a low-key but romantic Easter in Southampton, N.Y., where they "walked hand-in-hand" through town, says a source.
There was nothing high-wattage about their day: The actress – who was dressed down in jeans and had her hair tucked underneath a white baseball cap – and her country-star beau stopped in to Herrick's Hardware Store and just strolled around Main Street for the afternoon. "They looked like they were having a good time and enjoying each other's company."
So, why was Kidman in the area? She's filming writer-director's Noah Baumbach still-untitled dramedy costarring Jack Black and Baumbach's wife, Jennifer Jason Leigh.
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Actor DiCaprio Suffers Minor Leg Injury
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio speaks at a news conference called by Global Green USA in San Francisco, in this file photo from March 22, 2005. DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday. The accident happened Friday on the set of "Blood Diamond".
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio suffered a minor leg injury while filming in Mozambique, his publicist said Saturday.
The accident happened Friday on the set of "Blood Diamond," Ken Sunshine said in a statement. He provided no details.
DiCaprio "received medical attention and was back at work" Saturday, Sunshine said.
As a precaution, he was flown to the Nelspruit Medi-Clinic in neighboring South Africa for X-rays, the Johannesburg-based newspaper The Citizen reported. He was accompanied by a medic and bodyguards, the paper said.
Hospital officials were not immediately available to comment.
"Blood Diamond," a Warner Bros. Pictures action drama directed by Edward Zwick, went into production in South Africa and Mozambique in February.
Set against the backdrop of Sierra Leone's bloody civil war, it tells the story of a South African mercenary, played by DiCaprio, and a local fisherman who join forces to recover a rare pink diamond.
The film also stars Academy Award-winner Jennifer Connelly as an American journalist and Djimon Hounsou as the Sierra Leonean fisherman.
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Cruise 'Still Processing' Daughter's Birth
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise hasn't toned down his enthusiasm at all now that fiancee Katie Holmes has given birth to their daughter.
The birth "was everything that we wanted it to be," the actor, who once hopped up and down on a couch to profess his love for Holmes, said in an interview on ABC's "20/20."
"It was spiritual. It was powerful. It was indescribable," he said in the interview broadcast Friday. "What words can you use? It's still something that I'm processing and keep reliving."
Holmes gave birth Tuesday to a girl the couple named Suri, said Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson.
Details about the birth weren't disclosed, but it had been planned as a silent procedure under the tenets of the Church of Scientology, to which both Cruise and Holmes belong.
Cruise was joined on "20/20" by fellow cast members from his latest project, "Mission: Impossible III," who said they had a reunion after Suri's birth.
"We were hugging each other like we always do," Laurence Fishburne told "20/20."
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Charlie Sheen ordered away from Denise Richards
Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Charlie Sheen was ordered on Friday to keep at least 300 feet away from his estranged wife, actress Denise Richards, and their two young daughters after Richards said in court papers he had been abusive and had threatened to kill her.
Sheen, star of the hit CBS television series "Two and a Half Men," denied the charge and the judge agreed to his request that all telephone conversations between the couple be tape recorded.
Sheen was also granted one-day-a-week visitation with his daughters, Sam, 2, and Lola, 10 months, provided it was done under supervision.
The restraining order is the latest chapter in the stormy marriage between Sheen, a one-time playboy, and model/actress Richards, 35, who filed for divorce from him last December, after less than three years of marriage.
According to a written declaration to the court, Richards said she had considered asking for restraining orders against the 40-year-old actor several times but was talked out of it because she was told that "by my doing so, I would impact (Sheen's) image and cause others to lose their jobs.
"I am filing this now because I can no longer accept (his) abusive and threatening manner and must stop him from the cycle of his abuse toward me and our children and his continued threats of violence and statements that he is going to kill me."
Richards said Sheen, the son of actor Martin Sheen, abused prescription drugs, gambled compulsively, frequented prostitutes and liked to look at pornography on the Internet.
Sheen, in court papers, denied Richards' claims. In a statement on the entertainment Web site TMZ.com, Sheen's publicist, Stan Rosenfield said, "For the last year, Charlie Sheen has been hit with these ridiculous charges over and over and over again and has chosen to be a respectful gentleman and just respond with no comment."
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