Amy Adams
Alec and Ireland Baldwin
Amy Brennenman
America Fererra
Keisha Whitaker & Anne Hathaway
Anthony Hopkins
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt
Amy Poehler & Will Arnett
Brenda Strong
Laura Dern & Ben Harper

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Brad Pitt’s had it up to here with fame. And he’s happy to talk about it.

Angelina Jolie’s other half opened up about his troubles during a roundtable discussion alongside other stars with Newsweek.

“This publicity machine is out of control. It’s everything we didn’t sign up for,” he says on the press tours that come with releasing a film.

“There’s this whole other entity that you get sucked into. You have to go and sell your wares.”

Although Pitt shot and published intimate photos of Jolie and their six children for W magazine - and has sold first photos of several of his children to magazines - the “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” actor says he’s “never made peace” with the fame game.

“Somehow you’re not supporting your film if you don’t get out on a show and talk about your personal life. It has nothing to do with why I do this.”
Frank Navarre, founder of photography agency X-17, recently told the Daily News that, to Pitt, fame “is not a game - it’s war.”

“Everything he does is calculated … Brad Pitt is somebody who is obsessed with it.”

But the 45-year-old Oscar nominee says he’s never “Googled” himself, adding, “I don’t really know how to operate a computer.”

Pitt, who has “nothing to prove anymore,” also says he’s glad he’s not getting his start as an actor these days. “I feel for the people who are just getting into the business. It sets the wrong focus.”

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Gerald McCullouch has played crime scene investigator Bobby Dawson for nine seasons on “CSI.” But it was his knowledge of boxing, not ballistics, that saved him when a mugger allegedly attacked him with a knife on the subway recently.

The actor was riding the A train from Kennedy Airport, having just gotten off a plane from L.A.

“It was about 2 a.m.,” McCullouch tells us. “I have a place here now, so I take that train at least once a month. I was trying to reach my buddy, Keith Collins, who was having a party at Antik. But my iPhone died, so I took out my laptop to recharge it. I started working on a YouTube video I’d been editing on the plane.

“The train was pulling into the Utica Blvd. station when I noticed someone cross in front of me. Just as the doors opened, he reached for the laptop. I guess he thought he’d grab it and dash out the door, but I gave him a body shot to the chest.

“I don’t know why I did that except that I box three or four days a week and had just been in the ring about eight hours before. Also, I didn’t want to give up my computer after working on my video all that time.

“Well, that’s when he pulled a kitchen knife out of a black plastic bag. This thing must have had a blade 10 inches long. The other passengers started running out the door and into the next car.

“I still had my headphones on with music blaring. I yelled at the top of my lungs, ‘Get the [bleep] away from me!’ That’s when the knife came down into my back. I don’t know whether he lost his grip or what, but the blade didn’t penetrate my leather jacket.

“We were in each other’s face. I think I punched him again as the doors closed and the train started leaving the station. I’m watching MTA workers on the platform looking in. I thought, ‘Great, now I’m alone in this car with him.’

“The train was halfway out of the station when it stopped. I was saying stupid, cocky stuff, like ‘You are [bleeped] buddy!’ He came at me again with the knife. But the other passengers had told a conductor, ‘A guy’s getting stabbed in there,’ so the conductor came in and got me into the next car.

“Then about 10 cops jumped on the train and got the guy handcuffed on the floor. I told them the guy had a knife. They found it hidden under a seat or something.”

Police arrested James Torres, 39, 6-foot-3, 240 pounds, and charged him with robbery, assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.

“We headed over to the 33rd Precinct. When I got there somebody said they thought this might be the same guy who stabbed two cops.

“All I know is that the police couldn’t have been greater. I signed a lot of autographs. I don’t know whether it was because of ‘CSI,’ but they gave me a lift to my place in Manhattan.’”

Torres, now in Rikers, is due in court March 23.

McCullouch survived another mugging back in 2001, when he and a boyfriend were robbed at gunpoint in Atlanta.

“The cops never found that guy,” says McCullouch, who plays the Gotham Comedy Club on Feb. 16. Maybe he’ll find a few jokes on the night that Bobby Dawson went ballistic.

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They’ve been linked to each other on and off for a year, and a Page Six spy saw them at Blue Ribbon Sushi on Sullivan Street Thursday night. “They were whispering and smiling at each other,” said the onlooker. “At times it looked like she wanted to grab his hand, but stopped. She was especially smitten with him.” Hartnett has recently been linked to Rihanna and Sienna Miller, and Dunst has been spotted with Justin Long and Ryan Gosling.

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WE’VE told you about all the D-listers scrambling for free stuff at Sundance, but behind the scenes, big Hollywood names also stocked up on stuff. Cameron Diaz, who’s skiing in Utah but totally avoided Sundance events, requested a bag of swag from the Rock band Lounge. “She wasn’t at the festival, but she asked for a huge gift bag filled with Muscle Milk, Sanctuary clothing, Lia Sophia jewelry and Burt’s Bees,” said our source. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore tried to go unseen to the Fred Segal suite after-hours and “helped themselves to thousands of dollars worth of Magas choni cashmere sweaters,” we’re told. Even Robert Redford, who has been so openly against the marketing and product placements at his once-quiet festival, was spotted loading “a huge Cafe Bustelo espresso package” into his car.

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One month ago, 20-year-old beauty queen Mariana Bridi was living the dream of many young Brazilian women, trading her striking good looks for a modeling career that promised to lift her family out of poverty.

Then she contracted a seemingly ordinary urinary tract infection. The bacteria spread quickly and inexorably through her body, proving to be extremely drug resistant. In a desperate bid to save her life, doctors amputated her hands and feet. But by Saturday she was dead.

“God is comforting our hearts because he wanted her to be with him now,” her father Agnaldo Costa told reporters outside the hospital where his daughter died. “I can’t accept that my daughter left us so soon.”

Bridi’s Web site says she began modeling at age 14 with the hope of giving “a dignified life to her parents.”

Her father is a taxi driver and her mother a house cleaner.

By the age of 18, she was well on her way: In 2007 and 2008, she was a finalist in the Brazilian stage of the Miss World pageant.

Her Web site said next month she was to participate in the second stage of a modeling competition held in Sao Paulo by Dilson Stein, the Brazilian model scout who discovered supermodel Gisele Bundchen.

Last year, she took fourth in the Face of the Universe competition in South Africa and she had won bikini competitions across the globe.

The Miss World Brazil organization said she was an example of someone “who knew how to intensely live her life.”

Half a dozen memorial groups on Facebook had already sprung up just hours after her death. On Bridi’s own page on Orkut - the most popular Web social networking site in Brazil - dozens of memorial messages were left.

The course of her illness was swift.

In late December, she fell ill and doctors in her native state of Espirito Santo - northeast of Rio de Janeiro - initially diagnosed as having kidney stones.

She returned to a hospital on Jan. 3 in septic shock - life-threatening low blood pressure - from the infection that would force doctors to amputate first her feet, then her hands. Doctors said there was little they could do but pump drugs into her and hope for the best.

It was a nightmare scenario for anyone with an infection: Her body did not react to the latest and most potent drugs while the bacteria in her veins spread from head to toe.

In Bridi’s case, the culprit was the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is known to be drug resistant.

According to the January 2008 book “Pseudomonas: Genomics and Molecular Biology,” edited by Pierre Cornelis, a researcher at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology in Brussels, the bacteria has the “worrisome characteristic” of “low antibiotic susceptibility.” It also easily mutates to develop resistance to new drugs.

Death from infections caused by the bacteria are relatively rare, but not unheard of: In late 2006, an outbreak of the bacteria at White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles sickened five infants - leading to the deaths of two of them.

The bacteria causes about 10 percent of the roughly two million hospital-acquired infections each year in the U.S., according to health officials.

A short statement from the Espirito Santo State Health Secretariat announced her death on Saturday “despite all the commitment of the hospital team.”

Her aunt said the hundreds of messages left on her Web site had lifted Bridi’s spirit in the past weeks.

“I believe that the serenity on her face came from this spiritual comfort,” Oriendina Pereira Wasen said outside the hospital.

Bridi’s funeral was planned for Saturday afternoon in the town of Marechal Floriano.

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Prince Harry and his girlfriend of five years Chelsy Davy have split say sources. “This is the third time they have broken up,” says one palace source. “But it’s for good this time. Both think it’s for the best. There’s no hard feelings. They split about 10 days ago. It wasn’t over other girls or
infidelity.”

According to Britain’s Daily Mail it was Davy who did the dumping. Sources tell the paper that she was no longer willing to “put up with his lifestyle” and “time spent apart.” The British heir, 24, began training last week to become an Army Air Corps helicopter pilot; Davy, 23, is a post-graduate student at Leeds University.

The split came as a shock to royal watchers because the couple had vacationed together just three weeks ago on the island of Mauritius.

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A sports drink which used photos of naked Olympians on advertising posters has now persuaded rugby players to strip off.

England rugby union captain Steve Borthwick, England winger Paul Sackey and Welsh winger Shane Williams are also shown in poses which would not look out of place on the field - except they have nothing on.

Borthwick poses as if in a scrum while Sackey is seen mid-dive as he scores a try.
Williams, the International Rugby Board World Player of the Year, is shown making a pass.

Last year the Powerade campaign, dubbed InnerGear, showed cyclist Rebecca Romero, triple jumper Phillips Idowu and swimmer Gregor Tait nude in sporting poses taken by photographer Nadav Kander.

The latest shots were taken by photographer Alan Clarke.

Borthwick said: “It is one of the most daring shoots I’ve been involved in but it has been loads of fun, even if it has given my team mates plenty of ammunition for changing room banter.

“The InnerGear for an athlete - how we train, what we eat and drink - is as important as what we wear, and it’s great that this campaign brings it to life.

“Alan’s images are fantastic and they really capture the essence of what we do every day.”

The idea behind the advertising campaign for the official sports drink of the Rugby Football Union and Welsh Rugby Union is to illustrate that what players put inside their bodies and how they prepare - their InnerGear - is just as important as their sports kit.

Research has shown that as little as a 2% drop in hydration can seriously affect a player’s performance.

Cathryn Sleight, the marketing director of Coca-Cola Great Britain which makes Powerade, said: “The Olympic InnerGear campaign was a huge success and offered fans the chance to see and appreciate the tremendous effort athletes like Rebecca Romero put in to becoming gold medallists.

“An athlete’s InnerGear is vital to achieve success in all sports at any level and Alan Clarke has captured the essence of this in rugby with the new campaign perfectly.

“These powerful images offer people the chance to see the real make-up of these global stars and the muscle, power and raw determination it takes to dominate at this level.”

The images will be used in an advertising campaign running during the RBS Six Nations in February and March.

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