Eminem has given hundreds of hometown fans in Detroit extra reason to celebrate his first new album in almost five years - a free show.

The rapper put on a free concert at MotorCity Casino’s 1,500-seat Sound Board theater Tuesday - the same day his album “Relapse” was released.

Spokesman Dennis Dennehy says Eminem performed eight songs. The set was largely new, except for “Lose Yourself” from the film “8 Mile.”

The show comes after Eminem and Jimmy Kimmel flew about 200 laid-off auto workers to Los Angeles for the rapper’s Friday appearance on Kimmel’s TV show. “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” also plans to feature Eminem on Tuesday and Friday.

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A settlement has been reached in a screenwriter’s lawsuit against Mel Gibson over “The Passion of the Christ.”

A notice of settlement filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court stated that an agreement had been reached and was being put into writing. The filing asked a judge to cancel a trial scheduled for June 3.

Benedict Fitzgerald sued Gibson and several film companies for $10 million in February 2008, claiming that Gibson and others vastly understated the budget for the 2004 blockbuster. The screenwriter’s suit claimed Gibson told him the budget for the movie would be in the $4 million to $7 million range, but that it was significantly higher.

Fitzgerald also claimed that Gibson told him he would not receive any money from the film, but considered it a gift of his faith.

His attorneys also claimed Gibson spent tens of thousands of dollars on his children’s education while filming in Italy and paid a chiropractor $78,000. They contended those expenses lowered payments to Fitzgerald.

Several of the lawsuit’s claims had been thrown out and in recent hearings, attorneys for Gibson said the actual amount in dispute was significantly lower.

No details of the settlement were filed.

Phone messages left for attorneys for Gibson and Fitzgerald were not immediately returned Monday.

Both sides battled over the film’s finances for months. A judge last year ordered Gibson to answer questions about the film’s planning and finances during a deposition.

Attorneys for the actor and Academy Award-winning director contended that Gibson did not know the intricacies of the film’s budget.

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Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour had quite the request for Oprah Winfrey.

Wintour had told the talk show host to drop 20 pounds to be on the cover of the fashion magazine back in 1998, the editor revealed during an unaired segment from her 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.

“It was a very gentle suggestion,” she said, laughing. “I went to Chicago to visit Oprah, and I suggested that it might be an idea that she lose a little bit of weight.”

She added: “I said simply that you might feel more comfortable. She was a trooper!”

Winfrey, 55, must have listened to the fashion legend. She was featured on the cover from more than 10 years ago with the tagline: “Oprah! A Major Movie, An Amazing Makeover.”

“She totally welcomed the idea, and she went on a very stringent diet,” Wintour said. “And it was one of our most successful covers ever.”

In the 60 Minutes interview, Wintour, 59, also defended the use of Photoshop to make people “look their best.”

“That’s one of the things that makes me rather angry, that I don’t understand,” she said. “That if you look wonderful, does that make you less important? Less powerful? Less serious?”

Although Vogue typically only covers stick-thin models within its pages, she said her magazine maintains an awareness of obesity.

“I’d just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses,” Wintour said. “There’s such an epidemic of obesity in the United States, and for some reason, everybody focuses on anorexia.”

Wintour, who commissioned a feature on the topic complete with illustrations, said that it was an important issue.

“We need to spend money time and education on teaching people to eat, exercise and take care of themselves in a healthier way,” she said. “It [has gotten people] provoked, which is really the point.”

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At a rally for gay rights in New York this weekend, Cynthia Nixon announced her engagement to girlfriend Christine Marinoni, the Sex and the City star’s rep confirms to E! News.

The couple have been together since late 2003, shortly after Nixon split from her longtime companion, Danny Mozes. The exes share custody of their two children, Samantha, 12, and Charles, 6.

Nixon revealed the news to an audience during the Love, Peace and Marriage Equality rally in New York City. The actress and Marinoni became engaged last month and are currently working to support a new bill for same-sex unions proposed by New York Gov. David Paterson.

Access Hollywood first reported the engagement.

Nixon and the rest of the Sex and the City gang are set to start filming the movie’s sequel this summer.

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BRITNEY SPEARS refuses to take any risks when it comes to her safety - she’s splashed out almost $450,000 (£300,000) on security.

Court documents filed on Friday (15May09) by Spears’ attorneys show the singer paid $447,633 (£298,422) to make sure she was well protected between March and December last year (08).

The Toxic hitmaker parted with $625,000 to pay ex-husband Kevin Federline’s lawyers - and also handed Federline $178,818 in child support payments for their two children Sean Preston, three, and two-year-old Jayden James.

Spears also paid out $49,387 on household repairs and maintenance, according to the documents published on TMZ.com.

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Brooke Shields’s mother, who suffers from dementia, was checked out of a New Jersey nursing home Thursday by a journalist seeking a “tabloid story,” the outraged actress said.

Teri Shields, 75, was later found unharmed at a restaurant next door to an assisted living center in Old Tappan, N.J., talking to a freelance reporter, according to police, who say no arrests have been made but that the case remains under investigation.

“I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act,” Brooke Shields says in a statement.

A Call from Police
The actress claims her mother was targeted by the National Enquirer.

“My mother Teri Shields has been diagnosed with dementia. For her safety, she has temporarily been in a senior living facility, a very difficult decision for me,” she says. “Late Thursday afternoon, I was alerted by Old Tappan Police that my mother had been signed out of the facility by two reporters of the National Enquirer … who falsely claimed they were friends of hers.”

She adds: “They then drove my 75-year-old mother around looking for a tabloid story. As anyone knows who has a parent who suffers from dementia or Alzheimer’s, it is one of the most difficult experiences you can go through as a son or daughter. The idea that the National Enquirer took advantage of her state is reprehensible and disgusting.”

In a statement, the National Enquirer responds: “A freelance reporter who has known Teri Shields for more than 10 years visited her Thursday at the assisted living facility where Brooke says she moved her. Teri asked the reporter to take her out to lunch and to run some errands. The freelance reporter then got permission from the facility to do so.”

Investigation Continues
According to Old Tappan Police Department Capt. Thomas Shine, officers were called to the assisted living facility at 3 p.m. Thursday to look for Teri Shields. A supervisor at the facility said the elder Shields had been checked out.

“It was more along the lines that she had been allowed to leave, based upon their protocol or policy,” Shine tells PEOPLE. “It had been an extended period of time” since she left.

“Our officer located her with some form of a journalist, I think a freelance journalist, in an eatery right next door,” Shine continues. “She wasn’t harmed in any way shape or form. She was fine. The officers discussed the circumstances with her. And she literally walked with one of my officers next door to the assisted living center.”

Police Interviews
Shine did not identify the journalist or a media outlet.

The journalist was interviewed by police, as was a photographer who was working with the reporter but wasn’t on the scene at the time officer arrived.

No charges have been filed, and the Shields family had not yet sought a criminal complaint, says Shine.

“The part we’re investigating here is who allowed her to leave the facility,” says Shine. “It appears that there were some permissions that were given for Mrs. Shields by the family, be they written, be they verbal – we’re investigating – to allow her visitation for a variety of different reasons.”

Shine says he believes the journalist “was familiar to Mrs. Shields” and that the journalist “did sign her out and was allowed to leave by personnel.”

As for whether the elder Shields was driven around, Shine says, “We’re still investigating that.”

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Olivia Wilde burst onto our small screens several years ago as Mischa Barton’s lesbian love interest in “The O.C”, but the 25-year-old “House” hottie has aroused even more interest since locking lips with co-star Omar Epps.

“I have had young girls chase me since that kiss aired to ask me if he’s a good kisser,” Wilde admitted in a recent interview. “People go crazy.”

And the small-screen hook-up has since gotten much steamier, but it seems their love scenes are anything but lovely.

“There is always a particularly large and hairy man holding a boom wearing a crop top. I don’t know if they’re like ‘ooh sex scene where’s my crop top because I need to hover above Olivia, make sure my hairy belly is somewhere in the vicinity of her face’,” she said with a laugh. “People imagine it’s this really glamorous and sexy thing, but I always laugh because in reality there are 50 people in the room. You are stopping and starting. There is someone yelling like ‘can you move your hand, can you just put your shoulder down, ok good, more more …’”

But it was those not-so-intimate scenes that really caught the eye of the men at Maxim magazine and thus it was announced this week that Wilde topped their annual “Hot 100″ for 2009. And true to her name, this girl is a wild one.

“I got a tattoo above my a** when I was 13,” she told Tarts, adding that it was much to her grandma’s displeasure.

Wilde also shaved her head in the seventh grade and had multiple piercings by the ripe ol’ age of 11 — but for this brunette beauty, whose “House” character floats between females and males, pushing boundaries is what keeps her motivated.

“Everyone keeps saying to me, do you only play gay? Is that your thing? Which is really funny,” Wilde added. “I correct them and say this is my second time playing a bisexual character and it’s great, it’s a challenge. I welcome a challenge. I’ve played ten straight people, but no one cares about that.”

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Former Olympian Bruce Jenner has gone under the knife, again, according to his stepdaughter, reality TV starlet Kim Kardashian. The buxom brunette revealed that his surgery will be featured on the upcoming episode of her show, “Keeping up with the Kardashians.” The starlet writes that the former decathlete was the “victim of cruel taunts from the media” after an ill-advised partial facelift and nose job 25 years ago.

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