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Latest celebrity gossip: Jolie exposed? Lohan secret? Brinkley drama

Desert Sun wire reports • October 9, 2008

Angelina Jolie apparently breastfeeding on W magazine cover

NEW YORK — We’ve already seen the baby pictures — now see the photo of Angelina Jolie apparently breastfeeding on the cover of W magazine.

Jolie appears on the cover of the W’s November issue in a sleeveless top, which has been opened to reveal part of her left breast and a tiny hand ostensibly belonging to one of her twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, who were born in July.

The black-and-white photo shows Jolie smiling, her long brown hair cascading over her shoulder. The cover headline promises exclusive “private photos” of the 33-year-old actress by her partner Brad Pitt.

Jolie last caused a stir when she wore a white nursing bra underneath her tank top on the cover of People magazine after she and Pitt welcomed daughter Shiloh, now 2 years old.

Jolie, who won a supporting actress Academy Award for 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted,” has drawn Oscar buzz for Clint Eastwood’s missing-child drama “Changeling,” slated for release Oct. 24.

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Brinkley to ex: Shield kids from '20/20' interview

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — Christie Brinkley wants her ex-husband to shield their children from a televised interview in which he explains his affair with a teenager and his Internet porn proclivities.

Brinkley lawyer Robert Stephan Cohen said Thursday that Peter Cook must keep the couple’s two children away from the Barbara Walters interview scheduled to air on ABC while he has custody of them this weekend.

“His parenting has to be away from his home and he can’t expose them to the '20/20’ broadcast” airing Friday night, Cohen said.

The attorney also filed papers in Suffolk County seeking a temporary restraining order; the divorce became official Sept. 29.

Cook’s attorney, Norman Sheresky, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

Cook, an East Hampton architect, settled the highly public and nasty divorce last summer following a weeklong trial that featured salacious testimony about his affair with a teenager and his use of Internet porn.

He explains those allegations in the interview.

“I was seeking a connection I could not find in my own marriage,” he told Walters. “I think the emotional aspect of our lives had changed. I think we were both feeling more like we were living with a brother and sister than a life partner.”

Cook said he agreed to the interview hoping, “the world will see that I’m not the scumbag pervert that I’ve been painted to be. The misinformation that came out during the trial is the elephant in the room. It’s the elephant in the room for my kids.”

The divorce settlement gave Brinkley custody of the couple’s 10-year-old daughter Sailor and 13-year-old son Jack, whom Cook adopted. Jack’s biological father was Brinkley’s third husband. Cook got $2.1 million from the supermodel, as well as liberal visitation rights.

The marriage was Brinkley’s fourth and Cook’s first.

Lindsay Lohan wants deposition sealed

LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan doesn’t want to be on camera, at least not when she’s giving a deposition.

Lawyers for Lohan filed a motion on Wednesday seeking a judge’s order barring any filming of the actress’ upcoming deposition in a case filed by gal pal Samantha Ronson.

She also doesn’t want transcripts or other accounts of the deposition introduced into public records. The documents state Lohan is afraid any videos or documents “will be illegally exploited by the media.”

Ronson sued her former attorneys in May, claiming they failed to adequately represent her when she sued bloggers, including Perez Hilton. Ronson claimed the bloggers defamed her by writing that she had planted drugs in Lohan’s car and was exploiting the actress to the paparazzi.

Slash to play at Rock Hall’s tribute to Les Paul

CLEVELAND — Slash couldn’t miss a chance to pay tribute to his own guitar hero, Les Paul.

The former Guns N’ Roses guitarist signed up to play at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s tribute concert Nov. 15 without even hearing who he’d be playing with on stage.

“I’m just coming with my guitar,” Slash said.

The concert at Cleveland’s State Theater includes a lineup of guitar virtuosos like Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, The Ventures and Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.

Slash, a member of Velvet Revolver, said he’d do anything for the 93-year-old Paul, known as the “Father of the Electric Guitar.” Paul’s many contributions to music include building the first solid-body electric guitar in 1941.

“The legion of guitar players I grew up listening to would have been completely different had Les not been around,” Slash said.

Paul is expected to attend the American Music Masters series event. Slash said he previously played with Paul and couldn’t keep up with him.

“He just cleaned the stage up with me,” the 43-year-old Slash said.

Slash recorded Guns N’ Roses’ masterpiece “Appetite for Destruction” on a replica of a 1959 Gibson Les Paul that was made by a private builder.

This is the second time Slash will be involved with a Rock Hall gig in the last two years. Velvet Revolver performed when Van Halen was inducted into the hall last year.

Slash said someone pointed out to him at the performance that Guns N’ Roses would be eligible for the hall in 2012. Artists are eligible 25 years after recording their first single or album.

Only two members of Van Halen showed up for their induction. Slash said if Guns N’ Roses were inducted, he wouldn’t want to follow a similar path.

“I hope whatever differences we’d accrued over the years, we’d be able to show up as professionals and accept it with dignity,” he said.

Sci Fi Channel orders more serpent, alien movies

Jason Gedrick has joined the lucky ranks of actors who will star in an original movie for the Sci Fi Channel.

The network has signed a deal with RHI Entertainment for five original movies, one set in Afghanistan starring Gedrick, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Production will begin in Romania soon on three of the telefilms, including Gedrick’s project, “Sand Serpents,” which follows American soldiers who aren’t just battling the Taliban but also a horde of giant carnivorous serpents in the Afghan desert.

Also shooting is “Alien Western,” set during the 1890s when buglike machines from another world attack a town in the Old West, and “Carney,” in which an evil carnival side-show attraction escapes and wreaks havoc on a Depression-era town. The latter film is loosely based on the Jersey Devil legend.

The three films join the already wrapped films “Hellhounds” directed by Ricky Schroder and the Eric Balfour-starring “Rise of the Gargoyle.”

The TV movies will premiere sometime in 2009, airing during the Most Dangerous Night of Television” weekend franchise.

Gedrick, 43, is best known for his roles in “Murder One,” “Boomtown,” “Windfall” and on the big screen, “Iron Eagle.”

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