Leonardo DiCaprio Hit With a Beer Bottle at Party

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Leonardo DiCaprio was assaulted and injured over the weekend at a party in Hollywood. You probably haven't heard much about the incident, because Tom Cruise and his publicity machine are making such a fuss over his being squirted with water in London.

A statement released to People Magazine described Leo's attack: "While leaving a small private gathering, Leo was attacked by a woman who was trespassing and had been repeatedly asked to leave the property. The attacker struck him with a glass object before being restrained by witnesses. The woman was reportedly looking for an ex-boyfriend, who she had apparently physically assaulted on prior occasions."

DiCaprio was at the party hosted by Rick Salomon who is Paris Hilton's ex-beau (and the one who starred with her in the home movie sex video). Around 4 a.m., a woman who had been asked to leave the party, hit DiCaprio on the side of the face with a beer bottle. He was taken to a hospital by his friends.

The actor was in Los Angeles on a shooting break from director Martin Scorsese's "The Departed." The injury which required 12 stitches near his ear (That's freaking huge!) is not expected to delay his return to the set. NO ARREST WAS MADE in Los Angeles but cops are said to be investigating.

Meanwhile, FOUR MEN WERE ARRESTED for squirting Cruise with a wee bit of water in London during the premiere of "War of the Worlds" and man! did the wee actor get REAAALLLLLLY upset about it! I nearly spit my morning coffee when I heard the audio clip of his reaction ... Crips Cruise had a MELT down while Leo calmly hopped in a car with a gushing wound and went to an ER to get his gorgeous face sewn up. Who's a prissy and who's a man I ask??

Holy $71 Million Dollar Box Office, Batman!

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Making a strong statement after the 1997 bomb "Batman & Robin" was laughed off the screen, the Bat-everything franchise now starring Christian Bale has returned stronger than ever.

The box office of "Batman Begins" was so strong in the U.S. that Warner studio now hopes to do all future Batman movies with His Gorgeousness, Christian Bale, firmly implanted as a darker more seductively intense Bruce Wayne/Batman.

According to PageSix, a source said that "the movie's strength is with Bale, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman." Katie Holmes is considered a weak point in the cast and will be out of any of the sequels or remakes, as "the next romantic interest will be a much stronger actress," the studio source said.

Sean Penn Does His "Reporter" Gig Again ...

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Actor Sean Penn was "on assignment" last week reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper (Sharon Stone's ex-husband is the editor) and landed an interview with candidate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who leads in the polls in Iran's presidential elections.

Rafsanjani told Penn that Iran is allowing eight candidates to run for president and boasted that the number is greater than what American voters faced last November. "If the number of candidates is a proof of democracy, we are ... better than the Americans in this regard," newspapers quoted Rafsanjani as telling Penn.

Au contraire, your Red-robed Highness. There were SIXTEEN candidates on the official 2004 US presidential ballot -- twice the number offered in Iran. Actually, there were seventeen, if you want to count the "None of the Above" option -- which got 3,688 votes. I'll bet the Iranians don't get a "None of the Above" choice on their voting ballots!@!
, Why didn't Penn correct him of this little factual "error"? Or ask Rafsanjani why the election is rigged in advance by a committee of unelected clerics which solely decided who is allowed to run and thereby continue to oppress 70 million Iranians?

Although he hasn't actually written anything yet (or the paper hasn't assigned the ghostwriter to write it for him yet), Penn's presence might be having the opposite of his intended affect. He hangs close with Global Exchange, a radical left-wing anti-Bush organisation, and many Iranian activists are outraged at Penn and are interpreting his visit to Iran as support for the ruling mullahs who seek to crush the pro-democracy movement.

Since Sean Penn has a stick so far up his ass he thinks he's a Dove Bar, he may be shocked - SHOCKED! - to discover that Iranians are the least anti-American populace in the region ... or at least, less anti-American than he is...

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Celebrities Eat Just Like the Rest of Us

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File this one under the "So Stupid it's Funny": there's actually a website out there dedicated to posting photos of celebrities ... eating.

It's not even a well-designed site and that kind of adds to its charm. But it offers proof that small fry like MK and uber-skinnies like Mischa Barton do like to Shovel It In. Visit celebrities-eating.com and scroll through the candid pics. I thought the one of Avril Lavigne with the munchies is so "me." I mean, don't you HATE it when you can barely sit on a chair past midnight, your hair is dragging in cheese, and damn! -- look at the size of that SLICE!!

Cruise Proposes Katie Holmes Enter Into His Twilight Zone

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"Yes, I proposed to her. It was early this morning at the Eiffel Tower, so I haven’t slept at all. Today is a magnificent day for me, I’m engaged to a magnificent woman. I’ve never been to the Eiffel Tower. It’s Paris, it’s a beautiful city, it’s very romantic."

Page Six again smacked on the newly engaged pairing of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes this morning. They ran a blind item that clearly fingered the couple as a publicity stunt. The item read, "WHICH top leading man interviewed three different starlets for the job of girlfriend/future wife before picking his new beloved?" (Was one of them Scarlett Johansson?)

"Mark my words: They'll have a baby," said the PageSix source. "Maybe he or she will be conceived in a petri dish, but they'll procreate." The rumors around Hollywood are speculating that Kate Bosworth , was on the shopping list, but Orlando's Kate was not interested in Cruise.

Bam Margera: I Did Not Bam Jessica Simpson

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Oh mah gawd. Did we ever imagine a Jackass, who would build a skateboard park in his own parents’ living room, would stoop so low as to have his girlfriend make up a story saying the skater had slept with Jessica Simpson??

So it was all a joke, eh? Bam Margera's girlfriend, Jenn Rivell, was supposed to be all pissed off after a [staged] "fight" with Bam, then called up a Philly radio station to announce that the married Jessica Simpson had bammed her Bam -- as well as Johnny Knoxville. Now it’s out that it was all a publicity stunt.

Whoa-hooooo! Not so funny to Star Magazine which ran a pic of Jessica on the cover with the tag: "New Cheating Scandal." Jossip.com is reporting that Bam and Jess weaseled a reported $8,000 out of the mag for the "exclusive" running in this week’s issue. Now Bam is saying that he spent the night at Jessica’ parents house, but with 10 other people, and there was no sex. Ha! So what else did they do? Did Bam show Jessica how to fire pop bottle rockets outta her butt?

Next time, if Bam wants to make some REAL MONEY, he should include papa Joe Simpson in on the scheme. Because you know Joe’s got all the tabloid’s phone numbers on speed dial ...

Why Jacko Was Able to "Beat It"

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"Celebrity got Michael Jackson into this unholy mess, and damned if it didn't help him get out of it too... After all, the case against him had more holes than a botched nose job and the accuser's mother would surely be painted as a bloodsucking zombie ... and just what would a jury of peers consist of in this case? Twelve skin-lightened, nasally challenged pop stars in military jackets? ..."

Read Michael Musto's well done article in the Village Voice on why Jacko moonwalked.

Marcia Cross Casted Scorsese As Her Fantasy Director

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"Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross told the LA magazine Venice that she used to fantasize that she was being directed by great directors when she was playing psychotic Kimberly Shaw on "Melrose Place" because the scripts were "a joke."

Cross said she had to make believe just to endure the grind of making the show for over four years: "I'd pretend it was actually Martin Scorsese directing, and I was, say, Michelle Pfeiffer."

"I swear that is what I would do, so that the stakes would become really high and it wouldn't be just another day on the set."

Cross admits she sometimes does the same thing on the set of D-Wives in a bid to make sure she's giving her best performance. She adds, "I was pretending that I was acting with Al Pacino, thinking, 'This is your big moment.' Things like that keep you at the top of your game."

Cruise control: Katie Holmes Gets in Deeper

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Keri Russell Lands Mission Impossible 3

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After taking a year off from acting, "Felicity" star Keri Russell is back strong scoring the lead female in "Mission: Impossible 3" and currently appearing in "Into the West" a 6-week TNT channel mini-series set in the wild west of the 1830s.

Keri is scheduled to begin shooting MI3 in late July in Italy. She'll portray a trainee agent mentored by Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt character. The role previously belonged to Scarllett Johansson who dropped out when filming was delayed. (Also in the film will be Ving Rhames, Michelle Monaghan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Philip Seymour Hoffman.)

On the small screen, "Into the West" did well in the ratings in its premier last week. Keri says she loved filming it and especially riding horses. "I hung out with the wranglers that ran the set. I learned to pull the big team horses who pulled the wagons. You really get sore in the beginning, but it's such an addictive thing that you can't get enough."

, Keri, 29, also learned to speak some phrases of the Cheyenne Indian language to play her part since her character lives for a time with the Indian tribe. She says that despite all that study, she "can't remember any of it... Literally, Hebrew's easier, much easier than this. It was so hard, so hard."

"Into the West," also stars Tom Berenger, Beau Bridges, Josh Brolin, Keith Carradine, Jessica Capshaw, Matthew Modine, and Skeet Ulrich.

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