Hottest Hollywood Headlines: May 12, 2006

 Philippine Catholic bishops gave priests and parishioners guidelines on how to refute the plot of ?The Da Vinci Code? including a point-by-point rebuttal of each of the novel?s claims.  (Reuters)

 Roger Friedman claims Katie Holmes? parents ?are heartbroken? they had to wait about two and half weeks to see baby Suri for the first time, while Tom?s mother and sisters were there for the delivery. (FoxNews)

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 ?M:I:III? is expected to take number one again at the box office this weekend after solid midweek numbers. (ABCNews)

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 Lindsay Lohan’s latest cinematic offering, “Just My Luck”, has vaulted her into the Hollywood heavyweights, in terms of salary…she’s reportedly gone from about $1 million per picture to $7.5 million in just two years, leapfrogging over other young actresses like Jessica Alba and Mandy Moore, who reportedly earns an estimated $2 million per movie. (abcnews.com)

 Keith Richards left a New Zealand hospital on Wednesday, after being treated there for about two weeks after a fall in Fiji left him with a head injury. Richards thanked his doctors and “the beautiful ladies who make painful nights less painful and shorter”, and said he hoped he wasn’t “too much of a pain in the arse” to the staff. (Reuters)

 Christina Aguilera has set an Aug 15 release date for her first album in four years, the retro-jazz set “Back to Basics”. (Reuters)

 In case you missed it, booted ?American Idol? Chris Daughtry was offered a job with Fuel. (AP)

 Paris Hilton unveiled her new video game on Thursday at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, and called it the wrong name. “I’m really excited to have my new video game, ‘Diamondquest’,” Hilton told a throng of fans and photographers. The game, actually titled “Paris Hilton’s Jewel Jam”, will be available this summer for downloads onto mobile phones. (AP)

 Nicolas Cage will star in the action-thriller ?Crazy Dog? about a NYC cop who causes the death of a friend in a moment of cowardice. (Variety)

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 ?Deadwood? will most likely end with its upcoming third season, with HBO opting not to pick up the options of the actors on the show. (Reuters)

 The Rock will be the first actor to take on the role of a character from the video game ?Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run? and its feature film adaptation. (Reuters)

 Tommy Hilfiger invested $20 million in the film ?Rags? about the competitive world of the New York fashion industry. (HollywoodReporter)

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 O.J. Simpson is working on a candid camera show called ?Juiced.?  He recently pulled a prank for the show, pretending to sell the white Bronco at a used car lot boasting that he made the vehicle famous. (AP)

 Are you ready, boots? Nancy Sinatra got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, celebrating 40 years in music since the debut of her 1966 hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”. (AP)

— Universal Music Group Recordings, Inc., the world’s largest record company, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a “payola” case that claimed the company paid bribes to increase radio play for its artists like Nick Lachey, Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Brian McKnight, the New York Attorney General announced Thursday. (hollywoodreporter.com)

 Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger were back in court this week, battling it out for custody issues over their 10-year-old daughter Ireland. Baldwin was seeking three extra days visitation to make up for time missed when Ireland was sick; Basinger was objecting to the request. Baldwin was granted the request. (AFP.com)

 Leif Garrett was sentenced to 90 days in jail in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday, and three years’ probation, in connection with two drug cases. Garrett received the jail time after opting out of a live-in drug treatment program that would have lasted six months. (AP)

 A Los Angeles judge ruled Thursday that attorneys for a teenage girl who alleged she was drugged and raped at a party at Nick Nolte’s Malibu home in 2003 can proceed with a civil lawsuit against the actor and his son, Brawley. Nolte was not at home at the time of the party. The man accused of having sex with the girl was convicted in criminal court in 2004. (AP)

 An attorney for CBS has reportedly told a New York City judge that the network is close to settling a lawsuit against its former employee, Howard Stern, over Stern’s move to Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. (Reuters)

 A former NFL kicker who has been hospitalized for mental illness pleaded guilty Thursday in Las Vegas to the 2004 shooting at the home of Siegfried & Roy. Cole Ford agreed to a felony plea that could result in a suspended sentence, after being sent to a state mental health facility after the judge found him incompetent to stand trial last year. No one was injured in the shooting. (AP)

 The paperback edition of James Frey’s book “My Friend Leonard” was released Thursday, with an author’s note explaining that the contents are actually a blend of fact and fiction. “Leonard” is the sequel to Frey’s discredited memoir “A Million Little Pieces”. (newsday.com/AP)

 A new biography of the late screen legend Ava Gardner poses the question of whether or not the Hollywood actress included Cuban dictator Fidel Castro among her many lovers. The book doesn’t answer the question definitively, and Gardner died in 1990 at the age of 67. (Reuters)

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