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(AP) John Daly and Kid Rock did their best to make up for the lack of star power at the Buick Open.

Daly, finishing a season-best 16th on Sunday, easily attracted the largest gallery with Tiger Woods not in the field at Warwick Hills for the first time since 2001.

His famous rapper-friend and host loved every minute of it.

Kid Rock rolled around the course on the passenger side of a mini-Buick golf cart, sipping beer from a plastic cup, slapping extended hands from fans and signing countless autographs.

A 40% rise in listeners to BBC digital radio station 6 Music is being largely attributed to host Russell Brand.

The station now attracts a weekly audience of 400,000, according to industry ratings body Rajar.

"It has been good for digital radio to have a star like Russell presenting on 6 Music. He really is at the top of his form," said controller Lesley Douglas.

Radio 2 has also added listeners, with drivetime host Chris Evans gaining ground after an initial dip.

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Ms Douglas said: "I'm really pleased that Chris Evans has fitted in at Radio 2. He's a great personality, a great broadcaster and I always hoped he would appeal to the audience."

Jeffrey Sebelia was the guy who viewers loved to hate. And they'll be seeing much more of him now.

Sebelia was crowned the winner of Bravo's "Project Runway" in the fashion competition show's finale Wednesday night.

"I'm shocked," he said. "My brain is trying to figure out exactly what's happening."

Sebelia, 36, snagged the title after he, Laura Bennett, Uli Herzner and Michael Knight (the fan favorite) staged presentations during New York Fashion Week in the season's last showdown. That runway show was taped in September.

Sebelia, who lives in Los Angeles, impressed supermodel host Heidi Klum and judges Michael Kors, Nina Garcia and Fern Mallis with his innovative, funky runway collection.

Jon Heder and Billy Bob Thornton square off in School for Scoundrels, a comedy movie short on laughs and long on yawns. Writer/director Todd Phillips (Old School) loosely based his film on a British romp from the 1960s and as is the case with most remakes – even of the ‘loose’ variety – the original should have been left alone.

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Heder stars as Roger, one of the wimpiest parking enforcement officers to ever patrol the city streets. No one respects the guy – not the violators he tickets, his co-workers, or even the kid who’s been assigned as Roger’s little bro in the Big Brothers program. Basically, he’s Rodney Dangerfield in a meter maid outfit. He’s so hopeless that he can’t even manage a conversation with his pretty neighbor, Amanda (a perky but forgettable Jacinda Barrett), without passing out from fright.

After letting Roger know his services in the Big Brother program are no longer needed (make that wanted), Ian (David Cross) passes on the phone number of a self-help guru who can make even the biggest loser into a real man. Roger’s desperate enough to try anything so he forks over the big bucks and becomes a pupil of the sadistic Dr P (Thornton). Dr P has a twisted approach to buffing up girlie men which involves a series of flashcards with instructions on how to lie to and manipulate women, as well as other bizarre techniques meant to boost the self-esteem of his students.
For some reason Roger takes to Dr P’s teaching methods like a duck to water. Roger masters the art of confrontation and even works up the nerve to start dating Amanda. Things are going just fine until he discovers there’s a huge target painted on his back. When Ian handed over Dr P’s number he withheld one crucial bit of information: the self-help guru always picks one person from each class to torpedo. By excelling in class, Roger earned the unfortunate distinction of being Dr P’s latest victim.

Michael Tolkin, who has been working in Hollywood for almost 20 years, believes movies are dead — at the least the kind of grand American movies that delivered satisfying spectacle to viewers. Character has fled to television. The audience is distracted. Novels are the only form left that he thinks will never go out of style. And so he has revived his best-known literary creation, Hollywood dark prince Griffin Mill.

The new novel, a sequel to 1988's "The Player," is titled, fittingly, "The Return of the Player." It showcases one man's escape from the entertainment-industrial complex. Tolkin himself is a dying breed: among the last of those in Hollywood who move comfortably from big picture to small project, from screenwriting to directing to novel-writing. Coming back to Griffin after 18 years, only to have him leave Hollywood for what he thinks is bigger quarry, reveals that Tolkin is trying to carve out a paradoxical position for himself as someone in Hollywood but not entirely of it.

Of all the leading men in the multimedia career of Vanessa Williams, Kevin Clash is — by far — the least recognized.

In fact, this strappingly handsome, soft-spoken and unassuming African-American gentleman may be the most famous anonymous star in the celebrity universe. For Clash, a puppeteer since his childhood in Baltimore, provides the voice and movements for Elmo, Sesame Street's stringy red ambassador of mirth and frequent collaborator with the divine Ms. Williams.

On the night of July 4, Williams and Elmo will perform a duet during A Capitol Fourth, the annual PBS music-and-fireworks spectacular broadcast from Washington (check local listings). Jason Alexander will host this year's brassy extravaganza, featuring Stevie Wonder, Jo Dee Messina, Michael Bolton, the National Symphony and, yes, the crouching, heard-but-not-seen Kevin Clash, who, as Elmo, will lead the nation in singing a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday" to the U.S.A.

"Kevin is a consummate pro," says Williams of her friend and sometimes singing partner. "He's got great ideas, he's funny, he's warm, and, amazingly, he always hits the notes in an octave higher than anyone else sings. Working with him — and Elmo — is a no-lose situation."

Star magazine has hit a baby bump in the road.

Reese Witherspoon filed a lawsuit against the publication Wednesday, arguing that a "phony" June 26 cover story headlined "Reese & Julia--Baby #3" and featuring shots of Witherspoon and Julia Roberts was a "callous effort to boost the tabloid's sagging sales," according to court documents obtained by E! Online.

The Oscar winner is claiming she has suffered significant distress and damage to her good name because of the story.

Star couldn't be reached for comment.

The magazine cover in question directed readers to check out the inside pages to "get all the happy details," apparently referring to Witherspoon's alleged pregnancy. "Going for Baby No. 3!" was the tagline in the issue's table of contents. The cover photo also appeared front and center on Star's Website.

The story, on pages 56 and 57 of the June 26 issue, went on to quote a source mulling over "what appeared to be a four-month baby bump" spotted on the 30-year-old actress while she was sunning on the beach in May. The unidentified observer also said that Witherspoon was wearing an "old-fashioned 1920s-style bathing suit that covered her tummy" and that she spotted the Legally Blonde star at another time coming out of a Santa Monica baby boutique "carrying a bag from the store."

NEW YORK (AP) -- Brooke Shields says "the irony is perfect" that her daughter, Grier, and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter, Suri, were born on the same day.

Shields and Cruise had a public beef last year after the "Mission: Impossible III" star criticized the actress for taking antidepressants after the birth of daughter Rowan, who turns 3 this month, her first child with TV producer-husband Chris Henchy.

"You know, the irony is perfect," Shields tells newsmagazine "Access Hollywood" in an interview that was to air Monday night. "The world works in an interesting way, but we (were) both pretty busy that day."

Both children were born April 18, reportedly in the same Los Angeles hospital. "Yeah, rumor has it," Shields, 40, says. "Again, I was pretty distracted."

When asked if she had any run-ins with Cruise at the hospital, she replied: "No. God, no, and it's a gift having kids, you know, so it's a beautiful thing rather than anything else."

Cruise, echoing the position of Scientology, said in an appearance on NBC's "Today" show that depression can be treated with exercise and vitamins rather than drugs.

Shields, who wrote "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," has dismissed the actor's remarks as a "ridiculous rant" and "a disservice to mothers everywhere."

"I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression," she wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times last July.

You never know what an amazing bolt from the blue may strike you the other day you wake up. The most impressive thing is that these bolts usually fall onto the field you do not normally cultivate. Doubt that? Then ask Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin’s guitarist. After he had spent most of his 60 years contributing to the rock music development, he was finally awarded with the Order of the British Empire by her majesty Queen Elizabeth. I bet he didn’t even dare to think about such an honor. That’s why he was overwhelmed with emotions when his was awarded for … having helped the children in Rio de Janeiro. Truly, God works in a mysterious way!

Just a brief comment on Queen + Paul Rodgers Return Of The Champions. You know, while listening to that I couldn’t somehow merit Paul for his marvelous blues part. Nether could I merit May and Taylor for their still good performance. Whoever could be imagined in a part of neo-Queen’s vocalist, but not he. The thing is that Queen’s songs seasoned with Rodger’s voice combine uncombinable, which altogether produces the effect of milk cocktail flavor with vobla.