Actress Pictures

Jessica Biel has decided against playing “Wonder Woman in “Justice League”. Apparently she didn’t realise she had to share the screen, and daybill, with half-a-dozen other faces, or something, so has given the project the birdie.

Variety had reported that the “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” actress was in talks with the studio to grab Wonder Woman’s lasso, in a movie that’s expected to feature Superman, Batman, the Flash and Aquaman as well.

EW doesn’t actually state why Biel decided – at what’s seemingly the 11th hour – not to take on the role after all (despite the trades announcing she was as good as locked for the part), but it should please those die-hard “Wonder Woman” fans who’ve been writing into us like typing’s going out of style complaining about the casting decision.

The nominations illustrate how far the Hall of Fame has stretched its definition of rock ‘n’ roll to incorporate a variety of musical styles.
This year’s nominees had to release their first single no later than 1982, the year that Madonna’s “Everybody” came out.

Five-hundred music industry professionals will choose five of the nominees to be inducted at a ceremony at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel next March.
It’s certainly the case with Madonna, the Detroit-area native who burst out of New York dance clubs in the early 1980s with “Holiday” and soon became a pop culture icon. She scored 17 Top 10 hits in the 1980s alone and is due to put out an album next year, working with the likes of Timbaland and Justin Timberlake .

Also nominated for the Rock Hall’s Class of 2008 are Leonard Cohen, Afrika Bambaataa, Chic , The Ventures, Donna Summer and The Dave Clark Five, according to various published reports.

Even 5 months later, Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere.
Immigration officials at Mumbai airport briefly detained Shetty, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of the public kiss with the Hollywood star, her publicist, Dale Bhagwagar, said Thursday.

Shetty was in tears late Wednesday after being stopped at the airport while on her way to Berlin where the musical “Miss Bollywood” opens this weekend, said Bhagwagar. Shetty plays the musical’s lead role.
Gere embraced and kissed Shetty on her cheek at a public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi in April, sparking an outcry among conservative hardline Hindus, who claimed the pair had violated the country’s strict anti-obscenity laws.

Shetty, a well-known actress in India, became an international star after her appearance on the British reality show “Celebrity Big Brother.”

Salma Hayek has given birth to a baby girl on September 21, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday.
“Mother and child are doing well,” publicist Cari Ross said in a statement. No other details were released.
It is the first child for the 41-year-old Mexico-born actress, who is engaged to French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault.

Hayek, who has appeared in more than thirty films, is currently enjoying success as an executive producer of the hit U.S. TV series Ugly Betty. She is also chief executive of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.

Pinault, 45, is the chief executive officer for luxury goods company PPR SA, which owns such high end labels as Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, and Puma. He has two children from a previous marriage which ended in divorce in 2004.

On Wednesday, Denise Richards filed a motion to a judge to “protect her children” from her ex-husband Charlie Sheen, hoping that Sheen’s overnight privileges with their daughters would be revoked.
The document was not yet released, but her attorney said that Richards is seeking “the assistance of the court to obtain orders to protect her children” from Sheen.

Rumors are being spread that Richards accuses Sheen of “inappropriate behavior … and conduct,” including “his attraction to underage women and his sexual explicitness on the Internet, including revealing his private parts.”

In response, Sheen snapped back that Richards “behaves as though she owns our children. She does not. A day of legal reckoning for her is fast approaching.” Sheen’s lawyer, Lance Spiegel, also says that nearly “all of these allegations were previously raised and were denied by Mr. Sheen.”

Alicia Silverstone dropped her cloth in a television spot for the animal rights group PETA.

The 30-second ad was to air about two dozen times in Houston on Wednesday, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said.

Silverstone is shown emerging from a swimming pool and She obscures the view of her body with her arms as she gets out of the pool.

“I wasn’t always a vegetarian, but I’ve always loved animals,” the 30-year-old actress said in a statement. “Physically, the effect has been amazing.”

Katherine Heigl has optioned film rights to the bestselling dramatic novel “Lost & Found” for her new production banner and will produce it with her mother and producing partner Nancy Heigl.

Heigl is said to have contacted the author’s agent after reading the book. It’s not yet known if she may star in the pic.
Banner, which she founded with her mother, is producing an action-comedy with Spyglass and Nash Entertainment that’s set up at Fox 2000; project is a possible starring vehicle for the thesp.

Heigl, who won an Emmy on Sunday for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is also attached to star in Fox 2000 romantic laffer “27 Dresses.”

Following the surprise she caused with her secret wedding, now Brittany Murphy comes to the surface with its details.

Confirming her marriage to British writer and director Simon Monjack, her representative tells People, “They were married at their home in Los Angeles several weeks ago in a very intimate ceremony. It was officiated by a rabbi and they were surrounded by their families.”

News of the marriage first got out after the couple was spotted flashing their wedding rings during a Playboy party at the Kentucky Derby May 5th.