Courtney's father, Alex Stodden, who at 47 is four years younger that his son-in-law, and her mother Krista even gushed about the new addition to the family.
'Every father can only pray to have such a man behind their daughter,' he told Radaronline. 'Doug is the nicest man I’ve ever met in my life.'
He says that Courtney is an intelligent girl and he has no concerns about her decision.

'Courtney is one of the most level headed girls out there and I’m not just saying that because she’s my daughter,' he said.

Reigning queen of pop, Britney Spears, has always been a spectacular performer-- and her Monday night concert Los Angeles was no exception. The 29-year-old singer, in the midst of a 33-city Femme Fatale tour, got the party started by pulling a fan on stage and surprising him with a lap dance.

According to the Daily Mail, Spears pulled an unsuspecting male fan on during her song, 'Leather and Lace.' Dressed in a black and nude one-piece with fishnet stockings, the singer teased the fan with a pink boa while dancing provocatively around him. At one point, she even wrapped her legs around his neck.

Perhaps Spears was taking a performance note from fellow pop star Rihanna? Just last week, Rihanna also performed a lap dance on stage during a show. Only difference? Rihanna performed for a female fan.

The Jolie-Pitt women came to see the zombies on the set where World War Z is filming, with Daddy – Brad Pitt – as the star.

Angelina Jolie brought her eldest daughters, Zahara, 6, and Shiloh, 5, to a downtown location in Malta's capital city of Valletta on Tuesday afternoon, sources tell PEOPLE.

The 90-minute visit to the location in the narrow historic district occurred during Pitt's lunch break. He was seen holding Zahara's hand while showing her around St. Anne's Street while Angelina kept rein on Shiloh.

A beloved film that launched or shoot into hyperdrive the careers of some of today's top comedic actors, writers and directors, "Wet Hot American Summer," released in 2001, already featured hilarious stars hilariously overaged for their roles as summer camp counselors and campers, circa 1981.

Now, ten years later, things may get even more hilariously ridiculous.

David Wain co-wrote (with "Stella" and "The State" cast mate Michael Showalter) and directed the film, which co-starred their third co-star, Michael Ian Black, as well as Paul Rudd, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni and Molly Shannon, among others. And he recently said that they're in the process of making a prequel to the film -- with the same actors.

"Yes, we have been talking about a sequel, prequel, something or other," he told Jeff Goldsmith of the Q&A Podcast (via Indiewire). "The prequel would be the same summer so they would be 20 years old for the part yeah, but not younger. So it would be 40 year olds playing 16 year olds. And yeah, we’re in the early stages of thinking about that."

It would be an interesting experiment, as some of the film's smaller player are now the biggest of the stars involved, including Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper and Elizabeth Banks. Would the film focus more on them? Bring in new characters? Hard to say at this point.

With his daughters in double digits, President Obama probably hasn't had to soothe a sobbing baby for several years.

But in the video below, the Dad-In-Chief looks like a total pro. When a fan gives her crying child to Michelle and the baby wails away, Barack laughs and says, "You better give her back!" But instead Michelle hands the little girl over and much to everyone's shock (especially Michelle -- that facial expression is priceless), the baby immediately stops crying.

President Obama, meanwhile, just bounces the tot around with an "I told you so" smile on his face. Yeah, he's that good.

BollywoodWorld.com, Bollywood diva Aishwarya Rai is in the family way, says her father-in-law and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
“NEWS NEWS NEWS !! I AM GOING TO BECOME A GRANDFATHER .. AISHWARYA EXPECTING .. SO HAPPY AND THRILLED, (sic)” Amitabh posted on his Twitter account.
Ever since Amitabh posted the message on the microblogging site, congratulatory messages have started pouring in.
Aishwarya, 37, and Abhishek, 35, were married in 2007 and as soon as they tied the knot, the rumours of Aishwarya getting pregnant have been making the news. And finally she is expecting.
“Yes, it is true,” Ash’s spokesperson told IANS, confirming the news.
- IANS

Could Lady Gaga be running out of ideas for her stage shows?
The pop superstar emerged from a cocoon during her performance at the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, Canada this weekend, a stunt she has pulled twice already.
Gaga, 25, was at the event to perform some of her recent hits, including Edge Of Glory, and to pick up two awards.
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She entered the stage via the egg-like cocoon, just as she did at the Grammy Awards in February this year - she also popped out of a chamber during a performance on Saturday Night Live late last month.
This time however the contraption was suspended above the ground, whereas the previous two crysalis-esque devices were laid down horizontally on the ground. 
For the duration of her appearance on the Canadian awards show, Gaga remained relatively covered up in comparison to her usual outrageous get up.







The Edge of Glory star, who won two awards at the event, turned up at the ceremony in Toronto, Canada, in a form-fitting little black dress which showed a more curvy shape around her midsection.
Last year Gaga's former tour manager, David Ciemny, claimed that the star would starve herself to fit into her revealing stage outfits.
He alleged the singer would go on unhealthy food binges before barely eating in a bid to slim down - saying she once lost 20lbs between fittings.
Earlier this month, Gaga left very little to the imagination as she partied at the CFDA Fashion Awards in a see-through black body stocking in New York.
But tonight was a relatively low-key affair for Gaga, who remained relatively covered in her series of outfits.  
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Julie Cowell, 86, pulled the same facial expressions as the Britain's Got Talent and X Factor star when she watched wannabes in a contest at the weekend.

But instead of reducing them to tears, they were all smiles after she told them what she thought of their acts. Little Saffron Barker, winner of the Under-12s section, said: "It was really fun to have Julie Cowell judging us.

"I'm glad she wasn't like Simon Cowell - because sometimes he's a bit mean to the people singing.

"I think maybe he should be a bit more like her."

Over-12s winner Amy Moore, 17, added: "I think I'd have been more nervous singing in front of Simon - he is maybe a bit more harsh.

Julie, who was judging Rottingdean's Got Talent and lives in the East Sussex village, tends to agree. She wouldn't sit on a panel with her 51-year-old son because they'd argue too much.

Holly Madison has blasted Crystal Harris for going to a Las Vegas pool party on Saturday - the day of her cancelled wedding to Hugh Hefner.
Harris, 25, headed for Sin City's Wet Republic, telling People magazine that she just needed to 'get away' after calling off her big day with Hefner at the last minute.
But Madison, 32, who also once dated the Playboy founder, branded the move 'tacky'.
Taking to Twitter, the former star of The Girls Next Door wrote: 'That's a new low.'
But Crystal insisted that the party was simply a distraction. 'I just had to get away. Today is the day and I just had to get away. I'm going back tonight so I just wanted to get away for the day,' she said.
And she stood by her decision to ditch Hefner, 85. I just knew when it was getting close it wasn't fair to [Hefner] and wasn't fair to go through with it. I wanted to be true to myself and be true to what was best for everybody,' she said.

'I love [Hefner]. He is the sweetest person I've ever met in my entire life and I'll always love him and he'll always be a dear friend and I'll always visit him all the time.'
She also claimed that his love of other women was one of the major problems in their relationship.
'It doesn't make sense to have so many women around but still have a marriage,' she said.
'It doesn't make sense, so it was the right thing. I wasn't the only woman in Hef's life and it wasn't going to stay that way after the marriage.'
It is not the first time Madison has lashed out at Harris.
She was opposed to the couple's marriage from the beginning and in January expressed concern that Harris would end up divorcing Hef and 'take all his money'.
Madison was previously Hefner's 'number one' girlfriend for six years before they broke up in 2008 over his refusal to wed.
She admitted  she was shocked to find out Hefner had had a change of heart about marriage after meeting Harris.
She is now dating Jesse Waits, a managing partner at the XS nightclub in Las Vegas. He is also the brother of Paris Hilton's boyfriend Cy Waits.

It has become quite obvious, now, that one must watch his or her words when starring in a "Transformers" movies, especially when the desire to draw vile dictators into conversation grows strong. See: Fox, Megan, and her Steven Spielberg-mandated firing.

But as her "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," replacement, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, soon learned, there's more than just verbal traps to be avoided while filming one of Michael Bay's blow-em-up blockbusters. The warning came from her on-screen love interest, series star, Shia LaBeouf.

“Shia made it clear this wasn’t just about becoming a movie star. The shooting schedule was going to be grueling," Huntington-Whiteley told Women's Health Magazine, which she covers this month. And she confirmed that her co-star was right; their shoot in Chicago was anything but easy. “You’re in the sun all day long—dirty and smelly. It was like boot camp.”

While moviegoers may note the differences between Fox and Huntington-Whiteley, such as their looks and accents, she promises that the issue that got Fox canned from the series is not at all a problem for her. Even if people think it might be.

“People always tell me, ‘Gosh, you’re so nice!' Like they expect me to be a huge b*tch," she muses. Well, maybe after the last "Transformers" leading lady...

She also talks about her love for organic food, something she's shared in the past.

“Thinking about the things that go into processed foods—chemicals, additives," she said. "Sometimes you go into a supermarket and the apples are all the same size and color, but that’s not what apples are supposed to look like. Go to an orchard or an organic farm, and the apples are sometimes knobby, but they taste better.”

I think the Japanese male sexual complex originated in the two-dimensional world –animation, games and so on – which then transferred to small three-dimensional sculptures. But before my sculptures Miss Ko (1997) and My Lonesome Cowboy (1998), it had never been represented life-size.
–Takashi Murakami
Gagosian Gallery will be presenting recent paintings and sculptures by Takashi Murakami.
Murakami’s latest group of paintings explores his complex ambivalence to the legacy of cosmopolitan painter Kuroda Seiki, who brought yōga or Western-style painting to Meiji- period Japan. Kuroda broadly promoted the genre of history painting, as well as the validity of the nude figure as a subject for art.
Taking Kuroda’s famous triptych, Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment (c.1900), Murakami consciously reclaims it in a new iteration by applying traditional nihonga techniques like gold- and silver-leafing, as well as recasting the realistically rendered nude figures in contemporary manga style.
When it was first shown, Kuroda’s work caused great controversy because of its content, however, as Murakami reminds in paintings such as Shunga: Gibbons
(2010) and Shunga: Bow Wow (2010), Japan had embraced explicit erotic content in art as early as the twelfth century.
By the Edo period, the long-established genre of shunga sought to express a varied world of contemporary sexual possibilities, often referred to as the creation of a “pornotopia,” an idealised, eroticised and fantastical world parallel to contemporary urban life. In Murakami’s contemporary shunga, graphic depictions of exaggerated and engorged male and female genitals are set against delirious backgrounds of image and pattern.
This theme continues into sculptures, which feature collaborations with key artists working in Japan’s popular otaku culture including Seiji Matsuyama — creator of the controversial manga “My Wife is an Elementary School Student” – and BOME, a figure sculptor who previously collaborated on Murakami’s first life-size sculpture, Miss Ko2 (1997), an ebullient Playboy fantasy translated into manga cuteness and proportions. Whereas Nurse Ko2 (2011) relates closely to the earlier sculpture, with its leggy, busty verticality and sexy uniform (right down to a suggestively loaded syringe), 3-Meter Girl (2011) is an absurdist composition that pushes form and content to new extremes. She stands with feet spread wide, her abundant hair roiling around her like an elaborate rococo frame as if to steady her petite body against the whopping pendular breasts whose size and weight threaten to topple her.
A monumental cast and highly polished metal penis of towering proportions, Mr Big Mushroom (2011), is a realist, manmade take on the traditional stone lingam. Together with Miss Clam (2011), an inviting metal vagina, it provides an exclamation mark to the enduring obsession with sexuality in contemporary human society.
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Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise enjoyed some beach time in Miami over the weekend, and Bauer Griffin has the photos. On Sunday they were snapped with Tom celebrating Father's Day on a boat.
The family is in Miami while Tom films 'Rock of Ages.'
Here's one pic of Katie and Suri in the ocean, see the rest here

Like countless other musicians, Mitch Winehouse gave up his dream in favor of getting a steady job to support his family. He was a professional singer in the '70s, but left the circuit to work as a cab driver and raise his children.

"I put it on the back burner," he tells Spinner. "When Amy started to perform she'd get me up on stage and we'd do a couple of songs."

Amy, of course, is his daughter Amy Winehouse, who captivated the world with her sultry voice and littered tabloids with her personal foibles. Now the family is forging ahead and Mitch is singing his own tune.

"The whole idea with the album was I would stand up and be judged by my own work," Mitch says. "The songs would be standards, but not standards that everybody immediately recognizes."

'Rush of Love' includes covers of tunes of jazz and lounge tunes like 'How Insensitive' by Antonio Carlos Jobim. There are also four new songs penned by veteran British songwriter Tony Hiller.

As for Amy, an album is in the works. And, according to dad, she is doing just fine.

"She doing better now," Mitch says. "She has been clean for two and a half years, about that. I'm not saying her problems have gone away, because they haven't. She's dealing with it."

Mitch doesn't take credit for teaching his daughter how to sing, but the family certainly provided her with a musical upbringing.

"In my house there was always music, there was dancing, and singing," Mitch says. "And it was natural for my kids to sing as soon as they could talk. I remember Amy standing on the table and I would leave a word out of a song and she would fill the word in."

But if Mitch Winehouse is using the spotlight to pursue his own ventures, it's not only for the singing. The 61-year-old year old cab driver also appeared in a documentary that explored the government's role in the dealing with drug addiction, and even testified before a Parliamentary committee to discuss the discrepancies.

"If somebody is a drug user in London, and they voluntarily want to come off drugs but they can't afford to put themselves in a private clinic, it's almost impossible for them to get into a residential program," Mitch says. "What we found was that there are some people that are so desperate that want to get off drugs but can't get the help. We found a lot of people are actually turning to crime."