Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have arrived in the Big Apple.

Jolie was spotted holding daughter Shiloh, 2, in New York City early Thursday morning, while papa Pitt was photographed pushing a covered-up stroller.

Jolie is in town to promote her buzzed-about Clint Eastwood drama Changeling.

She is set to make her first red carpet appearance since welcoming twins Knox and Vivienne at Saturday’s premiere. (The premiere also marks the first time the actress has been in the United States since giving birth.)

The Jolie-Pitts had been staying at the 10,000-square-foot Palais Parkschloss, which they were renting for $36,600 a week in Berlin as Pitt films the upcoming Quentin Tarantino WWII drama, Inglorious Bastards.

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On being a star
‘I hate the attention, which is sort of funny as I’m an actress’

On her style
‘I don’t usually wear expensive things…its crazy your like $1,400 for shoes? I wait for the sale’

On Victoria Beckham
‘I respect anyone who really does her own thing. It takes a lot of energy and skill to pull that off. And I love that she doesn’t give a f***’

On meeting Karl Lagerfeld
‘It was so surreal, like meeting the pope or the president or a cartoon. He’s fantastic’

On being Maid of Honour for her best friend
‘You don’t understand. I’m freaking out. The groom is a writer! I have to be funny!’

On marriage and children
‘I don’t need to get married right now. I’m more ready for a baby than marriage, not really tomorrow but definitely in the next couple of years, which is the pretty near future. You have to have the guy, you know.’

On her character Summer Roberts in the OC
‘I wasn’t supposed to be anything really, they just decided I was funny’

On dating actors
‘You can’t help it, they’re who you surround your self with’

On Hayden Christen
‘Hayden is a guy’s guy. Tractors and such’
‘I’m learning to play chess. A certain someone happens to be very good and I don’t think I will ever accomplish beating that person. But that is the goal’

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It’s almost like they were doing a public service announcement. Hell, maybe they were. Anyway, I think this is probably the first time these four have been photographed together, and so it makes the top spot. Oh, we will see them later, so don’t worry if you want to see them all by themselves. Not that you would worry about that. I mean, there are other things to worry about like whether money will actually be worth anything in a few weeks or if we will keep our jobs, or be able to buy food that isn’t contaminated by greedy manufacturers, and imported without checking out the manufacturers first. So, I doubt you are really all that concerned about whether you will get to see Sean Connery alone or not.
Is it me, or is the kid not looking at the check.
Carlos Ramirez where have you been?
You get the feeling that maybe Cameron is a little scared of dogs?
Just a little closer.
Human hair is making a comeback this year (or)

Cousin It turns to runway modeling.
Emma Watson’s top kind of looks like that mime freak show yesterday on the runways, so maybe there is a crowd who likes it.
Smoking and self tanner = not so good for complexion as Catherine Zeta Jones is discovering.
Now this is an interesting pair here. Charles Grodin and Cybil Shepherd.
Jodie Foster on the other hand obviously loves the dog. There was another photo where it looked like there was tongue, but this is a family blog. OK, so I didn’t watch the video and so I only saw a headline and therefore I am probably ignorant, but did Jenny McCarthy come out and say that her son was cured of autism. Is that possible?
“I like the first one better. The sequel just kind of played to the lowest common denominator. ” I would have also accepted, “Saturday nights at the Alba house.”
Ione Skye. I say that name and it just makes me smile. Good memories.
I know I did the whole Gavin and Gwen thing yesterday but this is one of my favorite photos of the day so it gets in.
So, I want to say upfront here that I think that Jumpstart’s Read For The Record is a great program and I think it does fantastic things. That being said we are going to have a little fun.So, Jo Jo was in Boston and was reading the book of the year which as you can see is Corduroy.

Greg Kinnear was in New York reading the same book. No problem and he looks like he is having a great time doing so.
LL Cool J, in the same place reading the same book to the same group of kids. Mary Louise Parker in the same place reading the same book to the same group of kids.
Jesse McCartney in the same place, reading the same book to the same group of kids who have now heard the book four times.
Matt Lauer and Ann Curry reading the same book in the same place to the same kids who are hearing it now for the fifth time.
Mario on the other hand is in Washington DC and reading it for the first time, but all the kids and parents are looking in the opposite direction.

Probably the best I have ever seen Kate Walsh look. Doesn’t mean the marriage is real, just means she looks really good. Kiefer has looked fantastic lately. I don’t think he has given up smoking, but maybe staying off the booze is doing it.
The dog is back, oh and the Target pup as well.
So, if you are going to make a multi-million dollar solid gold sculpture of a woman you are fascinated with, don’t you think you could come up with something better than this? It’s frightening actually.
John Turturro and Robert DeNiro which is a nice photo moment. Father and daughter dressing alike. Nice. Didn’t see what the new girlfriend was wearing, but if she was wearing the same thing that would have been really special.
I’m not usually a big fan of Natalie Portman, but she looks great here.
That dog is excited about Mike Myers.
I just know Liza is going to fall in. I look at the photo and she doesn’t move, but I can just sense it.

A first time appearance for Tony Robbins and his wife and Quincy Jones who was being honored for his good works and deeds. Notice that Sean is not actually touching Robin. Arm around her yes. Touching? No.
Hello Shirley MacLaine.
“You must always show the dog who is boss.”
It has been an age since I have seen Rita Moreno. Wow!

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Everything Jennifer Garner does is so cute, even pregnancy! 

BTW she looks like she is carrying a boy, don’t you think?

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First Greg Berlanti called on his old Dawson’s Creek friend Katie Holmes to guest star on his show Eli Stone, now he has asked Joey Potter’s ex-boyfriend Jack aka Kerr Smith to be on the show. TV Guide is reporting that he will play hard-core legal eagle on the show.

I guess now that Greg has had almost everyone from Everwood on either Eli Stone and/or Brothers & Sisters, he is now starting to go through the Dawson Creekers. I wonder who will be next…Michelle Williams? James Van Der Beek? Busy Phillips?

BTW you can see the first one, Katie Holmes on the season premiere of Eli Stone on October 14th on ABC.

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Noel Cruz has painted the faces of celebrities on dolls and their likeness is amazing! His work became known about a month ago when his Angelina Jolie doll hit eBay and as you can see he has done so much more. These are just the modern day dolls he has done, but on Noel Cruz’s website you can see the ones he has done for Marilyn Monroe, Lucielle Ball and so many more. His work is so beautiful, I just had to share it with you. I love how he captures their eyes.

BTW he puts the dolls on eBay if you want one of you own.

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Looks like Rome is agreeing with Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel because who ever would’ve thought that Justin Timberlake would give one of his girlfriends a piggyback? Unless the rumors are true and she is more than just his girlfriend and the two are really engaged. But then again she isn’t wearing anything on her finger.

UPDATE: Jessica and Justin are in Italy for her former 7th Heaven co-star Beverly Mitchell’s wedding. According to People Magazine Jessica was one of the Bridesmaids at the wedding.

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Back to reality: After earning her third chilly review from the judges following a not-so-romantic rumba Monday night, Kim Kardashian had to know her “Dancing” days were numbered. Bruno Tonioli called her performance “colder and more distant than Siberia,” and viewers evidently felt the same way.

Kim’s exit proved a lucky break for a couple of ballroom hopefuls. After a performance night of largely lackluster dancers, the viewers could have just as easily turned on Rocco DiSpirito or Cloris Leachman. If they don’t step up their steps next week, one of them will likely be the next to leave.

Defense goes on the offense: Warren Sapp brought his “A” game to the ballroom Monday night and made it to the top of the leaderboard. After two promising performances last week, the retired defensive end polished his moves and picked up his feet for an impressive paso doble that inspired Len Goodman to ask for an encore the next night.

Ridiculous rehearsal moment: It’s only week two and those filler-ific rehearsal segments are back in full force. Rather than devoting more time to their dances (and if this week proved anything, most of them need to), the stars were trotted off for some existential ballroom improvement.

Connecting the extracurricular activity to the dance du jour was a heck of a stretch for Rocco DiSpirito. Before the chef performed what turned out to be a sub-par rumba, he worked on his routine by preparing a racy dish for partner Karina Smirnoff.

“Risotto is like the rumba of cooking,” the reality restaurateur explained. “It’s a slowly developing dish, and when it’s finished, it feels like cashmere in your mouth.”

Ah, risotto. It’s both the rumba and the sweater of fine dining.

Judicial smackdown: When head judge Len Goodman didn’t feel the love for Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer’s theme-free, modern take on the paso, he laid the blame at the new pro’s feet.

“I know your game and I know your brain,” the head judge said while pointing an angry finger at Lacey. “Chuck in a couple of twist turns and a chassé cape — keep the old boy happy — and then do a load of stuff that has no relation to the paso doble!”

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So just how serious is the “unspecified illness” that got Janet Jackson rushed to a Montreal hospital Monday night? Not serious enough for her fiance, Jermaine Dupri, to cancel his party plans. The hip-hopper reveled alongside T.I. until 2 a.m. at Patron’s Music in Motion Tour Party at Marquee, even though Ms. Jackson had taken ill at a sound check and canceled her concert less than an hour before showtime. At least Jermaine partied for a purpose: The tour has raised over $75,000 to help rebuild New Orleans.

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Will Beyoncé make her deadline today?

The singer’s new album was due at her label Wednesday morning in order to make an announced Nov. 18 release date, but insiders tell us there have been problems.

“It’s not going to be completed,” said a source close to folks who’ve been working on the CD. “She’s got to get it out early in the fourth quarter, when there’s so much competition among artists.”

Part of the delay may be due to Beyoncé’s busy-than-ever acting schedule. The beauty spent months filming “Cadillac Records,” in which she plays Etta James, and she’s also working on the psychological thriller “Obsessed.”

Another time-consumer was a duet with Justin Timberlake - the source says the two didn’t like the way it was turning out and kept doing it over until they got it right.

Plus, claims our insider, “She clashes with Max Gousse, her father’s guy who’s involved.”

Beyoncé’s dad, Matthew Knowles, asked us, rhetorically, “How would he not be involved? He’s the vice president of my company, and she’s recording with my company.”

And Gousse is the man who convinced her to record Ne-Yo’s “Irreplaceable” - which became her biggest hit to date.

Still, the source counters, “Jay-Z encouraged Beyoncé to bring in Jay Brown and Ty Ty [Tyran Smith]” - both of whom have worked with red-hot singer Rihanna.

Beyoncé will release two singles, “If I Were a Boy” and “Single Ladies,” this Tuesday.

The chief of Sony BMG Music, Rob Stringer, got on the phone last week to tell us, “She has an enormous number of very talented people doing whatever they can to make it the best record possible.

“Normally I would lie low, but we think the first two singles will be utterly huge. They’re two of the best songs of her career. Beyoncé is incredibly hardworking, and [the album] is 97%-98% done. It’ll be out before Nov. 20. Frankly, we think the whole record is going to be huge.”

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The Sirius shock jock’s bachelor party was a small affair that started and ended early and didn’t feature a single stripper, one attendee tells Page Six. The 15 stags - including Gary Dell’Abate, Ronnie (The Limo Driver) Munn and other Stern show regulars - toasted their bachelor boss in a private room at Nobu 57 which featured a cake shaped like a microphone. “Artie Lange, who’s on the wagon right now, got there midway through and says, ‘Never in my life did I think I’d be late for a bachelor party by arriving at 9 p.m. - or that I’d be drinking a Diet Coke,’ ” our source said. “Chris Rock stopped in to say hello and the party broke up around 10:30. Howard’s fiancée, Beth Ostrosky, came in later with [Nobu owner] Richie Notar’s wife and they actually stayed later than Howard and his gang did. Can you imagine?”

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One of Hugh Hefner’s “Girls Next Door” took a break from the Playboy Mansion to hang with “Girls Gone Wild” chief Joe Francis in Miami. They were making out at Karu&Y on Friday before Francis went to club Heathrow. There, an onlooker said, “He was texting Kendra on his BlackBerry all night until she finally showed up at 2 a.m. . . . they stayed out until 5.” Francis told us, “If you were Kendra and you looked at the Playboy stock price lately [which closed at $3.94 yesterday, down from $12 a year ago], wouldn’t you think about upgrading, too?”

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I don’t think you can get much more random this in random photos. Margaret Thatcher and Bob Geldof.
A trio of lovely ladies. Six if you count their shadow heads. At least I hope they are shadow heads and not ghosts that haunt red carpets because they want their 15 minutes extended. Oh, and in case you don’t know who is in the photo. It is from L to R, Amy Ryan, Patricia Clarkson and Edie Falco.
Elizabeth Banks appears to be standing in my basement. The paneling looks the same. The only difference really is she would probably be holding her nose and I don’t see any shag carpeting. I didn’t even know they made paneling anymore.

Daisy Lowe broke up with Mark Ronson for Opie.
It must be nice for Cynthia Nixon when she hits a red carpet and actually gets attention rather than being swallowed by everyone else stealing the spotlight.
Lets see. Earlier there was a former Prime Minister and now a former Prime Minister’s wife.
I’m sure someone thinks the concept for this is brilliant. I’m not convinced.
Leonard DiCaprio pointing out where he got that popcorn stuck. I hate that. You go to the movies on a Saturday, brush your teeth eight times a day and still the damn thing doesn’t come out until Wednesday. You know what? Jessica Simpson actually looks decent.
Josh Lucas looks pretty good also. Glad he’s blocking David Schwimmer’s name also. That is worth bonus points.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Jennifer Garner has never thought about botoxing the feet of her daughter.
Josh Brolin in a still from the film “W.”

Mary J Blige on the set of her new music video. Whatever she does it won’t any awards unless she starts kissing MTV’s ass right now. Milla Jovovich. Where have you and Paul Anderson been hiding?
Melissa Etheridge - Los Angeles
Madonna and David this morning in New York.
Just because it seems like you have to have the obligatory Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan in bikini photo. No matter how many of them I look at it, Samantha always looks like the five year old kid someone dressed in really nice clothes, placed him in front of a playground and told him he couldn’t play.
Yeah, I’m scared. The too good looking for their own good couple of the day goes to Ronan and Yvonne Keating.
Russell Crowe doing some press for his new film. Not doing them doing them, because honestly I think there was quite a large group, so even with Leo and Ridley Scott joining in, I don’t think everyone would have left satisfied.
Aaaah, the joys of going to the mall en familia. The only thing that would make it better is if it were the Christmas season and they had twenty bags in the stroller.
So, this is Natasha Kaplinsky. She was offered $1M for photos of her baby. She turned it down and distributed this for free. While I admire her for not exploiting her kid, I do wonder if she could have just given the $1M straight to a charity.
I’m still not sure exactly why HSM3 had its premiere in Paris. Usher was in Paris so maybe that is the reason. He is getting set to launch a lingerie line. He of course is the model for it all.
Taylor Momsen and Willa Holland on the set of Gossip Girl.
Almost Halloween. Here is a still from The Simpson’s Halloween show.
Sarah Ferguson just never looks comfortable in front of people.

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Nicole Richie got her drivers license back last week. How come no one told me? I have been driving in the same city as an on the loose Nicole Richie for 11 days, and didn’t know it. Her license was suspended for one year, and that suspension ended last week. Now she is just on a restricted license, which when you are a celebrity means jack crap. For a working stiff it means you can drive yourself to and from work and that’s it. For a celebrity though they can claim almost anything is work related because if you are famous enough you will get your photo taken and that contributes to your career success and lets face it, if she wants to go out to dinner she can call the place and say I am coming to eat there, give me $500 and they would probably do it so it becomes work related.

Now, she still does have six more months of DUI classes. Do you think she will make it through the remaining six months without getting busted again? Do you think she learned her lesson? See, I think she did learn her lesson, but that she is very strong willed and has a temper. Therefore I think if she was hammered and got into an argument that her lesson would be forgotten and she would get behind the wheel just out of spite. I’m hoping that the fact she has a child would dissuade her from that, but you never know. I do know that if she pulled a Richie Sambora that Joel Madden would take the kid away from her.

I say she gets pulled over before the six months is up because there is something going on with her that is going to crack here very soon.

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I’m guessing this is a publicity stunt, but if it isn’t, then this German artist is a little odd. How odd? Glad you asked. She says that she has acquired the ashes of Kurt Cobain. As you know, Courtney lost Kurt’s ashes earlier this year. Courtney I believe said stole, but I believe lost would be the correct term. So, this German artist said she acquired the ashes. When she was asked how she said, “That’s confidential and kind of magic. They came to me. And I am setting him free.”Yeah. OK. Apparently she wants to smoke Kurt’s ashes as part of her art exhibit entitled Set Me Free. If she acquired them by theft, then she will be wanting to be set free for many years to come. If she acquired them from magic, then perhaps they will take a human form as she smokes them and Kurt will come out and say he was killed by Courtney. Then Elvis will pop his fat head out, and he and Kurt will duet on “Burning Love.”

The art exhibition is going to take place on October 11 in Berlin.

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