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Penélope Cruz talked to writer John Hiscock, a bit about her reputation of becoming romantically involved with her leading men. She famously starred with Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky, and went on to have a three-year relationship with him. She also dated Matthew McConaughey, her co-star in Sahara.  She says:

“I’ve never fallen in love with someone I’m working with. It’s always been afterwards. If something becomes friendship, then maybe months later it becomes something else, but you can never know. It’s always a mystery. You can’t plan those things.”

For the past year, the 34-year-old actress has been in a settled relationship with her most recent leading man, Javier Bardem, 39. Bardem is a fellow Spaniard and multi-award-winning actor whom she first met when she was 16 when they worked together in her debut film, Jamón jamón. She fell in love with Bardem while playing his fiery and tempestuous ex-wife in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Woody Allen recalls that during the filming in Barcelona, Cruz and Bardem often spoke passionately to each other in Spanish, and he had no idea what they were saying.

In Vicky Cristina Barcelona, as in many of her films, she plays a woman searching for happiness, which is something she can relate to.

“In the end we are all looking for the same thing, no? We all want to be happy and we all have different ways of looking for it and finding it. I guess that’s why we’re all here.”

While they are reluctant to talk about their relationship, friends of the couple say this could be the one that lasts. When they have finished promoting Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Javier & Penélope plan to find a house together in London, where Cruz will spend five months rehearsing and filming the musical Nine, with a cast that includes Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard.

James Gandolfini has married his girlfriend Deborah Lin. The wedding was Saturday in Deborah’s hometown of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Gandolfini, 46, and Lin, a former model, 40, exchanged vows in a ceremony at Central Union Church, with Gandolfini’s son Michael, 8, from his first marriage to Marcy Wudarsk (which ended in 2002), serving as best man.

With friends and family on hand, Gandolfini and Lin,  exchanged their vows (Bada-bing! Here’s a ring) in an intimate ceremony surrounded by white lilies and rhododendrons adorning every pew held at Central Union Church.

The couple have been engaged since late 2007.

Source: People 

Johnny Depp returned to his old stomping grounds this weekend, reuniting with his old band The Kids for a fundraiser in Pompano Beach, Florida. The Kids played in South Florida clubs during the 1980s. Depp joined The Kids when he was a high school student in Miramar, Florida, and moved to Los Angeles with them in search of a record deal. After the band broke up, Depp decided to pursue a career in acting.

On Friday With his girlfriend, Vanessa Paradis, and their 9-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, screaming in the crowd of 2,500, the 45-year-old actor looked at ease strapping on a guitar and singing backup vocals during the power-pop group’s 90-minute set.

The second annual Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion Concert honors The Kids’ late manager who passed away in 2006 at age 66, and was well-known in South Florida’s music scene. All proceeds from the benefit go to the Dan Marino Foundation, which funds programs for children with special needs. The band also reunited in January 2007 for the same cause.

Johnny and The Kids are scheduled to rock out again tonight on day two of the benefit.

Headliner Amy Winehouse pulled out of the three-day Rock En Seine festival Friday just hours before it started. Winehouse failed to make the short trip to the Paris venue, where the line-up included the Raconteurs, The Streets and Kate Nash. The 24-year-old singer was said to have been too stoned taken ill at her London home.

The organizers of the music concert are now threatening legal action, after they were given just two hours notice from Winehouse. Rock En Seine said there was “no explanation of the exact reasons for her absence”.

A statement on the Rock En Seine website said Winehouse’s appearance had to be scrapped at the “last minute”.

The statement added: “We are very sorry about this situation and share the disappointment of the festival-goers.”

Winehouse is next due to be late or pull a no-show for her scheduled gig at the Bestival festival on the Isle of Wight next Saturday.

An air conditioning repairman has been linked to the stabbing deaths of three women, including a former girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, who died more then 7 years ago.

A man, Michael Gargiulo, 32, of Santa Monica was already in custody since July for a separate knife attack during a burglary and now could face murder charges as soon as next week, police said Friday.

Gargiulo was being held in lieu of $1.1 million bail on attempted murder and burglary charges stemming from the April 28 stabbing of a Santa Monica woman in her home. Detectives matched a DNA sample taken from blood at the crime scene to Gargiulo. Police say further database cross-referencing found that Gargiulio’s DNA matched genetic evidence in the three killings.

One of the cases involves Kutcher’s former girlfriend, 22-year-old Ashley Ellerin, who was found dead in February 2001 in her Hollywood Hills home.

Kutcher, who is now married to actress Demi Moore, told police he went to pick up the fashion student-model for a post-Grammy Awards party, but she did not answer the door. He checked a back window and spotted what he thought were red wine stains on the carpet and then left. Her body was discovered the next day by a friend.

Police said they have a DNA match that links Gargiulo to another fatal stabbing of a Monterey Park woman in 2005. They also suspect Gargiulo in the 1993 killing of a high school girl in the Chicago suburb of Glenview, where Gargiulo lived at the time. Tricia Pacaccio, a senior at Glenbrook South High School, was found stabbed to death on her front doorstep, clutching her door key.

Gargiulo’s attorney, Anthony Salerno, tells the AP that, Gargiulo denies involvement in any of the attacks and “thinks the police are out to get him.”

Salerno acknowledged his client will possibly be charged with murder for the three slayings. He said that Gargiulo lived near the victims at the time of the attacks and a garment of his was found in one of the victims’ homes. But, he said, that does not make Gargiulo guilty. No but DNA evidence probably does!

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