PHILADELPHIA'S BEEN looking for a champion for 25 years, and finally we're No. 1.
Thank you, Will Smith.
According to Forbes.com, the Pride of Overbrook is the top-paid actor in Hollywood.
YESTERDAY afternoon it appeared as if "Dark Knight" star Christian Bale was a Joker, allegedly arrested in London during a family spat. But as the day wore on, the events evoked less Gotham pity and more curiosity.
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SO WHY, if the unsubstantiated reports are indeed true, would Tom Cruise want to do a sequel, now, to his 1986 hit "Top Gun"?
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WELL, WHO could have ever imagined that it would take rapper DMX to out-think the combined wisdom of experts in the field and figure out how to cut the personal cost of health care in America?
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TO ALL Sarah Jessica Parker-watchers out there: a medical bulletin. The "Sex and the City" star has had surgery, and . . .
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MRS. RON WOOD - wife of 23 years to the guitarist for the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band Eligible for Seniors Benefits - was sitting alone in their posh place in London recently, wondering where her wandering boy might be.
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HOLLYWOOD'S a place where the overconfident survive. If you're simply confident, that'll be you parking my car. And maybe even overconfidence doesn't quite cut it anymore - super-hyper-ultra-confidence is what's required just to get work, let alone fame.
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IF THERE CAN be Tuesday Weld, Wednesday Addams and Sgt. Friday, why not Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, whom Nicole Kidman gave birth to yesterday? That would be Monday.
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NEW YORK, New York, it's a wonderful town. Especially if you're a gossip writer. As if the Gossip Gods weren't smiling enough with the Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce proceedings - in which Cook admitted on the stand to an affair with a teenager, to a porn addiction and to masturbating in front of his Webcam - along comes a rumor
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FANS OF little-people porn experienced coitus interruptus this weekend. Mini-Me Verne Troyer temporarily stopped the distribution of a sex tape featuring him and a former girlfriend.
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MTV HASN'T TAKEN political ads since its "Choose or Lose" campaign in 1992, spokeswoman Jeannie Kedas said yesterday, but the network is selling time for political spots this election season, meaning pictures of John McCain may turn up next to the pro-McCain Heidi Montag on "The Hills."
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CALVIN HUTTON Houghland, of Nashville, has been charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication after he repeatedly harassed Cher at the famed honky-tonk Tootsies Orchid Lounge.
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