Thank heavens and Hollywood there are more, bigger smiles to go around today, now that Jon Voight and his daughter, Angelina Jolie, have made nicey-nice after a seven-year estrangement. It was an ugly split among beautiful people that occurred in 2002 after papa complained in an Access Hollywood interview that Angelina wasn't letting him see his grandchild and urged her to seek help for her "mental problems." Jolie went so crazy - er, got so upset - that she legally dropped Voight from her name. Now, Voight tells Us Weekly that he and Jolie have reconciled. "We are in touch, but not regularly," he said. The freeze began thawing in February at Jolie's initiative, according to a family friend. Jolie's love stud Brad Pitt "has been supportive - a key factor in her reaching out," the friend blabs. What good news in a week that otherwise saw only the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

Talk this way - or don't

Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler apparently doesn't want to "miss a thing" and isn't going to "walk this way" - oh, how we could go on and on, and on - away from the band he helped build. It seems as if it was only a week or so ago that Tyler and band mate Joe Perry were dropping hard-rock hints that Tyler was quitting to pursue a solo career. How could such a painful and potentially destructive rumor get started? Curse the loose tongues of celebrities who don't know any better - Tyler had told a British music magazine that he was about to pursue a solo career and Perry had tweeted a want ad for a new lead singer. Yet Tuesday night, the New York Post reported, there was Tyler at a Joe Perry Project shindig at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza. Not only did the two sing "Walk This Way," Tyler told the audience that "the breakup - it just ain't true." It's a good thing Tyler was able to set himself straight and teach himself a lesson on the importance of correcting the record.

Watch this movie - only later

Wynnefield filmmaker Tigre Hill says he's delaying the premiere of his widely anticipated film about Mumia Abu-Jamal from December until February in order to incorporate "rare new insight" and "new information" into the film.

"New information has come to light that was offered to me," Hill said yesterday. "It's something I have to verify." He did not wish to comment further.

Hill's film, The Barrel of a Gun, has caused a stir since the release of the trailer, which made it clear the film would argue that Abu-Jamal killed Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981 as a political or revolutionary act. Activists for Abu-Jamal, a former radio newsman who has become a global symbol for anti-death penalty forces, have denounced Hill as a "Mumia hit man."

Hill said a new trailer, focusing "less on political thesis and debate and more on the tragedy of lost life" will be released Dec. 9, the 28th anniversary of Faulkner's death, which had been the tentative premiere date.

- Amy Rosenberg

No nudes is bad nudes

This truism is why we are so darn happy that Alaskan he-man Levi Johnston has announced, "I'm as ready as I've ever been" for his sans-apparel photo shoot for Playgirl. Life & Style Weekly, in what it proudly describes as an exclusive, reports that the baby sirer to the daughter of former GOP veep candidate Sarah Palin (cast of a new soap opera to be called All My Alaskans?) has arrived in New York to prepare for his undressing, after working out in a gym and eating a strict diet that features moose meat. "SideShow" will never be able to watch a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon again without sniffling. Johnston also says he's OK with being a gay icon, which Playgirl hopes will make his photo spread even more of a winner with its female and gay readers. "If I'm a gay icon, so be it. I guess it's a compliment," he tells L&S Weekly. That's the kind of maturity we like to see in a flash-in-a-pan celebrity!

Now dancing with himself

As fans of the reality hit Dancing With the Stars surely know by now, the latest star to be booted off the show was Aaron Carter. Showing he knows how to be a 21st-century reality TV star, Carter cried after he learned that he and pro partner Karina Smirnoff would be dancing no more. C'mon, stop being so cynical. His tears were a genuine show of emotion from the 21-year-old, who said he learned a lot during his two months on the program and thanked the judges for their critiques. That's beautiful. And speaking of DWTS, a remaining celebrity contestant, Kelly Osbourne, says she has lost 25 pounds thanks to the rigors of the show. Maybe there's a merger to be made of reality shows, something like, Dancing With the Biggest Loser Stars. Maybe. OK, maybe not.

ABC says B-Y-E!

Those witches of the television show Eastwick may be able to throw a spell or two around, but star Rebecca Romijn and her fellow witches couldn't prevent ABC from canceling the program faster than you can say abracadabra, or whatever the heck witches say when they cast spells. This injustice has left the show's executive producer, Maggie Friedman, bubbling mad. "We have such an amazing group of writers and actors - best people I've ever worked with. None of us can believe this is really happening." Ya gotta believe, baby.

Love and marriage updates

What are those celebrities doing behind closed doors - and even more intriguing, what are they doing right in front of those pesky paparazzi? Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, stars of the next installment of the Twilight saga, New Moon, held hands this week at the Paris airport in front of the camera snappers. Oh, and the photogs are quite the wordsmiths, too: "Out on the tarmac, he took her hand, like young lovers. They stopped and looked at each other, their plane, the scene."

Unfortunate news on the baby front for Canadian crooner Celine Dion and hubby René Angélil. The couple had announced in August that they were pregnant through in vitro fertilization. Their publicist now confirms the fertilization turned out not to be successful.

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