Sideshow: Stirring news: James Bond lives, for a 23d film

James Bond is alive and well!

Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli on Tuesday laid to rest reports of the franchise's demise, telling Variety that helmer Sam Mendes plans to start production on the 23d Bond film later this year.

Daniel Craig will be back as the unscrupulous, uncaped crusader. That's great news, since Craig helped inject a thrilling dose of reality into an otherwise flabby, moribund, gadget-stuffed series.

He's far more articulate than that, but that's the gist of the philosophy of new

Spider-Man

star

Andrew Garfield

. "I hope I never blow up," AG, 27, tells Details. "I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling." AG, who is brilliant in

Boy A

and

The Red Riding Trilogy

, not to mention his turn as Eduardo Saverin in

The Social Network

, also disdains red-carpet dos: "They're miserable, those parties."

. . . and breaking up. We start with sad news: Colombian popster

Shakira

, 33, and her Argentine beau,

Antonio de la Rúa

, have split up after 11 years. The duo decided back in August to "take time apart," Shakira says on her website. Alas, that time has grown and grown.

Temporal expectations of a happier sort abound for fellow warbler Jewel. "I took a pregnancy test and it was positive!" the diminutive Utah native tells People. "We're so excited to be expecting our first baby," says beJeweled husband, rodeo dude Ty Murray.

How is Scarlett Johansson, 26, dealing with her recent breakup with husband Ryan Reynolds? Us Weekly says she's giddy with happiness, spending the weekend like a "party girl" at Jeremy Renner's 40th b-day party. Or is she? PopEater.com says ScarJo is "devastated" to learn that Ryan is dating her onetime friend, Sandra Bullock.

How does young buck Ashton Kutcher, 32, keep wife Demi Moore happy in bed? He makes her laugh. "Inherently, I find that having sex and intimacy, when it's great, it's funny," the Punk'd dudester tells E! News. Inherently?! Nice abs and nice vocab!

Jersey Shore's Sammi Giancola and Ronnie Magro may have broken up. Who are they, again?

Much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth as we realize that Sunday will mark the series finale of

Hannah Montana Forever

. (Like, it's forever,

Forever

is.)

The story ends with goody-two-shoes-turned-bongmaster Miley Cyrus' heroine facing a life decision: go to college or make a movie? (An American Pie sequel?)

Simon Cowell

tells celeb show

Extra

that

Will Smith

is

not

joining the judges' table on

X Factor

. Smith is too good for

Darth Vader

, anyway. . . . Wednesday night at 10:30, WHYY TV (Channel 12) will preempt

American Masters: The Doors

, to broadcast a

NewsHour Special Edition

on the memorial service for the Tucson shooting victims. . . .

Britney Spears

celebrated her new single by picking up "a Valentine's Day-themed piece and bodysuit" at Frederick's of Hollywood, says People.

. . . Comic-turned-public-nuisance

Andy Dick

was ejected from the porn industry's AVN Awards in Vegas over the weekend, says the New York Post. Seems he made porn star

Tera Patrick

and drag queen

Chi Chi LaRue

uncomfortable with his banter. . . . TMZ says

Charlie Sheen

also hung out at the so-called "Oscars of porn," spending some quality time with star

Bree Olson

. . . . Ukrainian goddess

Mila Kunis

, 27, whom we adored long before that

Black Swan

nonsense, tells Cosmo there's a simple explanation for her devastating, sexy stare: "I was blind in one eye for many years, and nobody knew." She's since had corrective surgery.