Celebrity Updates - Pop Culture News

Beyonce, The Jonas Brothers, Lenny Kravitz, Queen Latifah, Rascal Flatts and Sugarland will perform at Sunday’s 2007 American Music Swards. /USAT 1D

Elisabeth Hasselbeck has named her newborn son Taylor Thomas Hasselbeck, she announced yesterday via phone to “The View.” /NYP 80

Matthew McConaughey’s girlfriend, Camila Alves, was spotted at baby boutique Petit Tresor in L.A. Sunday night. She checked out furniture and left with a diaper bag. /DN 25

Owen Wilson and his gal pal, identified as model Le Call, attended a private dinner for Damien Hirst at Lever House Saturday and took a yoga class together at Bikram Yoga in SoHo last week. /NYP 12

“I’m very proud of myself that I’ve not been to Betty Ford yet. … Never say never!” – Renee Zellweger in the December Harper’s Bazaar. /USAT 1D

A trailer for Tom Cruise’s new movie, “Valkyrie,” is at movies.yahoo.com. The film opens June 27. /USAT 4D

Justin Timberlake is getting his own golf tournament. The 26-year-old will host the PGA Tour event in Las Vegas, which will be renamed the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. The five-year agreement begins next year. /AP

Dr. Jan Adams, a plastic surgeon who claims to have operated on Kanye West’s mother before she died, has told TMZ that he did nothing wrong, and believes that her death could have been caused by other medical problems. Adams said he performed a tummy tuck and breast reduction on Donda West, but that she might have died from a heart attack, pulmonary embolism, or massive vomiting. An autopsy is scheduled for today. /AP

Celine Dion told Oprah yesterday that her six-year-old son is starting to realize that not everyone’s parents appear on TV – or are recognized by the public. “He’s got to share his mom and most of the time when we go out,“ Dion said of Rene-Charles. “That’s why he doesn’t want to go out a lot.” /DN 32

Emmy Rossum, Gabrielle Union, Haylie Duff, Jeremy Piven, Katherine McPhee, Rosario Dawson, Brandon Davis and his girlfriend, Lydia Hearst, celebrated the second anniversary of Tao nightclub in Las Vegas over the weekend. /NYP 13

Rapper T.I. spoke publicly for the first time since his Oct. 13 arrest in a video posted on hip-hop Web site Streetcred.com. In the video, T.I., who’s real name is Clifford Harris Jr., said “I look forward to being exonerated on all charges,” and urged people to not believe what was reported. /AP

Boy George was charged Tuesday with falsely imprisoning a 28-year-old man, British police said. The 47-year old singer, whose real name is George O’Dowd, has been ordered to appear before a court on Nov. 22. The Sun newspaper reported in April that a Norwegian man, Auden Karlsen, 28, claimed he was chained and threatened at O’Dowd’s London flat, where he had gone as a photo model. /AP

Ellen DeGeneres will bring her talk show to NYC next week as planned, a spokeswoman said. DeGeneres has been slammed by the Writers Guild for continuing to host her show while writers are striking. /NYP 81

Richard Gere on Monday was given a humanitarian award by the city of Philadelphia for his work for HIV/AIDS care and Tibetan independence. Gere, 58, accepted the honor and its $100,000 honorarium at a gala at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. /AP

Barbara Walters, Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman were among the supporters at The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation’s Magical Evening Gala Monday night. /USAT 3D

Season four of “Project Runway” premieres tomorrow night at 10 p.m. on Bravo. /NYP 81

Venus Williams will celebrate the launch of her new clothing line, EleVen, tomorrow at Tenjune with sister Serena, Vivica A. Fox, Ivana Trump and Andre Leon Talley. /NYP 13

Sharon Stone’s Rolls-Royce went for $160,000 during a charity auction Saturday in Miami to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. /DN 24

Matchbox Twenty kicks off their first tour in years on Jan. 25 in Hollywood, Fla. Special guests include Alanis Morissette and Mute Math. Tickets go on sale Saturday. /USAT 1D

FX has ordered two more seasons of Glenn Close’s “Damages.” /USAT 1D

E! has picked up “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” for a second season. /DN 75

A volunteer working with Barack Obama’s campaign office put out a call for celebrity help just weeks after turning down Brad Pitt’s offer. An Obama aide says the freelancer “isn’t on staff and doesn’t speak to the goals or focus of the campaign. /DN 24

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack McCullough has announced that his next book will be “Americans in Paris,” from Simon & Schuster in 2010. /AP

Norman Malier lay in an open casket yesterday during his wake dressed in a vest that was a gift from Russell Crowe. /NYP 8

Director Delbert Mann, an Oscar winner for 1955’s “Marty,” died of pneumonia Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 87. /USAT 1D

Actress Laraine Day, who appeared in nearly 50 films including the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Foreign Correspondent,” died of natural causes Saturday at her daughter’s home in Utah. She was 87. /AP

Pope Benedict XVI will make his first papal trip to the U.S. in April. While in New York, he will hold Mass at Yankee Stadium and visit Ground Zero, it was announced yesterday. /NYP 10

The jailed personal assistant to Linda Stein insisted yesterday that she did not kill her boss and said she’s being treated as if she’s already been tried and convicted. Natavia Lowery allegedly confessed to the crime, telling cops she bludgeoned Stein after she blew pot smoke in Lowery’s face and was verbally abusive. /NYP 15