
A publicist says Johnny Depp is still very much alive after being the subject of an online hoax.
Robin Baum, who represents the 46-year-old actor, said Monday that Internet reports of Depp's death over the weekend in France were a horrible rumor.
Baum calls the hoax the work of an irresponsible and unconscionable person, especially since children and families are involved.
Depp has two children with his partner, Vanessa Paradis.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are one of Hollywood's most private couples, so when the "Alias" alum let loose some intimate details of their relationship in a recent interview, the actor was none too pleased. In a Parade magazine cover story, Garner revealed that her husband wooed her with "very persuasive" e-mails and that he was a "sexy and kind" partner.
"I do write e-mails to my wife, that is true," Affleck told "Access Hollywood" over the weekend. "Sounds like the kind of thing that my wife was looking for something to say in the interview ... and that's what she same up with."
"So, thanks for that, because now here I am, doing another interview and then they ask me about that," he said. "So, thank you honey."
Affleck spoke to "Access Hollywood" while at Sundance to promote his new movie, "The Company Men."
Jane Lynch let slip following the Golden Globes last week that she and her partner, Lara Embry, are tying the knot, Popeater.com reports.
The "Glee" star, who won a Screen Actors Guild award over the weekend, told The New York Times that she and her girlfriend are planning a May wedding.
The news was slipped ever-so gently into the Times' Carpetbagger blog: "Jane Lynch, who saw her Fox show 'Glee' win a Golden Globe and who told us she was marrying her partner, Lara, in May, summed up the night's victories for Fox: 'It's good to be on the winning team.'"
Lynch, 49, star of "Best In Show" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," met Embry at a National Center for Lesbian Rights event in May 2009. Lynch was there to introduce "The L Word" creator Ilene Chaiken, and Embry to receive an award from the organization.
Embry is a psychologist who last year gained fame during a custody battle with a former partner over their two children. The Florida courts decided that the two should continue shared custody.
On "Glee," Lynch plays cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester.
Conservative Christian group Focus on the Family spent $2.5 million on a 30-second spot for the upcoming Super Bowl. In perhaps the most controversial commercial in the big game's 43-year history, megastar college quarterback Tim Tebow is expected to promote an anti-abortion campaign called "Celebrate family, celebrate life." CBS has OK'd a preliminary script that is widely believed to recount the story of Tebow's birth, which doctors advised against after his mother became ill while on a mission trip to the Philippines.
The English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae was in the middle of working on the follow-up to her smash debut when tragedy struck. In March 2008, Jason Rae, saxophonist, college sweetheart and Corinne Bailey's husband was found dead in an England loft of an apparent methadone overdose. Her life was shattered. "The Sea," which hit shelves yesterday, was supposed to be full of "dreamy, groove-based tunes" such as her 2006 hit "Put Your Records On," Popeater.com reports. Instead, it became a testament to her struggle with grief. "It's from 'grave," the singer tells ABC News of the term, "which means 'heavy.' It's a thing that lands on you, and there is nothing you can do to sort of make it work."
John Travolta on Monday flew a plane full of Scientologists to quake-ravaged Haiti, Popeater.com reports. Travolta piloted his own Boeing 707, stocked with four tons of supplies, and a team of doctors and Scientology ministers, into Port-au-Prince. It was the second airborne shipment arranged by Travolta in a week. Over the weekend, the AFP reported on some of the treatment Scientologists were providing on the ground. One single leg amputee was at risk of having his other leg amputated before a Parisian volunteer named Sylvie touched him. The victim described the sensation as "a sort of harmony between the nerves, a kind of exercise. I couldn't feel at all, but then I could."
James Cameron is still king of the movie world.
On Monday, "Avatar" surpassed "Titanic" to become the worldwide highest-grossing movie ever. Its worldwide total stands at $1.859 billion, compared to "Titanic's" $1.843 billion. "Avatar's" Monday gross was $3.2 million domestic and an estimated $16.9 million foreign, which put it over the top, Box Office Mojo reports.
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