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Published: July 14, 2008
■ The Brangelina twins are here: Angelina Jolie has given birth to a girl and a boy, and dad Brad Pitt took the whole thing in stride. The obstetrician who delivered the twins, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said that the actress and the babies "are doing marvelously well." Jolie, 33, gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Caesarean section about 8 p.m. Saturday in Nice, France. Pitt was in the delivery room as the babies were born one minute apart, Sussman said, the boy weighing just over 5 pounds and the girl 5 pounds. The four other Jolie-Pitt children -- Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2 -- have not yet seen their new sister and brother, he added.
■ Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie, were arrested during a bar fight Saturday, police said. Police Sgt. Willie Lewis of Shreveport, La., said that Brolin, Wright and five others were arrested just after 2 a.m. at a club called the Stray Cat. A call to deal with a rowdy patron drew interference from other patrons, Lewis said. The Times of Shreveport reported that Brolin was booked and posted $334 cash bond to be released. The newspaper said that they are part of the crew on an Oliver Stone film, W, about President George W. Bush. W began filming in May in Shreveport. Brolin plays President Bush and Wright plays former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
■ Prince Harry would like to spend more time helping children in Africa. Britain's royal soldier-humanitarian is in the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho this week to work with Sentebale -- the charity that he and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso founded in the memory of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana. Harry, 23, spoke with reporters recently about balancing his army life with his charity work. "I wish I could be out here more often," he said while visiting a newly opened center for abused children. "I do the most I can to come out here and see the kids." Landlocked Lesotho, surrounded by South Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the region. Harry has increased his work with the army, and earlier this year was deployed in Afghanistan.
■ Ian McKellen's acclaimed performance in King Lear is coming to PBS, but a public-TV executive was coy about whether his on-stage nude scene will be exposed on air. Paula Kerger, the president and chief executive officer of PBS, who saw the play during its brief run in New York, said she was impressed by the production. When Kerger told a Television Critics Association meeting that the play had been filmed for PBS and would air next season, she was asked about McKellen's full-frontal nudity and whether it would be acceptable for public television. "Let's talk about this in January," Kerger said, attempting to boot the issue to the next scheduled meeting of the critics' group.
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