PEACH BUZZ: Famous twins not ready for debut just yet


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/03/08

Everyone take a nice cleansing breath. We've got plenty of time. Angelina Jolie's doctor says her twins, whose father is Brad Pitt, may take a few more weeks to arrive.

Dr. Michel Sussmann spoke at a brief news conference Wednesday in Nice, France, where Jolie is hospitalized. Asked when the 33-year-old actress is expected to have her twins, he replied: "I can't give you a date. Let's say the birth will happen in the weeks to come."

Sussmann stressed that Jolie checked into the hospital to be kept under observation, not because of any medical emergency.

"Her hospitalization at this stage in her pregnancy is totally normal for a patient who had a Caesarean [section] during her first pregnancy," he said.

Sussmann said four rooms of the hospital had been reserved for the Jolie-Pitt clan and their bodyguards. The couple have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

"I find it legitimate that she wants to protect her privacy," he said. "She is [a] pregnant woman."

The local newspaper, Nice Matin, reported that Jolie has the best room in the hospital, on the fifth floor with an unobstructed view of the Bay of Angels. It said Jolie arrived by helicopter, landing Sunday afternoon on the hospital's roof.

Nice Matin reported —- not without a little pride —- that the famous couple had chosen Nice over the even more chic Monaco, farther down the coast.

Ads pulled

Six Flags Over Georgia has pulled advertising off rock station Project 9-6-1 after the morning show made "insensitive remarks" about Saturday's accident in which a teen was killed by a roller coaster.

Six Flags spokeswoman Hela Sheth sent an e-mail acknowledging the ads have been pulled from "The Giant Show" but provided no further details. She didn't know how long Six Flags would stay off the station. (Six Flags typically advertises fairly heavily in the summer on radio and TV.)

There was no immediate reaction from Clear Channel Atlanta Operations Manager Clay Hunnicutt, Project 9-6-1 program director Chris Williams or either "Giant" Brian Carothers or his co-host Shaffee.

Buzz listened to the show's podcast of what was said about the tragedy, and, frankly, you don't even want us to paraphrase it.

Sub for ailing sax player

When the Dave Matthews Band pulls into Lakewood Amphitheater on Monday, it won't have sax player LeRoi Moore. He's recovering from an ATV accident on his Virginia farm. The band's Web site said Moore was upgraded from serious to fair condition at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will sit in for Moore.

An ugly case

A model divorce?

Christie Brinkley's estranged husband said Wednesday that he had sex with his 18-year-old lover in his office, then paid her $300,000 while hoping to keep their affair quiet. He also showered her with spending money, including $500 hidden under a rock.

Peter Cook, called to the stand by his wife's divorce lawyers, was questioned about his affair with Diana Bianchi, who is expected to testify that Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her for his Hamptons architectural firm.

Earlier, the fashion model's lawyer said Cook spent about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites.

"That is the man who's come before this court and asked for custody of his 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter," attorney Robert Stephan Cohen said.

"It was wrong, and he said it was wrong," Cook's lawyer, Norman Sheresky, said of the porn.

But the main focus of the trial is Cook's affair with Bianchi, which set off a frenzy in the tabloids. Cohen said Brinkley found out about it from the woman's stepfather; the fashion model got the bad news moments before she was to speak at the Southampton High School graduation. "There is no way to make that right," Sheresky said. "Peter has apologized. He's cried his eyes out. He's lost his marriage."

Sheresky said Brinkley is partly to blame for the public spectacle.

"For goodness sake: She's on her fourth husband," he told the court. "Your honor, we're here because of the self-indulgent wrath of a woman scorned."

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Movie director Ken Russell is 81. Actor Kurtwood Smith ("That 70s Show") is 65. Actor Michael Cole ("The Mod Squad") is 63. Writer Dave Barry is 61. Actress Betty Buckley is 61. Actress Jan Smithers ("WKRP In Cincinnati") is 59. Talk show host Montel Williams is 52. Country singer Aaron Tippin is 50. Actor Tom Cruise is 46. Actor Thomas Gibson ("Dharma and Greg") is 46. Actress Hunter Tylo is 46. Actress Connie Nielsen ("Gladiator") is 44. Actress Yeardley Smith ("The Simpsons") is 44. Keyboardist-guitarist Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies is 39. Actor Grant Rosenmeyer ("Oliver Beene") is 17.

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Rock legend's death

Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, was found dead in a bathtub in his apartment in Paris in 1971. Cause of death was listed as heart failure. There are still fans who believe he faked his own death.

Contributing: Rodney Ho, Bob Longino and news services.

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