Samantha Who?‘’s Christina Applegate, 36, is diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. When she was seven, she supported her mother Nancy Priddy, a breast-cancer survivor, when she was forced to lose one breast. The lovely Christina is expected to make a full recovery.

Morgan Freeman, 71, is suffering from a broken arm and elbow, when the car he was driving flipped over several times near his home in Charleston, Mississippi. A mystery lady — a friend named Demaris Meyer — sat in his passenger seat. Emergency workers cut both victims free before being airlifted to a hospital 90 miles away in Memphis, Tennessee.

Despite ugly rumors of death, Bernie Mac is alive, but hospitalized in Chicago due to a very serious case of pneumonia. His rep says that this is unrelated to Bernie’s diagnosis of sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease of organs such as lungs.

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(Simmer, chica. Simmer.)

Newsweek has published my favorite celebrity interview ever. Why? Because Penelope Cruz’s, uh, colorful personality really shows.

In life, I’ve always liked Penelope for three reasons: 1. She is a very pretty lady, 2. I enjoyed the movie Volver and 3. I love when she, very breathily, whispers “open your eyes” to Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky. Hilarious.

But I was reading this very quick interview with the star of Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy, and I couldn’t help but react with: “Whoa!” and “Wow!” and “No Way!” and finally, “Penelope is one rude beeyotch!”

You have to read the interview in its entirety — she mentions kissing Scarlett Johansson and her ankle tattoo — but here is a favorite snippet:

I read that you take in stray cats. Is that true?
I have a couple, yes, that I have found in the streets.

And you keep them now?
Of course. I didn’t drown them in the river.

Source: Her Tattoo Is Taboo to You, Too (Newsweek)

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