Here is a girl who has been under the radar, but not because she’s trying to hide her scary skinny. Because she has been working her scary skinny off, and to the bone it sounds like. Seen here at the press conference for her latest film “Black Swan” she is hiding under an oversized grey sweater dress, but concerned eyes could not help but notice an already skant Portman seemed to be doing a real live disappearing act. Is Natalie Portman in trouble? No, but she has dished on the extreme weight loss she went through for her starring role in the psychological thriller Black Swan. Apparently when you play a ballerina, you’ve got to suffer like a ballerina. According to UsMagazine.com, the actress spoke of the intense ballet, cross-training, and swimming regime she followed in the year leading up to the shoot. I often scoff at the millions stars are paid for their roles, but I’m thinking Portman may have really earned it. It’s not like she needed to be paid to lose weight, and keep in mind the 20lbs she lost came off a 5’3″ frame.

“I think it was just the physicality of it all that was the most extreme. I mean, I had never gotten that much training – to be doing five-to-eight hours a day of [it] was really a challenge.”

I think I need a muffin. But she’s not the only one that has people talking. Her co-star Winona Ryder has come out of the woodworks of the 80’s, and wants us to remember she’s a star. And with her brief-but-memorable role in Natalie Portman’s crazy ballerina movie, it sounds like the career is back on track. Next: the 39-year-old wants to get brided up. She talked to USA Today about her next “goal”:

“There’s a lot of cute writers up there. I gotta bag me a husband!”

The 39-year-old came close with Johnny Depp in the early ’90s, who famously tattooed Winona Forever on his arm, only to edit it down to the less romantic if more realistic Wino Forever. She was rumoured to be engaged to Rilo Kelley singer Blake Sennett, but they broke up in 2008.

At least after professional duds (Autumn In New York, Lost Souls) and personal troubles (hey, Saks shouldn’t charge so much for their clothes if they don’t want people to steal them!), she’s optimistic about her upcoming gigs.

“After these movies, which were a real gift to me, work breeds work. There were a few years where the only thing I was getting offered was [slasher movies]. I wasn’t offered Saw, but those kinds [of movies], or really stupid comedies. Right now, I’m trying to be kind of choosy. There’s a few things on the horizon.”

Like a weddddddingggggg? No? Okay. Maybe a movie where she’s in a corset then? If not a corset, then for the love of a normal waistline, omebody give these girls a muffin!

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Nobody really knows what is going on with Brooke Mueller. Other than being the extremely embarrassed soon to be ex wife of Charlie Sheen, the word rehab comes up in conversation with her quite a bit. And why? Nobody really knows. She’s spotted here having a last kick at the can for a night out, and rumors are swirling that following this event, she was considering another stint at rehab. What her addictions are is anybody’s guess, but at least she’s taking the right steps. Brooke checked into rehab in L.A. on Friday, a source told Us. Last January (mere weeks after the alleged Christmas Day knife incident with the aforementioned Charlie) she was staying at a “spa,” where she was learning about stress management. But, in retrospect, she probably would have been further ahead learning about crack-addiction management. Brooke had been out clubbing in L.A. with Paris last week as part of Paris’s upcoming Oxygen network reality show. Wacky antics included disguising themselves in wigs and going out for pizza. So far, not so cracky! But a source told Us that Brooke was feeling “tempted,” and sought help, as she would really rather not make international scandals an annual Christmas tradition. The Hollywood ex, who Charlie filed for divorce from on November 1 after he threatened her with a knife last Christmas, is the mother to Charlie’s 20-month-old twins Bob and Max. So far there’s been no word on who’s looking after those two, but child services might want to take a cautionary peek inside Paris’s purse. Do ya think?

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I know we just went through this just the other day, but act surprised anyway. After three years of height-crossed love, Eva Longoria, 35, has filed for divorce from Tony Parker, 27. She filed in L.A., People reports, with the added sting of it actually really happening this time. Yesterday, TMZ posted news from the future, claiming Tony Parker had filed for divorce. He hadn’t, but People warned she’d file today after she was, as a source says, “totally and completely blindsided” by Tony’s relationship with another woman. Poor Eva. But the important thing is that we survived. As has been the fate of many celeb marriages, Eva’s suffered death by texts, Us Weekly reports. During some routine snooping, she came across hundreds of suggestive texts to one of their mutual friends. “Eva is heartbroken by the betrayal,” a source says. “Once the trust was lost, the marriage was over.” Eva backed out of taping a CNN special with Anderson Cooper this weekend, presumably because she’s too upset to leave the brownies. But she’s been through worse. Over Her Dead Body? Who wants to see a movie where Eva Longoria plays a bitchy ghost? Let’s hope she can at least find some solace in being ridiculously rich and gorgeous.

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Another one bites the dust?? Really? Even these two folks that gave all new meaning to the term cutest couple everrrrrrrr. Aw man. They had a good three year run, but Eva Longoria and Tony Parker are calling it a marriage. Tony, a point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, filed for divorce in Texas on Monday, TMZ reports. The couple had wed on the auspicious date of 07/07/07, but alas, it appears those numbers carry no magic powers. Too late now. Eva, who was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2006 for playing Gabrielle on Desperate Housewives, had cancelled a planned appearance over the weekend to tape Anderson Cooper’s CNN’s Heroes of 2010 special on Saturday.

This is a couple that had multiple challenges to overcome in their marriage: their seven year age difference (she’s 35, he’s 28), their demanding careers, a gruelling to photograph height difference, the omnipresent sexiness of Eva’s friend Mario Lopez. Who can compete with that? Dimples and abs! Ridiculous! So I can’t say I’m surprised. At least now she can join Teri Hatcher for single girls’ parties. No Eva, don’t cry! But alas… Eva’s rep denies Tony has filed for divorce. But with all of this talk, if this marriage lasts the week, it will be as shocking as a Desperate Housewives season finale.

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Very strange almost that we haven’t heard a whole lot of drama coming out of the Spears camp, but it seems they like it that way, and I like that they like it that way. Does that mean life has returned to normal for Britney Spears and her family? Depends on what you mean by normal, keeping in mind we are dealing with people born and bred in Louisiana and now living happily in the strangest city on Earth, Tinseltown. But if you are talking about rewinding to Britney’s childhood then maybe just maybe that normal has been reclaimed, as there is no news weirder about this family than the latest. There’s something about shepherding two daughters through messy public debacles that really reignites the romance. After divorcing eight years ago, Jamie and Lynne Spears are back together. Congratulations, Britney and Jamie Lynn. It just became pretty much impossible not to imagine your parents having sex. The Spears’s reunion was outed by Gossip Cop after they were seen flirting at L.A. nightclub Boudoir, where they were “grinding” to “Toxic,” a source tells Perez. Seriously guys! You can’t at least be seen shopping for frozen pizzas at the grocery store or something? Jamie, who lives in L.A. as Britney’s court-appointed conservator, and Lynne have been back together since the summer. “There is still love there,” a source tells Us. “It happened slowly, but they’ve been through so much.” Good for them. It’s really not right for two people to be apart when they have so much in common, like their entire wardrobes and a very large bank account to look after.

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Unfortunately this is just one of those high profile cases where a long time is expected to pass before anything even begins to look like something that might actually be….better than this. Once racist and abusive voicemails leak on a former Sexiest Man Alive, people say for a very long time, the fugly has only just begun. What is it THIS time? Ok, so maybe Mel Gibson did assault his girlfriend, but only in a supposedly positive and legal way. He did slap Oksana Grigorieva, Russia’s most controversial export since circus bears, but only to protect their baby Lucia. And yelling at her that she’s a whore who should be raped, well, that was to help inoculate children in Africa. No, we have no clue what to make of this spin since we don’t understand it anymore than you do. In a declaration from June 23 obtained by TMZ, Mel says that during their tape-recorded argument on January 6, Oksana picked up Lucia and said, “Stop yelling or you will make her into a retarded brain-damaged idiot!” She then took a run through the pitch-black backyard, then ran back inside. Mel said,

“[Oksana] started swinging Lucia erratically in her arms, jerking her body from side to side to keep Lucia out of my reach.”

Fearing that the treatment would leave Lucia with Shaken Baby Syndrome, he admits he slapped Oksana.

“I did not slap her hard, I was just trying to shock her so that she would stop screaming, continuing shaking Lucia back and forth.” he said in the declaration.

Oksana says Mel struck her with a closed fist and it broke her veneer. Mel says he didn’t see that happen. And the really funny, but not ha ha funny, thing about this whole thing, is that Oksana has said since day 1 that the veneer closed fist situation happened. But it has taken Mel and his team about 8 months to come up with the story that Mel was worried about Shaken Baby Syndrome. Group eye roll please….when can we hear more of this? Oksana has her chance to tell her side of the story in an interview with Larry King she taped on Saturday that airs on Tuesday. In the interview, Oksana responds to the tapes of Mel hurling abusive language at her. Oksana is doing the interview with Larry King to support the battered women’s assistance group Peace Over Violence EVEN THOUGH she had been warned by the judge in the couple’s assault/custody/extortion case not to do interviews, and yet here we are. During the interview, she maintains Mel is an awesome father who just needs therapy, which I think is pretty big of her. Even the stuff we know he did for sure from those horrible tapes is unforgivable to me, let alone the other unproven allegations. I’m definitely curious to hear this interview, if for no other reason than to finally know what her voice sounds like.

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