Last week, OK! magazine here in the US debuted the first photo of Jessica Alba and Cash Warren’s newborn baby daughter, Honor Marie, and today we get to see a few more pics of the precious little darling (along with her doting parents) in the Spanish issue of OK! magazine. Here is the coverphoto:

Unlike the US version of the mag, daddy Cash Warren gets to feature on the magazine cover with his pretty ladies. Head on over to JessicaAlba.net to check out the rest of the pics from the magazine. OMG! The pics are sooo freakin’ cute! People, I ain’t gonna lie, Hispanic babies are just the cutest ever. Little Honor Marie is an absolute princess … look at all that hair! I’m dying. Again, much congrats to the proud parents … they’ve got themselves a perfect little angel. She’s just precious :)

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Soccer phenom Cristiano Ronaldo has been making the most of his time in LA this week and he isn’t letting the recuperation process from his recent ankle surgery keep him incapacitated. Cristiano has been hobbling his way around town going to award shows, hitting up various clubs (reportedly scamming on chicks) and generally enjoying the LA nightlife … but in the day, well, Cristiano spends most of his time lounging poolside, in the sun … tanning:

When it comes to sunshine, just like pretty ladies, Cristiano Ronaldo can’t seem to get enough. The Manchester United star spent yet another day reclining on a sun lounge at his luxury LA hotel, topping up a tan that has already reached a rather startling shade of orange. Ronaldo looked right at home in Hollywood as he smothered himself in baby oil for the latest baking session, regularly rotating to ensure an all-over colour. The injured star was recovering poolside from yet another night on the town, where he was again spotted trawling clubs for female companions. He hit popular celebrity haunt Villa on both Friday and Saturday night, where onlookers say he was busy “auditioning” girls. A fellow club-goer observed: ‘He scans the whole crowd and picks out his top three girls. “He’ll chat to one then if he doesn’t like her, he has one of his friends come sit down in between them, and will move on to the next girl.” Ronaldo has been on the rampage since splitting with Spanish model Nereida Gallardo at the beginning of this month.

I understand that suntanning is a way of life for the Portuguese footballer but I hope that he’s being smart about it … baking one’s skin in the sun isn’t always the best idea. Even still, I’m not really complaining … if Mr. Ronaldo wants to lie about half-nekkid all day long, who am I to protest?

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Much to my chagrin, Nine Inch Nails played a secret, private show at the LA Forum last night as a live dress rehearsal for a few very lucky fans. A few weeks ago, NIN uploaded a Google Earth feature on their tour site showing the cities that their Lights in the Sky Tour would be visiting … and then a few days ago, question marks started showing up around the LA area. It turns out that those question marks led people to places that where distributing free tickets for last night’s private rehearsal show. So, while I was flying away from LA last night, NIN was rocking out the Forum for the lucky fans who I now hate with a passion. Okay, not really but I am extremely jealous:

So as not to spoil anything for any of y’all who don’t want to know anything about the upcoming Lights in the Sky Tour, I’m putting the rest of this post behind the cut. After the jump, see some photos taken of last night’s show (including ticket stubs and the limited edition poster) as well as the reported full setlist …

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Amy Wineshouse’s hubby, Blake Fielder-Civil, who has been incarcerated for the last 9 months was sentenced today to serve a total of 27 months in prison for first assaulting a man and then attempting to pervert justice by trying to bribe the man to evade prosecution for his crime. I understand that Amy was not in the courthouse to lend her support today despite her constant pleas for her husband’s release. Here is Blake’s mugshot, released today, and a rundown of his sentencing:

Amy Winehouse’s husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, has been jailed for 27 months for beating up a pub landlord and trying to bribe him to avoid court. Fielder-Civil, 26, pleaded guilty last month to assaulting James King with a friend, Michael Brown, and perverting the course of justice by attempting to bribe the victim. With Brown and two other men, Fielder-Civil tried to pay off Mr King in an attempt to have the trial abandoned. Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a “gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful” way. Fielder-Civil has already served around nine months on remand so he could be free in four-and-a-half months if he behaves himself in prison. Winehouse herself was not in court to support her husband as he was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court, in east London for trying to evade jail for attacking a pub landlord. Jocelyn Ledwood, prosecuting, had told the court that Brown was kicked out of the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, on June 20 2006 and returned with Fielder-Civil at closing time. Brown punched Mr King, 36, in the face, knocking him to the floor. She went on: “Mr Brown and Mr Fielder-Civil then proceeded to punch and kick him while he was on the ground trapped between the double doors of the pub.” The assault left Mr King with a broken nose and cheekbone and the pair were arrested and due to go on trial when Fielder-Civil received a text message saying: “What happened at court? We were thinking about getting Amy to pay (him) off.” The trial was delayed and Anthony Kelly, 26, and James Kennedy, 20, were engaged to broker the pay-off, the court heard. Kelly and Kennedy then tried to sell footage of the incident to a newspaper reporter who was told Mr King would be paid off with £200,000 and that “ultimately the money would come from Miss Winehouse”. Jeremy Dein QC, for Fielder-Civil, urged the judge to suspend his sentence or sentence him to the nine months he has already served. He said Fielder-Civil “was of exemplary good character”. He went on: “This has been a nightmare scenario, not just for him but for his wife and his family.” He was interrupted by Judge David Radford, who said: “No previous convictions rather than exemplary good character, if what I read about him and the use of drugs is true.”

LOL! Yeah, it sounds like the judge in this case wasn’t really interested in hearing any bullshizz from Blake’s attorney. Alas, it appears that poor Amy Winehouse will have to endure the coming months without her husband by her side. She’s managed to make it 9 months without him, I’m sure he’ll manage the rest of the way just fine.

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Now that Reese Witherspoon and her children Ava and Deacon are back home from their little European jaunt with Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Phillippe has been reunited with his kiddies. Here are a couple cute pics of Ryan taking his kids out for a stroll at The Grove in LA yesterday afternoon:

Granted, these pics could be a might cuter if Ryan were paying more attention to his children rather than to his mobile phone but he does make a pretty good mother duck. I’m impressed with the way that Reese and Ryan handle custody of their children … they each seem to spend a lot of equal time with their kids, which may not be ideal but is better than nothing at all.

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Matthew McConaughey, who has been keeping a relatively low profile since the birth of his son Levi Alves a few weeks ago, ventured out for an afternoon of surfing over the weekend. The last time we saw Matty out for a day at the beach, he was joined by a crew of his boys … this time, he was flyin’ solo. Here are a few X17 pics of Matthew riding (and not riding) the waves … and a couple of him stripping off his wetsuit:

MMM MMM MMM … the man sure does look good in a wetsuit, yes? As you can see in the last couple of photos, when Matthew was finished with his surfing session he began to stip off his skin-tight rubber suit. After the jump, check out a few photos of just how much Matthew stripped off …

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After many, many, many months of anticipatory hype (going all the way back to May of 2007 when we got our very first look at Heath Ledger as the Joker), the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins opened in theaters this weekend to incredible demand. The Dark Knight managed to not only enjoy the biggest opening weekend in box office history but it also set 7 other box office records as well. Spider-Man 3 previously owned the opening weekend box office record of $151.1 million until now … Batman: The Dark Knight generated $153.34 million this weekend, setting a new benchmark high:

A Warner Bros. executive says the Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” has taken in $155.34 million to top “Spider-Man 3″ for best opening weekend ever at the box office. The figures released Sunday show “The Dark Knight” more than $4 million ahead of the $151.1 million first weekend for “Spider-Man 3″ in May 2007. Studio distribution chief Dan Fellman says “The Dark Knight” also broke the “Spider-Man 3″ record for best debut in IMAX large-screen theaters with $6.2 million. “Spider-Man 3″ opened with $4.7 million in IMAX cinemas. Stoked by fan fever over the manic performance of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, “The Dark Knight” also set a one-day box office record with $66.4 million on opening day, Fellman said Saturday. The movie’s Friday haul surpassed the previous record of $59.8 million set last year by “Spider-Man 3.” iReport.com: Did you see ‘Dark Knight’? “The Dark Knight” began with a record $18.5 million from midnight screenings, topping the previous high of $16.9 million for “Star Wars: Episode III — The Revenge of the Sith.” The opening day grosses for “The Dark Knight” far exceeded the full weekend haul of its predecessor, “Batman Begins,” which took in $48.7 million in its first three days in 2005. Reviews were excellent for director Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” but they were stellar for his “Dark Knight.” “We’ve really never seen anything like this,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “The death of a fine actor taken in his prime, a legendary performance and a movie that lives up to all the hype. That all combined to create these record-breaking numbers.” Buzz had been high for the Batman sequel well before Ledger died of an accidental prescription-drug overdose in January. Trailers last fall revealing Ledger’s demented Joker, with crooked clown makeup, turned up the heat even more. The critical acclaim over his performance that built from advance screenings left fans in a frenzy. “It’s a combination of things. Certainly, that’s a great part of it, but I think this movie’s gross was partly because of the reviews it received and the incredible buzz and word of mouth that preceded it with our early screenings,” Fellman said. “And the success and quality of the last one, ‘Batman Begins,’ delivered by Chris Nolan just set the tone for the opening of this movie” … The film spins an epic crime duel as Ledger’s Joker orchestrates a reign of terror on the city of Gotham aimed to spread chaos and break down the restraint that keeps Batman on the right side of the law. Although critics are taking the film seriously enough to suggest that Ledger could be in line for an Academy Award nomination, the action-packed movie also delivers as pure summer movie escapism.

Here is a list of all the box office records set by The Dark Knight in its opening weekend:

1 – LARGEST NUMBER OF OPENING THEATRES WITH 4,366 (MORE THAN THE 4,362 DEBUT THEATRES OF PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END IN 2007).

8 – BIGGEST JULY OPENING EVER (BEATS PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST‘S $135,634,554 ON JULY 7, 2006).

I, for one, am not at all surprised by this stellar performance at the box office. In fact, I would’ve been surprised had The Dark Knight not surpassed the previous opening weekend box office record. I contend that the film will go on to make gads of money in the coming weeks … there are still many people out there who have yet to see the film (primarily because the majority of this weekend’s showings were completely sold out). As a huge Batman fan, I’m thrilled. My wish is that TDK and Heath Leger, in particular, will go on to enjoy recognition from the Academy come awards season. It’s a long shot but stranger things have happened. If Juno can garner Academy Award noms, then so can The Dark Knight.

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