Rooney And Lampard May Miss England Game

     Manchester United striker Rooney will have a scan on his knee today after he picked up a knock during Sunday's 3-0 win over Liverpool.
     Doctors at Old Trafford seem to think the injury will keep him out of the midweek friendly in Paris.
     "Rooney has a problem and was limping at the end," commented United boss Sir Alex Ferguson after yesterday's game. "We will have a look at it, but we don't want to make any decisions at this stage."

Lampard's Hip And Miss

     Meanwhile Frank Lampard has admitted his chances don't look good after damaging his hip during the 2-1 win over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge.
     "I got a knock on my hip in the first half and it was pretty painful all the way through," said the midfielder. "I'm going to report with England and I just hope it's okay."
     Lampard missed Capello's first game in charge with a thigh injury.

Keeper Change

Elsewhere, Capello has had to make further alterations to his squad, calling up West Ham's Robert Green to replace the injured Chris Kirkland.

Dirk Injured as Spurs win!!!!

     Dirk Nowitzki started to grab the part of his left leg that hurt the most, then stopped. He might not have known what to rub first.
     So the reigning league MVP dejectedly put a hand on his head. Then pounded the court.
     Nowitzki was injured on an ugly looking fall in the third quarter of Dallas’ 88-81 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday, but left the arena without knowing how bad it is. The team termed it a “lower left leg injury” and said more details would come Monday.
     “I fell awkwardly and my left leg got caught underneath of me,” Nowitzki said in a statement. “I am going to get re-evaluated in the morning and I hope to have more information then.”
     Nowitzki went down after running and jumping to block a shot late in the third quarter. With Nowitzki writhing on the court, Tim Duncan grabbed the loose ball and scored, putting San Antonio ahead for the first time in the second half. It came during a 19-0 run that took the Spurs from 12 points down to in control the rest of the way.
     San Antonio won its third straight since a 1-6 slump and got some breathing room over Dallas in the Western Conference playoff race. The Spurs also won the season series 3-1, which would help should the teams wind up tied—but the Mavericks may have to worry about just making the playoffs if Nowitzki’s injury is as severe as it looked.
     Dallas hasn’t beaten a winning team since Jason Kidd arrived. The Mavs are 0-8, including their last three, all at home. They were 29-4 at home—without losing as many as two in a row—before falling to the Lakers, Celtics and now the Spurs.
     All three games were close at the end. Dallas lost the last two despite holding Boston to 34.5 percent shooting and San Antonio to 33 percent.
     “We have to keep our composure,” said Kidd, who had seven points, seven rebounds, five assists and three turnovers. “We put ourselves in position to win, but we didn’t finish it off. The margin of error is real small. We were right there but couldn’t hit a shot.”
     With 12 games left, the Mavericks are 44-26. They’re ahead of Golden State for the final playoff spot, but the team they may have to watch most is Denver, which is on the outside looking in. The Nuggets were 41-28 going into a game at Toronto on Sunday afternoon.
     Dallas next plays the Clippers at home on Tuesday, then plays at Denver on Thursday and at Golden State on Sunday.
     “Hopefully they’ll come into practice tomorrow with a renewed sense of optimism knowing that the season is not over,” Mavs coach Avery Johnson said.
     Manu Ginobili led San Antonio with 26 points. He started the game-breaking rally with a layup and a 3-pointer, then hit a 3 to cap it. He also was 11-of-11 from the foul line. Dallas took only 11 free throws all game.
     “When we were losing, we were flat. We had no emotion,” Ginobili said. “We needed a game like this. It’s good to see us react like this.”
     Duncan finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds, despite missing 11 of his first 12 shots. He made six of his last nine.
     “I liked the shots I took,” Duncan said. “I felt I got fouled on a couple of them, but that’s neither here nor there. I knew I had to be patient, to wait to see if the worm turned and finally did.”
     Things didn’t turn right for Tony Parker, who was 4-of-21. He scored 13 points.
     “Our defense won the game,” Parker said. “When you shoot like that, you need defense to give yourselves a chance to win.”
     Jerry Stackhouse led Dallas with 19 points and was automatically ejected with 13.9 seconds after getting his second technical of the game; the other came for using Ginobili’s face to help get up after the two collided going for a rebound late in the third quarter.
     “It’s not a big deal,” Ginobili said. “We were both competing.”
     Said Stackhouse: “Nothing new with him.”
     Jason Terry scored 17 points, Josh Howard 13 and Nowitzki had 11. He also had three blocks and was part of the reason Duncan got off to such a rough start.

'Whos' on First at Box Office Again!!!!!

     Audiences are still listening to Horton and his Who pals. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who," 20th Century Fox's animated adaptation of the beloved children's book, remained the top movie for a second straight weekend with $25.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
     Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, the movie raised its 10-day total to $85.5 million.
     "Horton" fended off a rush of new movies opening over Easter weekend.
     Lionsgate's "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns," about a single mom who connects with previously unknown kin at her late father's funeral, opened in second place with $20 million.
     It was the latest success for writer-director and co-star Perry, whose past hits for Lionsgate include "Madea's Family Reunion" and "Why Did I Get Married?" Shot on modest budgets, Perry's movies play to a built-in fan base.
     "You kind of know what you're going to get with Tyler Perry, and that's a good thing," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "You want to be in business with this guy because he's going to make you money every time."
     "Shutter," 20th Century Fox's fright flick about a newlywed couple tormented by a spirit whose image appears in their photos, opened at No. 3 with $10.7 million.
     Just behind it at No. 4 was Owen Wilson's comedy "Drillbit Taylor," which pulled in $10.2 million. The Paramount release stars Wilson as a laid-back homeless guy who signs on as bodyguard for three bullied teenage nerds.
     The acclaimed "Under the Same Moon," a border tale about a Mexican boy trying to reunite with his mother in the United States, was No. 10 with $2.6 million, a record opening weekend for a Spanish-language film. Released by Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Co., the movie has taken in $3.3 million since opening Wednesday and also took in $1.7 million in Mexico, where it debuted this weekend.
     "Under the Same Moon" surpassed the previous Spanish-language record set by "Ladron Que Roba a Ladron," which opened with $1.6 million last Labor Day weekend.
     Both movies opened in far more theaters "Under the Same Moon" at 266, "Ladron" at 340 than typical Spanish-language films, which generally debut in a handful of cinemas before gradually expanding to wider release if they click with movie-goers.
     "We thought this was a movie that could play as a commercial movie, not as an arthouse movie, to Spanish-language audiences," said Peter Rice, Fox Searchlight president.
     The movie started mainly in theaters catering to Spanish speakers. But it also enjoyed strong word-of-mouth publicity in cinemas dominated by English-language crowds, where business picked up strongly over the course of the weekend, said Weinstein Co. co-founder Harvey Weinstein, whose had found success with foreign-language films such as "Cinema Paradiso" and "Amelie" when he ran Miramax.
     Fox Searchlight and the Weinstein Co. plan to gradually roll "Under the Same Moon" out to more theaters in the coming weeks.
     Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.

1. "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who," $25.1 million.

2. "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns," $20 million.

3. "Shutter," $10.7 million.

4. "Drillbit Taylor," $10.2 million.

5. "10,000 B.C.," $8.7 million.

6. "Never Back Down," $4.9 million.

7. "College Road Trip," $4.6 million.

8. "The Bank Job," $4.1 million.

9. "Vantage Point," $3.8 million.

10. "Under the Same Moon," $2.6 million.
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Julia Roberts and George Clooney Interview on Oprah

     George Clooney and Julia Roberts took turns to interview each other for Oprah Winfrey's Oscar special. It might appear as though Miss Oprah was just too lazy to do the interviews herself, but that wasn't the case at all. The questions didn't feel scripted and George and Julia seemed to share genuine chemistry together.
     George asked Julia if she had any plastic surgery and she replied with a smile and said not yet. "This is what drives me crazy when you run into someone and they've had a 90% face transplant. And you're just supposed to say hi," the actress quipped.
     Julia even went on to say that aging was not an issue for her as she approaches 40.
     "I think I'm so settled and happy and fullfilled. Even though 39 is an ugly number, I think turning 40 will be a relief," the mother of two added.
     When it was Julia's turn to ask the questions, she grilled George on his love life by repeatedly asking him if he was dating anyone. His coy responses made it clear that he was single and quite pleased with his status. In the middle of the chat, his buddy Brad Pitt even called in to tease George that his plastic surgery looked great.
     Julia asked George what he might do if he could be uninhibited and his response was so simple. "I do miss just going and sitting at a ballgame in the stands. I miss that part of it," he said.
     I'm sure that millions of women would be more than happy to share some peanuts and Cracker Jack with George at a Yankees game. After all, People magazine did name him the sexiest man alive twice!

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA Receives $25,000 Fine

     Four months after Dennis and Kimberly Quaid's newborn twins were given an accidental overdose of heparin (a blood thinner), fines are officially being handed out. In the hospital, the babies were mistakenly given 1,000 times the prescribed dosage of the drug and luckily survived.
     As a result of the mix-up, the California Department of Public Health decided to give Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles a $25,000 fine for health violations, according to AP reports. That sounds like nothing more than a slap on the wrist to me.

Courteney Cox & Celebrity Friends Raise Funds...

Courteney Cox and David Arquette have a challenge for their famous friends: help raise $1 million in two weeks for Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare skin condition that primarily affects children.
Joining Cox and Arquette in the awareness- and money-raising effort are Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom, Kate Beckinsale, Rashida Jones, James Marsden and Eva Longoria Parker. All will lend their famous faces and financial support to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, where Cox, Arquette and Aniston serve on the honorary advisory board. (Brad Pitt, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are also members.)
"EB is very personal to me so I'm happy to be a part of this $1 million challenge," Cox said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Now is such an important time to put the spotlight on EB and ensure that research can continue at a fast pace."
Epidermolysis Bullosa is a debilitating genetic disorder that causes the skin to blister and break at the slightest touch. Victims are often covered in burn-like sores that never heal and most don't live beyond age 30.

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt give millions to charity

     Hollywood power couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donated more than eight million dollars to charity in 2007 according to tax records, it was reported on Friday.
     Fox News reported on its website that the actors funneled more than four million dollars each to the Jolie Pitt Foundation, which was set up two years ago to aid humanitarian causes around the world.
     According to federal tax records, the foundation handed out around 2.4 million dollars in donations in 2007, including one million dollars each to both Doctors without Borders and the Global AIDS Alliance.
     Other cash gifts included 137,935 dollars to the Namibia Red Cross Action Program, the country where the couple's biological daughter Shiloh was born.
     A donation of 100,000 dollars was also made to the Daniel Pearl Foundation, a trust set up to honor the former Wall Street Journal reporter murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan. Jolie played Pearl's widow Marianne in last year's acclaimed film "A Mighty Heart."
     In addition, 20,000 dollars was donated to an art park in Los Angeles while two orphanages visited by Jolie received 5,000 dollars each.
     Pitt, 44, and Jolie, 32, are currently reported to be expecting their second child. Pitt and Jolie met on the set of their 2005 film "Mr and Mrs Smith" and later began a romantic relationship.
     Pitt was previously married to "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston, while Jolie has been married twice before.