HARRISON FORD has blasted rumours he is planning to marry longterm girlfriend CALISTA FLOCKHART this summer (08).
A number of magazines have suggested the pair, who have dated since 2002, will make their union formal as soon as Ford finishes promotional duties on the new Indiana Jones movie.
But a representative for the 65-year-old insists marriage reports are "tabloid rumour and nothing more".
"Dear American Airlines"
Jonathan Miles (Houghton Mifflin)
There could never be a debut novel more perfectly timed to enter the world than Jonathan Miles' "Dear American Airlines."
The book is a novel-length complaint letter written by one angry American Airlines passenger who has been stranded in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and may miss his daughter's wedding in Los Angeles.
Sound familiar? Just a few months ago, hundreds of thousands of actual American Airlines customers were stranded in airports across the country when the airline was forced to cancel 3,100 flights to check or redo something called "wiring bundles." The universe, or at least the Federal Aviation Administration, has apparently gift-wrapped a marketing campaign just for this book.
So we can credit Miles, the cocktails columnist at The New York Times, with excellent timing. But we can also credit him with a sharp and funny first novel that will outlast the particular troubles of the modern airline industry.
Bennie Ford's letter begins as a request - check that, a profane demand - for a refund of his $392.68 ticket. He's desperately trying to get to Los Angeles for the wedding of his estranged daughter, whom he hasn't seen in years.
From the first paragraph, we hear Bennie's distinctive voice: angry and outraged, literate and funny. If the cancelled flight weren't awful enough, he has to sit in a "maldesigned seat in this maldesigned airport," a limbo without clocks or cigarettes, where everyone seems to be playing sudoku, "the analgesic du jour of the travelling class."
It may seem like faint praise to call a novel "funny," as if laughter were a guilty pleasure in serious literature, something enjoyable but slightly disreputable. But what good is satire without humour? It shouldn't hurt Miles' reputation as a writer to point out a simple fact: This book will make you laugh. Out loud and repeatedly.
Bennie grew up in New Orleans, "where cirrhosis of the liver is listed as 'Natural Causes' on a death certificate." Holding his daughter in his arms for the first time, Bennie reflects, "She was so beautiful and small - a gorgeous pink speck of life. But I should also confess that I was drunk almost beyond recognition."
Later, in the middle of a domestic dispute, he finds himself locked out of his apartment in the rain. He screams his wife's name only once before it hits him: "You simply cannot shout the name Stella while standing under a window in New Orleans and hope for anything like an authentic or even mildly earnest moment."
Even in his despair, Bennie can't resist a good one-liner at his own expense.
Admittedly, whether you enjoy this novel may depend on your tolerance for a certain stock literary "guy": the brawling and boozy tough-guy poet, a little too sensitive for today's world, a little too broken inside to hold together a relationship. The template for Bennie Ford might be well-worn but Miles never falls into the cliched traps of drunken sentimentality or self-pity.
Bennie's letter soon becomes something more, a sincere confession about his failures and regrets, charting the collapse from his early years as an aspiring poet and young father, to his divorce and estrangement from his family.
He's a bad father and a miserable husband but he doesn't flinch from the truth of it. As readers, we admire his honesty and his righteous anger at modern life and modern airports. And in the end, Bennie is blessed with a moment of redemption, a touch of grace for a man stuck in O'Hare's interminable purgatory.
Former SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE star JAY MOHR and his wife NIKKI COX are desperate to follow in the footsteps of broody actress ANGELINA JOLIE - if they can afford multiple children.
Mohr - father to young son Jackson with his ex-wife, former model Nicole Chamberlain - married American actress Cox in December 2006 following the couple's 10-month engagement.
Mohr, 37, has made it clear he's ready to settle down with the 29-year-old TV star and confirms he and Cox are "working on a baby".
But Cox admits the pair is afraid they may not have the monetary means to support such a large family.
She says, "We can't wait to be blessed. We want as many children as we can hopefully and financially squeeze out."
Mohr penned best selling book Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live in 2004 - centred on his tumultuous stint in the comedy sketch series during the 1993-1995 seasons. Impatient with his progression to become a full cast member, he left the show on bad terms.
The actor is currently starring in U.S. comedy series Project Gary, while Cox, most widely-known for her soap opera roles and appearances on hit U.S. TV show Las Vegas, is working as a spokesmodel for online gaming website Sportsbook.com.
Hollywood star Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt are currently expecting twins. They already three adopted children together, and a biological daughter.