Actors Jennifer Connelly, 32, and Paul Bettany, 31, announced that they are expecting their first child together. The couple, who met on the set of 2001's A Beautiful Mind, wed on New Year's Day in Scotland. Connelly has a son, Kai, 5, from her previous relationship with photographer David Dugan.
Births
Model Elle Macpherson, 38, and her fiancé, Swiss financier Arpad Busson, 40, had their second child, son Aurelius Cy Andrea, on Feb. 4 in London. Their son Flynn is 5....
ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas, 40, and her husband, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn ("Walking in Memphis"), 43, had their first child, son Zachary Raphael, on Feb. 7 in New York City. The couple wed last July.
Ailing
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, 59, a Democratic presidential candidate, announced on Feb. 11 that he has prostate cancer. Kerry was scheduled to undergo surgery on Feb. 12. His doctor said the cancer was caught "very early" and that Kerry should be back at work in several weeks.
Law & Order
On Feb. 4 in a Manhattan courtroom, rapper-actor Ice-T, 45, who stars in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, admitted he is the father of a 15-month-old boy and was ordered to pay $4,000 a month in temporary child support. Ice-T initially denied he had fathered the child with Linda Marie Sanchez, 27, a New York City Board of Education clerk whom he met in November 2000. A recent DNA report proved his paternity.
Sued
On Feb. 4 in L.A., John Densmore, 58, the former drummer for the Doors, sued his ex-bandmates, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, 63, and guitarist Robby Krieger, 57, for using the rock group's name in a reunion concert this month. The name and logo of the '60s band, which broke up several years after the 1971 death of lead singer Jim Morrison, is owned by the three surviving members and Morrison's estate. "It shouldn't be called the Doors....
It could be Windows, the Hinges, I don't care," Densmore said.
Manzarek said the band is billing itself as "The Doors, 21st Century."...James Gandolfini, 41, and seven of his Sopranos costars sued the Best Buy electronics chain on Jan. 31 in L.A. for allegedly using their photos without permission in an ad in the L.A. Times and other newspapers last February. The cast of the hit HBO show seek unspecified damages. A rep for Best Buy could not be reached for comment.
Update
French waiter Stephane Breitwieser, 31, who admitted to stealing more than $1.2 million in 16th-and 17th-century art from Swiss museums (PEOPLE, June 3, 2002), was sentenced to four years in prison on Feb. 6 in Bulle, Switzerland.
Deaths
President Nixon's former press secretary Ron Ziegler, 63, who initially dismissed the Watergate break-in as "a third-rate burglary," died of a heart attack at his Coronado, Calif., home on Feb. 10.
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
