Alba fears Broadway debut

Actress Jessica Alba is scared that she will be panned by critics when she makes her Broadway debut later in 2008, reports IANS from London.

Alba will star in David Mamet's latest edition of the "Speed-the-Plow", which starred Madonna almost 20 years ago, reports contactmusic.com.

Alba, who plays Karen (a starlet), is not sure whether she will be able to handle bad press if there is any.

Convict maid beheaded

Saudi  authorities on Saturday beheaded an Indonesian maid convicted of killing her employer, the Interior Ministry announced, reports AP from Riyadh.

In a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, the ministry said the maid used a pillow to suffocate her employer Aisha Al Makhaled and then stole her jewellry in the southern province of Asir.

The maid is the second person to be executed this year in the desert kingdom, according to an Associated Press count.

Saudi Arabia beheaded 137 people last year, up sharply from the 38 in 2006.

Spears 'too hot' for clothes

Troubled pop star Britney Spears reportedly yelled that she was "too hot" for clothes and refused to dress up for the police during the bathroom standoff with her son last week, reports IANS from London. Spears apparently spent three hours locked in the bathroom of her home with her youngest son. When she finally handed over her son, she was wearing nothing but her underwear and refused to put on anything but a see-through dress.

Hilton seen sporting ring

Socialite-heiress Paris Hilton was seen wearing a diamond ring, fuelling speculation that she might be engaged, reports IANS from London.Hilton was spotted wearing a snake-shaped diamond ring after she had dinner with her friends in Beverly Hills, reports thesun.co.uk.

Man claims ‘theft’ of wife

When Sandra Valentine divorced her husband, Johnny, and married the man who had fathered her child during an affair, it had every appearance of another unremarkable tale of marital breakdown. But when Johnny hit back and sued his rival Jerry Fitch for a six-figure sum, the Mississippi love triangle took an altogether different dimension. And when he won in a verdict upheld by the state supreme court, he was suddenly richer to the tune of £750,000. 

Valentine took advantage of a quirk in the law in Mississippi which, like six other US states, allows claims of “spousal theft” : if a man or perhaps even a woman takes the spouse’s property, he or she can be sued. So Johnny Valentine sued Fitch under the state’s “alienation of affection” law, which allows a cuckolded spouse to seek damages for “loss of society, companionship, love and affection”, as well as “the loss of sexual relations.”