CHRISTIANO RONALDO'S NIGHT OUT...WHERE?

Stepping out for a night on the town with his teammates, Cristiano Ronaldo was looking studly while spotted in Beverly Hills on Saturday (July 31).

EMMA WATSON...WHAT'S NEW????

Branching out to the music video world and helping her new love interest out at the same time, Emma Watson recently filmed “Say You Don’t Want It” in New York City.

JESSICA SIMPSON AND ERIC JOHNSON...WOW

Happily showing off her new main squeeze, Jessica Simpson has taken to Twitter to post a shot of herself and boyfriend Eric Johnson sharing a sweet smooch.

JESSICA ALBA GETS BACK...

Back home in the States, Jessica Alba was spotted out and about with husband Cash Warren and daughter Honor Marie in Beverly Hills on Sunday (August 1).

ZAC EFRON IN "ST.CHARLIE"

Zac Efron and the rest of the crew behind "Charlie St. Cloud" want their movie to be weepy, soulful, inspirational, cathartic, ethereal, life-affirming and who knows what else on the New Age emotional barometer.

Too bad they didn't aim to make it a little interesting.
This melodrama about a young man who puts his life in stasis after his kid brother's death is a bore, despite a somewhat clever twist — somewhat because it momentarily jolts the story out of the doldrums before the movie settles back to sleep.

Adapted by director Burr Steers and screenwriters Craig Pearce and Lewis Colick from Ben Sherwood's novel "The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud," the movie deals with the biggest of issues — why are we here, where are we bound? — with the blandest of greeting-card sentiments.

While Efron aims to show he's more than just a "High School Musical" heartthrob, he's vacuous in the title role here, sleepwalking through what's meant to be a journey from the deepest despair toward new hope.

Efron's Charlie has everything going his way in his Pacific Northwest hometown. He's a master yachtsman about to graduate from high school and head off to college with a sailing scholarship. His female classmates swoon at the sight of him. He's best friend, idol and father figure to his young brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan).

Then Sam dies in a terrible accident, while Charlie is revived after a near-death experience that leaves him seeing dead people — not in a creepy "The Sixth Sense" manner but in an everyday, how's-your-afterlife-going sort of way.

He sees dead people
Five years later, Charlie's stuck in limbo, working as the caretaker at the cemetery where Sam is buried and still looking after his little brother, who keeps popping up from beyond to hang out.

What could ever shock Charlie back to life? Why, the love of a fine woman, of course.

Just as she's about to head off on a 'round-the-world solo sailing race, Charlie's high school classmate Tess Carroll (Amanda Crew) comes back into his world, rekindling his interest in living people, the sea and everything else for which he once had a passion.

The surprise turn in the plot initially leaves hope for something better than a predictable Hollywood ending. But if you give any thought to that little twist, it makes no sense, even within a story where a guy chats with dead folks. So best not to give it any thought.

Kim Basinger and Ray Liotta appear in oddly fleeting roles — she as Charlie and Sam's single mom, he as a paramedic who revived Charlie and asks him the Big Question — why'd you get to come back, kid?

Donal Logue also is on hand for a meager part as Tess' sailing coach, an insignificant character except for his silly name — Tink Weatherbee.

Steers, who made the decent teen tale "Igby Goes Down" and also directed Efron in the piffling comedy "17 Again," does a nice job putting some soul in the scenery, even if he can't manage the same for the characters. The sailing images are lovely, the seascape is bleakly beautiful, and the town is pretty as a postcard.

Efron certainly looks pretty, too, and since he's there for almost every frame of "Charlie St. Cloud," maybe that's enough for his young fans, even if no one's home behind Charlie's cloudy eyes.

BLOOM'S WEDDING

Australian model Miranda Kerr and actor Orlando Bloom attend the grand opening of Vdara Hotel & Spa in Las Vegas in 2009.

NEW JUDGES AMERICAN IDOL

According to sources Jennifer Lopez has been tapped as the newest judge on the television show American Idol. That is, according to some online reports.

LINDSAY LOHAN IS GOING TO JAIL

The troubled star surrendered in court this morning to begin serving a three-month sentence for violating the probation terms of her 2007 DUI conviction.

GOSSIP JUSTIN BEIBER...SINS OF HIM

In the eyes of teenage girls around the globe, Justin Bieber is a heartthrob who can do nothing wrong.
But in the eyes of a specific sect of mentally unbalanced church goers, this 16-year old is a shaggy-haired example of all that's wrong with the world.

TOPLESS ANGELINA JOLIE VS JENNIFER ANISTON "THEY ARE HOT"

Los Angeles An exciting action photos show actress Angelina Jolie who has not been released, is now in circulation. In the photo, Jolie appeared topless and was smoking.