TOM CRUISE has been far more low-profile than during his couch jumping days - especially since the failure of his last film: "Mission Impossible 3" which seemed to send the message that his sometimes bizarre off-screen persona had finally begun to affect ticket sales. But Cruise has been quietly rehabing his image and now has a new film, "Lions for Lambs" coming out. He is pictured above at a premiere in New York last night. Unlike most Cruise big-budget action pics of recent years, this has him third-billed behind Robert Redford and Meryl Streep and should remind moviegoers that in addition to being a big star, Cruise is a very good actor and a three-time Academy Award nominee ...Here's something to file under the catregory of 'Who the hell asked you anyway?' A Manhattan-based therapist is saying that all the moving around being done by BRAD PITT and ANGELINA JOLIE will be detrimental to their four children, especially the adopted ones. Yeah, we can see how well all those Beverly Hills-raised celebs have turned out ....Congratulations are in order to actress ISLA FISHER and SACHA BARON COHEN who are now the proud parents of a little girl ... I haven't been able to watch any of "Private Practice" so far this season but I'll get plenty chances since ABC announced today that it has ordered a fuill season worth of episodes of this "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff ...
E! Online, which I love, seems to think it got some big scoop by posting that EVA LONGORIA'S "Desperate Housewives" credit will now read Eva Longoria Parker, adding her husband's last name. Those of uis who watch the show already know that the name change has already been effect for the first three episodes of the season...