"The gym is my therapy. I've got to get stuff out. The perk of going and spending time by myself and getting my head straight and thinking through what might be bothering me is that I get fit." RENEE ZELLWEGER is committed to gym life.

"I saw this photograph of JAMES DEAN when I was about eight years old and I thought, 'If I ever need to wear glasses, I'm gonna wear clear-framed glasses.'" TOM HANKS made a spectacle of himself at the Emmy Awards on Sunday (21Sep08).

"I heard she doesn't want to put polar bears on the endangered list; she wants to shoot them. So people got to register to vote." Moviemaker SPIKE LEE urges Americans not to vote for Republican vice-president hopeful SARAH PALIN in the upcoming U.S. elections.

"I thought we were getting punk'd as an audience." Three-time Emmy Award winner JEREMY PIVEN was not a fan of the five reality TV presenters who hosted Sunday night's (21Sep08) prizegiving.

"I've been through that with a lot of men and just because of the way you look too. Me looking cheap - well, the way that I choose to look. Certainly, when I first came to Nashville, I looked like an easy make." DOLLY PARTON was the victim of sexist music bosses when she first started out.

"I think that we have a bright future ahead of us." Actress JENNIE GARTH insists she and former BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 co-star SHANNEN DOHERTY have put their differences behind them after teaming up on spin-off 90210.

"I've been trying to call TRAVIS because he was on my show BLOWIN' UP and I've known him for a long time. I just hope to God, and I pray, that they're OK and they get through it... My heart goes out to the four victims' family, for sure, and I do hope that DJ AM and Travis do pull through." Comedian JAMIE KENNEDY's thoughts are with his pal Travis Barker, who was involved in a devastating plane crash in South Carolina at the weekend (19Sep08), which left four people dead.

"That's not really the audience I'm going for. I mean, my mom loves the show and it's a very popular show, but that's not the direction I'm looking to take at this time." SELENA GOMEZ, 16, insists she won't be among those in the running for any movie or TV adaptations of CANDACE BUSHNELL's SEX & THE CITY prequel novels.

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