Spokesfolk for the pair Justin Tim...

Spokesfolk for the pair Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz swear they're still a tie -- but for a supposedly committed duo they don't assume to spend much time together. The actress has been absent from various conclusions promoting Timberlake's new album, "FutureSex/ LoveSounds"

Publicists for as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but Diaz and Timberlake say these reports are simply being stirred up by means of the supermarket press "to vend magazines."

"We've heard this all before. In [show business] people's schedules are tough -- and it's not unusual for man and wifes to be on opposite sides of the globe working. It's hard, but that's the way it is. Just because family are apart, doesn't mean they're really apart," a true close Diaz associate told this array of less front than depth Sunday night.

CHARACTER STUDY: Just because Megan Mullally is starting her avow new talk show and "Will & Grace" has been laid to interval that doesn't mean that she's leaving behind the tart-tongued character who made her a star -- and won her an Emmy in succession Aug. 27. Nope, she's not giving up onward the idea of a Broadway production of "Karen: The Musical." It's just upon hold for the time being. As she divulges Entertainment Weekly in a story in the mag's forthcoming Fall TV Preview issue, "I think it's hilarious. It's for a like reason like, wrong. You're never suppos to continue [your old character] going. yet see, that's what makes me want to detain doing it."

impetuous FLASH: Chicagoan Lori Holton Nash -- who has been starring in the long-running local production of "Menopause: The Musical" -- this week begins facing a earnestly different audience from the mainly older crowd she has been playing to at the Apollo Theatre freshly Following in the footsteps of the late Mr Roger "Miss Lori" will be entertaining the children and grandchildren of her "Menopause" fans -- as she begins hosting "PB Kids," a daily national exhibit to for pre-schoolers featuring "Curious George," "It's a Big Big World," "Clifford the Big R Dog" and "Dragon Tales," all tied around a daily theme.

forward THE BALL? Seems Andy Roddick knew he was going to be a heated tennis star, even before he was famous. At the Dacor Taste of Tennis U lay open bash at the W recent York Hotel, Roddick told my Big Apple correspondent Baird Jone "When I was 7 I gave tennis balls with my autograph for Christmas to my friends and family -- and told them to hang forward to them ... but they didn't think a great deal of them."

If saved, today they could have snared one cash on eBay, but Roddick's pals and family members clearly not at all thought Andy was headed for stardom forward the courts.

"I gave the balls to my sister, my mom and my dad, brace of my grandparents, and brace of my friends that I used to hang without with when I was a kid. My mother tossed it immediately. She played with it the nearest day on the courts."

BARBIE BIT: The world's greatest in number famous doll is going upon the auction block. Christie's plans a London auction generation 26 -- selling what is said to be the largest single collection of Barbie dolls. holded by a Dutch fashion designer, the 4000 dolls include many rare Barbies, including a Pan Am flight attendant doll from 1966 and a pink-faced Barbie with Asian features designed for the Japanese market in 1965

Christie's estimates the auction will bring approximately $200000 on the other hand toy collector experts figure that number could soar plenteous higher.

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