June 3-5 – Now that Adrien Brody has won a best-actor Oscar, his 2001 film Love the Hard Way, with Charlotte Ayanna (Training Day), Jon Seda and Pam Grier, will hit theaters. At the New York premiere, security guards tried to stop photographer Sylvia Plachy from snapping photos on the red carpet, until she explained who she is – Brody’s mother.

We knew this day was coming for the past year, and we met Martha Stewart at her indictment on June 4. To update our foreign readers, Martha Stewart is a household name in the U.S., a lifestyle media magnate with TV shows, magazines, books and products for the home sold in department stores. Stewart has been the focus of an insider stock-trading scandal related to the company Imclone. Ironically, the company’s cancer drug recently proved effective in Europe, the stock price has risen and the drug will be reevaluated for the U.S. market. As expected, Martha had no comment, but she'd better come up with the recipe for removing a stain from her reputation.

The Fresh Air Fund provides inner-city children with summer vacations in the country. At their star-studded spring gala, the organization recognized American heroes Mariah Carey, Sarah Jessica Parker and New York Knicks’ Allan Houston. Kristin Davis had just come from work, wearing her own Michael Kors dress, with her Sex and the City character Charlotte’s shoes and earrings. A TV reporter asked for her verdict on some eligible bachelors: “Adrien Brody is absolutely beyond talented, but he seems complicated. Many women like that, but he seems complicated to me. Chef Rocco DiSpirito tops the list – there’s nothing sexier than being cooked for.” Davis declined to tell us who she’s dating.