Sideshow: Douglas exults: Tumor gone.

In his first TV chat since being treated for throat
cancer, Michael Douglas says he's "relieved"
that the tumor that plagued him for months has
disappeared.
"I feel good, relieved. The tumor is gone,"
Douglas tells Matt Lauer in a chat set to air
Tuesday on Today.
"But, you know, I have to check out on a
monthly basis now to maintain. I guess there's
not a total euphoria." Catherine Zeta-Jones'
hub adds, "It's been a wild six-month ride."
Douglas' treatment hasn't all been fun and games:
There are side effects. "Salivary ducts have been
closed down as a result of the radiation, probably
for at least a year or two," says the thesp. But his
appetite is back.
"I'm eating like a pig," he says. "I'm still - I lost
about 32 pounds. And I've put about 12 back. But,
I mean, I got another 20, 25 to go."
Douglas says he's ready to go back to work. "I
think the odds are . . . that I've got [the cancer]
beat," he says.
Fresh Prince to spice up 'X Factor'?
Yes. No. Maybe. Prob'ly not.
Rumors piled on contradictory rumors Monday
about an earlier rumor that Overbrook High alum
Will Smith had signed to be a judge on Simon
Cowell's latest dastardly plot to bleed America's
talent pool, The X Factor.
"Simon is desperate to make the U.S. X Factor the
biggest show in the world and trounce American
Idol," an Anonymous Source tells London's
Daily Mirror.
Frankly, we can't imagine Mr. Smith, whose next
big project is the 3-D sequel Men in Black III, ever
being a party to desperation.
So, apparently, does gossip fact-checker
GossipCop.com, which cites a Smith rep saying
there is "no truth" to the story.
First Posh, now Marion
What a week! On Sunday, Victoria and David
Beckham announced they are expecting a wee
bairn. Now comes news that French muse
Marion Cotillard, 35, who won an Oscar for the
Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose, is carrying
actor-director beau Guillaume Canet's child.
The couple have been dating for three years. It's
their first child.
Even Owen Wilson, 42, is getting in on the
action: UsMagazine.com says Wilson's baby with
his belle, Jade Buell, is "due any day."
Speaking of creating life, Britney Spears' new
child, the single "Hold It Against Me," debuted
Monday morning on Ryan Seacrest's website.
But, alas, by 5 p.m., the link was down. Was it
the high demand? Or because the song so
offended fans' intelligence, as in this lyric: "If I said
I wanted your body now, would you hold it
against me?"
Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that there
are rumors that Khloe Kardashian and
husband, Los Angeles Lakers star Lamar Odom,
are expecting a baby. Her rep has declined to
comment.
Wanton BlackBerry-ing?
An Anon Tipster tells Gawker.com that political
journalism sex symbol Arianna Huffington on
Saturday was "escorted off a plane by Port
Authority police - for wanton, unsafe BlackBerry-
ing." The flight was from Washington to New
York's LaGuardia. Huffington's rep has yet to
comment.
Katie seething over Anne's mimesis?
London's reliable news source, the tabloid Daily
Mail, says lovebirds Tom Cruise and Katie
Holmes are sooo upset by the apparent
savagery of Anne Hathaway's Katie-
impersonation on Saturday Night Live in
November, they plan to boycott the Academy
Awards because Anne is one of the presenters. A
source tells the tab Kate and Anne "used to be
friends and [Kate] took Anne to a Tina Turner
concert in 2008."
Tidbits 'n' pieces
Gretsch Guitars is releasing a limited-run duplicate
model of the Gretsch Duo Jet that Beatles
guitarist George Harrison played early in his
career at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. . . . Off the
Map star Mamie Gummer says she doesn't get
acting tips from her mum, who happens to be a
relatively successful thesp. "We don't really talk
shop," Gummer says of her relationship with
Meryl Streep. "It's not like we own a chain of
pizza joints and there's a secret ingredient to the
sauce." . . . Former jailbird and rehab inmate
Lindsay Lohan is back to normal life: The actress
and pal Pascal Mouawad were spotted at
Sunday's New York Knicks-Los Angeles Lakers
game in Lalaland. . . . In other LiLo news, TMZ
says Inception's Tom Hardy is counseling the
recovering addict in her recovery.
Sending Hatch back to jail?
Survivor winner Richard Hatch, who in '06 was
sentenced to 51 months in jail for failing to pay
tax on his $1 mil winnings, may end up back in
jail. U.S. District Judge William Smith said
Monday in Providence, R.I., that Hatch has
violated terms of his supervised release because
he has failed to refile his 2000 and 2001 tax
returns. The IRS says Hatch owes $1.7 mil in
taxes, including interest and penalties. The judge
will pass sentence after reviewing arguments
from Hatch's lawyers.
Awards, awards, awards, awards . . .
The Directors Guild of America has announced
nominees for its top feature award, to be handed
out Jan. 29: Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan,
David Fincher for The Social Network, Tom
Hooper for The King's Speech, Christopher
Nolan for Inception, and David O. Russell for
The Fighter.
MTV Networks and Comedy Central have decided
that there just aren't enough awards shows. The
cablers have created the Comedy Awards, to
honor top writers, directors, actors, and stand-up
performers, ostensibly for being funny.
Nominees will be chosen by a board of directors
that includes Will Ferrell, Billy Crystal,
Whoopi Goldberg, and Seth MacFarlane. The
first awards will be televised March 26.
Salma Hayek to get 'Wicked'
Variety says demigod Salma Hayek and ABC are
partnering to adapt the Broadway show Wicked
as an eight-hour mini-series. The show is a
retelling of The Wizard of Oz from the Wicked
Witch's point of view.
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