MARRIAGES
''All My Children'''s Natalia Cigliuti, 25, married race car driver
Robert Rizzo, 30, on July 24 in Newport, R.I. It is the first
marriage for both.
EXPECTING
Harry Potter mastermind J.K. Rowling, 39, announced on
July 24 that she is pregnant with her third Muggle. Rowling and
husband Dr. Neil Murray, 32, have a son, David, 1, and Rowling
has a daughter from a previous marriage.... Actress Laura Dern,
36, and rocker Ben Harper, 34, will greet their second child late
this year. The tot will join sister Ellery, 2. Harper has two
children from a previous marriage.
BIRTHS
Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, 29, and actor hubby Adrian Pasdar,
36, welcomed Beckett Finn Pasdar on July 14. He joins brother
Slade, 3.... Shar Jackson, 28, ex-girlfriend of Kevin Federline
(a.k.a. the soon-to-be Mr. Britney Spears), 26, gave birth on
July 20 to their second child, a boy whose name has yet to be
released, in Orange County, Calif. The pair's daughter is Kori,
2. Reps for Spears say that Britney ''loves children'' and will
meet her eventual stepson ''when the time is right.''
PREMIERE
''I don't miss the hair,'' ''The Manchurian Candidate'''s Uber-mom
Meryl Streep (with Angela Bassett) said on the red carpet July
22. ''I miss the jewels I got to wear. But the hair is too
D.C.-power-player for my everyday life.''
RECOVERING
Mary-Kate Olsen, 18, was discharged from a treatment facility
July 23. The minimogul had been receiving treatment for an eating
disorder. Reps said the twin is ''feeling very well.''
DROPPED
They're not political; they're just drawn that way. On July 21, a
consortium of 38 mainly Southern newspapers that carry
Continental Features-produced Sunday comics, voted 21 -- 15 to drop
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau's perennially controversial
''Doonesbury'' from their weekly lineup. The left-leaning strip,
which has recently featured football-helmet-wearing B.D. losing a
leg fighting in Iraq, was launched in 1970.
ARRESTS
Walking wounded Courtney Love, 40, was released on $150,000 bail
after surrendering to L.A. police on July 23 in response to a
warrant for her arrest for missing a July 9 arraignment hearing
on assault charges. She is due in court Aug. 20. On July 27, an
L.A. Superior Court judge sentenced Love to 18 months in drug
rehab for unrelated misdemeanor cocaine and opiate charges. She
has until Oct. 29 to enroll.... Rapper Ja Rule (ne Jeffrey
Atkins), 28, turned himself in to Toronto police July 26 and was
charged with assault causing bodily harm following an incident at
a club last month. He was released on $7,575 bail. His reps had
no comment.... Actor Robert Sorrells (TV's ''Gunsmoke''), 74, was
arrested July 24 after allegedly walking into a Simi Valley bar
and shooting two men, killing one. Sorrells, who could not be
reached for comment, was charged July 27 with murder and
attempted murder.
