A-Rod set to buy £40m New York pad next door to Madonna as relationship heats up … Madonna's ‘soulmate’ Alex Rodriguez is weeks away from buying a New York penthouse apartment two blocks from the superstar's - in a bid to be close to her.  —  Speculation of a romantic relationship between …

Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles  —  LOS ANGELES - Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died.  He was 86.  —  Blackwell died Sunday of complications …

Faith Hill is a Bikini Babe  —  Bikini-clad Faith Hill takes the December 2008 cover of Shape.  Here's what the mother-of-three had to say:  —  On her first time ever posing in a bikini: “Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.”

OK!  Exclusive: Ellen & Jen Hit Hollywood Baby Bash  —  Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Ellen DeGeneres, Jack Black, Tobey Maguire, Kate Beckinsale, Jonah Hill... That's a list of stars that you'd expect to see at an exclusive blockbuster movie premiere or major awards show.

ROUGH TRAIN RIDE  —  SAMANTHA Ronson deserves a medal for putting up with gal pal Lindsay Lohan.  The two took the Acela train to Washington on Thursday and “had a quiet fight” the whole time, our spy says.  Lohan spent most of the time complaining about her staff and told Ronson …

Audiences enter house of ‘Payne’  —  ‘W.’ performs on the upper end of expectations  —  The 20th Century Fox family was feeling no pain as Mark Wahlberg actioner “Max Payne” topped the weekend box office and Fox Searchlight's “The Secret Life of Bees” buzzed its way to a photo finish with family holdover …

'Grey's' goosed again  —  So what's the deal with “Grey's Anatomy”?  Last Thursday's episode averaged only 14.5 million viewers, a far cry from its average last season (roughly 18 million viewers), and was steam rolled, again, by “CSI” (19.2 million viewers).

From Paris to London...Ms Hilton is ‘here to stay’ … Paris Hilton has decided to relocate from her natural Los Angeles habitat to make London her new home.  —  The hotel heiress may not have been successful in her attempts to attract the attentions of Princes William and Harry on a recent evening …

PRINCESS CARRIE SETTLES SCORES  —  CARRIE Fisher, who had a disastrous marriage to CAA superagent Bryan Lourd, ridicules the idea that she changed Lourd's sexual orientation.  —  In her hilarious memoir, “Wishful Drinking,” due in December from Simon & Schuster, Fisher says of Lourd, the father of her daughter Billie:

Epic ‘Ugliness’ Coming to Madge-Guy Split?  —  Even though it's less than a week since Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced they would be divorcing, many have begun speculating on just how nasty and public the split would become.  According to one source, expect “ugliness of epic proportions.”

Exclusive: Jeff Probst creates new show for CBS  —  Survivor's Jeff Probst has created — and will host — a new reality pilot for CBS, EW.com has learned exclusively.  The show, Live Like You're Dying, will feature a person who has been given a terminal diagnosis with a finite amount of time to live and …

Lil Wayne Expecting a Boy  —  Lil Wayne  —  Get ready for another Lil Wayne on the scene.  The rapper announced during the BET Hip-Hop Awards his first son will be born in “a couple of days.”  —  “I got a son about to be born any day now, so shout-out to him.

Derek Jeter & Minka Kelly Romance Heats up in Texas  —  Minka Kelly (left) and Derek Jeter  —  With the Yankees out of the playoffs, Derek Jeter has some time on his hands and he's spending it romantically - with Minka Kelly.  —  The baseball star, 34, and the Friday Night Lights actress …