Banderas & Griffith Celebrated Low-key Birthdays

October 4th, 2009 ANTONIO BANDERAS must demolish part of his beachfront Spanish villa after losing a court battle to retain the land for himself. The Desperado star had hoped to suspend the demolition of a portion of his luxury Marbella home, which stands on an area marked for communal beach use, but officials at the Andalucia High Court overruled the order.

October 1st, 2009 Hottie Angelina Jolie has made sure that she exhibits her maternal instincts time and again. Lately she's said that she enjoys organizing her kids' birthday parties.

September 30th, 2009 ANTONIO BANDERAS' action film BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER has topped a new poll to find the worst film of the past decade.

September 28th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie says celebrating her children's birthdays is chaotic but at the same time she and her partner Brad Pitt love organising parties and try to make the best of it. "We have birthdays all year round! It's chaos but we do manage somehow.

September 21st, 2009 MICHAEL DOUGLAS and CATHERINE ZETA-JONES are planning a low-key family dinner to celebrate their birthdays on Friday (25Sep09) - with the veteran actor's ageing father KIRK set to be the guest of honour. The Wall Street star turns 65, while his wife will reach the landmark age of 40 later this week.

September 13th, 2009 ANTONIO BANDERAS re-enacted one of his native Spain's oddest rituals on late-night TV in America on Friday (11Sep09) when he agreed to be pelted with tomatoes. The actor told The Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien he'd always dreamed of making the trip to Bunol, near Valencia, for annual festival La Tomatina, where 45,000 people from around the world throw 200 tons of tomatoes at each other at the end of August.

September 10th, 2009 Cycling celebrity LANCE ARMSTRONG thrilled Los Angeles bikers on Thursday morning (10Sep09) with a race around the city's Griffith Park. The former Tour de France champ announced his plans to cycle with fans in a Twitter.com message on Wednesday night (09Sep09) and hundreds of fans got up early to cycle with their hero.

September 9th, 2009 Actress MELANIE GRIFFITH checked into rehab after fearing she was too "weak" to resist her urge for drugs, her husband ANTONIO BANDERAS has revealed. The 52 year old has been seeking treatment at the Cirque Lodge in Utah since the end of August (09).

September 1st, 2009 Music icons celebrated in Broadway-bound musicalNEW YORK — Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley — together again. On Broadway.

August 25th, 2009 Actress MELANIE GRIFFITH has checked into rehab in Utah for undisclosed issues. The 52-year-old actress is seeking treatment at the Cirque Lodge, where actresses Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan have both spent time in recent years.

August 25th, 2009 Melanie Griffith has checked into the Cirque lodge, which has seen the likes of actresses Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan, seeking treatment. She is there to reinforce her commitment to stay healthy.

August 25th, 2009 Griffith returns to rehab for 'routine' visitNEW YORK — Melanie Griffith's publicist says the actress has returned to a rehab facility to "reinforce her commitment to stay healthy." Spokeswoman Robin Baum says the 52-year-old Griffith checked in as "part of a routine plan." Griffith went to rehab in 1988 to fight addictions to alcohol and cocaine. She went again in 2000 for treatment for an addiction to painkillers.

July 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Spanish actor Antonio Banderas is all set to return on stage with a new production of Zorba The Greek. The Mask of Zorro star will play the lead character of Zorba, previously tackled by Anthony Quinn in 1964.

June 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Angelina Jolie wants to raise her kids with "an education of the World." The stunner, who has three adopted kids, Maddox, seven, Pax, five, and four-year-old Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, three, and 11-month-old twins Knox and Vivienne, with partner Brad Pitt, wants to ensure they are all aware of the problems across the globe, reports The China Daily. Angelina, who is a UN ambassador, said: "Some of my kids are from countries that have seen conflict.

June 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Angelina Jolie has found a unique way to keep her kids busy - she lets them organize each other's birthday parties. The Jolie-Pitt family celebrates eight anniversaries, including the couple's, and has been found partying throughout the year.