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Reports: Julia Roberts pregnant with twins

LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actor Julia Roberts is pregnant with twins, according to magazine reports.

People magazine reported Monday night that Roberts' spokeswoman, Marcy Engelman, said the Pretty Woman star was due to give birth to twins early next year. US Weekly said Roberts, 36, has been pregnant for about nine weeks with twins.

Roberts married cinematographer Daniel Moder, 35, in July 2002. The twins would be the first children for Roberts.

Miss America Organization CEO Art McMaster announced Tuesday that this year's telecast, set for Sept. 18 on ABC, would be cut to two hours after last year's pageant drew only 10.3-million viewers, an all-time low.

Michael Moore's award-winning documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 has picked up a U.S. distributor and will hit theaters June 25.

The film will be released by a partnership of Lions Gate Films, IFC Films and the Fellowship Adventure Group, which was formed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein specifically to market Moore's film.

Moore's film, which recently won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, criticizes President Bush's response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and connects the Bush family with Osama bin Laden's.

The Weinsteins, who run Miramax Films, bought the rights to the movie from the Walt Disney Co., which owns Miramax and refused to distribute Fahrenheit 9/11.

The Weinstein brothers will personally finance and control distribution and marketing, they said Tuesday.

The Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg has a new executive director, Mark Spano, 54, an arts consultant from Chapel Hill, N.C.

As president of Mark Spano Communications Inc., he worked with arts organizations in marketing and fundraising and producing public television programs. His clients in North Carolina included the Mallarme Chamber Players, the Durham Arts Council and the Burning Coal Theatre Company. Spano, who has a master of arts degree in literature from American University and a master's of business administration from Marymount University, has been a visiting lecturer at East Carolina University, North Carolina State University and Northern Virginia Community College.

He succeeds Paul Stavros, who resigned in December as founding executive director but remained on the board of the performing arts center, which is in a converted church.

Here's yet another reason to go to the Lightning game Thursday, even if you don't have tickets for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final. Cheap Trick is taking a break from its North American tour with Aerosmith to perform at 6:30 p.m. in the West Plaza outside the St. Pete Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, Tampa. Lead singer Robin Zander, who lives in Safety Harbor, will then sing the national anthem inside the Forum at 8.