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By SHARON FINK
Published June 2, 2005

THE LATEST FROM SHOW BIZ'S HAPPY, LOVING COUPLES

ROD STEWART AND HIS CAREER: In yet another move to broaden his demographic appeal, the 60-year-old rocker-turned-standards-crooner will become a father for the seventh time. Stewart and model-girlfriend Penny Lancaster , 34, announced the she is pregnant with their first child, due in December. Stewart told People magazine that he is "overjoyed and extremely proud." The couple, who have been together for six years, plan to marry next spring. In a sign of some sort of restraint, they're holding off on making wedding plans until Stewart's divorce from second wife Rachel Hunter is finalized, Lancaster's agent said.

KATIE HOLMES AND HER NEW MOVIE: In what many are calling her most forceful declaration of feelings for Tom Cruise, she told reporters covering the Batman Begins premiere in Tokyo on Wednesday, "I couldn't be happier. I'm so happy. He's the most amazing man in the whole world."

Meanwhile, Cruise's sister and publicist, Lee Anne DeVette , gave Us Weekly her reaction to her brother's embarrassingly unconvincing display of affection on Oprah Winfrey's talk show last week: "My mother and I were in tears after watching Oprah."

BRAD AND ANGIE AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS: Don't bother watching Diane Sawyer's interview with Brad Pitt for Prime Time Live and Good Morning America. Or Ann Curry's with Angelina Jolie for NBC's Dateline and Today. Both interviewers agreed not to ask about the alleged couple's alleged involvement with each other in pieces set up to publicize their movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Pitt's PR woman, Cindi Guagenti, told New York's Daily News.

And don't bother looking for any more print interviews beyond what's already out there. The actors' PR people decided not to expose their clients to that many pesky people whose questions they couldn't control.

The Daily News did take a chance and asked Guagenti whether Pitt and Jolie are a couple. "I don't have a comment today, yesterday or tomorrow," she said. "We're just not talking about it."

CELEBRITIES AND GIFT BAGS: Presenters at Sunday's Tony Awards will get two sacks of stuff worth more than $20,000, Playbill.com reports. They will be able to fill one for themselves from a selection of swag that includes a gift certificate for lasik surgery, a Kipling suitcase, an annual movie pass for two from a theater chain and a Keurig single-cup coffee brewing system and a three-month supply of coffee.

The other bag will have the same stuff for everyone, including an All-Clad MetalcraftersChef Pan, Altoids and a certificate for Rock Your Life Coaching 4 Life sessions with celebrity life coach Sherri Ziff Lester.

And if you wonder whether celebs actually use any of this stuff, the Daily News says that Chris Noth of Sex and the City and the Law & Order empire recently treated 10 friends to dinner at a Morton's steakhouse using a gift certificate he got for being an Emmy presenter last year.

Sharon Fink can be reached at 727 893-8525 or fink@sptimes.com

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