Jessica Alba Calls Daughter ‘The Love of My Life’

Svelte star Jessica Alba didn’t look like the typical new mom at the Keep A Child Alive 5th Annual Black Ball Thursday, but all she could talk about was her 5-month-old daughter, Honor Marie.

“Everything is cute, everything is fun,” the actress told PEOPLE, “including the explosive diarrhea – the best ever.”

Alba says that life with Honor Marie has brought her and husband Cash Warren closer. “It brings family together. It brings friends together. It makes every decision that you make that much more important.”

The next milestone in Honor’s life: her first word. “I think she accidentally says ‘Mama’ when she’s crying,” says Alba. “But I don’t know if it is on purpose yet.”

Taiwan’s former first lady questioned in graft probe

TAIPEI (AFP) — Taiwanese prosecutors on Saturday questioned former president Chen Shui-bian’s wife in a corruption probe, days after the ex-leader was detained in connection with the same case.

The wheelchair-bound Wu Shu-chen was questioned at her home in an upmarket Taipei district instead of the prosecutor’s office due to her frail condition, prosecutors said.

Wu was interrogated on suspicion of money laundering having previously been indicted for graft and forgery over the alleged embezzlement of around 15 million Taiwan dollars (about 450,000 US) during Chen’s term, in a case which also implicates the former president.

The ex-leader has admitted submitting falsified expense forms to claim state funds but said the money was used for “secret diplomatic missions,” not for his personal benefit.

Indian "Millionaire" an unlikely Oscar contender

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – You can call “Slumdog Millionaire,” the Fox Searchlight movie with more plaudits and awards expectations than Barack Obama, many things. A dark horse isn’t one of them.

Yet if the Danny Boyle film emerges from the pack to pick up best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay Academy Award nominations — it would be one of the least likely best picture nominees in history.

By conventional expectations, the British director’s India-set movie about a slum kid who fights his way out of poverty and on to a “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”-type show shouldn’t work onscreen. Any other project to attempt such a melange of genres — a Dickensian coming-of-age story, a romantic fairy tale, a “Kite Runner”-ish saga of class and religious tensions, a pop-culture sendup, a globalist screed, a game show drama, a gangster epic and a Bollywood fable — normally would end up either unmade or a big mess. But Boyle’s film is one of the most appealing in years precisely because of that ambition.