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LeAnn Rimes’ flame asks for privacy

(People.com)

– After filing for divorce from his wife, actor Eddie Cibrian — who is now romancing country star LeAnn Rimes — is asking for privacy and saying he remains committed to his young sons.

Eddie Cibrian is being linked with LeAnn Rhimes while going through a break up with his wife.

"From the outset I have made a conscious decision to try and keep this matter private and not discuss it in the press. While my wife and I are dissolving our marriage, we will work together to parent our two children," he said of sons Mason, 6, and Jake, 2.

"I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father," Cibrian said.

The "CSI: Miami" actor's statement, issued Thursday, comes after

Rimes

and Cibrian

went public

with recent dates, including a game of golf and a Kings of Leon concert.

Earlier this week Cibrian filed for divorce from former model Brandi Glanville, citing irreconcilable differences.

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But

Cibrian

insisted: "I will continue to be respectful and sensitive to this issue by not doing interviews about this ongoing private matter. I wish everyone would do the same."

For more on Rimes and

Cibrian

's recent dates — and how their exes are reacting — pick up the current issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands now

Deputy D.A. Dave Douglas (Tim …

Deputy D.A. Dave Douglas (Tim Allen) spends more time at work than at home with his wife (Kristin Davis) and kids (Zena Grey, Spencer Breslin). His latest case involves an animal laboratory, and when Dave is infected by a top-secret, genetic-mutation serum, he turns into a replica of the sheepdog that bit him. Now, with four paws and a furry brow, Dave sees life from a different angle and becomes privy to his families’ hopes and dreams. Chasing cats and frisbies is all very well, but how can Dave get his own life back, when the animal lab’s Marcus Kozak (Robert Downey Jnr) has other plans for him?

Jesse Dayton crosses over with ‘Halloween II’

(CNN)

– You can't get through a conversation with Jesse Dayton without hearing a reference to Texas at least once.

Musician Jesse Dayton has branched out to a new fanbase by collaborating with Rob Zombie.

He wears the name Beaumont, his birthplace, like a badge of honor and he rolls through a set list of stories about his musical collaborations in the Lone Star state with humble pride.

Dayton has earned a hard core following in Texas. But his recent collaborations with rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie have earned him an unexpected fan base — among horror movie fans.

Most recently, Dayton joined

Zombie

to record a soundtrack for the movie "Halloween II" as Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures — a gig that also earned him some time on screen.

Watch Dayton discuss his new project »

Dayton spoke to CNN recently about his career and newfound fan base.

The following is a portion of that interview:

CNN:

You have a lot of appreciation for Waylon Jennings.

Dayton:

I was actually on a talk show in Nashville [Tennessee] and Waylon was cooking with his wife, Jessi Colter.

They were watching the show I was on because Kris Kristofferson was on. They saw me and called me the next morning and said, "Waylon cut his finger. He wants you to come down here."

So it was a total fluke. Waylon was like my Elvis, especially growing up. My earliest memories were my mom's 8-track in the parlor listening to Willie [Nelson] and Waylon.

CNN:

You are not really part of the Nashville music scene. Why?

Dayton:

I'm not intentionally staying away from what's going on in Nashville. I'm just being myself.

Texas is like a whole other planet. Bob Wills got kicked off the Grand Ole Opry. Willie Nelson didn't get on the radio until he left Nashville. There's a long history of that.

I don't put down Nashville. They're just doing what they're supposed to do, which is sell as many records as they can. But we've just learned that there's a whole crowd of people out there that love Johnny Cash but aren't into what they're playing on country radio. That's been the crowd we're attracting.

The cool thing we love about having a cult following is that radio and record companies can never take that away from us. It's something we went out and earned one fan at a time.

I love looking out in the crowd and seeing one guy with a cowboy hat on, one guy with long hair from the Rob Zombie camp and maybe some rockabilly kids.

CNN:

What is the story behind your collaboration with Rob Zombie in 2005?

Dayton:

He said, "Hey man, we're making the ultimate white trash horror movie called 'The Devil's Rejects.' We think your music would be perfect for it" which is kind of a left-handed compliment, I guess.

CNN:

Now you're appearing in "Halloween II" and recorded a soundtrack for the movie?

Dayton:

It's really fun for me.

We're taking on this whole identity of this band. The record's going to be called "Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures." [Zombie] would call me and say, "Hey, I got this idea for this song called 'Doctor Demon and the Robot Girl' " or [he would ask me to write] a sort of '60s country thing-meets Tom Jones.

CNN:

Are you a good actor?

Dayton:

Elvis said, "The only thing worse than seeing a bad movie is being in one."

I think the only thing worse than watching a bad actor is being one. I don't take it seriously at all. I'm just a musician who's there for color. If I can show up and be myself and not have to act? Perfect.

The Film: There is an undenia…

The Film:
There is an undeniable disparity between mainstream films (those films produced for a largely white audience), and those movies produced primarily for an African-American audience. That’s not to say that mainstream movies aren’t insipidly insulting the intelligence of the audience, because Hollywood certainly cranks out more than its fair share of stupid shit. But for every moronic movie catered to a mainstream audience, there are intelligent films to counterbalance the dumb garbage. In terms of holiday fare, for every The Santa Clause 3 there are films like It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and Die Hard. But when it comes to lighthearted holiday fare targeted towards a black audience, for every steaming turd like The Perfect Holiday you have absolutely nothing.

Morris Chestnut stars as Benjamin Armstrong, a struggling song writer working as Santa Claus at a mall along with his best friend Jamal (Faizon Love). Gabrielle Union co-stars as Nancy, a mother of three that is divorced from her hip-hop superstar husband J-Jizzy (Charlie Murphy), who cares more about his career than his own children. When Nancy tells her friends that all she wants is a man to pay her a compliment, he young daughter (Khail Bryant) turns around and asks Santa to send mommy a man who will pay her a compliment. Of course, when Benjamin catches a glimpse of Nancy the next day, he makes a move, leading to a series of contrivances that grow stupider by the minute. For starters, Benjamin is ashamed of the fact that he’s a mall Santa, so he lies to Nancy about his job, as does Jamal, who falls in love with Nancy’s best friend (Rachel True). If that’s not complicated enough, one of Nancy’s kids hates Benjamin, because he wants his mommy and daddy to get back together. Then there is the self centered J-Jizzy, who is desperate to find a hit single for his upcoming Christmas album (it will come as no surprise that the song he picks is written by Benjamin). And finally there is Queen Latifah who has a supporting role as a Christmas angel who manipulates things when the logic-defying script can’t think of another way to move the braindead story forward. Latifah is cast opposite Terrence Howard, who is some sort of Christmas-hating spirit (technically that would make him a demon).

If any or all of this sounds like a movie that might be remotely entertaining, rest assured that The Perfect Holiday is infinitely entertaining. Of course, the entertainment value is derived from unintentional laughs from a script so devoid of intelligence you have to wonder if it was written by a lobotomized half-wit. I mean we’re talking about something so stupid it should be on the Hallmark Channel, which means it is too dumb for Lifetime. And that’s saying something.

There are people who will be entertained by The Perfect Holiday. Some of them might even think it’s good. But if you are reading this review, then chances are you are someone who cares enough about movies to at least do some sort of critical research about what you may or may not watch; and that puts you well outside the demographic of people who would watch this shit and say with any degree of honesty that they thought it was good. The fact of the matter is that this movie is not good, and that it is only entertaining in the same way that watching one dog sniff another dog’s ass is entertaining.

Despite all of the negative things to be said about The Perfect Holiday–and believe me, I could say more–there is a way this pandering trash could be worse. Instead of Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union, two likeable stars in their own right, it could star Cuba Gooding, R. and Vivica A. Fox. Fortunately, Charlie Murphy is on hand to add just the right amount of minstrel hijinks films like this need. This could also be a worse movie if it had been made by Tyler Perry, who would have wrapped the never-ending barrage of stupidity and predictable plot machinations in a package of religious preaching. But instead of being clobbered over the head by a bunch of dumb jokes and predictably cliché plot twists wrapped in a Jesus-friendly message, we just get the dumb shit–which in a weird way is a very good thing.

Jon Gosselin never said he wants off the show

(People.com)

– Don't count Jon Gosselin out of the picture just yet.

Jon and Kate Gosselin attend the Discovery Upfront Presentation in New York City in happier times.

Reports of his saying he's ready to withdraw from TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8" are not only premature — they just aren't true.

"I never said that," Jon told PEOPLE while speaking outside his house on Wednesday.

As for his literal fashion statement — being photographed in a T-shirt bearing the message, "Lies, Lies" –

Gosselin

said: "I just thought it was funny, because people can write anything about me … How can you write something about me or say something about me without actually asking me?" (Read what Jon's fashion friend Christian Audigier

has to say about him today

.)