Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have escaped an attack by a Jennifer Aniston fan.

The loved-up pair - who are expecting their first child together this year - were dining at Berlin's Nola restaurant when a woman stormed in and screamed: "Where is that home-wrecking Angelina?"

The crazed fan - dressed in a 'Friends' T-shirt - spotted the Hollywood couple and attempted to slap Angelina.

Fortunately the 'Tomb Raider' star's bodyguards stepped in and held the American woman back while the pair headed for their waiting car.
A source is quoted in Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying: "Angelina had taken her adopted kids Maddox and Zahara to Berlin. It's lucky she left them with a carer.

"The mentally unbalanced American had obviously been tipped off that they would be dining at Nola, because she was wearing an Aniston top and was on the look-out for Angelina.
"Angelina would normally have confronted the woman, but she was petrified because she's carrying her first child and won't risk any harm coming to it."

It's a shame Linda Carroll's oldest child is Courtney Love.
We can learn a lot about one's potential for personal growth reading Carroll's memoir, Her Mother's Daughter. Now a therapist in Oregon, Carroll recounts her painful past and her ultimately successful search for her birth mom and answers to Big Questions.

But, like the actor who upstages the star and steals the show, Love appears midway through the book and outshines everything else.

So let's pay attention to the charismatic brat then push her offstage and shine the spotlight back on Carroll. Thankfully, she finishes her book with insights that help us understand how even the best-intentioned parent can create a train wreck of a daughter.

Sean "Diddy" Combs launched a fragrance last night with the usual fanfare that accompanies his projects.

The perfume is called "Unforgivable," but there were just enough well-intentioned jokes that it could have been dubbed "Unindictable" or "Acquitted" or "Unbelievable."

And don't think Diddy did with this fragrance what he's done with music: He did not, contrary to some gossip, "sample" other perfumes and then add his own rap.

"Unforgivable" is totally original, and all the idea of this very unusual entrepreneur. Combs continues to succeed where others fail, and he's almost becoming fodder for business-school curricula.

No Diddy-do would be complete without at least a few celebrities. The "Unforgivable" soiree was held at the very new, very private and very exclusive new CORE Club on East 55th St. in Manhattan, in the shadow of the Friars Club.

The new year's TV sensation is unmissably Fox's "American Idol." How big? Bill Carter of the The New York Times reported the show's executives have been "startled into silence" at the 2006 numbers.

It's a juggernaut, widely viewed by all age groups.

Two years ago, I sat down to watch an episode, not because I wanted to (I certainly didn't), but because I felt the professional obligation. I confess: I was hooked. It was dramatic, it was hilarious, it was heartwarming, it was professional -- all the things that make for good television.

Sadly, this year, you can add another descriptor: It's also now raunchy.