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Paltrow delivers a son

Los Angeles – It’s a boy for Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.

Moses Martin, the couple’s second child, was born this weekend in New York City, the office of Paltrow’s publicist, Stephen Huvane, said Monday. No other information was released.

Paltrow, 33, won an Oscar for her role in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.” The British-born Martin, 29, is the lead singer of Coldplay.

Their daughter, Apple, will be 2 on May 14.

Moss, Calvin Klein reunite

London – Kate Moss will star in a new ad campaign for Calvin Klein, the company said Monday – another sign that her career is back on track after cocaine use allegations.

The 32-year-old British supermodel, who first appeared as the face of Calvin Klein 14 years ago, will appear on billboards and in magazines this fall after signing a contract reported to be worth $900,000.

“Kate and the Calvin Klein brand have a long history together, and it felt natural to reunite them for this new Jeans campaign, which will inevitably re-ignite that spark and highlight the sexy, cool essence of both Kate and Calvin Klein,” said campaign creative director Fabien Baron.

The ads, which also feature British male model Jamie Dornan, will be shot in New York this week, Baron said.

It was the 1992 Calvin Klein commercials – where Moss appeared in a series of black-and-white shots with a bare-chested Mark Wahlberg – that made Moss a household name.

She continued to work with Calvin Klein until 1999.

New movie service

Durham, N.C. – Danny DeVito has partnered with ClickStar Inc., an entertainment company, which plans to offer legal download of movies while still in theaters.

The 61-year-old actor-director made the announcement Sunday at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

ClickStar, founded in part by Morgan Freeman, plans to start offering movies this fall to help combat movie piracy, DeVito said.

He also announced the launch of Jersey Docs, a channel on the ClickStar network dedicated exclusively to documentaries.

It’s something “for many, many years I’ve been really dying to do,” said DeVito, who called the channel “a space people will be able to go to to find things they really enjoy.”

Who wants to be an ‘Idol’?

Branson, Mo. – Regis Philbin said there should be a celebrity edition of “American Idol,” and he would try out for it.

“And if I don’t win it, there’s something wrong,” he said during an appearance Friday at the opening of an interactive, ship-shaped museum dedicated to the Titanic disaster.

Philbin, who has released two successful albums in the past two years, was responding to a challenge from Randy Jackson, an “Idol” judge who sat in for Philbin on “Regis and Kelly” on Friday.

Philbin and his wife, Joy, were in Branson to christen the “Titanic: The Legend Continues” museum. Philbin, 74, also performed Friday night at the Grand Palace.

Michael Douglas denies bashing Pitt, Jolie

New York – Michael Douglas says he was misquoted in a GQ article last month in which he slammed “good friend” Brad Pitt and girlfriend Angelina Jolie regarding Pitt’s divorce from Jennifer Aniston.

In the GQ story, written by Jeanne Marie Laskas, Douglas is quoted as saying: “I don’t know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful wife to go hold orphans for Angelina,” he was quoted as saying. “I mean, how long is that going to last?”

The comments were picked up widely. However, in an interview that aired Monday, Douglas told TV’s “Extra” he denies having said it.

“It was a lengthy article,” he says. “(It) must’ve been 20 hours of tape recording, so I asked to hear the tape recording, and the reporter said, ‘Well, I turned the tape recorder off.’ And I said, ‘Well, you had it on for the whole time, so I didn’t say it.”‘

Andy Ward, the magazine’s executive editor, stood by the quotes: “We stand behind them 100 percent. For him to suggest we made them up is laughable. Still, we like the guy and hope all this attention will help his movie.”

After a three-year hiatus, Douglas returns to the big screen this year in the psychological thriller “The Sentinel.”