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Anna Nicole Smith exchanges vows with boyfriend

Nassau, Bahamas – Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith exchanged vows with boyfriend Howard K. Stern on a boat near Nassau but there was no formal marriage and the ceremony is “not legally binding,” her attorney said Friday.

Attorney Michael Scott said the couple exchanged vows Thursday aboard a catamaran.

The ceremony took place 18 days after Smith’s 20-year-old son, Daniel, Smith died as he was visiting her in a Nassau hospital, where she had given birth Sept. 7 to a girl.

Stern says he is the father of Smith’s baby. He has worked as an attorney for the 38-year-old former Playboy playmate and was in the hospital room when Daniel Smith died.

Esquire deems Johansson ‘Sexiest Woman Alive’

New York – Scarlett Johansson’s hourglass figure and plum movie roles have brought her many fans – among them, clearly, the editors at Esquire. The magazine has just crowned her “Sexiest Woman Alive.”

The 21-year-old actress poses in come-hither garb on the cover and inside pages of the magazine’s November issue, on newsstands Oct. 18.

Johansson, whose screen credits include “The Black Dahlia,” “Lost in Translation” and “Match Point,” says she would rather be admired for attributes other than sex appeal.

“What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?” she asks, addressing all the hoopla about her curves in an interview in the magazine.

She is no stranger to the paparazzi’s cameras, and once flashed a sign proclaiming, “the person taking this picture is harrassing me.”

“Apparently I spelled ‘harass’ wrong,” she recalls. “It was horrible. I couldn’t remember whether it was one ‘r’ or two, and I asked like four people, and they said two.”

Gibson’s DUI arrest spurs Williams to seek treatment

Los Angeles – Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest was a “big wake-up call” for Robin Williams, the funnyman tells “Access Hollywood” in an interview scheduled to air Monday.

“If you’re violating your standards faster than you can lower them, time to go away,” he said.

Williams, 55, announced that he was seeking treatment for alcoholism less than two weeks after Gibson’s high-profile arrest in late July.

“Well, if (rehab) was good enough for him, I’ll go,” Williams said. “I just think it was kind of like, well, he’s in, let’s go now.”

Williams said he had been sober for 20 years when he started drinking again.