Jolie lands in Vietnam to adopt 3-year-old

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Angelina Jolie arrived in Vietnam late Wednesday night, where she plans to adopt a 3-year-old boy.

Airport security officials told a photographer working for The Associated Press that Jolie was whisked into a car with dark windows and driven away.

The actress was expected to attend an adoption ceremony with Vietnamese officials in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday morning, according to adoption officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the matter.

After she receives the child, Jolie will meet with U.S. consular officials, who must review the adoption before a passport can be issued for the boy.

If all goes according to plan, Jolie could bring the child home by the weekend, officials said.

Spelling giving birth a ‘truly happy event’

New York – Tori Spelling, who gave birth to a boy Tuesday, is apparently patching up her strained relationship with her mother.

The 33-year-old actress and her husband, Dean McDermott, welcomed 6-pound, 6-ounce Liam Aaron McDermott at a Los Angeles hospital, said spokeswoman Meghan Prophet.

Her mother, Candy Spelling, was at the hospital, according to a story Wednesday on People magazine’s Web site.

“Words can’t describe the joy and elation I feel at this truly happy event,” Candy Spelling was quoted as telling People. “I am looking forward to doting on my new little grandson and all the memorable fun that comes with it.”

CBS receives most Daytime Emmy nods

CBS led the pack with 57 nominations in the 34th annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, which were announced Wednesday in New York on the set of “Guiding Light,” television’s longest-running show. Syndicated programming landed in second place with 53 nominations; PBS came in third, with 38.

Nominated as best daytime drama were CBS’s “Guiding Light,” “The Young and the Restless,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and ABC’s “One Life to Live.”

Other highlights included ABC’s buzzmaker “The View” garnering 10 nominations and Bob Barker, who is slated to retire from “The Price Is Right” this summer, receiving his 18th and 19th nominations (as host and executive producer).

The awards ceremony is scheduled for broadcast June 15 on CBS.

‘Potter’ publisher to ship a record 12 million

New York – Breaking its earlier record, Scholastic Inc. announced Wednesday that it would flood the market this summer with 12 million copies of the seventh, and final, Harry Potter book: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The previous title, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” had a first printing of 10.8 million copies in 2005 and sold 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours, making it the fastest-selling book in history, according to the publisher.

The final book in the series will be released in the U.S. on July 21, amid growing speculation as to whether Harry Potter will survive as the story concludes.

Abdul on bully Cowell: He’s a good friend

New York – Paula Abdul says she and Simon Cowell, who torments her on the set of “American Idol,” are chummy in real life.

“Simon and I actually get along great,” the 44-year-old “Idol” judge says in an interview in TV Guide magazine’s March 19 issue. “We have cultivated a fun relationship. … He’s actually become a really good friend.”

Were they at first attracted to one another, as Cowell has suggested?

“Oh, puh-leez! He makes this stuff up,” Abdul says. “He said, ‘Paula, people want us to hook up so bad.’ I said, ‘That’s disgusting.’ He goes, ‘Paula, I know you want me,’ and I go, ‘Like a cold sore.’ We have fun playing up the chemistry, but there’s also times when I would cross the other side of the street so I wouldn’t have to look at him.”

In her five years on the Fox talent contest, Abdul has become a pop-culture punch line for her sometimes odd behavior, which has included slurred speech.