Pitt says he, Jolie are ready for fifth child

Venice, Italy – Brad Pitt and his partner Angelina Jolie are ready for another child, the actor said Sunday as he was promoting his new film.

Pitt and Jolie, with children in tow, were in Venice to talk about his film on Western outlaw Jesse James. The movie is competing for the top Golden Lion award at the city’s film festival.

Pitt and Jolie already have four children including a 15-month-old girl, Shiloh, born to the couple. Jolie has also adopted three children close in age from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam.

Asked by Italian TV whether they were ready for a fifth, Pitt replied: “Yeah we’re ready.”

He did not indicate whether they planned another biological child or if they would adopt.

Usher throws elaborate wedding ceremony

Atlanta – Usher and Tameka Foster wed in a large, glitzy ceremony Saturday after exchanging vows a few weeks ago in a civil ceremony, a magazine reported.

About 200 people attended the dream wedding of the Grammy-winning R&B singer and his new wife, held at a 16th-century-style French chateau resort on 3,500 hilly acres outside Atlanta, People.com reported.

A private ceremony was held Aug. 3 in the office of Usher’s lawyer. The 28-year-old singer and Foster, who is 37, had called off their July 28 wedding amid reports that Foster had checked into a hospital because of problems with her pregnancy.

The couple announced their engagement this year and later said Foster was expecting a child.

Woody Allen says he’s not an influence

Venice, Italy – Oscar-winning director Woody Allen does not believe he has influenced other filmmakers.

Asked Sunday if his decades of work had left a mark, the 71-year-old New Yorker insisted that as far as he could tell, it has not. “Oddly enough, over the years I’ve never felt that I have influenced anyone,” he said.

“I don’t mean that to sound like false modesty, but I could always feel the influence of my contemporaries – Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg – but I have never seen my influence on anyone.”

Comedians Groucho Marx and Bob Hope also had some influence on him, Allen said at the Venice Film Festival, where his latest movie, “Cassandra’s Dream,” was premiering Sunday.

Allen likened life to “quite a tragic experience,” saying he has a “bleak, pessimistic view on life and man’s faith, the human condition.”