Siegfried and Roy welcome tiger cubs

Las Vegas – Siegfried and Roy might want to move the good furniture into storage for a while.

The famed illusionists welcomed five new tiger cubs to their exotic habitat on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday, a move Siegfried Fischbacher said would be therapeutic for Roy Horn, who was critically injured when he was mauled by a 380-pound white Bengal tiger onstage in 2003.

“That gives him a reason to get up in the morning,” Fischbacher said.

Horn did not answer questions from reporters but played with the small tigers, holding them for the cameras, kissing them and nibbling on one’s small ear. The playful, 15-pound, 6-week old cubs were brought to Las Vegas three weeks ago to be part of the longtime duo’s animal breeding program.

The cubs – two white females, two white striped females and a golden male tiger – were to be taken to a nursery for public display at the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage hotel-casino. The exhibit houses lions, tigers, leopards and a black panther.

“Our life is a purpose,” Fischbacher said. “Our purpose is to keep them from extinction.”

Jolie: Pregnancy is ‘great for the sex life’

New York – Angelina Jolie says being pregnant has its perks.

“It’s great for the sex life,” she tells Entertainment Weekly magazine. “It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you’re just so round and full.”

Jolie, who’s expecting twins, has said the babies are due in August. She and partner Brad Pitt have four children: Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2.

When asked how she and Pitt plan to handle six young children, the 33-year-old actress says: “We really don’t know. His mom and dad are on standby to come out and help. And fortunately we can hire help if we need it, but we’re going to try as we usually do to balance it as well as we can.”

Jolie says the couple want to make sure their older children feel included after the babies are born.

“They’re old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle. We’re trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing,” she says.

Jamie Foxx, stylist settle lawsuit

Los Angeles – Jamie Foxx needs no help getting dressed for trial – the actor has apparently reached a settlement with a former stylist who sued him.

Documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles show that attorneys for stylist Stacy Young and Foxx have reached an undisclosed agreement. Young helped Foxx primp for the 2006 BET Awards and a press junket for the film “Miami Vice.”

Her lawsuit claimed that she was never paid for the work or her costs.

Foxx’s attorneys denied the claims, saying Universal Studios, not Foxx, hired Young for the “Miami Vice” work.

Young’s attorney says their camp is “pleased” about the settlement, but declined to offer details. Foxx’s attorney did not respond to phone and e-mail messages left Thursday.

2 charged with giving Amy Winehouse drugs

London – Police have charged a man and a woman in London with supplying drugs to Amy Winehouse.

The charges stem from a video that appeared to show the singer smoking crack cocaine.

London police say John Blagrove and Cara Burton have been charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and MDMA, also known as ecstasy.

The suspects were released on bail Thursday until their next court appearance on July 1.

Police began an investigation after photos from the footage were published in The Sun newspaper in January. Detectives say Winehouse will not be charged in the case.

The singer has seen her rise to fame overshadowed by media attention to her turbulent private life. She is best known for her breakthrough hit “Rehab.”

Ben Jones tells of struggles with alcohol

Washington – Ben Jones figures he drank 43,000 beers, 2,000 jugs of whiskey, wine, gin and vodka, and smoked pounds of pot in the 20 years he was out of control.

“I’d wake up in jails just wondering how I got there. Vomit on my shoes and blood on my shirt,” the 66-year-old actor told AP Radio in a recent interview.

Jones had to hit rock bottom before things could get better. That happened on Sept. 26, 1977. “I really was literally dying and I knew it,” he said. “I was in this free-fall, five-week drunk and I felt indescribable terror.”

With the help of a friend, he quit drinking cold turkey.

“A year later,” he said, “I walked into an audition and was cast in what was to become one of the greatest television shows in the history of entertainment.” That was “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Jones would play the wisecracking mechanic Cooter on the popular TV series from 1979 to 1985.

In 1988, Jones was elected to Congress as a Democrat.