The Bourne Supremacy star Matt Damon is a first time dad following the arrival of baby daughter Isabella on Sunday. The actor's wife, Luciana Barroso, gave birth to the little girl in Miami, Florida. Barroso has a daughter, Alexa, from a previous relationship. Damon admits they decided on the name Isabella just after they were informed the child would be a girl: "We've been calling her Isabella for months." Damon and Barosso wed in New York City in December. Damon's upcoming films include the Martin Scorsese drama The Departed and Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd opposite Angelina Jolie.

Pregnant pop star Britney Spears has rubbished reports her marriage to Kevin Federline is in trouble, insisting the former dancer is supporting her through her current emotional crisis. The singer's parenting skills have been questioned several times this year - in February Spears received a visit from the Department Of Children And Family Services (DCFS) after she was photographed driving with her nine-month-old son Sean Preston seated on her lap. In April Sean Preston was briefly admitted to hospital after he fell from a faulty high-chair while in the care of his former nanny, and last month Spears defended herself again after the baby was spotted slumped in the back of her car. In an interview to be aired on American TV show Today on Thursday, Spears tells host Matt Lauer the repeated criticisms of her parenting and persistent attention from the paparazzi have turned her into an "emotional wreck." Spears also uses the interview to deny rumors her 21-month marriage to the aspiring rapper is on the rocks. She says, "(My marriage is) awesome. He helps me. He has to. I'm (an) emotional wreck right now." Spears insists she doesn't understand why the media appear to want her marriage to fail, saying, "If they are that's sad. I think everybody should be pro-love."

Director Peter Weir has quit new film Shantaram after failing to see eye-to-eye with Johnny Depp. The Master And Commander director and Depp, who is also producing the film, had creative differences on how to approach the story. A source for Warner Bros confirms, "Peter moved on from this film because his interpretation of it differed greatly than that of the studio and producers." Depp is still expected to star as an Australian heroin addict who escapes from a maximum security prison, reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of India and winds up a gun runner and counterfeiter who fights against invading Russian troops in Afghanistan. Production is still expected to begin by spring 2007 in India, Spain and the UK.

Actor Jason Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka are expecting their first child. The actor told Los Angeles radio station Star 98.7 last week that he and Anka will welcome a baby girl in three months' time. The 37-year-old, who won a Golden Globe last year for his work in US TV show Arrested Development, is excited about becoming a father and is currently pondering baby names with Anka. The couple married in 2001. Anka is the daughter of singer Paul Anka. She appeared in the American remake of Taxi and has also acted in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Diagnosis Murder.

Hungarian composer György Ligeti died Monday. He was 83. Ligeti passed away in Vienna, Austria, after battling a long illness and spending the last three weeks confined to a wheelchair. Best known for his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's cult classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ligeti was regarded as one of the world's leading 20th-century musical pioneers. He won early critical acclaim for his 1958 electronic composition Artikulation and the orchestral Apparitions, gaining notoriety for a technique he called "micropolyphony." Ligeti spoke six languages, including his native Hungarian, German, French, and English. His former assistant and editor Stephen Ferguson, says, "He was one of the few avant-garde composers who found his way into the modern program. He reintroduced techniques of polyphony out of the tradition of Bach and Palestrina with a playful and innovative sense of sound. He developed a new sound - cluster sound - which fascinated Kubrick and propelled Ligeti to the top of the great composers of the second half of the 20th century."

Mission: Impossible III has been re-edited before its release in China next month, because local censors objected to the way Shanghai was presented in the original cut. The Tom Cruise blockbuster, which also stars recent Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michelle Monaghan, angered government officials with its depiction of violence and poverty in the advanced city, and producers were more than happy to make the necessary adjustments. Producer Paula Wagner says "there has been a wonderful meeting of the minds" in altering the film to suit Chinese release requirements.

Charlie Sheen has found new love as he fights a messy divorce battle with estranged wife Denise Richards. The Two and a Half Men actor, who has reportedly been looking for love on the internet since splitting from Richards at the beginning of 2006, showed off new girlfriend Brooke Wolofsky at the 2006 Butterfly Ball in Los Angeles over the weekend. Sheen's new woman is a 28-year-old real estate investor. The actor's publicist, Stan Rosenfeld, has confirmed his client is dating Wolofsky, adding, "They make a very happy couple."

Socialite Paris Hilton is being sued for causing a motorway pileup she wasn't involved in. Hilton has been named legally responsible for the chain collision that took place in Los Angeles in 2004 when her teenage cousin was behind the wheel of her Mercedes. According to the suit, filed in Los Angeles yesterday - and obtained by TMZ.com, Brooke Ashley Brinson failed to slow down when she saw traffic slowing in front of her - and piled into four other vehicles. And although Hilton wasn't in the car at the time, she's being named in the suit because the plaintiffs feel her insurance company should pay up for all the damage caused. Lawyer Mauro Fiore, who is representing the plaintiffs in the case, claims two of the adults involved suffered "serious injuries" as a result of Brinson's poor judgment. Fiore tells TMZ.com he filed a claim with Hilton's insurance company, and was shocked to learn that Hilton had the bare minimum coverage for property damage - $5,000. The lawyer is asking for $250,000 for each plaintiff. The latest suit comes just days after Hilton was videotaped reversing into a parked car and then driving off without leaving her contact details - a violation of California law.

Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and his longtime love Jennifer Meyer are expecting their first baby, according to media reports in the US. The couple share a home in Los Angeles and announced their engagement in April. A source tells American publication Star, "Jennifer is pregnant. It's still early, so they aren't talking about it publicly yet, but they are really happy." Meyer, a Los Angeles-based jewelry designer and the daughter of Universal Studios executive Ron Meyer, began dating the star in 2003. Maguire is currently filming Spider-Man 3 in New York City.

Irish actor Cillian Murphy has defended controversial new movie The Wind That Shakes The Barley against criticism it is "anti-British." Director Ken Loach's epic drama about the Irish war of independence, written by Paul Laverty, has been met with derision by the UK's right-wing press, for its allegedly biased portrayal of events. But Murphy insists the film only deals with well-documented factual events, which are represented accurately and fairly. He says, "I'm sure Sinn Fein will love it, for instance, but to say that it is somehow anti-British is just plain wrong. There was an occupying force and all the atrocities they committed were well-documented by Labour party commissions. It's a complex situation, but I think Ken and Paul addressed the historical complexities."