Black Eyed Peas’ lead vocalist Aple.de.Ap and local Robin Williams apparently share a love for Giorgio Armani –– but for the food! They brunched at San Francisco’s luxe Armani Café at Market St. and Grant Ave. after wrapping up a benefit at the Great American Music Hall. “They’re both really cool guys,” according to Armani Chef Ryan, “really laidback and down-to-earth.”
The Black Eyed Peas will be performing with The Rolling Stones in Boston on August 21 and 23.
Crossing over into Asian America, Taboo (né Jaime Gomez) partnered with Rosemead Councilman John Tran this month to start a nonprofit program at the Tab Magnetic School of Art to assist students on the study of martial arts, break dancing and grassroots music production.
KEANU KUTCHER
L.A. writer Sandro Monetti reports that Keanu Reeves has given up on blonde Il Mare co-star Lynn Collins.
And rumor has it that the 40-year-old has fallen back into the 59-year-old arms of former flame Diane Keaton, whom he met on the set of Something’s Gotta Give in 2003. Diane has been with Hollywood heavyweights Woody Allen, Al Pacino and Warren Beatty.
HIP HOMME
French hip-hop star Billy Crawford has topped the charts there selling over half a million copies of The Big City (2004) and The Ride (2002), but the 22-year-old American-raised Filipino star doesn’t appreciate comparisons to hip-hop poster boys back home.
“My name is Billy, not Justin,” he says in his online bio. “[I’m] not a clone.”
MÉNAGE à trois hill
One Tree Hill has added former model/Hornets football player Michael Copon as dangerous bad boy/jerk Felix to compete with the family ménage à trois. “I think the lead girls are really turned off by him because he’s such a jerk,” he reveals on WB’s website.
“They’re definitely too good for him.”
One Tree Hill airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on the WB.
ANGLING FOR TOMORROW
Superman actor Dean Cain was awarded Honorary Chairperson of the nonprofit Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation’s National Fishing and Boating Week. He’s carrying on the fishing tradition started by his stepfather, Christopher Cain, with his own son Christopher.
SPLIT PERSONALITIES
Yoko Ono is getting some flak for her art, but what else is new?
Her controversial interpretation of the life and music of John Lennon in this season’s Broadway topper, Lennon, is causing a stir due to the large stable of actors used to portray the deceased rocker’s multiple quirks.
“I think John was a very complicated man,” she told BBC World News. “I don’t think there’s one actor who could really portray the entire body of his talent and his being.” Lennon received mixed reviews earlier this year when it opened in San Francisco.
Lennon received mixed reviews earlier this spring when it opened in San Francisco.