Cage, wife have a boy

Cage, wife have a boy
LOS ANGELES -- Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage is a new father.
His wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were available.
"They are healthy and happy and it's quite lovely," Wolf said by phone from New York.
The couple married in July 2004. It was the third marriage for Cage and the first for his new wife, who was 20 when they were wed. They met when Cage visited a Los Angeles restaurant where she was working as a waitress.
Cage, 41, who won an Oscar for his role in "Leaving Las Vegas," has a son from a previous relationship.
He was previously married to Lisa Marie Presley and actress Patricia Arquette.
Fonda misses premiere
PARIS -- Jane Fonda canceled plans to attend a premiere of a documentary about her former husband Roger Vadim on Monday because of hip and back problems that prompted her to seek treatment at a Paris hospital.
Flying to France had left Fonda with hip and back pain, said Karine Lyons, a spokeswoman for the French Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez, where the screening was to be held Monday night.
Fonda had X-rays at a Paris hospital Monday morning, Lyons said. She said Fonda had previously undergone a hip operation.
The showing of the 90-minute documentary, "Vadim, this billionaire of happiness," was to go ahead as planned.
Fonda, 67, was married to the French director from 1965-73. He died in 2000.
Vadim directed Fonda in his 1968 sci-fi sexual spoof "Barbarella."
Bass mum on reunion
OXFORD, Miss. -- The Backstreet Boys are back, but don't expect *NSync to be recording anything new anytime soon.
Lance Bass told The Associated Press that their upcoming greatest hits compilation "will have some new material on it." But the 26-year-old singer was tightlipped about whether *NSync would reunite for another album.
He was among the celebrities who gathered Saturday at the University of Mississippi for a benefit concert, "Mississippi Rising," for hurricane victims.
Bass said he's busy producing and acting, but has taken his activism for hurricane relief to Las Vegas. The singer said a celebrity auction through http://www.ubid.com will be Oct. 15.
*NSync's hits include "Bye Bye Bye" and "Gone." Their greatest hits album is expected to be released Oct. 25.
Notable death
Richard E. Cunha, a cinematographer and director who directed a quartet of low-budget movies in the late 1950s that have achieved cult status among horror and sci-fi film aficionados, including "Giant From the Unknown" and "She Demons," has died. He was 83.
Today's birthdays
Actor Charlton Heston is 82. Country singer Leroy Van Dyke is 76. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 64. Actress Susan Sarandon is 59. Actor Armand Assante is 56. Producer Russell Simmons is 48. Singer Jon Secada is 44. Actor Liev Schreiber is 38. Actress Alicia Silverstone is 29. Actress Rachael Leigh Cook is 26.