Katie says pregnancy 'is a dream come true'

Katie says pregnancy'is a dream come true'
NEW YORK -- Katie Holmes says she's ecstatic about being pregnant -- even if she's not jumping on couches.
"It's a dream come true," the actress said on the syndicated entertainment news show "Access Hollywood" Thursday. "I feel great; [being pregnant] is so beautiful. I've never been so happy. ... I'm beaming."
Holmes, 26, and Tom Cruise, 43, became engaged in June. Her pregnancy was first reported earlier this month.
In preparation, Holmes said that she and Cruise are putting together a baby room and that she's learning how to knit.
It would be Holmes' first child. Cruise has two children, Connor, 10, and Isabella, 12, from his marriage to Nicole Kidman.
As for wedding plans, Holmes said, "We don't have a date just yet. There is so much excitement going on."
Cruise is currently shooting "Mission Impossible 3."
Spielberg's archivemerges with university
LOS ANGELES -- Steven Spielberg's voluminous archive documenting the lives of Holocaust survivors has merged with the University of Southern California.
The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation officially became part of USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences on Thursday after years of negotiations.
USC promises to preserve and propagate the archive, which includes 52,000 videotaped life histories, all of them digitized. The university will fund the $5 million annual budget.
"I've been the lightning rod of this foundation since its inception, and there is a prejudice against figureheads in Hollywood," said Spielberg, a USC trustee. As part of a university, "the Shoah Foundation will be taken much more seriously throughout the world."
Spielberg started the Shoah foundation on the set of the 1993 movie "Schindler's List," which told the story of Czech businessman Oskar Schindler, who exploited Jewish labor during World War II but also saved more than 1,000 lives during the Holocaust. Shoah is Hebrew for "calamity."
The archive is viewable on computer systems at universities including USC, Rice, Yale and the University of Michigan. Portions also are available to museums, research institutions and schools worldwide.
Wanted: Original copfrom the Village People
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Victor Willis, the original policeman in the 1970s music group the Village People, was being sought after failing to show up Thursday for a sentencing in a drug case, authorities said.
Willis, who co-wrote disco hits such as "Macho Man" and "In the Navy," was arrested in July after police found a gun and what was believed to be crack cocaine in his car after a traffic stop.
He was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday morning in San Mateo County Superior Court but failed to show up. The judge issued arrest warrants for a probation violation and for the drug case, a clerk said.
Willis also had an outstanding felony warrant for possession of narcotics, police said.
His attorney, Kenneth Quigley, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Willis left a message with him Wednesday night saying he couldn't attend the hearing.
"He is scheduled for surgery. That's really as much as I know," Quigley told the newspaper.
The songwriter and performer left the Village People in the late 1970s.
Today's Birthdays
Actress Joan Fontaine is 88. Actor Christopher Lloyd is 67. Actor Derek Jacobi is 67. Actor Tony Roberts is 66. Actress Annette Funicello is 63. Movie director Jan de Bont is 62. Actress Catherine Deneuve is 62. Rock musician Leslie West (Mountain) is 60. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is 58. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 53. Actor Luis Guzman is 48. Actor-writer-producer Todd Graff is 46. Rock musician Cris Kirkwood is 45. Singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding is 40. Actress Valeria Golino is 39. Country singer Shelby Lynne is 37. Reggae rapper Shaggy is 37. Rapper Tracey Lee is 35. Actor Michael Fishman is 24. Talk show host Michael Essany is 23. Rock musician Zac Hanson (Hanson) is 20. Actor Jonathan Lipnicki is 15. Actress Sofia Vassilieva is 13.