Report: Jolie, Pitt mull Namibian name for baby

Report: Jolie, Pitt mullNamibian name for baby
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- A local governor in Namibia said Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt told him they will have their baby in his country and are considering giving the child a Namibian name, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Samuel Sheefeni Nuuyoma, the governor of the Namibian province where the couple is staying at a heavily guarded lodge, said he had breakfast Friday with the two stars, according to The Sunday Times of South Africa.
He said Jolie had made those choices because "she loves Namibia."
Namibian immigration officials confirmed earlier this month that the couple and five other people, including two children, arrived in Walvis Bay on a chartered jet from Paris, prompting speculation their baby will be born in Africa.
The couple has been shielded from reporters by heavy security at a secluded beach resort near Walvis Bay, in an area where Namibia's desert sand dunes descend spectacularly to the sea.
But the Sunday Times carried what it billed as "exclusive" pictures of Jolie hugging 1-year-old Zahara and Pitt carrying sleeping Maddox, 4, to a sports utility vehicle. Both Pitt and Maddox sported matching haircuts.
Ashanti's cousin diesin automobile accident
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Ashanti pulled out of a concert over the weekend after her cousin was killed by a 17-year-old drunken driver, authorities said.
Quinshae Snead, 20, was on her way to Ashanti's hotel to fetch something for the Grammy award-winning singer ahead of the concert Saturday when the car she was riding in was rear-ended, police said.
Snead was flung from the car as it rolled over and thrown into the path of another car in the opposite lane.
The 17-year-old unlicensed driver had stolen his mother's car, said Johannesburg metro police spokesman Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
"He was also under the influence of liquor," Minnaar told the South African Press Association.
The teenager was arrested for drunken driving and hospitalized. The driver of the car Snead was riding in also was injured and taken to hospital. Ashanti's debut album garnered a Grammy Award in 2003 for best contemporary R & amp;B album.
About new film, directoris optimistic but realistic
LOS ANGELES -- Director Barry Sonnenfeld has his first movie in four years with the upcoming "RV," but isn't betting his entire career on it.
Sonnenfeld is optimistic about "RV," which comes out April 28. But after seeing several of his films ravaged by critics, he offers a measured assessment of it.
"It's not like I love 'RV,'" he told the Los Angeles Times. "But it's one of my kids."
While his last movie, 2002's "Men in Black II," grossed a solid $190.4 million domestically, it didn't get much praise from critics or even Sonnenfeld himself.
The director didn't work for several years after the sequel, but the extra time with his family helped inspire his work on "RV," in which his daughter Chloe has a role.
"In many ways, this is autobiography because I wanted to make a movie about my relationship with Chloe before she got too old," Sonnenfeld said.
Notable death
Dame Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels made her one of the most admired British writers of the postwar years, died Thursday, Italian officials said. She was 88. Spark wrote more than 20 novels, including "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," which was later adapted for a Broadway hit and a movie.
Today's birthdays
Rock promoter Don Kirshner is 72. Composer-musician Jan Hammer is 58. Actress Olivia Hussey is 55. Rock singer-musician Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks) is 51. Actor Sean Bean is 47. Rock singer Maynard James Keenan (Tool) is 42. Actress Lela Rochon is 42. Actor William Mapother is 41. Actress Kimberly Elise is 39. Singer Liz Phair is 39. Rapper-actor Redman is 36. Actress Jennifer Garner ("Alias") is 34. Singer Victoria Adams Beckham is 32. Actress-singer Lindsay Korman is 28. Actor Paulie Litt is 11. Actress Dee Dee Davis ("The Bernie Mac Show") is 10.