Cruise and Holmes refute split-up rumors

Cruise and Holmesrefute split-up rumors
LOS ANGELES -- Not true.
That was Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' response Tuesday to a Valentine's Day report by Life & amp; Style magazine claiming the Hollywood superstar and his pregnant paramour have split up.
"It should be known that the story is 100 percent false," Arnold Robinson, a publicist for the couple, said in a statement. "Mr. Cruise and Ms. Holmes are still engaged and are moving forward with their wedding plans, as well as planning for the arrival of their child."
The Feb. 27 issue of the magazine, which will be on newsstands Friday, says in a cover story that the public pair "plan to keep up the charade of their romance until after their baby's birth this spring."
Holmes, 27, and Cruise, 43, have been engaged since June. They announced her pregnancy in October.
"Despite the malicious fallacies put forth by Life & amp; Style magazine, the couple is looking forward to a long and happy life together as a family," Robinson said.
A representative for the magazine said, "We stand 100 percent behind our story."
The story says its information comes from two unnamed friends of Cruise.
Nelson pays homageto gay cowboys in song
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago.
He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.
"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly [Fond of Each Other]" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic.
Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."
The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette said he wrote it during the "Urban Cowboy" craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.
Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson's record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at his Pedernales studio in Texas.
Today's birthdays
Singer Patty Andrews is 88. Kim Jong Il, the president of North Korea, is 64. Actor Jeremy Bulloch is 60. Actor Pete Postlethwaite is 60. Actor William Katt is 55. Actor James Ingram is 50. Actor LeVar Burton is 49. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 48. Actress Lisa Loring is 48. Tennis Hall of Fame player John McEnroe is 47. Rock musician Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) is 45. Rock musician Taylor Hawkins (Foofighters) is 34. Singer Sam Salter is 28.