Penelope Cruz just gave birth to a son, she’s married to Javier Bardem, one of the sexiest Spanish actors around, and she has one an Oscar. This seems like a rather fulfilling life.

Following her Oscar win for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the star plans on re-teaming with Woody Allen for his new project as reported by EW.com. Sounds like a winning formula. The new project is set to be filmed in Rome,. The latest Woody Allen films are like a tour of Europe. He’s hit Barcelona, London, Paris, and now Rome. Unfortunately, all details of the project are being kept hush, hush. Surely we can expect an ensemble cast, some sort of love story, and a wealth of sexual innuendos…. the classic Woody Allen structure. His new film, Midnight in Paris will open in select cities on May 20.

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People.com has confirmed that sexy Spanish power couple, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz welcomed a new baby boy into their household.

Cruz showed signs of pregnancy when she was dawning a baby bump on the set of her new film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. The actor and actress married quietly this past July but have known each other since 1992 where they met on set of Jamon. The duo began dating on the set of Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

The birth of their son directly coincides with the Oscar Nominations. Bardem is nominated for Best Male Lead for his staggering role in the Spanish language film, Biutiful, which is also nominated for Best Foreign Feature. Clearly the couple has a lot to celebrate this month. Congratulations!

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NY Daily News is reporting Penelope Cruz is engaged to Oscar-winner Javier Bardem of No Country for Old Men. The pair has not publicly admitted they are dating, but pregnancy rumours have been circulating.

“They’re telling friends they will get married,” said a source close to the couple.

Publicists for the two actors, who met on the set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, have not commented.

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Now that she’s engaged to Canadian hunk Ryan Gosling, Scarlett Johansson may be becoming too big for her britches.

Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that Johansson was absent from the premier of her new Woody Allen film at Cannes because the studio refused to meet her ridiculous demands.

She insisted that her $7,800-a-day make-up artist be paid to accompany her. She also refused to stay at the same hotel where Allen and co-star Penelope Cruz were staying, instead saying she required a hotel 30 miles outside of Cannes.

An executive close to the film said that “it wasn’t acceptable that Scarlett would be having to come in from that distance every day, most likely turning up late and it would have thrown schedules into a lot of confusion.”

Allen, normally quite enamoured with Johansson, is said to be annoyed that she’s not being a team player.

Johansson’s rep blamed conflicting schedules for Johansson’s absence.

The film, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” which features a kiss between Johansson and Cruz, received a ten-minute standing ovation at the festival.

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