FERGIE FINALLY HAD HER BABY. And after all that time to think, she named him Axl. A rep for the singer says Fergie gave birth to 7-pound, 10-ounce Axl Jack Duhamel yesterday. He's the first child for the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman and her hubby, Josh Duhamel. The couple wed in 2009. She officially changed her name from Stacy Ann Ferguson to Fergie Duhamel this month. Before the birth, TMZ.com reported that Fergie was preparing for a C-section. Shouldn't it be a Pea-section?
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* James Spader, who has elevated the portrayal of creepy and smarmy to high art in a series of indie movies and TV shows is going tentpole. Marvel announced yesterday that Spader will play Ultron, a robot with artificial intelligence, in its "Avengers: Age of Ultron." The Joss Whedon-directed movie is due out it in May 2015.
* A mansion once owned by Liberace has sold for a half-million dollars to Liberace fan Martyn Ravenhill. In the old days that was a mansion. Today that's a two-bedroom, fixer-upper. The Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors reported the all-cash sale closed Aug. 23 for $29,000 less than the listing price. In fact, the house has only two bedrooms, but it's nearly 15,000 square feet and has 10 bathrooms. When Liberace had to go, he had to go. The house was built in 1962 and sits on a half-acre lot near UNLV in a neighborhood aged enough that residents there still think the extravagant pianist was straight. Features of the home include chandeliers, a mirror bar etched with Liberace's signature, and a room with tile piano keys in the floor. Liberace bought the home in 1974, and it was sold in 1989, two years after he died.
* Long before he was known as Angelina Jolie's dad or a star of "Ray Donovan," Jon Voight became a star playing male prostitute Joe Buck in the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy." Speaking Wednesday while promoting his film "Getaway" (see Gary Thopmpson's review on Page 36), Voight says that he wanted the "Cowboy" role so badly he told his agent, " 'Tell them I'll do this part for nothing.' " To his surprise, "they took me at my word and they gave me minimum for 'Midnight Cowboy.' " United Artists "even sent me a $14.73 coffee shop charge" for meals on his last day of shooting.
* The Palazzo hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip is trying to evict The Act nightclub for shows it says are so raunchy that they violate obscenity laws. It says actors - some nearly naked - toss condoms into the crowd and simulate sex acts and bestiality onstage. Obscenity? Sounds like the MTV Video Music Awards. In a related story, Utah is seeking the eviction of Nevada.
* Pamela Anderson is running in the New York City Marathon to raise money for Sean Penn's humanitarian work in Haiti. Talk about potential for a fitness wear commercial. "We put our sports bra to the ultimate test . . . "
* Sting's wife Trudie Styler, will star this fall in a new off-Broadway adaptation of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull." Producers said Wednesday that Styler will portray the fading actress Irina Arkadina in the Culture Project's version of the classic work to be set in late 19th century Ireland. Previews begin Oct. 3 and opening night is set for Oct. 13.
* Alexandra Jane Jackson, the 20-year-old daughter of country star Alan Jackson, has been charged with assault, underage drinking and resisting arrest. She is accused of striking a police officer and then invoking her father's name during a traffic stop in Nashville. Alexandra was a passenger in a car pulled over by Metro Nashville police on Wednesday. According to a police affidavit, she was irate and refused to stay in the car. Police say she raised her hand to an officer, then struck the officer in the chest. The affidavit says Jackson resisted when officers went to handcuff her and she later told police she had been drinking. As she was being booked into the jail, she told the officer that her father "would do anything I wanted him to do."
* Now that Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones announced they were separating, all the cool May-December couples are doing it. Although they've been living apart for awhile, Us Weekly reports that Clint Eastwood, 83, has officially separated from his 48-year-old second wife Dina Eastwood (nee Ruiz), after nearly 17 years of marriage. Dina confirmed it to Us. Clint's manager, when contacted by Us, said only, "I know nothing about that." Which explains why he's Clint's manager.
* Valerie Harper's doctor Jeremy Rudnick told Meredith Vieira on "Today" that her aggressive brain cancer seems to be close to remission, but things can change for the worse at any time. Dr. Rudnick: (Patients) develop resistance to the therapy. And it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Vieira: So is it about buying time in the hope that something better comes . . . Tony Cacciotti (Valerie's husband): Yes. Dr. Rudnick: Life is about buying time. Harper: Exactly. That's what I always say. So for all you critics who scoffed at that very premise in "About Time," the science-fiction film with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, take that. And best of luck to Valerie. - Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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