which is filming this week at the Izod Center.

The New Jersey Nets are serving as technical advisers to the film, and the Nets' own Bobby Simmons, along with Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat will put in appearances.

Latifah, a Newark native, plays a sports trainer who falls in love with an injured Basketball player, played by the rapper Common.Latifah, who tells The Star-Ledger she's a Nets fan, is producing the film, due out next year. Can this marriage be saved?

Regis Philbin is either an optimist or an idiot. He had "Jon & Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin on his show Thursday morning, and even after she told him that she and estranged husband Jon were through, Philbin said he thinks there still could be a "happily ever after" for those two crazy kids.

Kate shoots back: "I can't say that I think you're right, at all."

Meanwhile, ratings for "Jon & Kate" continue to drop. The show can't be expected to keep the "will-they-or-won't-they?" momentum from May and June (the show in which they announced they were divorced brought in a record 10.6 million viewers). While their return to television last week brought in more than 7 million viewers, that number dropped nearly 4 million for this week's episode, Usmagazine.com reports.

Robert J. Thompson, a Syracuse University professor and pop culture guru, says he doesn't think the show will be able to find its footing again. "It's like if "The Cosby Show,' mid-season, suddenly became "Married with Children.' " Celebrity shorts

3 "Scary Movie" star Anna Faris quietly married boyfriend Chris Pratt, the former "Everwood" star, in Bali last month, People reports.

3 Kourtney Kardashian, one of the lesser Kardashians, announced her pregnancy to E!, the same network that coincidentally airs her reality show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." Kardashian, who has her own spin-off, "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami," discovered she was with, er, khild, while in Florida. "I was just so shocked," she said. The father is boyfriend Scott Disick. The baby is due around Christmas.

3 Michael Douglas and his ex-wife, Diandra, have broken their silence about son Cameron's drug dealing arrest. "The family is devastated and very disappointed in Cameron's recent behavior. Any family who has dealt with substance abuse knows how devastating it can be." After his girlfriend allegedly tried to smuggle heroin to Cameron, who was being held in at-home detention, he was transferred to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York and is being held without bail, People reports.

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