Update
Autopsy Confirms Jett Travolta Died of "Seizure"
John Travolta and Kelly Preston's 16-year-old son, Jett, who had a history of health problems, was killed by a "seizure," according to the death certificate issued today.
While the official results of an autopsy today have yet to been publicly announced, a source close to the investigation into Jett's death tells E! News that a preliminary report determined "there is no foul play," and corroborates what a Travolta family lawyer initially stated last Friday.
"It is not a suspicious death. The body wouldn't already be turned over to the mortuary if there was anything suspicious," the source said. Autopsies are standard procedure in the Bahamas in cases of sudden death.
Bahamian Minister of Health Hubert Minnis did not say when, or if, the autopsy findings would be made public, but a press conference is expected later this afternoon.
Bahamian official and close Travolta family friend Obie Wilchcombe tells E! News that the autopsy was completed at 12 p.m. local time and that Jett's body is currently awaiting transport back to the U.S.
While the family had considered a possible viewing tomorrow, Wilchcombe said that the remains were being prepared for immediate transport back to Florida. A funeral service was expected Wednesday in Ocala, Fla., where the Travoltas have a home.
Late Monday afternoon, a black hearse traveled from the funeral home to the local airport, where two jets waited. Police in dress uniform blocked access to the tarmac.
Are Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson Dunzo?
Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson reportedly welcomed in the New Year with a back alley fight show followed by a boxing match in their hotel hallway, so it only makes sense that a report (by way of Access Hollywood) would soon follow announcing their split.
"Lindsay has moved out of the home she shared with Samantha and gotten a place of her own," says the source.
Can it be? Is there any hope for love anymore? First J. Love and now this?!
We checked with Lohan's rep but it's pretty hard to keep up with all their dramz. "I don't know," was all she told us.
Fortunately, our own source was able to give a more definitive answer:
Patricia Arquette Cuts Her Husband Loose
On the job, Patricia Arquette sees dead people. In real life, she sees divorce lawyers.
The Medium star has filed for divorce from her husband of two and a half years, Punisher hero Thomas Jane. (View the petition.)
She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, according to documents filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The duo, who swapped vows May 15, 2006, have a 5-year-old daughter, Harlow Olivia Calliope. Per her petition, Arquette is requesting sole legal and physical custody of the child, with visitation privileges for Jane.
Party's Over for Jennifer Love Hewitt and Fiancé
Ghost Whisperer Jennifer Love Hewitt's engagement to Ross McCall has fizzled into silence.
"They broke up over the holidays and have ended their engagement," a source close to the couple told People. "They're both really sad about this. Even their friends are surprised; they seemed really happy. Everyone just wants the best for both of them."
The actress, 29, got engaged to the Band of Brothers star in November 2007 after two years of dating. The pair never set a wedding date—or, if they did, they only spoke of it in hushed tones.
With her immortalized (in song, at least) wonderland bod back in shape, surely there will be plenty of men who can't hardly wait to spend time with Love.
Tim Allen Offers Condolences to Travoltas
As a father himself with another child on the way, Tim Allen can sympathize with John Travolta and Kelly Preston.
Allen, who costarred in the hit biker comedy Wild Hogs with Travolta, today expressed his heartfelt prayers to his friend in the wake of Jett Travolta's unexpected death Friday.
"Jane, Kate and I wanted to extend our condolences to John, Kelly and Ella. We know how much they loved and adored Jett, and words cannot express how sad we were to hear about his passing," Allen said.
What's a Scientology Funeral Like?
Given the sad news about Jett Travolta, I got to wondering: What is a Scientology funeral like?
—Deb, Skokie, Ill.
There are funerary customs specific to Scientology, the longtime religion of John Travolta and his family. (FYI: Other superfamous Scientology adherents include Tom Cruise, Beck and My Name Is Earl castmates Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee.) A hallmark of Scientology is the belief that humans are immortal spirits, or
thetans—beings who have lived many lifetimes and whose potential is unlimited.
A funeral, therefore, focuses on the departed like this...
Superstars of Dance Clicks; Lipstick Jungle Doesn't
Weekend TV's Big Winners: Dancers, or, as they should now be called, Prime Time's Most Bankable Kind of People.
Last night's two-hour premiere of NBC's Superstars of Dance (10.5 million overall viewers, per Nielsen estimates) drew more eyeballs at 10 p.m. than either CBS' all-new The Unit (9.7 million) or ABC's all-new Brothers & Sisters (9.2 million). The latter show won the hour in the 18-49 demo.
Weekend TV's Shakiest Return: Oh, sure, ABC's Desperate Housewives (14.3 million) was down nearly 2 million viewers from its last new episode, but that's nothing—after all, excluding football, the series was Sunday's No. 1 show in viewers and adults 18-49.
No, the shakiest return was posted on Friday by NBC's Lipstick Jungle (4.2 million).
Gossip Guys Have Starlets Panting
Hollywood's love for Gossip Girl (all new tonight!) hasn't ever been a secret, but lately Tinseltown's starlets have been seriously loose-lipped about their crushes on Upper East Siders Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick and Penn Badgley.
Taylor Swift told the most recent issue of Your Prom magazine that Crawford would be her "celeb dream date" and "Bleeding Love" singer Leona Lewis conveniently put him in her video. Meanwhile, Heroes' Kristen Bell told us she was "digging" Westwick, and Hilary Duff said she loves him but "he's so bad and terrible."
So who else has taken a side?
Why So Sunny? Dark Knight's a PGA Nominee
The Dark Knight's Oscar campaign has picked up another key endorsement.
The Batman epic is one of five nominees for the Producers of America Guild's version of Best Picture, the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire round out the list.
The PGAs are typically a blueprint for the Oscars, which makes today's news bad news for Revolutionary Road, WALL-E, The Wrestler and the likewise shunned.
Actually, WALL-E wasn't entirely ignored.
Pat Hingle, Batman's Commissioner Gordon, Dead
Lower the Bat-Signal.
Pat Hingle, the veteran character actor best remembered by fanboys as Gotham City's Commissioner Gordon in Tim Burton's Batman movie and its three sequels, has died. He was 84.
According to his family, Hingle suffered from myelodysplasia, a type of blood cancer, and passed away at his home Saturday night.
Hingle's career in theater, television and film spanned more than 50 years, beginning with an uncredited 1954 bit part as a bartender going toe-to-toe with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
He played opposite Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High, The Gauntlet and Sudden Impact; served as Sally Field's father in Norma Rae and Warren Beatty's dad in Splendor in the Grass; and hammed it up with Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions.
Broadway credits included Elia Kazan's original staging of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and a Tony-nominated turn in William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. He popped up in such TV shows as The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible and Magnum, P.I.
But it was as Jim Gordon, Gotham's top cop, that he achieved his greatest fame, first in 1989's Batman, followed by Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.





