The release date of Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson’s new movie has been delayed for five months, in order to stand a better chance for next year’s (08) awards ceremonies.

The Nanny Diaries - an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus - stars Johansson alongside Laura Linney, and the comedy was originally due for release next month (APR07).

But production bosses have now pushed back the film’s release to September (07), in the hope that it will benefit come awards time from better scheduling. A source tells PageSix, “It’s better for awards consideration. This is a better plan.”

Usually if a movie get’s pushed back, it’s because it sucks…but I guess we’ll see.

Are those knee pads on her jeans.  Ah yeah, now THAT’S sexy.

Britney Spears’ kids (and their nanny) visited for a bit on Wednesday, but their mommy soon ducked out, leaving them at her Beverly Hills home to go to the dentist.

Sean, 1 1/2, and Jayden, 6 months, hung out at mom’s house on Tuesday and were driven back to Kevin Federline’s Tarzana home at 7:30 p.m. by a bodyguard in a white Yukon. Federline, 29, has held physical custody of the children since Spears entered rehab last month and is fighting to keep them in his care.

A bodyguard returned the kids (and nanny, natch), to Spears, 25, at around noon Wednesday.

But the dentally challenged pop star quickly popped out for more than two hours, leaving the kids home with the nanny.

What could be more important than time with the kids? Getting her teeth whitened. According to Access Hollywood, Brit visited a celebrity dentist at Century City Doctors Hospital to have the Zoom whitening treatment done on those famed Louisiana chompers

This is just so sad….

Actress Halle Berry tried to commit suicide over her failed first marriage, she reveals in an upcoming interview.

Berry, 40, admits to Parade magazine that she tried to gas herself when her fiery union to Atlanta Braves baseball star David Justice collapsed, but pulled out at the last minute.

“I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me,” she tells the magazine.

The image of her stoic mother Judith, now 67, was enough to snap the blues out of Berry. “She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. It was all about a relationship. My sense of worth was so low,” Berry says. “I promised myself I would never be a coward again.”

The actress also describes her subsequent marriage, to singer Eric Benet, as “really horrific … We were in sex rehab after one year. I wish I had left then, but I was putting everyone’s needs before mine,” says the Oscar winner, who next appears on-screen with Bruce Willis in the thriller Perfect Stranger.

Twice divorced Berry is now dating model Gabriel Aubry, after meeting the 31-year-old in Nov. 2005 during a Versace advertising shoot. Three months later they went public as a couple. Twice bitten, Berry rules out a third marriage.

“I will never, never get married again,” she told InStyle recently.

But she tells Parade she is determined to be a mother. “I’ve accomplished things I never thought I would,” she says. “Now my sights are set on a different chapter in my life, which is motherhood. That’s the goal I have very clearly set for myself.”

Pics: Halle Berry at the ”Perfect Stranger” photocall in Madrid, 3/28.  She looks amazing!