After the afternoon to herself Jennifer Garner jumps back into mommy duty with daughter Violet Affleck in Santa Monica.

How cute are her glasses!

Photos: Fame

I hate tax day – haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate tax day. So I’ve figured out a great way to end my day. With a Bombay Sapphire Collins! YUM!

Sapphire Collins

2 Parts Bombay Sapphire Gin

1 Part fresh lemon juice

3/4 part simple syrup

club soda

Pour first three ingredients into a Collins glass with ice and stir well. Add more ice and top with club soda. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

What other Gin cocktails do you love? You having one tonight with me?

Mark Ruffalo appears on the May cover of DETAILS magazine in a photo shoot with Matthias Vriens-McGrath that took place in New York City.  Disgusted with Hollywood and mourning the loss of his brother, Ruffalo quit acting (again) for his hideaway in upstate New York.  But a funny thing happened on the way to irrelevance—the movie he thought would be his last earned him an Oscar nomination and made him a bona fide leading man.  Now the 43-year-old in-demand actor is making his long-awaited directorial debut with this month’s Sympathy for Delicious and suiting up to be the next Hulk.  Strange how busy retirement can be. “You don’t interview Mark Ruffalo—you converse with him,” said writer Jonathan Miles.  “The standard Hollywood ego is nowhere to be found. By the end of the interview we were just talking fishing and politics like every other guy in the bar.”

Highlights from the article:
On quitting acting in 2009: “I’d had it with L.A., and I really had it with the business side of acting, the machinery of it all.  You’re an artist, but then all of a sudden you’re a product at the same time, and there’s this company that’s sprung up around you.  I got depressed.  I was losing my love for it. So I said, ‘I’m done.’ I fired everybody and moved my family out here (Callicoon, NY). I had to make a radical move.”  He goes on to say, “The Kids Are Alright was my swan song.  I didn’t know what I was doing next.”

On struggling to make it as an actor: “It was brutal.  The years are stripping away, but when you talking to anyone from home, you’re saying something like ‘Well, I’m just working on my craft right now,’ when the truth is that I can’t get a fucking job because no one will hire me.  It was humiliating.”

On deciding to continue acting: What brought Ruffalo back this latest time was sitting in the audience at Sundance, where The Kids Are Alright made its debut in 2010, and, after the first peal of laughter, “watching everyone’s jaded, supercool Hollywood identities melt into the communal experience of filmmaking and storytelling.  It reminded me: I’m an actor, and my whole life has been geared towards being an actor.”

On acting in The Avengers, a computer-generated style movie: Ruffalo makes the counterintuitive connection between motion-capture acting and the theater.  “It’s the absolute perfect marriage because it relies on your imagination, your ability to project outside of yourself, to be the watcher and the watched.  A stage actor has to be able to do that, because you’re telling the story with your body as much as your face and voice.”

On not training to be The Incredible Hulk: “No, no, no.  Look, I’m eating guacamole and potato chips….You think Tom Cruise does this?”

I’ve always had the hugest crush on Mark Ruffalo. I just love him! His performance in The Kids Are Alright was amazing, and I’m glad he’s back to acting. Can’t wait to see him as the Hulk!

Full article here and behind-the-scenes video here!

Jessica Lowndes is spotted looking sexy in a see through lace dress, as she leaves The Embassy Club in London’s exclusive Mayfair, where she spent the evening partying with friends in London, UK, after spending just an hour inside.

So what about those rumors that she’s been hooking up with Jake Gyllenhaal? Not so fast, she says.  “It’s actually really silly because I could go and have coffee with my mum or a girl and it’s fine, but you literally have coffee with a guy and it’s all this (dating rumors). No we are not dating. I’m single.”

Earlier this week at an after party for ‘Scream 4′, Mickey Rourke firmly placed his foot in his mouth when talking about his upcoming movie ‘Passion Play’ costarring Megan Fox.

Here’s the interview with Vulture:

This is just the saddest story to me! It was widely reported that while Brooke Mueller and Charlie Sheen were married they had a pretty heavy crack/cocaine problem. Since divorcing Charlie Sheen, she’s been in and out of drug treatment.

Lately, she was said to have been clean, but according to TMZ, Brooke has fallen off the wagon again.

Brooke Mueller walked into a pawn shop in Inglewood, CA. early Thursday morning, and tried to hock an expensive men’s watch and a stereo … and sources tell TMZ Brooke has fallen off the wagon.

An employee at the shop, Jack Feldman, tells us … Brooke was desperately trying to get cash for the two items … but the store would not make the purchase because Brooke did not have a valid I.D.

In the surveillance footage from the store obtained by TMZ, Brooke nervously and anxiously paces around the store while the employees check out the items.

Brooke certainly shouldn’t need the money, because she’s getting $55,000 a month in child support, not to mention the multi-million dollar settlement she scored in her divorce with Charlie Sheen.

We’re told Brooke’s mom is taking care of the twins.

We tried contacting Brooke for comment but we can’t find her.

Makes me sad for their boys.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE