Just like Merlin the wizard, who “youthened” rather than get older, Brad Pitt plans to age backwards.

As Benjamin Button, in David Fincher’s upcoming movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Pitt portrays someone suffering a rare reverse-aging condition – which costar Tilda Swinton says is amazing to behold.

“The programs they developed for that are just going to blow everything out of the water,” the Michael Clayton Oscar-winner, 47, gushed to MTV News about the technology employed to speed up – and turn back – the clock on Pitt. “I think it’s going to be extraordinary.”

Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story, Pitt plays Button through nearly 80 years of his life. “There are about eight sections, and I’m one of them. I’m his first love in the ’30s in Russia,” Swinton said. “What’s fascinating is we were all in these little films and they’ll all be put together [like an anthology].”

Cate Blanchett also stars in the flick, due in December.

Cash Warren and Jessica Alba at Baron Davis’ Surprise Birthday party held at Stone Rose Lounge in L.A., March 22nd.

And she smiles!!

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“I love Africa in general – South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.”

Socialite Paris Hitlon proves that geography is not her strong point.

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Though she has made no secret of how her life had sunk before her immense success with the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling has never before detailed that despondent period of her life.

That now has changed, with the author, 42, opening up to an Edinburgh University student magazine, the BBC and British newspapers report.

Rowling also admits that she contemplated taking her own life back in the early 1990s, after separating from her first husband, Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes.

“We’re talking suicidal thoughts here, we’re not talking ‘I’m a little bit miserable,’ ” Rowling told student Adeel Amini, 22.

“Mid-twenties life circumstances were poor and I really plummeted,” Rowling said, recalling friends had to help her pay the security deposit for her apartment rental – where she would eventually begin writing about the boy wizard, which would spawn a $14 billion industry.

“The thing that made me go for help was probably my daughter,” said Rowling, referring to the then-infant, Jessica, reports the Telegraph. “She was something that earthed me, grounded me, and I thought, this isn’t right, this can’t be right, she cannot grow up with me in this state.”

‘Get Out’ of Depression
Through a circuitous route – her regular doctor was away at the time of her crisis – Rowling eventually met with a therapist, who helped her “get out” of the depression.

“The funny thing is, I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never,” she says. “I think I’m abnormally shameless on that account because what’s to be ashamed of?”

Seeking to remove any stigma that might be attached to seeking counseling, Rowing now advises all those suffering from depression to “go and get help.”

Singer/actress Brandy failed to pay her landscape gardener $3,576 in expenses, according to court papers.

Raymond Soriano Landscape has filed legal documents in a Los Angeles small claims court, alleging the star owes the company unspecified “landscaping expenses” for work carried out at her property between July 2007 and February 2008.

Sources say that a trial date has been set for April 22nd.

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Justin Timberlake doesn’t just bring “SexyBack.” The 27-year-old singer also knows how to give back – in a big way.

On Thursday, the Memphis native gave two separate donations of $100,000 to the Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum and the Memphis Music Foundation.

“Music education and keeping the legacy of Memphis Music alive has always been important to me,” says Timberlake, who is in his hometown filming the indie flick, The Open Road. “That is why I will always continue to support my home town the same way they have always supported me.”

The organizations will use Timberlake’s contributions to advance music education for local students and further achieve its mission of “telling the story of Memphis Music and perpetuating its legacy.”

“Justin Timberlake has never deserted Memphis, Tennessee,” Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Executive Director John Doyle said. “He has never stopped giving back to the community, to the local music industry, and to young people.”

Miley Cyrus leaving the Cheesecake Factory where she had dinner with her mother Tish Cyrus in Pasadena, California on March 22nd.

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