Nicole Kidman longs
to experience childbirth

Plus: CBS insiders eager
to read Mapes’ tell-all

Toru Hanai / Reuters file

Nicole Kidman is already a mom, but she wants to go through childbirth.

By Jeannette Walls

msnbc.com

updated 2:43 a.m. ET April 6, 2005

Nicole Kidman wants to give birth.

“I would love to have a baby next, that would be a lovely thing,” Kidman said on Australian TV recently, according to reports there. Kidman has two adopted children from her marriage to Tom Cruise, but she says she wants some from her own womb. “I have got hormones running through my system. That is why I sit wriggling saying I want to have a baby.”

The “Bewitched” star denied, however, reports that she’s secretly engaged to Steven Bing, the father of Liz Hurley’s son. “No, I’m not,” she said. “I read it the other day and I went, ‘Oh, that’s news to me.’”

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Kidman also said she was deeply upset by the indefinite postponement of “Eucalyptus,” in which she was supposed to co-star with Russell Crowe. She said it was “very upsetting ... a huge, huge thing”.

Eye on CBS
Some folks at CBS can’t wait for the inside story on their own company.

Insiders at the network have “desperately” been trying to get their hands on an advanced copy of a behind-the-scenes account of the recent 60 Minutes II report on President Bush’s National Guard service, being penned by Mary Mapes, the fired producer on the troubled segment. Mapes recently signed a deal with St. Martin’s Press to write the book, tentatively called “The Other Side of the Story” and scheduled for publication in fall, though a source says the name of the book “will almost definitely change.”

“Mary Mapes hasn’t even handed in the manuscript, and already, people have been trying to get their hands on it,” says a source. “They’re going to pull out all the stops to get a copy.”

Notes from all over
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David J. Phillip / AP file
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