Did Madonna score big for Kabbalah?

Plus: Kidman doesn't shrink from shrink role

	Reportedly Madonna is trying to sell David and Victoria Beckham on trendy Kabbalah.
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By Jeannette Walls

msnbc.com

updated 12:20 a.m. ET Aug. 8, 2005

Has Madonna nabbed a couple of huge recruits for her religion?

Kabbalah watchers were agog when British soccer pro David Beckham was spotted with a large tattoo in Hebrew on his arm. Wife Victoria — formerly known as Posh Spice — is said to be getting a smaller version inscribed on her neck.

The tattoos are from the Old Testament’s Song of Songs and says, in Hebrew: “I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me, who grazes sheep in rose-like pastures.”

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Some Kabbalah followers, including Britney Spears, have indicated their belief in the faith by getting Hebrew words tattooed on their necks, leading to widespread speculation that the Beckhams have joined the trendy offshoot of Judaism. Kabbalah is the rage among certain celebs, though some recent exposés of the group have shed an unflattering light on the finances of the group.

“Madonna has been pursuing [the Beckhams] and trying to pull them into the Kabbalah Centre,” Rick Ross of Cultnews.com tells The Scoop. “If it’s true that she has recruited them, it’s a huge coup. They are the most important people she could recruit in Great Britain outside the royal family.”

Kidman doesn't shrink from shrink role
KIDMAN
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Hollywood insiders are chortling over the possibility that Nicole Kidman will play a psychiatrist in an upcoming film — given her ex-hubby’s contempt for the profession.

The Academy Award-winning actress reportedly is “in final negotiations” to star in an updated version of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” — in which she’ll play a heroic psychiatrist who discovers that people’s strange behavior can be attributed to extra-terrestrial activity.

“I don’t think Nicole chose the role to get back at Tom, but it’s very amusing casting given Tom Cruise’s recent diatribes against the profession,” says one Hollywood insider. “On the other hand, maybe it’s a nod to [Cruise] because from what I understand Scientologists believe that a lot of bad human behavior can be attributed to aliens.”

Notes from all over
PARKER
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