From: People.com Brooke Shields & Katie Holmes: New B.F.F.s Despite her very public battle with Tom Cruise, when Brooke Shields met up with his fiancée, Katie Holmes, at a charity event in Pacific Palisades, Calif., Oct. 29, the two "were so lovely to each other," an onlooker tells PEOPLE in its new issue. Perhaps that's because they go way back – to the September premiere of Grey's Anatomy, at least, which they watched together in Shields's living room. (After Cruise slammed Shields for using medication to treat her postpartum depression, he famously apologized in August.) Coincidentally, the two new moms gave birth – Shields, 41, to her second daughter, Grier, and Holmes, 27, to daughter Suri – on the same day, April 18, and at the same L.A. hospital. The two are "absolutely" friends, Shields told Access Hollywood at the Pacific Palisades event, which benefited Hands of Change, an employment and mentoring program for women. "You never know how life is going to bring people together." Cruise Hires Aniston And Pitt's Wedding Planner Tom Cruise has hired the same Hollywood event production company that planned the fairytale nuptials of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston to co-ordinate his upcoming wedding to Katie Holmes. The celebrity couple are tying the knot in Italy on Nov 18, but have refused to reveal the exact location. The wedding planning company, Along Came Mary, has also produced Barbra Streisand's wedding to James Brolin and Sean Penn's nuptials with Robin Wright Penn. According to Radar Online, the company is owned by Mary Miucci, who is actually better known for staging blockbuster movie premieres. Miucci has produced elaborate affairs for such films as Memoirs Of A Geisha, for which she sourced hundreds of thousands of silk cherry blossoms and Superman Returns, for which she built a scale-replica Metropolis. Cruise is familiar with her work - she also planned the premieres for the first two Mission: Impossible movies, which reportedly earned her the nickname "the Queen of Theme". Link Thanks Stacie! In Touch (11/06/06) (click on pic to enlarge) Cruise-Holmes guests to eat Italian The location of Tom Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes is currently showbiz's best-kept secret but insiders say guests are sure to be offered the best of Italian cuisine . Roman gossip gurus think the actor will be turning to his favourite Italian restaurant, Dal Bolognese in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, to cater for the most eagerly awaited celebrity wedding in years . Alfredo Tomaselli, owner of the famed eatery that has just opened a highly successful Milan branch, is keeping mum of course - but then he had to sign a confidentiality agreement before flying in three of his chefs to cook Tom his favourite pasta with artichokes on his 43rd birthday bash in the Caribbean last year . "If you see one of my establishments closed that day then you'll know," is all Tomaselli was prepared to tell an Italian magazine this week . Meanwhile speculation is running higher than ever about the location of the ceremony itself as the rumoured wedding date, November 23, [?] approaches . Two plush Italian lakeside villas, George Clooney's on Lake Como and a former Mussolini residence on Lake Garda, have appeared in gossip mags . Holmes, accompanied on a recent trip by firm friend Victoria Beckham, is rumoured to have fallen in love with the Garda locale, Villa Feltrinelli - less for Il Duce than more artistic past guests like Isadora Duncan and Grace Kelly . There have also been reports that the world's best-known Scientologist may choose the home of Catholicism, Rome, to ease the pressure he has been under for alleged erratic behaviour some link to his beliefs . But some think all the Italian reports are a smoke screen and Cruise will wed his young bride - and mother of their infant daughter Suri - where he proposed to her, in Paris . Link

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