Thank susy and Sammie! From: People.com BASIC INSTINCTS Katie Holmes goes head-to-toe black during a shopping trip Wednesday in Beverly Hills. The actress stopped by French children's boutique Bonpoint to shop for daughter Suri. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise have a glamorous night out at the Condé Nast-sponsored Black Ball in New York City on Thursday. It may be the last big outing for them as singles: The couple is set to tie knot in Italy next weekend. Gawker Sighting Nov 10th, 2006 @ 11am Saw Katie Holmes - had long dark hair and dark sunglasses wearing a 3/4 legnth black trench tied at the waist. Really skinny and really tall. It was Tomkat without the Tom. Instead some other dark haired dude with dark sunglasses!! Cruise, Holmes drop 10K on steak dinner Plus: Katie's wedding perfume costs $2,350 per ounce Tom Cruise’s romantic gestures aren’t limited to couch jumping. The “Top Gun” star reportedly shelled out $10,000 for a dinner with fiancée Katie Holmes. Cruise took the mother of his daughter to Mastro’s Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, according to In Touch Weekly, and to ensure their privacy, he paid 10 grand for a private dining room usually booked by groups of 15 or more. The couple are “suffering from pre-wedding jitters” reports the mag, but the nerves are affecting them differently. Holmes is said to have barely touched her grilled sea bass, but Cruise chowed down on a whopping porterhouse steak, a Caesar salad and three side dishes: wasabi mashed potatoes, French fries and onion rings — and he topped it all off with a dessert of cheesecake and chocolate-covered strawberries. The pair were celebrating not only their impending wedding, but also Cruise’s new gig at United Artists. Looks like Holmes is developing pricey tastes. In addition to selecting a lavish Armani wedding gown, ITW also reports that the bride-to-be has selected the scent she’ll wear on her wedding day: Clive Christian No. 1, one of the most expensive perfumes in the world, which retails for $2,350 an ounce. MSN.com Tom & Katie's Aisle Destination? Now, that's amore. Whether or not this is in fact the locale of the wedding of the year (sorry, Brangelina, you had your chance), an Italian newspaper has reported that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are planning to tie the knot at a medieval castle on the shores of Lake Bracciano, located to the northwest of Rome. According to Il Messaggero, central Italy's most popular paper, the actors are going to kick off the festivities with a pre-party Nov. 16, followed by a Catholic vow swap Nov. 17 and then a Nov. 18 ceremony presided over by the Church of Scientology. The Castello Odescalchi is said to be able to hold 1,400 guests. Cruise and Holmes announced last month that they would make it official on Nov. 18 (so far, it all adds up), seven months after the birth of their daughter Suri. Georgio Armani is designing Holmes' $2 million gown, with one of his minions probably sewing intricate-yet-tasteful beading along the hem as we speak. But while Il Messaggero claims to have cracked TomKat's itinerary, after celeb-favorite spots such as Lake Como were dismissed from contention, Reuters reported Tuesday that a receptionist from Castello Odescalchi denied that any such event was booked there. Way to throw 'em off the scent. "The only thing we have received in the past days is a request to clear the square in front of the castle," Bracciano Mayor Patrizia Riccioni playfully told Associated Press Television News on Friday. "It is a hint, not evidence." That hint, coupled with an electrician telling an Italian TV news crew Thursday that he was doing wedding prep work at the castle, does start making you wonder. Actually, the most notable item to be plucked from all this news might be the revelation that Cruise and Holmes are going to have dual ceremonies. While Holmes was brought up Catholic, Cruise said earlier this year that the Dawson's Creek star had taken up Scientology, and that their child would not be baptized. "You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist," Cruise told Diane Sawyer in April. "But we're just Scientologists." But when in Rome... It will be interesting to see what the Roman Catholic Church has to say about the twice-divorced Cruise engaging in a Catholic wedding. The BBC reported around the time of Nicole Kidman's nuptials to Keith Urban that, since the Church of Scientology presided over her wedding to Cruise, Catholic officials consider that union null and void—leaving Kidman with a clean slate. Actually, the priest who presides over the area surrounding Lake Bracciano said Thursday that his parish would not, in fact, marry the couple and the mayor said that she can't perform the ceremony, either, until they fill out the proper paperwork. "I don't think it will be legal," Riccioni said. "On an Italian level, there are papers and documents that we certainly don't have [for a wedding]." "Cruise is divorced," Monsignor Nicola Fiorentini told the Italian press. "Even if the actor were not divorced, another fundamental requirement to validate the rite would be missing: the authorization of the parish." Link Us Magazine.com Celebrity Look-Alikes! With her oversized sunglasses and dark hair pulled back, Catherine Zeta-Jones, 37 (married to Michael Douglas), looks just like Katie Holmes, 27, who’s about to wed a Hollywood icon herself. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes dress up for date night at Cut restaurant in Beverly Hills. Link OK (11/13/06) (click on pic to enlarge) Us Weekly (11/13/06) (click on pic to enlarge)

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