Jennifer Aniston

The late Labrador retriever made famous by "Marley & Me" will be the hero of 13 children's books by "Marley" author John Grogan. The first of the series comes out this summer, HarperCollins Children's Books announced Thursday. Grogan's "Marley & Me," published in 2005, is a million-selling memoir and the basis for the hit movie of the same name, starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston.

Some paparazzi in Pacific Palisades were outside a house that was being visited by actress Jennifer Aniston when a hillside caught fire about a block away. A handful of the bored photogs immediately hopped in their cars and went over to check out the fire, the Palisadian-Post reported. After taking a few shots, they drove back to the house where Aniston was. Firefighters then put out the blaze, no thanks to the paparazzi. "None of them called 911," the newspaper said.

Talk about chewing the scenery. In "Marley & Me," the title character -- that would be the dog Marley, not Me -- literally eats the furniture. Jennifer Aniston recalls her introduction to her costar, a yellow lab named Clyde. "I walked onto the set and put my sweater and my bag down on the couch, and that dog leapt up onto the couch, grabbed my sweater and started ripping it," she says. The trainers responded immediately, but not as she expected. "They said, 'good, good boy!'

Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, who have remained friends after starring together in "Friends," are going to work together again. Aniston will appear as a guest star on the season finale of "Dirt," the new FX series in which Cox stars (and helps produce) as the editor of a tabloid publication. Aniston will portray a rival magazine editor. The episode is scheduled to air March 27. FX said it would be the first time the pair have acted together since their NBC sitcom ended in 2004.

Jennifer Aniston may need to brush up on her yodeling, banjo and steel guitar now that she's producing the period country-and-western musical "Goree Girls" for DreamWorks Pictures. The actress is on board to produce and probably star in the 1940s song-laden comedy about one of the nation's first all-female country acts, a group whose members were also guests of the Texas penal system.

People can't get enough of Jennifer Aniston. Neither can Us Weekly, Star or other popular celebrity magazines. Aniston sits atop Forbes.com's first analysis of top-selling famous faces, based on several factors, including newsstand sales of celebrity weeklies People, Us Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style, OK! and Star over a six-month period ending June 30.

Even in Hollywood -- land of breast implants and Botox -- natural counts for something. So says People magazine, which Wednesday said Jennifer Aniston topped its list of best-dressed women of 2006 for her natural fashion sense. Halle Berry, dubbed "The Classic," is No. 2 behind Aniston, and No. 3 was "The Newcomer," Jessica Alba. The magazine's annual best- and worst-dressed issue hits newsstands Friday.

Jennifer Aniston is making her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt parted ways. The Emmy-winning actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million. The home, designed in the early 1970s by architect Hal Levitt, is being rebuilt and entered escrow while in construction. The one-story house, on half an acre, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 9,000-plus square feet, according to public records.

The public seems to have an unquenchable thirst to know all the details about the marital breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. Newsstand sales for celebrity magazines featuring the unhappy duo on their cover have soared. According to projected figures compiled from checkout scans, Us Weekly will sell an additional 150,000 copies, a 15% to 20% bump in average weekly sales, while market leader People is expected to sell an additional 750,000 copies, a whopping 50% more than usual.

This week's bombshell in that titillating celebrity saga the tabloids have named "Brangelina" had just the right measure of sex, longing and revenge to knock the King of Pop's exoneration out of the headlines. There's just one small hitch: All parties involved in the latest report deny it. Naturally, that only inspires more curiosity. Why let facts get in the way of a great story? So here we go.