The Brangelina babies

BY VICKI HYMAN
Star-Ledger Staff

PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S website whets the public's appetite for the babies Brangelina with a portrait of 3-week-old Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon with proud parents, but reserves the remainder of the reported $14 million photo spread for its print edition, which is expected to be a big seller, both in advertising and circulation. (Glad to see that strategy is working for some media outlets.)

The 19-page "family album" includes shots of the other Brangelina progeny, including a picture of 2-year-old Shiloh (herself a $4 million baby) holding her little sister. (And it appears that People has held up its part of the bargain by not calling Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt by their tabloid moniker. We are under no such obligation. Brangelina. Brangelina. Brangelina.)
The pictures were shot at the sprawling Provençal estate where the couple has temporarily settled. "It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time," Jolie tells the magazine. Shiloh and Zahara, the couple's 3-year-old, are helping out by picking out their clothes and helping to change and hold them. "It's sweet," she says. "They are little mommies."

Still not talking

Mary-Kate Olsen has reportedly requested immunity from prosecution from federal investigators still seeking answers in the Heath Ledger death probe, the New York Post reports.

The death of "The Dark Knight" actor has been ruled an accidental overdose of prescription medication, and while most of the meds were obtained legally, investigators still don't know how Ledger got his hands on the powerful painkiller OxyContin, also found in his system.

The masseuse who found Ledger's body in his SoHo apartment also worked for Olsen, and she was the first person the masseuse called after she made the discovery. Olsen sent her bodyguards over, and they arrived at the same time as the paramedics.

But Olsen's lawyer has refused to let the former "Full House" star speak to investigators for with the Drug Enforcement Administration, saying she needs immunity to talk, sources tell the Post. The lawyer refused to comment to the Post.

Not the big white piano

Pop singer George Michael, who owns the piano on which John Lennon wrote "Imagine," plans to let some of the world's best songwriters have a crack at it, he tells the Miami Herald.

Michael played the piano himself on his 2004 album, "Patience," and wrote the title track on it, but he says he was a little scared to use it: "Well, I was just afraid to make any cigarette burns on it because then people would confuse mine with his."

The piano itself isn't the immaculate grand piano featured in the video of the song, he explains. "I mean, it's a funny-looking thing -- it's the cheapest-looking piano you've ever seen. I wasn't expecting the big white one -- I knew it wasn't the big white one, but I didn't expect something you'd get in a very, very underfunded school."

Celebrity rap sheet

--A witness to Friday's dust-up between Nikki Blonsky of "Hairspray" and onetime "America's Next Top Model" contestant Bianca Golden at a Caribbean airport says someone from Golden's contingent started the melee that landed the lot of them in jail, according to a video posted on TMZ.com. In the video, Blonsky's mother is heard saying the young actress was "just sitting there" when someone punched her in the head. Blonsky and Golden were both released from jail on Friday, Blonsky wearing a neck brace, but her father will have to stay in jail until Aug. 8.

--British rocker and convicted pedophile Gary Glitter will likely be deported to England upon his release from a Vietnamese prison this month. Child advocates in the U.K. are petitioning the government to monitor his movements once home and prevent him from taking "sex holidays" abroad, the Daily Mirror reports. Glitter has served two years for obscene acts with two girls, then aged 10 and 11.