Jamie Foxx needs no help getting dressed for trial — the actor has apparently reached a settlement with a former stylist who sued him. Documents filed Wednesday in Los Angeles show that attorneys for stylist Stacy Young and Foxx have reached an undisclosed agreement. Young helped Foxx primp for the 2006 BET Awards and a press junket for the film “Miami Vice.”

Her lawsuit claimed that she was never paid for the work or her costs.

Foxx’s attorneys denied the claims, saying Universal Studios, not Foxx, hired Young for the “Miami Vice” work.

Young’s attorney says their camp is “pleased” about the settlement, but declined to offer details. Foxx’s attorney did not respond to phone and e-mail messages left Thursday.

“Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” has no sex and not much of a city.

But this G-rated movie adventure is shaping up as Hollywood’s next serious bid for female viewers, some of whom showed their power by pushing the R-rated comedy “Sex and the City” to surprisingly strong first-weekend ticket sales of more than $57 million two weeks ago.

At first glance, the films have little in common, apart from their skew toward the female.

“Sex” runs hot, while “Kit” — scheduled for wide release on July 2, the same day as “Hancock,” starring Will Smith — does not. Fans of the fictional Manhattan writer Carrie Bradshaw, the heroine of “Sex and the City,” are often over 40. Ms. Kittredge, an aspiring reporter based on Mattel’s incredibly popular American Girl doll of the same name, mostly appeals to girls between 7 and 12.

Yet the films have a certain kinship. Each was made by a studio — “Kit” by Picturehouse, “Sex” by New Line Cinema — that was only weeks ago marked for elimination by the same corporate parent, Time Warner Inc.

And “Kit” has a shot at attracting an intense niche audience of the sort that boosted “Sex” at a time of year that has become better known for fantasies like the “Spider-Man” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, with their broad demographic appeal.

“I’m scared out of my mind,” said Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, a producer of “Kit Kittredge,” speaking by telephone last week. She was referring to an unconventional decision by Picturehouse executives to open this relatively small film in around 1,800 theaters, putting it in competition with potential blockbusters like “Hancock,” from Sony Pictures, and “Wall-E,” from the Walt Disney Company’s Pixar Animation Studios.

“Kit,” which cost about $10 million to produce, stars Abigail Breslin (“Little Miss Sunshine”) and features an ensemble that mingles unknown child actors with adult pros like Julia Ormond, Stanley Tucci, Chris O’Donnell and Joan Cusack. Set in 1934, it tells the story of a Cincinnati girl who is trying to get the local newspaper to take her seriously as a reporter, even as her family and just about everyone else struggles with the Great Depression.

(Julia Roberts, a client of Ms. Goldsmith-Thomas when she was a talent agent, is an executive producer of “Kit.” The two were among those with producing credits on earlier television movies based on three other American Girls: Molly, Felicity and Samantha.)

That quite so innocent an enterprise should be in a position to challenge much racier movies with much higher budgets has much to do with the promotional power of American Girl, which, like HBO’s long-running “Sex and the City” series, is helping to prime loyal fans for a first film based on the brand.

In the toy world, American Girl’s characters — “they never refer to them as ‘dolls,’ ” Bob Berney, the president of Picturehouse, said in an interview last week — are unusual in that they come with detailed story lines, from various eras, delivered in books that accompany each figure.

Kit Kittredge, spunky and a bit confused by the economic crunch around her, has been the central character in a half-dozen titles that have contributed to the sale of some 120 million books since the company was founded in 1986, said Ellen Brothers, American Girl’s president and a producer of the film.

“We approve all the marketing,” Ms. Brothers said, describing her company’s close involvement with the making and selling of the movie. And American Girl has been using its considerable reach to promote what it is calling “Kit’s Big-Screen Debut.”

The company’s mail-order catalog, a primary engine for sales, has a blurb promoting the movie on its May cover. Cities with American Girl retail outlets — New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and suburban Atlanta — will get to see the movie early, beginning on June 20. That first round is being helped along on the Web with Kit’s movie blog and, at the Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles, with the giveaway of “Kit’s Home on Abbott Place,” an elaborate playhouse built by Pardee Homes as part of a benefit for the homeless.

Last Saturday mothers and daughters trooped through the siding- and stone-veneered structure to admire it, and to donate $5 for “opportunity tickets” — never say “raffle” — that buy a shot at taking it home. “ ‘Win Me?’ ” one mother gasped, reading a sign outside, “Oh, my God!”

Other plans include movie-night dinners at the in-store American Girl cafes, which begin to sound, at least a little, like the viewing parties that pushed “Sex and the City” over the top during its May 30 opening weekend.

Allie Mayer, a publicist for movietickets.com, said the service had seen “steady activity” since it began selling tickets for the early engagement last month.

Mr. Berney said a box-office success would be “a little bittersweet”: His company will remain intact only long enough to release its existing films, including “Kit,” “Mongol” and “The Women” (scheduled for fall). To date, the studio’s biggest box-office hit has been “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which took in $37.6 million at the domestic box office in 2006.

If “Kit” works, its success would owe something not just to the promotions, but also to the straight-shooting approach of a director, Patricia Rozema, whose earlier work includes “Mansfield Park” (1999) for Miramax.

“I don’t think you talk down to children when you make a movie for them,” Ms. Rozema said. She spoke in a telephone interview about Kit’s rather intricate on-screen problem, which include doubts about a father, played by Mr. O’Donnell, who leaves home in search of work, and no small difficulties with a newspaper editor played by Wallace Shawn.

Still, Kit preserves her G-rated innocence, something Ms. Rozema said had become too rare, even in films aimed at the young. (“Bratz: The Movie,” which was based on a doll line and took in about $10 million for Lionsgate last summer, was rated PG.)

“They don’t need to be rattled,” she said. “They’re rattled enough.”

Those who fetch $130 for a barrel of oil can call the tune these days. And it seems the tune is becoming so catchy that even Madonna, the original Material Girl, might be singing soon in this rich Gulf city-state.

Flush with oil dollars, Dubai is no longer satisfied with being just a business, tourist and sports mecca. It’s trying to boost its prestige further by pouring money into entertainment to lure the music industry’s priciest stars.

Santana’s February concert in Dubai was sold out. Last week, Jon Bon Jovi performed in Abu Dhabi, the Emirates’ capital just a short ride down the coast.

Justin Timberlake, Elton John, Pink, Aerosmith, Destiny’s Child and the Gypsy Kings have all entertained Western, Asian and Arab expatriates in the last few months in this string of seven semiautonomous states in the Persian Gulf. Music fans regularly fly in from Cairo, Beirut and elsewhere across the Middle East to hear their idols.

But a Madonna concert — if it happens — would take the musical glitz to a new level.

Earlier this month, the Dubai-based Gulf News daily and the tabloid 7 Days reported that the pop diva would come to Dubai this year on a tour organized by a Los Angeles-based events company, Live Nation, to promote her new album, “Hard Candy.”

Madonna might perform twice, the newspapers reported, citing event organizers familiar with the plans — at a public concert and at a private party, a first in her decades-long career. The price tag for the performances: more than $20 million, the papers said.

So far, however, Madonna’s publicists are publicly staying mum.

Nasim Tabatabaei, marketing and public relations manager for Live Nation Middle East, based in Dubai, said Madonna was still putting her tour together.

“She had offers from everywhere, and that could include the Emirates,” Tabatabaei told The Associated Press.

The mania over the possible Madonna concert is a reflection of the fact that the Emirates have seen “a huge jump in events here, both in the number of people attending concerts and in the significance of artists performing,” said Thomas Ovesen, managing director of Middle East AEG Live, the regional arm of an international company that produces live events worldwide.

The music boom fits in with the Dubai ruler’s ambitious plans to make the city attractive for the rich and famous, and to fuel mass tourism. Glitzy top-level sports, like March’s Dubai Tennis Championship, are another factor.

In terms of the concert scene, Dubai has people and firms that can pay top dollar “even though the event might not be commercially viable,” Ovesen said.

Artists who perform in Dubai expect to earn “twice as much” as they do in the United States or Europe, Ovesen said. He refused to disclose how much Bon Jovi walked away with after his performance for a crowd of 17,000 in Abu Dhabi. His company helped organize the concert in one of the most expensive hotels ever built, The Emirates Palace.

Not everyone is happy about the high production costs.

It’s “good that Dubai is on the radar screen of the world’s major promoters,” said Abdullatif al-Sayegh, chief executive of Arab Media Group, which along with Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks International owns MTV Arabia.

But it’s “not so good that we are paying twice or three times as much” for concerts as do promoters in the United States and Europe, he said.

Yet, corporate sponsors are only too eager to throw their money behind music and sports heavyweights to raise their company profiles. Paul Idznik, Barclays’ chief operating officer, said his bank invested $9 million to sponsor the tennis championship the past three years.

An additional attraction for famous visitors and artists is the privacy in Dubai — filled with gated communities and a mostly nonintrusive local press.

“Celebrities come, relax, dine, party and shop without the media ever finding out they were even here,” al-Sayegh said. “That’s a great feeling for them and for us.”

Traci Bingham was at Melanie Segal’s Hollywood Platinum Lounge Los Angeles. She was beautiful in her spaghetti top and jeans. Traci’s last famous celebrity appearance was on The Surreal Life: Fame Games” show. The contestants started in teams and as the weeks wore down, they were eliminated and played as individuals. Traci managed to endure and outsmart all her competitors and took home the prize of $100,000. Now, she can pick and choose her assignments, for a short while at least, until her money runs out.

Accompanied by Daddy Spears, Hollywood hopeful Britney Spears made an appearance at Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier’s 50th birthday party in Los Angeles Friday.

An alcohol-free Brit is said to have smoked cigarettes while hanging out with girlfriends in a roped-off VIP area for an hour before heading home with Daddy Spears in tow.

Amazing…  A beachside retreat to Cabos San Lucas, daily trips to Bally Fitness, Adnan nowhere in sight and the girl still looks like a bloated Daytona Beach stripper working the Tuesday brunch shift.  t

Britney Spears has been ordered to pay Kevin Federline’s $375,000 legal bills. Last week, Britney’s lawyer Stacy Phillips, complained that Kevin’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, was over-charging him and Britney should pay half but not all of her ex-husband’s legal bills. Especially since we all know that he has enough money to do so.

However, Los Angeles Court Commissioner Scott Gordon has called the legal billing “reasonable,” in large part because “the actions of [Spears] caused the great majority of litigation.”

Federline had previously declared in court papers made public last year that he had no steady income, while Spears takes in more than 700,000 dollars a month.

According to the income and needs, the family courts have the power to order one party to pay for the other’s fees.

I think that this is a bunch of croc. Kevin is one sly snake though for being able to get his ex-wife to pay for his shit still.  I think that he is a lot smarter than we think and has been playing us from the beginning. If he really doesn’t have any money, which he does, he needs to start selling some of the things that Brit bought for him when they were together. Kevin Federline needs to start being a man and start taking responsibility for his own actions.

Nothing against the 818, says the star of TV’s “Ugly Betty,” who grew up in Woodland Hills and attended El Camino Real High School, but she had plans.

“The Valley reminds me of my childhood,” says Ferrera, who appears in the just-released film “Under the Same Moon.”

“I had a really rough time through high school. I don’t think I liked myself very much. High school is a very hard place to like yourself. It’s easier for some people, but it wasn’t very easy for me.”

Ferrera chalks up her troublesome high-school years, in part, to a rare single-mindedness of purpose about who she was and what she wanted to do.

Simply put, long before she entered her teens, Ferrera knew she wanted to go to college and she wanted to act, not necessarily in that order. When people asked about her backup plans, Ferrera would shake her head.

“I’m very much in awe of how young children have such bravery to dream so big. They just don’t question it,” she says. “I never questioned it. I used to lie in bed and say, `I don’t know how I’m going to get there. I just know I’m going to.’ I was, like, 10 and thinking, `What is taking so long? Why has my life not started?’ ”

Times have indeed changed. The woman who utters these words from the terrace of a Beverly Hills hotel is a USC graduate with a degree in international relations. She’s also an Emmy, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award winner. In its two seasons, the telenovela-inspired sitcom “Ugly Betty” has become something of an international phenomenon.

Ferrera turns 24 in April, and she’s still asking questions. The last two years have been prosperous and fulfilling, and they have also made the actress look inward.

“There is no possible way someone standing on the outside could know what I’ve been through in my life,” says Ferrera. “Sure, it looks like a Cinderella ball. It’s an amazing show, and the fame and the awards and recognition, but those are just the side effects of what, for me, is truly fulfilling. I work really hard for something I’m really proud of.

“There’s kind of a calm about it for me,” she continues. “There are so many ways to become frightened of your own success. It’s a big learning lesson in questioning why do I do this and what is it for? And what do I want out of it?”

She is equally even-keeled when the topic of being a role model is broached. “Ugly Betty” has been embraced by the gay community and Latinos alike. Women - and their young daughters - have lauded the notion of a TV heroine who isn’t a size 0 and who doesn’t have the snappiest taste in fashion.

Ferrera, though, has stopped reading message boards and blog notices. She’s grateful and gracious to fans who embrace underdog Betty’s struggle as their own, but there’s a limit to how much of a crusader Ferrera is willing to be.

“I don’t make every decision in my life based on, `Am I doing what’s right for the Latino community? Am I doing what’s right for young women everywhere? Am I doing what’s right for curvy girls in Hollywood?’ I don’t want to be responsible for that,” she says. “I want to do what’s right for me, and I think that’s what everyone should do.”

Outside of “Betty,” Ferrera has kept plenty busy. In addition to “Under the Same Moon,” she appears in the just released Spanish-language hostage drama “Toward the Darkness,” which she also produced and which began as a friend’s short film while Ferrera was at USC.

Last summer, she filmed the sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” based on the Ann Brashares novels, with fellow “Pants” alums Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively. She also spent part of the summer campaigning for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.

No, she doesn’t expect voters will blindly follow Betty Suarez to the polls, but as Ferrera notes, “I’m lucky enough that when I talk, maybe a few cameras will follow me.”

“I’ve done the work and educated myself, and I’ve been very active in this election because I think everyone should be,” she says. “If cameras weren’t following me, I’d probably still be involved in this election. Nobody would care, but I would still be trying to do what I could to bring attention to the candidate I believe in.”

She recently went back to the set of “Ugly Betty,” which returns to ABC on April 24. In the first original episode since the conclusion of the Writers Guild of America strike, misfit fashion magazine secretary Betty Suarez will celebrate a birthday.

“I don’t really know what else is going on in Betty’s life,” Ferrera says. “That’s one of the reasons I’m anxious to get back.”

Ferrera basically has a cameo in “Under the Same Moon,” playing a non-Spanish-speaking American who tries to earn money for her brother’s college tuition by smuggling Mexican babies over the U.S. border. Ferrera’s character, Marta, ends up transporting 9-year-old Carlitos (played by Adrian Alonso), whose quest to track down his mother in Los Angeles is at the heart of the film.

Ferrera received the script when it was titled “Immigrant Boy.” Put off by the title, she tried - unsuccessfully - to use the script as a sleep aid.

“I thought I’d be asleep by page 4. It usually works,” she recalls. “Of course, at 2 a.m., I’m on the last page, crying. I just really connected to it on a very human level. I just thought it was a perfect way to get a human connection to what immigration is all about.

“Yes, it’s deemed a crime and it’s illegal,” she adds, “but to call this 9-year-old boy who wants to be with his mother a criminal, something about that seems not complete.”

She filmed her part in May 2006, shortly after the premiere of the “Ugly Betty” pilot. Ferrera was far less well-known then, although “Same Moon” director Patricia Riggen knew the actress’ work from her 2002 debut film, “Real Women Have Curves.”

“Basically, I felt that she was the only one I could have who would represent that generation of Latinos,” says Riggen.

“In the movie, the characters show us that the struggle doesn’t end for Latinos when they get a passport. (Ferrera’s) character was doing something not good for a good reason, which makes her very human.”

Riggen sees Ferrera as “one of those actors that are going to always do challenging stuff and not stay with easy or sweet roles.”

Ferrera agrees.

“There is so much growth in my work that needs to be done,” she says. “I need to live more so I have more to bring to my life.”

It appears that Jay-Z and Beyonce have finally tied the knot.

There was a swirl of activity Friday at the rap mogul’s Tribeca apartment. Delivery trucks funneled in and out of the building, dropping off silver candelabras and white flowers. A white tent was set up on the roof, and stars including Beyonce’s former Destiny’s Child bandmates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, along with Gwyneth Paltrow, were spotted arriving.

Mary J. Blige confirmed the nuptials to thousands of cheering hip-hop fans in North Carolina on Saturday.

“Congratulations to my man, Jay-Z, and my girl, B,” Blige told the crowd, dedicating her song “You’re All I Need” to the couple.

Rumors say the couple plan a coming-out party this week. On Friday, a swarm of media camped outside the building was in a state of frenzy, snapping and shouting at any sport-utility vehicle that drove down the cobblestone street.

The Web sites of celebrity magazines People and Us Weekly reported the couple married and threw a small but lavish party at the apartment Friday, citing unnamed sources who are friends of the pair. The Web sites reported their families attended the party.

The couple, who have apparently been dating for six years, have never publicly acknowledged they are together. Knowles, 26, and Jay-Z, 38, whose real name is Shawn Carter, have collaborated on the songs “03 Bonnie and Clyde” and “Crazy in Love.”

It’s been a big week for the hip-hop mogul. On Thursday, concert promoter Live Nation Inc. said it was in talks with Jay-Z over a potential business deal. The Los Angeles-based company stopped short of confirming published reports that the deal would give Live Nation a stake in virtually every aspect of Jay-Z’s career and land him a potential windfall in excess of $100 million.

A person familiar with the negotiations between Live Nation and Jay-Z told the Associated Press that the proposed 10-year deal was worth about $150 million and would cover three albums.

It’s been reported that Tony Romo had hard weekend of partying in Chicago, but Jessica Simpson was nowhere to be found! As it turns out, Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo have broken up! We don’t know what caused the split between the couple, but it looks like this break up is the real deal – and less than 6 months after their first date.

In Chicago, a friend said of Tony and Jessica’s relationship:

“They’re broken up. He told us they broke up and that was that. We’re guys so we didn’t talk about it much.”

After leaving the bar, the guys hit the Manor nightclub. While there, Tony and the crew were in the VIP section and coaxed girls to hang out with them. He was surrounded by girls, including one blonde in particular he spent a lot of time talking to. A source said, “He zeroed in on one blonde all night. That blonde wasn’t Jessica Simpson.” Jessica was spotted (below) in Los Angeles over the weekend — and by her facial expressions you can tell she doesn’t look the same.

Jessica Simpson in LA Post-Breakup: