Julia Roberts and her kids having playdates at the park with Victoria Beckham and her brood?

It could happen.

I hear the Oscar winner and Posh Spice got along famously at the Costume Institute Gala in New York City on Monday night.

“They hit it off right away,” a source close to the new pals tells me. So much so that it wasn’t long before the two moms were sharing family pictures. “They were showing each other photos of their kids,” my source says. “They were just laughing and sharing mommy stories.”

Mrs. Becks certainly has made herself at home in Hollywood. Roberts is just the latest addition to an A-list roster of friends that already includes Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Eva Longoria Parker and Kate Beckinsale.

Julia Roberts flashed that famous smile on the set of Duplicity in NYC yesterday while her co-star Clive Owen showed off how he makes stern look hot. Clive's got no problem with gaining female fans, but last year it wasn't enough to score him a coveted spot on the PopSugar 100, which means you've got some work to do if you want to see him make the cut this time around. Julia came in at No. 8, so something tells us she has nothing to worry about in keeping a place on the list.

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The ever charming Julia Roberts wore a platinum Giorgio Armani Privé gown at the 2008 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, on Monday, May 5. Julia was a co-host at the event along with George Clooney, who was also outfitted by Giorgio Armani.
Her floor length custom designed gown had a soft draped neckline accented by an antique brooch. The gown had intricate beading on a mesh overlay. Julia, a red carpet pro, showed old Hollywood glamour with her hair swept up in a high bun and the soft bangs falling sideways on her forehead.

"I wore the dress because he made it for me," said Roberts, who gave the designer a hug. Giorgio Armani sponsored the evening with Vogue magazine.

The night's theme was "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy".

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most important art museums, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, United States.

Its Costume Institute contains more than 80,000 costumes and accessories. Due to the fragile nature of the items in the collection, the Costume Institute does not maintain a permanent installation. Instead, every year it holds two separate shows in the Met's galleries using costumes from its collection, with each show centering on a specific designer or theme. 

George Clooney was at the Costume Institute Gala last night, too - and I'm afraid it was a toss-up between showing you a picture of him with his girlfriend Sarah Larson (yes, sorry - they're still together) or with his sometime co-star Julia Roberts.

I went for Jules because, well, it's always nice to see what Ms Roberts looks like on the red carpet, isn't it? Especially because she so rarely makes an appearance on it these days. As she told a reporter last night: "This is late for me." And it was 7pm. Bless.

In just a couple of hours or so, George Clooney and Julia Roberts will join fashion legend Giorgio Armani and Vogue editrix Anna Wintour to host this year’s Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

And I got a bunch o’ gossip goodies for you about the big star-studded, fashionista-packed evening:

While I had originally heard that Madonna was going to be sitting at Wintour's table, Madge's rep says that ain't possible: "She's in Paris doing a big show tomorrow night."

Mariah Carey will also be a no-show. I'm told she canceled last week as soon she and Nick Cannon said their I do's.

Meanwhile, I hear megastars like Clooney, along with girlfriend Sarah Larson, David and Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and designer and Beatles scion Stella McCartney are staying at the Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side. And just minutes ago, I'm told, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and baby Suri, as well as Tom Ford walked into the posh hotel.

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OK, OK, Hollywood Reporter we get it. The trade paper today took 1,600 words, three pie charts, two line graphs, and a half-dozen adorable floating-head info boxes to confirm the long-suspected word on the street that are you ready? the star system is dying. Jim Carrey can't open! Brad Pitt's last film did $4 million! Julia Roberts hasn't broken $70 million since 2001! Shriek!

What's replacing them isn't that surprising either, but the mind reels nevertheless when we see it in print:

There's a sense now evident in multiple boxoffice metrics and comments uttered privately by the dozens of agents, managers and producers interviewed for this report that the interplay among consumers, celebrities and entertainment dollars is changing. The new dynamics are a challenge the next generation of up-and-comers Shia LaBeouf, Seth Rogen, Emile Hirsch and Katherine Heigl often are cited could face.
"As audiences get younger, they don't care about movie stars in the same way," Sony Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper says. "The idea of seeing a beautiful movie star on the big screen just isn't the same to them."

Yikes! Katherine Heigl will pretend she didn't hear Culpepper the man responsible for the recent no-name hit revival of Prom Night, incidentally just say that. Meanwhile, we're looking at Speed Racer's sluggish tracking and wondering if fledgling leading man Emile Hirsch isn't facing that challenge as we speak. On the bright side, his generation already has Orlando Bloom, so he doesn't have to worry about plunging into that niche. Sky's the limit, kid.

Charlie Wilson's War, Shrooms and Happy Gilmore in this week's biggest movie DVD releases.

Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts come to DVD in political drama Charlie Wilson's War this week.

Graduate helmer Mike Nichols directs West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin's taut tale of 1980s international diplomacy, based on the real-life exploits of Texan politician Charlie Wilson (Hanks).

A renowned alcoholic and womaniser, Congressman Wilson nonetheless played an integral role in the fall of the Soviet Union, using his contacts within the defence department to help arm Soviet-occupied Afghanistan after an initially stilted US response.

With Hanks on his most affable form in years, Seymour Hoffman again proving he's possibly the greatest actor of his generation as CIA agent Gus Avrakatos and Roberts emerging from the cringeworthy horror of Ocean's Twelve with one of her strongest-ever performances, it's a consistently engaging, continually relevant depiction of political decisions that irrevocably changed the world.

Pretty woman Julia Roberts revealed to media queen Oprah Winfrey that she never wears deodorant. Roberts, who in 1999 cause a media blitz when pictures of her with unshaven armpits were circulated doesn’t see the need for anything other than soap and water. The 40-year old mom of three told Winfrey, “I don’t actually use deodorant. I don’t like to share that with a lot of people, but it’s just never been my thing.” She also said that she freshens up the good old fashioned way – soap and water.

Roberts became America’s darling after starring in the 1990 movie Pretty Woman opposite Richard Gere.

Julia Roberts arrives at the opening night of The Country Girl at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in NYC on Sunday.

The Broadway production of The Country Girl is directed by Mike Nichols and stars Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher.

Written in 1950, the story is about an alcoholic has-been actor, Frank Elgin (Morgan Freeman), who gets a shot at a comeback by an ambitious director, Bernie Dodd (Peter Gallagher).

‘Pretty Woman' actress Julia Roberts admits she doesn't use underarm hygiene products and relies on old-fashioned soap and water to keep her armpits fresh.

Speaking to US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, she said: "I don't actually use deodorant. I don't like to share that with a lot of people, but it's just never been my thing."

Roberts, 40, previously caused an armpit uproar in 1999 after she turned up to the UK premiere of romantic comedy ‘Notting Hill' with hair poking out of the sleeves of her dress.

The mother-of-three, who insists she freshens up at midday when she is working, couldn't understand the furore over her hairy armpits at the time.

She said: "You'd think it was like I had a chinchilla under there, the way the world responded."