Brad Pitt was in old Montreal shooting scenes for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” It feels like they’ve been shooting this for years. The film is about a 50-year-old man who ages backwards. Cate Blanchett also stars. Shooting started last year in New Orleans.

He may be stuck working in Montreal while his kiddies and Angie are back in Prague, but it sounds like the family had a great time over the weekend celebrating Shiloh’s birthday.

A week before her May 26th car accident and subsequent DUI arrest, sources are saying that Lindsay Lohan attempted suicide at least twice. One of those times she sheltered herself in the bathroom with a knife screaming she “just wanted to end it all.” Star Magazine reports:

She grabbed a knife and started cutting at her wrists. A friend made her stop and went around looking for sharp objects. Lindsay ran into the bathroom with a bottle of Advil.” Crying, “Leave me alone! I just want to die!” Lindsay locked herself in the bathroom and threatened to swallow the entire bottle, says the source. Finally, someone broke down the door and saved the distraught actress from herself!”…According to a source, Lindsay has been partying hard for weeks. She recently attended the Coachella musical festival, where she was drinking vodka, snorting cocaine and taking downers to sleep, says a source. “Lindsay’s on a reckless road right now,” declares another friend. “We’re all afraid she’s going to end up dead soon.”

I know a girl who did the bottle of Advil (or was it Aspirin??) thing. She’s alive and kicking but lost most of the hearing in one of her ears….

One day after his publicly asking to be traded, and criticizing the Lakers franchise (SN reported), Lakers’ Kobe Bryant has changed his mind. “I don’t want to go anywhere, this is my team. I love it here.”

The change of heart comes after “an emotional conversation” with coach Phil Jackson. Shortly after Bryant’s initial outburst on ESPN radio, Lakers boss Jerry Buss denied having heard anything about Bryant’s wishes.

Buss, who has not commented on Bryant’s turnaround, said then: “We have made it very clear that we are building our team around Kobe and that we intend for him to be a Laker his entire career. We will speak directly to Kobe…”