Eva Longoria Gets Some Canoodle Time With Tony Parker

"Desperate Housewives" babe Eva Longoria is finally getting some downtime to just canoodle with her man, superstar basketballer Tony Parker.

Canoodle Time Tony Parker

Longoria has had quite a busy time since "DH" wrapped for the season, what with producing and hosting the 2006 NCLR Alma Awards -- which just aired last week -- then a whirlwind trip to Cannes mid-May, where she was feted and toasted and invited to hang out on Harvey Weinstein's yacht.
 
Parker wasn't able to accompany his sweetie to Cannes, but they're back together now in San Antonio, where they are working on their plans to build a house together in the city that's just 150 miles from Longoria's hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas. Unless the petite lovely gets an offer she just can't refuse, the couple's plans are to spend the rest of her hiatus getting in some romantic tropical traveling. Aaaah! Ain't love grand for the rich and famous?
 
WOMAN ON THE MOVE:

In a matter of months, she was the secret terrorist who poisoned her son's girlfriend on "24," the distraught mother of a stabbing victim in a memorable "ER" performance, and put in big-screen time in "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "American Dreamz." And now, Shohreh Aghdashloo has a movie coming out at week's end ("The Lake House," with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves), another in production ("Nativity"), and a new series for the fall (John Wells' "Smith").
 
"It's a very fast lane -- amazing. I never thought it would be possible," admits the actress, who was a star in her native Iran before leaving the country in 1978. "I never thought of myself as the woman next door. What are you going to do with this accent and rich colors and this black hair? But I'm working in so many good projects. I haven't stopped since the Oscar nomination in 2004," she says, referring to her "The House of Sand and Fog" nod. 
 
Her method of achievement: "I always make a scenario for myself in real life, for my future, and then act accordingly … Now the media has been nice to me, and the industry has accepted me as one of their own."
 
Shohreh's returned to Morocco to complete the "Nativity" feature in which she plays the biblical Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. For that part, "I gained 10 pounds, thank God. I'm supposed to be pregnant, and I needed the weight." But she'll have to be slim and chic to play a criminal mastermind in "Smith" -- going into production one week after the movie wraps. Shohreh thinks she'll make it. She laughs, "The method actors are the suffering ones. We have to get into the character."
 
MEN WILL BE BOYS:

"It was like every boy's fantasy," says Brian Tee of getting to experience the sport phenomenon of drift racing in Tokyo prior to filming "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift," which opens June 16 with Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan and Bow Wow.
 
"Drift racing became a street-racing style in Japan about 15 years ago and is now a professional circuit," explains Tee, who plays the film's villain, D.K., the Drift King. "These kids go up and down these hills and skid within these turns. It's more about balance and control than power and speed like with drag racing." To get a feel of what drift racing was like, he says, "They gave us the keys to the car and had us burn rubber all day long. It was one of my happiest days ever."
 
Of course, he says, the real car racing sequences were left up to the stunt guys. "What they do is completely amazing. The action sequences will blow your mind." He did, however, do his own fight scenes. "I'm not going to lie and say I'm like this martial artist extraordinaire," he says. "The only martial art I know is Fake Fu, I can fake the hell out of it. But what Lucas and I did was basically street fighting -- and I did do that when I was younger."
 
MEET THE CONTROVERSY:

"Meet the Faith" host/co-exec producer Carlos Watson reports the BET show will tackle one of its most controversial topics Sunday (June 18) -- Rev. Cecil Murray's upcoming feature film, "Color of the Cross" "It's an independent film that portrays Jesus as black and claims that part of the reason for his crucifixion was a racial one," he explains. Also among the hot-button issues on the agenda is "The question of black adoption. There's a real crisis going on in terms of black orphans in this country, who represent almost half the system. Why aren't blacks adopting black kids? Why are American whites going overseas to adopt? Canadians are coming down in the thousands and adopting black kids. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"