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Sideshow | It seems McCartney prefers blondes

Brunettes, take note: We've been dissed again by the cute Beatle - or so we would be led to believe by those reliable gossip sources, TMZ.com and Britain's News of the World. TMZ.com posted yesterday a report from the other side of the pond saying that smack dab in the middle of his nasty divorce from Heather Mills, his last blond bride, Paul McCartney recently had a rendezvous with a woman TMZ opines looks just like her - actress Rosanna Arquette.

Brunettes, take note: We've been dissed again by the cute Beatle - or so we would be led to believe by those reliable gossip sources, TMZ.com and Britain's News of the World. TMZ.com posted yesterday a report from the other side of the pond saying that smack dab in the middle of his nasty divorce from

Heather Mills

, his last blond bride,

Paul McCartney

recently had a rendezvous with a woman TMZ opines looks just like her - actress

Rosanna Arquette

.

According to the News of the World, the pair recently took a romantic stroll through London and even shared a tender kiss goodbye, TMZ reports. A witness told the newspaper, "It was all cloak-and-dagger stuff, but Paul couldn't resist a quick cuddle. Rosanna was beaming after that." This despite the fact that Sir Paul has been linked of late to multimillionairess

Nancy Shevell

(she appears to have darker locks, at least in some photos).

Meanwhile, the New York Post's Page Six reported yesterday that Ms. Mills, the recently irate soon-to-be-former Mrs. McCartney, flew to Monaco for an art exhibit's opening with

David Shilling

, a former milliner who is now a big-time British sculptor. "They looked chummy, and he only had eyes for her," a source told the Post, which noted that Shilling introduced Mills to

Prince Albert

. He's blondish, too, like his beloved mother, Philadelphia's own

Grace Kelly

, as we recall.

At the box office

The spell of

Enchanted

apparently was tough to resist over the Thanksgiving holiday: Disney's fairy-tale romance debuted in the No. 1 box-office spot, taking in $35.3 million over the weekend and $50.05 million since it opened Wednesday, according to studio estimates released yesterday, the Associated Press reports.

Opening in the No. 2 spot was

This Christmas

, which earned $18.6 million for the weekend and $27.1 million since Wednesday. Rounding out the weekend's Top Five were

Beowulf

($16.2 million),

Hitman

($13 million) and

Bee Movie

($12 million).

Nuptials of steel

People.com reports that

Superman Returns

star

Brandon Routh

married actress

Courtney Ford

Saturday in Santa Barbara, Calif. Routh, 28, proposed to Ford, 29, in England, during last summer's

Superman

press tour.

Legal wrangle

A former beverage manager at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas has sued

Dennis Rodman

, claiming the ex-NBA star assaulted her last year by rubbing against her body and slapping her on the buttocks. In a federal lawsuit filed last week,

Sara Robinson

also accuses her former employer of retaliating against her after she complained about the behavior. Rodman spokeswoman

Shannon Barr

declined to comment, and Hard Rock spokeswoman Dorian Cantrell did not return phone calls Saturday, the AP says.

Cameo appearance

Celebrity do-gooders

Bono

and

The Edge

showed up unannounced and played warm-up act Friday in London at a fund-raiser for Mencap, a charity that campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with learning disabilities. The

U2

duo, opening before 250 people for

Biffy Clyro

, a Scottish rock group, played four songs for the stunned-but-in-a-good-way crowd.

Doing the split

Reality TV stardom seems to have claimed another marriage (you haven't forgotten about

Jessica Simpson

and

Nick Lachey

already, have you?)

Linda Hogan

has filed for divorce from her wrestler husband,

Hulk Hogan

, AP reports.

Hulk, whose real name is

Terry Bollea

, told the St. Petersburg Times he had no idea his wife had filed for divorce. He was told by a reporter that Pinellas County, Fla., court records showed paperwork was submitted Tuesday. The couple have been starring in the VH1 reality series

Hogan Knows Best

with their children, Brooke and Nick.