Sideshow: Brinkley and Cook strike a deal

The hideous divorce battle between

Christie Brinkley

and

Peter Cook

appears to be over.

E!Online reports that lawyers for both sides, who had last faced off Wednesday at a Long Island, N.Y., courthouse, emerged with a deal at 6:15 yesterday morning after pulling an all-nighter.

Brinkley comes out ahead: She will keep full custody of the kids,

Jack

, 13, and

Sailor

, 10,

and

she gets to keep the 18 properties in the Hamptons that were under dispute. Cook will be paid a $2.1 mil settlement, and will have visitation rights with the children.

The couple split up two years ago when the model found out that Cook, an architect, was carrying on with his assistant

Diana Bianchi

, now 21 but then a teen.

In a strange admission that has literary critics in Britain scratching their heads, British Prime Minister

Gordon Brown

compares himself to Heathcliff, the surly antihero of

Emily Bronte

's

Wuthering Heights

. The comparison was suggested by

Gloria di Piero

, who interviewed Gordon for the New Statesman.

"Absolutely correct," Brown quipped. "Well, maybe an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff."

It seems likely that Mr. Brown was actually thinking of the character as portrayed by

Laurence Olivier

in the 1939 film adaptation. In the film, Heathcliff is a Romantic hero, a brooding lover and a tortured poetic soul.

Bronte's character ain't very cute. A foundling who was abused by his adoptive family, he is a ruthless, sadistic man who enjoys killing defenseless animals and spends his entire life consumed by vengeance. He ends up a broken, tormented, haunted wreck.

Just how much do

Brangelina

loathe that awful media-imposed moniker

Brangelina

, even though said moniker -

Brangelina

- signifies the beauty that is their bond?

TMZ.com reports that

Angelina Jolie

and

Brad Pitt

will sell exclusive rights to the first baby pics of

the Brangelina Twins

on the condition that the lucky mag not use that dread moniker.

Bidding is reportedly at

$16 million

- $13 mil more than

Matthew McConaughey

is getting for his baby,

Levi Alves McConaughey

. But do not fret: All monies will be donated to charity.

Even as Angelina remains in seclusion in a hospital in Nice, France, awaiting the birth of her kids, the Hanson Brothers'

Isaac Hanson

and wife

Nikki

have welcomed the arrival of their second son,

James Monroe Hanson

. The baby weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces, and will go by his middle name, just like his 1-year-old bro,

Clark Everett Hanson

.

Isaac, 27, gushed, "two little boys is going to be twice the fun."

Unlike Angelina, who finds pregnancy to be an aphrodisiac,

Jessica Alba

says she "never felt less sexy" when she was pregnant with her baby girl,

Honor Marie

. In a chat with the Brit edition of Cosmo, Jess said, "I wouldn't have changed it for the world . . . but I wanted to get rid of all the weight."

Jess, who confessed she always had dated the wrong kind of guy, said she was totally lucky to meet her baby's daddy,

Cash Warren

: "I never thought I'd find a man before 30, let alone marry him and have his baby."

Guy Ritchie

has signed

Robert Downey Jr.

to play famed Brit sleuth Sherlock Holmes in the appropriately titled

Sherlock Holmes

. The flick will portray a comic-book version of

Arthur Conan Doyle

's character.

There's a second Holmes pic in the work, with

Sacha Baron Cohen

as Holmes and

Will Ferrell

as Dr. Watson.

People has revealed that

Uma Thurman

's ex-husband

Ethan Hawke

, 37, married his pregnant gf,

Ryan Shawhughes

, three weeks ago.

Ryan, who is carrying a girl, formerly served as nanny to Uma and Ethan's two children. Uma recently announced she had become engaged to Swiss multimillionaire

Arpad "Arki" Busson

.

"We feel immensely blessed and grateful to be given this beautiful baby girl."

So say

Nicole Kidman

, 41, and

Keith Urban

, 40, whose baby girl,

Sunday Rose Kidman Urban

, today turns 5

days

old.

"She's an absolute delight," the parents say in an exclusive statement to People.