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Katherine Heigl kept her mother Nancy company while she got a pedicure and afterward the two had lunch at Vermont in Los Feliz. Can you see the family resemblance? Heigl's come a long way. Ten years ago the "Grey's Anatomy" star was filming "Bride of Chucky." Incidentally, we agree with everything she said about "Knocked Up" being sexist. Katherine skipped dessert and fired up a cigarette.

Christian Bale's mother Jenny could end up with more money than she asked her wealthy son for! According to the British papers, Bale's mother visited him at his London hotel before the Dark Knight premier and asked for $200,000 and her son balked. This supposedly ignited the argument that led to the dramatic police report. Christopher and his mother haven't been close since his parents separated and he chose to live with his father in LA, while his mother stayed in England. Interestingly, his father later married one of our heroes, Gloria Steinem and died in 2003. Anyway, Jenny has been bombarded with big money offers to tell her story, so she could end up with EVEN MORE than she asked for!

At long last, Mischa Barton has brought home a boyfriend that her mother approves of! Mischa has been dating rocker Taylor Locke, guitarist for the band Rooney, and she wasn't sure how her mother Nuala would react. Mom wasn't thrilled with Mischa's last two serious boyfriends, Brandon Davis and Cisco Adler. Despite his career choice, Taylor is clean-cut, educated, and comes from a good family. This time Nuala encouraged Mischa to go for it. Keep in mind that sometimes a mother's approval takes all the fun out of a romance. Especially for girls who love bad boys.

We actually started to forgive Kanye West for his arrogance and egocentricity after his mother died so tragically. His appearance on the Grammys changed all that good will. He used the memory of his mother to call MORE attention to himself and solicit pity. First he sang that melodramatic song dedicated to her, with all the James Brown theatrics, including angels floating in the sky. But that wasn't enough. Later, when he was making a long dull acceptance speech and the music started softly playing to hurry him up, he became outraged. Holier than thou Kanye started up again with a dedication to his mother to make himself look not like a blowhard, but a devastated son. Cheap manipulation.