Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany have put their TriBeCa penthouse on the market, according to the real estate blog Curbed. The asking price is $8.495 million for the swanky penthouse, located at at 288 West St. The couple bought the 4,000-square-foot apartment — boasting a 45-foot-wide living room and Hudson River views — for $6.995 million in 2008, according to the site. Connelly was one of the celebrities who vocally campaigned against the Spring Street Sanitation Garage in 2010, alongside John Slattery of “Mad Men” and James Gandolfini of “The Sopranos.” Appeals from high-profile residents ultimately failed, and the city intends to go ahead with the project, located at the corner of Spring and West streets — a short stroll from Connelly’s penthouse. The Spring Street project has been controversial and mature trees have already been cleared to make way for it. The full-floor loft has a library, glass-enclosed sunroom and 1,380 square feet of private outdoor roof space, according to the listing with Douglas Elliman. It’s part of a 14 unit co-op, built in 1890 and converted in 1984.

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A new official prequel comic book is being written for David Bowie movie Labyrinth. Comic publisher Archaia revealed that the new “tragic” story will be set before the events of the 1986 film directed by Muppets creator Jim Henson, but will be “true to the spirit of the original”, which also starred Jennifer Connelly. Editor-in-chief Stephen Christy told Entertainment Weekly: “We can say it’s a prequel. It’s the story of how Jareth is brought into the Labyrinth for the first time. So, it doesn’t deal with Sarah, it doesn’t deal with Toby or anything like that. “It’s a very tragic story that is the opposite of Sarah’s, which has triumph at the end. It’s a prequel, so we know what happens in the movie.” Illustrator Brian Froud, who worked on Labyrinth and 1982 Henson movie The Dark Crystal, will helm “all the character designs and all the covers and conceptualising and everything”, Christy confirmed. Of the possible inclusion of Bowie material in the new comic, Christy added: “I want to do songs where they’re songs being sung [by characters] and we show the notes on the page, so you can actually play along.n”The budget to get Bowie to do one song would be the budget of all the books, but we’re talking to him to at least get his blessing or maybe an introduction or something… He also has likeness approval.” The book is slated for a late 2012 release.

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Paul Bettany has praised wife Jennifer Connelly’s dedication to being a mother. The couple, who are parents to 14-year-old Kai and 8-year-old Stellan, welcomed daughter Agnes in May. The Tourist actor claimed that parenting is the most important thing to Connelly and applauded her for doing an “amazing” job raising their children. “[Being a parent] needs to be the biggest focus of your life. And it absolutely is the most important, biggest focus of my wife’s life,” Bettany told US Weekly. “She is amazing at it. It’s not fake. Everyone says that, but it’s actually really true. It’s the most important thing in her life.”

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Actor Paul Bettany said his baby daughter Agnes is ‘beautiful’ and said his sons adore her. The 40-year-old star and wife Jennifer Connelly welcomed their daughter Agnes in May this year. Speaking about the little girl, he said to Us Weekly: ‘She’s great. She’s beautiful. I have two boys who adore her. We’ve been blessed by a seven year gap.’ The couple also have an eight-year-old son Stellan while Connelly has a son Kai, 14, from a previous relationship. Bettany added: ‘[Agnes] is so lovely. With my oldest, we play a lot of guitar together. With my youngest, at this point, it really is changing her diaper.’

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