Cruise, Cruz praise each other at film opening

PARIS -- Tom likes Penelope's kindness. Penelope likes Tom's generosity.

Promoting their film "Vanilla Sky" in Paris on Tuesday, Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz had a hard time picking just one quality they said they liked in each other.

"I choose Penelope's kindness," Cruise said at a news conference at the swanky George V hotel. "Her beauty, her intelligence ..."

"It is his generosity," said Cruz. "I was amazed by the way he cares about everyone around him. He values everything he has."

Cruise, 39, plays David Aames, a rich playboy that seems to have everything. Cruz, 27, reprises her original role as Sofia Serrano, a beautiful woman he meets at a birthday party.

"Vanilla Sky," directed by Cameron Crowe, is a remake of Alejandro Amenabar's 1997 Spanish thriller, "Open Your Eyes."

Poet wins Eliot prize for work on relations

LONDON -- Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for her powerful chronicle of marriage and divorce, "The Beauty of the Husband."

Carson, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history, was awarded the $14,000 prize at a ceremony in London on Monday. The prize is for the best poetry title published in Britain and Ireland.

Helen Dunmore, who was chairperson of the judging panel, praised Carson's "tart, lyrical, erotic, plainspoken and highly charged" evocation of a collapsing marriage, told in 29 "tangos."

Carson is a 50-year-old history professor.

McGraw announces birth of third daughter

LOS ANGELES -- And baby makes three -- daughters, that is.

Audrey Caroline McGraw was born in early December to country singers Tim McGraw and his wife, Faith Hill. Waiting at home for her arrival were 4-year-old Gracie and 3-year-old Maggie.

"The baby's great. She's doing wonderful," McGraw told reporters. "She's healthy and happy and we're happy and that's all that matters."

How do the couple's older daughters feel about having a new little sister? "Oh, they love it. They're incredible," he said.

'American Beauty' film director leaves theater

LONDON -- Michael Grandage was named the new artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, the studio-sized London theater that's acquired an international reputation during its 10 years under the leadership of Sam Mendes.

Mendes, who is leaving the Donmar to pursue a free-lance film and theater career, will step down at the end of November. He won the best director Oscar for 1999's "American Beauty," starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening.

--From wire reports