If it occurred to you after seeing this week's box-office champ ''Sin City'' that Jessica Alba may be the most chaste and clothed cinema stripper since Demi Moore in ''Strip Tease,'' well, you would be right. ''I felt like dancing around with the lasso and chaps was going to be sexy enough,'' the 23-year-old actress told the Boston Globe. ''Being nude, for me, would have been distracting.'' That consideration apparently didn't occur to her co-stars Carla Gugino and Jaime King, who show more skin despite the fact that their characters aren't dancing around a pole for a living. Of course, neither of those women has Alba's father. ''My dad would disown me or something,'' she said. ''He'd freak out.''

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If Michael Jackson ever left the country, he could live out his days on a tropical island paradise - thanks to his friend Marlon Brando, reports the New York Daily News. A notarized deed obtained by the Daily News shows that on June 5, 2003, Brando granted Jackson sanctuary on one of the Pacific islands he owned ''for the rest of Jackson's natural life.'' According to the deed, Brando transferred use of a half-acre on the islet of Onetahi, in the French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa, ''in consideration of gratitude and affection.'' Brando informed Jackson in a letter thanking the pop star for hosting a birthday party for Brando's daughter, Nina, now 15.

Today's Birthdays:

Actor Michael Moriarty is 64.

Singer Agnetha Faltskog of Abba is 55.

Guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam is 40.

Singer Paula Cole is 37.

Country singer Pat Green is 33.

Rapper-producer Pharrell

Williams is 32.