Nicole Kidman, who will soon be busy promoting her film Australia, opening in November, made the not-unprecedented-but-still-uncommon step of producing an offspring and then not selling photos of it to the tabloids. Her daughter Sunday Rose, with husband Keith Urban, could be worth millions if they worked out a deal with, say, People magazine. But do-gooders that they are, Kidman and Urban won't be engaging in any human trafficking. But of course, public interest remains, and the first decent shots of Sunday are going to net a photographer a tidy sum — so the chase is already on. This has led Kidman to plead with the paparazzi to leave her "tiny doll" alone, because she is scared of the flashbulbs. Kidman, of course, is being ridiculous.

There's no way the paparazzi are going to leave her alone — especially when nobody has yet scored a decent photo of the girl cradled in her mother's arms.

Also, Kidman has yet to do the Gwenyth Paltrow or Sarah Jessica Parker stunt, and show her daughter off for photographers for a few minutes, letting everyone get their shot, disallowing anyone from scoring an exclusive photo, and having the matter be done with.

"I get the interest there is," Kidman told an Aussie radio show. "But at the same time it's our little girl." Actually, it's the world's baby girl; you just gave birth to her.