Today is Cameron’s 38th birthday and I just want to congratulate her on her special day! What a year it’s been for Miss Diaz and us fans; with Shrek Forever After and Knight and Day in cinemas, lots of great photos and magazine features and much more still to come. Leave your birthday wishes by dropping a comment!

As he wraps up his long-running talk show, Larry King, who bought his first pair of suspenders in 1988 and now owns about 250 pairs, gives his views on fashion to Harper’s Bazaar. Here’s an excerpt, thanks to USA Today:

Who’s the most stylish person you’ve ever interviewed?
Larry: “In her day, Jane Fonda. Angie Dickinson. That era may be gone now. But the classic example of bringing yesterday to today is Cameron Diaz. She has movie-star looks with a modern approach.”

We all like Cameron.
Larry: “I saw A-Rod yesterday. He really likes her too.”

Yesterday Cameron Diaz joined Larry King for his telethon to benefit the Gulf Coast, devastatingly affected by the oil spill. The two-hour CNN show raised $1.3 million with proceeds going to three charities deeply involved in the efforts to help humans, wildlife and the environment. Read more about the telethon here, and watch a video of Cameron speaking on the matter below.

On Friday, June 11, Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise was photographed filming a commercial for ESPN in Los Angeles, California. They were seen riding a motorcycle (although I’m pretty sure that’s a stunt double or even a doll sitting on the bike) for the TV ad, promoting Knight and Day; in theaters June 23. To see more photos from the set, click here.

Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers and Melanie Griffith are among the stars who have sent their best wishes to veteran U.S. newswoman Barbara Walters as she recovers following heart surgery.

The 80 year old underwent an operation last week to replace a faulty heart valve, and over the weekend a rep for the star confirmed the surgery was a success. Now Cameron Diaz has led tributes to Walters, wishing the broadcaster a speedy recovery. She tells ETOnline.com, “(She is an) extraordinary woman. I send her all the healing white light and love that I’m sure is surrounding her right now.”

Sooner or later every fairy tale reaches its happily ever after. For Shrek, the long-running animated fantasy franchise about a curmudgeonly ogre (voiced by Mike Myers), his human-turned-ogre wife, Fiona (Cameron Diaz), and his pals Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas), that time is now. On Friday, DreamWorks Animation and Paramount will release Shrek Forever After, the fourth — and, the studios say, final — installment in the series, in which the titular green guy is thrown into an alternate version of his Far, Far Away kingdom where he never existed and life turned out much differently for his pals. Before the storybook shuts for good, Dave Itzkoff asked some of the Shrek stars about the series and what its ending means to them. These are excerpts from the conversation with Cameron Diaz. Full interview can be read here.

Cameron Diaz, Princess Fiona

Q. Did you have an appreciation for cartoons before you started working on “Shrek”?
A. I grew up on the barest of cartoon animation. I grew up with Tom and Jerry and the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. All the great, violent, sardonic characters of the good ol’ days.

Q. Those characters seem much more aggressive than you.
A. Good. You don’t know me. [Laughs.]

Q. Did it take any extra convincing for you to make all the embarrassing bodily noises that Princess Fiona is called upon to produce?
A. Well, I’m just basically a 14-year-old boy in my heart, in my spirit. So it’s very easy for me. It doesn’t take a lot of prodding for me to make silly noises.

Q. Have you ever been recognized in public for your “Shrek” character?
A. People say all the time to me: “Oh, you’re Cameron Diaz. There’s Cameron Diaz.” But of all the characters that I’ve done there’s only one that I really get, and that’s Fiona. That’s the only time people say to their kids, “This is Princess Fiona.” And I’m always like: “Don’t tell them. Just let them live as if Princess Fiona exists as a real ogre. Don’t take that away from them.”

Q. What does it mean for you that the “Shrek” series is coming to an end?
A. I realized it’s been a sort of safety net. It’s been a decade of knowing that you finish one and for the next two years we’ll be making another one. To think that that next phase of the story isn’t being told — I’m still crossing my fingers that maybe one day it will be.

Q. What’s changed about your life during that time?
A. I think that I’m definitely more mature. In some ways. I finally turned 15.

As mentioned before, Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise joined Oprah Winfrey live on Friday. They talked about their new movie Knight and Day and lots of other things. Check out a clip of Cameron talking about her savory oatmeal at Oprah.com and read an article based on Cami’s appearance on the show below.

Screen captures and clips from the show will be added as soon as I can find them!

In Knight and Day, Tom plays a fugitive superspy. His co-star, Cameron Diaz, plays a lonely women whose random meeting with Tom’s character turns her life upside down. The action-packed film is filled with stunts, and Tom says he performed almost all of them himself. In fact, he designed one of the film’s most jaw-dropping maneuvers. “I’m always thinking of different stunts. I look at buildings and think, how could I climb it? How could I jump out? I was working on this…and I said, ‘Look, we’ve got to do something where Cameron is on the bike and I get to flip her around and she shoots guns,’” he says.”I’m very careful about it when I do it. Very studied, but I enjoy it. When I was a little kid, I used to go up on a roof and jump off the roof into the snow and do flips and stuff, and now I get to do it in movies.”

Cameron says working with Tom was especially rewarding because, aside from being a lot of fun, he expects a lot of his co-stars. “He has a very high standard,” she says. “So that’s a wonderful thing. That’s what you know you’re getting when you’re working with Tom. You know that you’re getting someone who is dedicated to bringing the best product forward possible, and to do that, you have to be engaged in the process.”

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Cameron Diaz was recently interviewed on her  cellphone, by the Los Angeles Times. This resulted in a short, but quite interesting (is it, after all, a new interview), article on their website. She talks about her role as June in Knight and Day and how the movie – and her role – changed when she came on-board.

We’re talking to Cameron Diaz on her cellphone, and she’s dishing about her action-oriented exploits with Tom Cruise in her upcoming movie “Knight and Day,” when she asks us to hold for a moment. Muffled in the background, we hear men shouting, “Cameron! Cameron! A-Rod? Cameron!” and then she’s back on the line, explaining what happened.

Paparazzi. Flashes. Brief mention of New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, whom Diaz is rumored to be dating.

“That’s my daily action sequence,” Diaz says, laughing. “Walking from the car to the entrance of the hotel.”

That kind of on-the-run training came in handy for “Knight and Day,” which opens June 25 and has Diaz playing an ordinary woman caught up with a super spy (Cruise) who may (or may not — you know how these things go) be taking a full-blown vacation from reality. Diaz’s character proves to be a quick study in the ways of espionage and, soon enough, she’s executing daredevil moves on a Ducati, firing guns and taking out bad guys left and right.

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