Names & Faces: Jimmy Kimmel; Shia LaBeouf; Kim Kardashian; Tim Hightower

Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearneyin 2010. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Engaged: Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney, People reports. The late-night talk show host, 44, popped the question to his co-worker (she’s the co-head writer on his show), 34, while they were vacationing in South Africa. They started dating in 2009. It’s the second marriage for Kimmel.

“He told me there’s a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there’s a time to sell cars.”

— Shia LaBeouf, recounting a tense conversation with Steven Spielberg to Hollywood Reporter in an interview posted Wednesday. Back in 2010, the actor made some critical comments about their film, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” to the press and the director was none too pleased. “I’ll probably get a call. But he needs to hear this,” LaBeouf told the Los Angeles Times. And call Spielberg did. Looking back, the actor says, he regrets the gaffe, which allegedly strained his relationship with the summer-flick svengali. “It brought me freedom, but it also killed my spirits because this was a dude I looked up to like a sensei,”
Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries in happier times. (Evan Agostini/Associated Press) explained LaBeouf, who says he learned his lesson.

Still married: Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries are struggling to bring an official end to their 72-day marriage, reports the Associated Press. Before setting a trial date, the spurned NBA player’s attorneys want to conduct interviews with Kardashian’s new boyfriend, rapper Kanye West , and her mother, Kris Kardashian. As a result of the legal wrangling, a judge predicts it probably will be at least next year before the couple is granted a divorce or an annulment. Humphries’s lawyer, Marshall Waller, says he is encountering difficulty getting information from companies that produce Kardashian’s reality shows in his effort to prove the couple’s marriage was a fraud. The couple’s divorce was filed in October.

Hey, isn’t that .?.?. ? Tim Hightower dining with his family Tuesday at Legal Sea Foods in Tysons Corner. The Redskins running back ordered the fish stew, wore a T-shirt and sweatpants. Yeah, you read that right: He dined out wearing sweatpants.

— Aaron Leitko, from web and wire reports.

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