Pop Culture: Madonna adopts; wedding troubles for TomKat
In Hollywood, fashion trends change more often than spouses. Remember Uggs? Enough said. L.A.'s trend of the moment has its stars traveling the globe to adopt children from the world's most impoverished countries and showing them off to photographers like a new Prada bag.

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