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Billionaire David Thomson has dumped his fiancee, former O.C. actress Kelly Rowan, just weeks after she gave birth to his child. It's a familiar move for Canada's richest man, who left his second wife when she was pregnant to be with Rowan. Kelly "was thrilled to have become pregnant at age 42," a source told the New York Daily News. "But when it came to actually getting married, there were too many problems. It was doomed."
Carmen Electra's newly-announced engagement may already be over. Life&Style magazine is reporting that the actress-model was dismayed to learn that former Korn guitarist Rob Patterson purchased her black diamond engagement ring on the internet -- for less than $2,000. "She seems really embarrassed," a source told the magazine. "I think the ring is a real deal breaker. She thought she'd be getting this giant rock. Instead, Rob bought it online for a bargain price!"
Although Al Reynolds' publicist said he would be "taking the high road" after his split from Star Jones was announced last month, the businessman posted a 485-word rant on his MySpace page on Tuesday (May 13th), blasting the media's depiction of him since Jones filed for divorce. Reynolds says he has been called "a gigolo, a freeloader, unemployed, a sham and many other things that don't bear repeating" in recent weeks. "As much as I want to defend myself, it seems like a silly and futile exercise," he wrote. "it's clear that the media doesn't want to let the truth get in the way of a good story." While he expresses sadness over the end of his marriage, Reynolds is asking that instead of defining or categorizing him, the public," just get to know me."
Joaquin Phoenix is coming out with an album. The Oscar-nominated actor, who learned to play the guitar for the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line, reportedly was inspired to sing by his experience on the movie. Billboard.com reports that Phoenix has teamed up with Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess on the project, which does not yet have a release date.
Former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and husband Jerry Solomon welcomed the arrival of their third child Wednesday (May 14th) in Winchester, Massachusetts, People.com reports. The little girl joins two brothers, 11-year-old Matthew and three-year-old Brian. The 38-yera-old Kerrigan and her 53-year-old hubby haven't named their daughter yet. Kerrigan says, "I think that is the hardest job, to pick a name for somebody. We are not very good at that."
Sources close to Halle Berry are downplaying engagement rumors, People.com reports. The Oscar-winning actress was seen sporting a diamond ring on her left hand at an event over the weekend, leading to speculation that it was a gift from boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. But a source says, "It's not an engagement ring. Halle just saw it and thought it was beautiful so she bought it for herself."
Jackass star Steve-O pleaded not guilty to felony cocaine charges in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday (May 13th). Since his March 3rd arrest, Steve-O has checked into rehab and is now 64 days sober. "I feel good," he told E! News after the hearing. "Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll was something I thought was good. I really ran away from my problems, they caught up to me, and now I'm not running anymore." Tuesday's preliminary hearing was continued to June 3rd.
Jennifer Lopez will host and coordinate the third annual Noche de Ninos benefit gala for Children's Hospital Los Angeles. The new mother announced on Wednesday (May 13th) that her twin son and daughter have inspired her to get more involved and make her want to be a "better person." Lopez, along with husband Marc Anthony, Alejandro Sanz and Latin rockers Juanes and Mana will perform at the October 11th event, which will be held at the Nokia Center.
Superbad star Jonah Hill is in negotiations to develop a movie adaptation of the 1980s television series, 21 Jump Street, which starred Johnny Depp. Sony confirmed that the 24-year-old actor will serve as the project's executive producer, but it hasn't been decided whether he will star in it. The series, which ran on Fox from 1987 until 1991, focused on a group of young cops whose youthful appearance allowed them to work undercover in high schools and colleges.
Nicholas Cage will star in a remake of the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant. The project, which is officially being announced at Cannes, will star Cage in Harvey Keitel's former role as a drug-addicted, low-life cop in New York City.
Donnie Wahlberg will star in the new TNT crime drama, Morse Code. The actor, who is currently receiving attention as a member of the newly-reunited New Kids on the Block, will also produce the project along with director Jon Avnet and writer Walon Green. Wahlberg will play a war hero who returns to his hometown of Boston, where he works as a Drug Enforcement Administration officer.
The 21st season of MTV's ground-breaking reality show, The Real World, will be set in Brooklyn. MTV announced that production will begin this summer on 13 hour-long episodes that will begin airing in early 2009. The network is currently running the show's 20th anniversary season, which takes place in Hollywood.
Kristin Chenoweth has joined Jeremy Sisto in the cast of the new indie drama Into Temptation, EW.com reports. Chenoweth plays a suicidal prostitute who confesses her plans to kill herself to a priest, played by Sisto, who then searches for her to try and stop her. Chenoweth appears on ABC's Pushing Daises, which begins production on its second season next month. She also won a Tony Award in 2004 for Wicked. Sisto has recently appeared on NBC's Law & Order.
Cable network Lifetime is planning a TV-movie based on the true-crime novel Murder in Sin City, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sex & Lies in Sin City stars Matthew Modine as Ted Binion, a wealthy casino heir who was found dead in 1998 in his Las Vegas home by his stripper girlfriend, played on-screen by Mena Suvari. The investigation focused on the girlfriend and her con artist boyfriend-on-the-side. The movie debuts on Lifetime in September.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are expecting twins, the actress confirmed on Wednesday (May 14th) after her Kung Fu Panda co-star Jack Black spilled the beans during a joint interview with Today Show's Natalie Morales. "You're going to have as many as the Brady Bunch when you have these," Black said during the sit-down in Cannes. "Yeah, yeah, we've confirmed that already," Jolie confessed to Morales. "Well, Jack's just confirmed it actually."
Although Star magazine recently reported that the Jolie-Pitts will welcome two more daughters, Jolie said that she was keeping the gender of her babies private.
Jolie and Pitt have been staying at Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's villa in France, the country in which Jolie is expected to give birth to honor her late mother.
The couple is already parents to Maddox, who is 6, Pax, 4, Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, who will be two this month.
Actor Dennis Quaid was in Washington, D.C. Wednesday (May 14th) to testify before Congress about the overdose of blood thinners his newborn twins were given at a Los Angeles hospital in November, E! Online reports. Quaid is suing Baxter Healthcare Corp., makers of the blood thinner heparin. Quaid said consumers would be turned into "uninformed and uncompensated lab rats" if they did have the right to take pharmaceutical companies to court and hold them accountable.
The Food and Drug Administration has argued that federal regulation supersedes the need for states to have mechanisms in place for such consumer lawsuits. Quaid told Congress, "Like many Americans, I believed that a big problem in our country was frivolous lawsuits. But now I know that the courts are often the only path to justice."
Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex And The City character, Carrie Bradshaw, has become an iconic figure for many viewers -- which presented a problem for the writers and producers of the new Sex And The City film. Parker says that in the four years since the show ended, the show-obsessed Carrie has had some more success, and is growing up: "By the time the movie comes around she's had... she's working on her third book (after) two previous best-sellers, so she's experiencing New York City in a different way, it's the first time she's really had money, it's the first time she's really been wise and smart enough and prudent enough to save money. She's much more of an adult in more traditional ways than she had been during the course of the show."
She says the changes shouldn't upset the long-term fans, however: "You can go from the last season to this movie and not think, 'Well, that's ludicrous, that's not the character anymore.' It definitely is, but it's definitely a person that's older and different whose tastes have changed, whose palate has changed, and that's what happens, you know, when you grow up."
In the Sex And The City movie, filmed on location all across New York City, Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, and Cynthia Nixon all reprise their roles from the original series, which ran on HBO from June of 1998 to February of 2004.
Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits debuts atop the Billboard Country Albums chart this week. The two-disc package dates back to Keith's Number One hit, 1993's "Should've Been A Cowboy," to his 2006 chart-topper "A Little Too Late."
This is the sixth time Keith has topped the Country Albums chart.
Keith's latest single, "She's A Hottie," is a current Top 15 hit on the country charts.
CBS is expanding its comedy reach to Wednesday nights next fall, with plans to introduce two new sitcoms, the Associated Press reports. The network unveiled its fall schedule Wednesday (May 14th), saying it will move The New Adventures of Old Christine from Monday to Wednesday and pair it with Project Gary, a new sitcom starring Jay Mohr as a recent divorced man and Paula Marshall as his ex-wife. How I Met Your Mother, recently bolstered by two guest spots from Britney Spears, remains on Mondays along with the other new comedy, Worst Week, about a bungling magazine editor. Another CBS sitcom, Rules of Engagement, is set to return at midseason.
CBS will add three new dramas in the fall. Eleventh Hour stars Rufus Sewell as a biophysicist who helps the government investigate scientific crises. It's produced by the team behind CSI. The Ex List stars Elizabeth Reaser from Grey's Anatomy as a woman told by a fortune teller that she must marry within a year or be single forever, and that she's already met the man she'll marry, she just doesn't know it yet. The Mentalist stars Simon Baker as a former celebrity psychic who becomes a detective. Another drama, the murder mystery Harper's Island," is due for a midseason debut.
CBS has canceled the James Woods legal drama Shark and vampire-detective thriller Moonlight. CBS is also moving Without a Trace to Tuesday and The Unit to Sunday.
Hindu groups are appealing to the Indian government to ban screenings of the upcoming Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru in that country because it "appears to be lampooning Hinduism." Bhavna Shinde of the Mumbai-based Hindu organization Janjagruti Samiti and Sanatan Society for Scientific Spiritually, is quoted by the Hollywood Reporter as saying that India's Central Board of Film Certification should, "stop distributing or screening the movie till Paramount has made the necessary changes so that it will not hurt the feelings of the worldwide spiritual and Hindu community."
The Board of Film Certification said that they have not officially received any request regarding the film and have yet to submit it for sensor clearance.
According to the Internet Movie Database, The Love Guru features Myers as an American raised by Indian gurus who returns to his country to break into the self-help business. Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley co-star in the film.
Former Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington has filed a complaint about the show with the Screen Actors Guild, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Washington is upset about a recent episode in which a picture of his character, Dr. Preston Burke, was featured in a newspaper article announcing he'd won a surgeon's award. Washington says Grey's producers did not get his permission to use the photo. His publicist, Howard Bragman, says, "They have the rights of the character to advance the story, but not the image." He also says he expects a "financial settlement" in the matter.
A lawyer for Washington, who is currently filming a movie in New Orleans, had no comment. Neither did reps for ABC, the network that airs Grey's Anatomy.
Washington's contract with Grey's wasnt renewed, after a major media firestorm stemming from his use of a derogatory word in reference to gay costar T.R. Knight.
The struggling CW network announced its fall line-up Wednesday (May 14th), with several new shows included, TVGuide.com reports. 90210, the update of Beverly Hills 90210, will air on Tuesdays, along with another new show, Surviving the Filthy Rich, starring JoAnna Garcia from Reba. Stylista, a new fashion-themed reality show from Tyra Banks, will be paired with America's Next Top Model on Wednesday nights.
The CW's line-ups will remain unchanged on Monday (Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill) and Thursday (Smallville and Supernatural) nights. The sitcoms Everybody Hates Chris and The Game have been moved from Sunday to Friday, while the supernatural drama Reaper returns midseason.
The CW has contracted Media Rights Capital to program and sell its Sunday night line-up. Four shows are being developed: F.A.T. City, a crime procedural set in Las Vegas; the romantic drama I.M. Valentine Investigations; and the comedies Book of Murphy and Surviving Suburbia.
Turner Broadcasting's dual cable outlets outlined their fall schedules Wednesday (May 14th), TVGuide.com reports. TNT has placed orders for three new shows: Raising the Bar starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar; Leverage starring Timothy Hutton; and Truth in Advertising with Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh; plus the pilot Men of a Certain Age featuring Ray Romano. In addition, TNT is developing a slate of new series, including:
Delta Blues, about a Memphis cop/Elvis impersonator who lives with his mother. It's executive produced by George Clooney.
Morse Code tentatively stars Donnie Wahlberg as a war hero/DEA agent working his hometown of Boston.
Angel City, a "six cops/three cars" drama similar to past hits Adam 12 and Hill Street Blues.
A new drama from 24 producer Joel Surnow centered on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent.
A family serial in the vein of Little Miss Sunshine from Rob Ulin, whose past credits include Roseanne and Malcolm in the Middle.
Meanwhile, Turner's other outlet, TBS, has renewed the original sitcoms Tyler Perry's House of Payne (which returns in June) and 10 Items or Less. Also in development at TBS are:
National Banana Already in Progress, a late-night sketch show executive produced by Jerry Zucker of Airplane! fame.
A scripted comedy produced by Def Jam's Russell Simmons and starring his brother, Run DMC's Joseph "Run" Simmons.
A half-hour comedy executive produced by and starring William H. Macy.
A late-night reality series that returns middle-aged men to their fraternity days.
An improv show executive produced by Jamie Foxx.
Top Ten, a show that claims to "pit comedians against each other."
Filming has begun on the fifth season of Dog the Bounty Hunter, with the show set to return to cable's A&E channel, the Associated Press reports. The reality series featuring Duane "Dog" Chapman and his associates chasing down bail jumpers around the country was pulled from the air in November after the emergence of a taped phone conversation in which Chapman used a racial slur in reference to his son's African-American girlfriend.
A&E spokesman Michael Feeney says network executives felt Chapman deserved a second chance after redeeming himself over the past few months. Feeney also says he doesn't believe Chapman is a racist.
Reruns of Dog the Bounty Hunter will begin airing on A&E June 25th, with new episodes set to debut a few weeks later.
A Los Angeles band is accusing Miley Cyrus of stealing their tune for her hit song "Rockstar." Lustra claim that the song is a carbon copy of "Scotty Doesn't Know," which appeared on the soundtrack to the 2004 movie Eurotrip. "Although we are very flattered that Ms. Cyrus took this route, we would have preferred some credit," said guitarist Nick Cloutman. The band, who was alerted to the similarities by fans, is urging Disney followers to compare the songs themselves by visiting their MySpace page.
Lustra's spokesman said, "The immediate solution is to minimize leaks, and keep all future recordings in a vault, under extreme security."
Artifacts from a couple of the late Charlton Heston's most famous roles are going up for auction, the Associated Press reports. A pair of faux granite tablets that Heston (as Moses) brought down from Mount Sinai in The Ten Commandments may fetch as much as $60,000, according to Marc Kruskol of auction house Profiles in History. It's the fourth set of tablets that remain from the 1956 biblical epic. Also set to be auctioned off is the five-piece costume Heston wore in 1959's Ben Hur, the role that earned him a best actor Oscar. The central piece in the costume is the dark green kaftan worn by Heston's Judah Ben-Hur in the scene when he hears Jesus give a sermon.
In all, more than 1,000 pieces of Hollywood memorabilia will be auctioned on July 31st and August 1st by Profiles in History, located in Calabasas Hills, California. For information, go to ProfilesInHistory.com.
Heston died April 5th at his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 84.
Madonna is following in Oprah Winfrey's footsteps by investing in a multi-million dollar girls school that will be built in the African country of Malawi. The superstar's lawyer, Alan Chinula, revealed the project on Wednesday (May 14th), a day before her adoption of Malawian orphan David Banda is set to become final. "A task force of four prominent Malawians has already been formed to head the project which will be on the scale of what Oprah Winfrey has in South Africa," he told Reuters.
Winfrey recently opened a $40 million all-girl leadership academy in South Africa, but the institute was rocked by scandal when students revealed abuse at the hands of the staff.
Madonna won't be present for Thursday's (May 15th) adoption hearing in Malawi due to other engagements, but the singer's two-year-long bid to adopt Banda is expected to be granted. |
