--There is the famous movie couple who demanded a separate private jet
from Los Angeles to Europe just for their luggage, at a cost of
$40,000.
--There's the pop singer whose dressing-room requirements while making
a video for charity included $50 French candles and enough food to
sustain a family of tsunami victims for a month.
--There's the TV bad girl who insisted the network erect a billboard
for her show on a street where she knew an ex would drive past it.
--There's the actress who demanded Harry Winston jewelry to help her
get into the role of a wealthy woman (because, you know, it was a
stretch), then hid in her trailer when she was asked to give it back.
--There's a certain rakish, charming actor. A man, whose suave screen
presence, locker-pinup looks, and spectacularly screwed-up personal
life have brought pleasure to millions. Over his 25-year career, he's
earned his place in the celebrity pantheon. To those who've worked
with him, however, this certain actor is also known as a rampaging diva
whose behind-the-scenes demands can be not only unreasonable but
bizarre. Starting work on a new TV series, for example, he required
that the water feeding into his trailer be purified. But not just any
old Evian would do. No, the water that coursed through his trailer's
pipes needed to be blessed. By a shaman. This certain actor went on to
demand that the network hire a feng shui expert to optimize the flow of
chi in his trailer and also used an astrologer to determine the most
cosmically auspicious days for him to work. And then, after just a
handful of episodes, his show got cancelled.
Boy, this is old. JLo was invited to be part of a hip-hop 9/11 tribute
right afterward when the organizers told her they couldn't provide the
decked-out, white silk-on-the-walls, white-lillies, white-candles
trailer she demanded (seems like she wanted a chartered private plane
for her and her entourage to the event). It was for charity and they
were trying to keep costs low. She didn't participate.
--Amy
Just *HAS* to be michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones
CZJ and MD.
> --There's the pop singer whose dressing-room requirements while making
> a video for charity included $50 French candles and enough food to
> sustain a family of tsunami victims for a month.
J-Ho.
> --There's the TV bad girl who insisted the network erect a billboard
> for her show on a street where she knew an ex would drive past it.
> --There's the actress who demanded Harry Winston jewelry to help her
> get into the role of a wealthy woman (because, you know, it was a
> stretch), then hid in her trailer when she was asked to give it back.
>
> --There's a certain rakish, charming actor. A man, whose suave screen
> presence, locker-pinup looks, and spectacularly screwed-up personal
> life have brought pleasure to millions. Over his 25-year career, he's
> earned his place in the celebrity pantheon. To those who've worked
> with him, however, this certain actor is also known as a rampaging diva
> whose behind-the-scenes demands can be not only unreasonable but
> bizarre. Starting work on a new TV series, for example, he required
> that the water feeding into his trailer be purified. But not just any
> old Evian would do. No, the water that coursed through his trailer's
> pipes needed to be blessed. By a shaman. This certain actor went on to
> demand that the network hire a feng shui expert to optimize the flow of
> chi in his trailer and also used an astrologer to determine the most
> cosmically auspicious days for him to work. And then, after just a
> handful of episodes, his show got cancelled.
Armand Assante, whose show "Push, Nevada" got cancelled after seven episodes.