BITS AND PIECES 04/15
PUSSSYKATT
--N'Sync band members felt bad when they read about 10 heartbroken high-school
girls who had been cheated out of seeing them perform because they bought fake
concert tickets. Since the guys were scheduled to sing at a BevHills charity
event soon after, they arranged to get the girls their own table at the
shindig. Celebrities contributed $10,000 to $25,000 per table at the Family
Foundation fund-raiser, and the excited teens got dinner and VIP seats on the
house -- thanks to the bighearted boy band.
--Jodie Foster is tickled pink to be pregnant again. And judging from the way
she's shopping, she's expecting a little girl! The actress, who is due in
November, couldn't pass up a sale in the kids' department at Neiman Marcus in
Beverly Hills and loaded up on $600 worth of baby stuff -- all in pink. Single
mom Jodie, 38, is not saying for sure what she's having, but she's told pals
she's hoping to give her 2 1/2-year-old son Charlie a baby sister. The original
Silence of the Lambs star is also keeping silent on who the father is and
whether he's the same man who reportedly donated sperm for her son. But one
thing she's not hiding is her joy! "I enjoyed being pregnant with Charlie," she
gushes. "And I look forward to this experience again."
--Ever since MTV host Carson Daly and Tara Reid postponed their wedding, Tara
has been spending a lot of time with That '70s Show's star Ashton Kutcher --
and Carson is not happy. While he's in New York working on his MTV show TRL,
Tara and Ashton are in L.A. filming their new movie, The Guest. They've become
fast friends and when they're not hanging out in Hollywood, they're at the
beach frolicking with Tara's dog. Carson's worried that handsome Ashton will
steal his gal away, so he's visiting every chance he can.
--Michael Douglas loves to spoil his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones with tokens of
his affection, and his gifts are usually right on target. But recently he
presented her with an oversized Victorian cameo brooch, which she didn't like.
But to make her husband happy, she wore it to a family gathering and Michael's
stepmom Anne complimented her on it. Without missing a beat, Catherine took it
off and insisted Anne keep it. Michael was so impressed with his wife's
"generosity" that days later he gave her a $40,000 diamond bracelet.
--Jennifer Lopez's new boyfriend Cris Judd is begging her to tone down her sexy
image. Conservative Cris is nothing like J.Lo's ex-boyfriend Puff Daddy (who
recently changed his name to P. Diddy). While the rapper encouraged Jennifer to
flaunt her considerable assets and enjoyed watching other guys drool over her,
dancer Cris is asking her to cover up! When J.Lo, who has her own line of
clothing coming out, recently showed him some of the flimsy transparent
costumes she had made for upcoming performances, he got very upset. He feels
she's too talented to look like a bimbo and he's got her family on HIS side.
But he has an uphill battle -- Jen loves the attention her risque wardrobe
attracts.
STAR MAGAZINE...
--JULIA ROBERTS and George Clooney were acting like honeymooners in Vegas while
filming a casino caper in Sin City, say sources. They were spotted painting the
town red at night, and as our exclusive pics show, their flirtatious behavior
carried over during the day while filming their new flick, Ocean's Eleven. And
the whole time, Roberts’ fiancé Benjamin Bratt, and Clooney's English
galpal, Lisa Snowden, who is recuperating from an emergency appendectomy, were
nowhere to be found.
NATIONAL ENQUIRER...MIKE WALKER...
--A prominent plastic surgeon offered a free face-lift to 55-year-old Goldie
Hawn nips, tucks, lipo, boob job or whatever -- if he could discreetly let
potential star clients know that he was her sculptor. Goldie nixed the deal,
saying she'd had no complaints so far!
--Is Anthony Hopkins having TOO much fun? At a Hollywood bash, the
Brit-turned-Yank star slipped on that freaky Hannibal Lecter mask, crept up
behind Tom Hanks and whispered something like, "Have you seen Clarice?"
Terrified Tom shrieked like a girly-man, then begged Tony to take the damn
thing OFF! (Hear, hear!)
E! ONLINE...by Marcus Errico
--General Cinemas movie theater chain says it will no longer give refunds to
fans who come to see the trailer for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and
then leave the main feature early and ask for their money back. "If they're big
fans and come out to catch a glimpse of Harry Potter, they can't do it for
free," a company rep says.
--U2 frontman Bono has reportedly been asked to give away Christy Turlington at
her wedding later this year to Ed Burns, Us Weekly reports. Turlington's father
died in 1998. No word yet on whether the singer will do the honors.
NY POST/PAGE SIX...
--PROVOCATIVE pundit Laura Ingraham is about to launch her own nationally
syndicated radio show with the company that syndicates Don Imus and Howard
Stern, Westwood One. Ingraham, author of "The Hillary Trap," is an analyst for
the Fox News Channel. Her new show will be "a substantive, satirical dissection
of the colliding worlds of politics, the news media and entertainment."
Ingraham, with sidekick Lee Habeeb, will take calls and interview guests about
the hot news of the day, and it's "guaranteed to be three hours of Doris Kearns
Goodwin-free radio."
--"HILLARY Clinton announces she will never, ever, under any circumstances, run
for president. Which means she's definitely running. She's doing it all for
Bill. He's had a lifelong dream of being a two-impeachment family" - David
Letterman . . .
--"YOU have to bring him down with ridicule, because if you stand on a soapbox,
and you match him with rhetoric, you're just as bad as he is. But if you make
people laugh at him, then you're one up on him. It's been one of my lifelong
jobs to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler" - Mel Brooks tonight on "60
Minutes."
--HE'S a great basketball player, but - unlike his Lakers teammate Shaquille
O'Neal - Kobe Bryant is no rapper. Bryant's well-publicized album with Columbia
has hit the skids, music moles said, and the label has shelved the project
indefinitely. "The album was supposed to be out in March, but then they
listened to it again, and it was so bad they put the kibosh on it," our source
said. A rep for Columbia said Bryant is no longer with the label.
NY POST/LIZ SMITH...
--David Brown, whose movie "Chocolat" will gross more than $100 million
worldwide and Lewis Allen are prepping a one-man show for the marvelous Alan
King, wherein the comic actor will play the king of all malapropisms, the late
movie producer Sam Goldwyn. A secretary, Helen, will be offstage. "Mr. Goldwyn"
bows "as soon as we raise the money and find a theater," says David. Meanwhile,
Brown has Richard Dreyfuss reading the script of "Swifty," written by
Christopher Hart, the son of Moss and Kitty Carlisle. (Moss was the first
important client ever landed by the famous agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar, so it's
all terribly fitting.) When I pointed out to Brown that Dreyfuss is doing a CBS
TV pilot about a college professor, he snorted. "Pilots! Everybody is doing a
pilot."
--Sisters Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen share their on- and off-stage magic
on TV's "PBS Hollywood Presents" in "The Old Settler," premiering Wednesday,
April 25. Adapted for TV by Shauneille Perry, "The Old Settler" marks the first
time that Rashad and Allen have starred together in dramatic roles. Both are
also executive producers and Ms. Allen directs the drama, set in Harlem during
WWII. Phylicia is known for her role as Claire on TV's "The Cosby Show."
NY DAILY NEWS/MITCHELL FINK...
--As if TV's "The West Wing" hasn't won enough awards. Now comes word that the
popular NBC series will be feted by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Dependence at a Tavern on the Green dinner April 26. Adele Smithers-Fornaci,
whose late husband, R. Brinkley Smithers, founded the Smithers Alcoholism and
Treatment Center, will present the award, she says, "in recognition of [the
show's] sensitive and accurate depiction of the disease of alcoholism."
ASSOCIATED PRESS...
--Florida officials have chosen not to pursue charges against country singer
Andy Griggs after he and a fellow musician took an ambulance for a joyride.
Griggs and band member Kevin Weaver were arrested Feb. 16 in Tallahassee.
Griggs' record company RCA said Friday that both men had apologized for the
incident and that Griggs had agreed to play a benefit concert last week for
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, which owned the ambulance. Proceeds from the
concert were donated to the hospital's charities, RCA said. Griggs scored a Top
10 hit in 1999 with "You Won't Ever Be Lonely."
--The British Broadcasting Corp. said Saturday that Frank Sinatra has beaten
Elvis Presley in a poll of the 20th century's greatest voices. Sinatra topped
the list of the 100 voices of the century, compiled by BBC Radio 2 using a
variety of data including votes by listeners and a panel of singers and music
experts. Presley came in second and Nat "King" Cole was third. Fourth and fifth
spots went to jazz great Ella Fitzgerald and crooner Bing Crosby. The earliest
artist to make the top 100 is opera legend Enrico Caruso, at No. 74. In 21st
place is Eva Cassidy, the Washington, D.C.-based singer whose debut album
"Songbird," topped British charts in March, five years after her death from
cancer at the age of 33. The full Top 10: 1. Frank Sinatra; 2. Elvis Presley;
3. Nat "King" Cole; 4. Ella Fitzgerald; 5. Bing Crosby; 6. John Lennon; 7.
Aretha Franklin; 8. Billie Holiday; 9. Barbra Streisand; and 10. Freddie
Mercury.
--Gloucester is going Hollywood again. For the first time since the seaside
community became the backdrop for "The Perfect Storm" two years ago, another
movie crew is setting up shop. About 50 cast and crew from "Baby's in Black,"
starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon, took to the streets this past week.
The film revolves around events following the murder of Hoffman and Sarandon's
daughter and is set in a fictional New England town. "The Perfect Storm" traced
the last trip of a swordfishing boat lost at sea during a 1991 storm. The movie
was shot partly in Gloucester and became one of last year's biggest box-office
hits.
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Dawn McKiness
wrote:
>STAR MAGAZINE...JANET CHARLTON...
>--N'Sync band members felt bad when they read about 10 heartbroken high-school
>girls who had been cheated out of seeing them perform because they bought fake
>concert tickets. Since the guys were scheduled to sing at a BevHills charity
>event soon after, they arranged to get the girls their own table at the
>shindig. Celebrities contributed $10,000 to $25,000 per table at the Family
>Foundation fund-raiser, and the excited teens got dinner and VIP seats on the
>house -- thanks to the bighearted boy band.
I despise boy bands but that was a very sweet thing for the band to
do.
Dawn