BITS AND PIECES...03/30
AGC Gossip
--WORM UPDATE: The Chicago-area woman accused of stalking Dennis Rodman pleaded
innocent to the charges during her arraignment Monday.
--LICENSE TO LITIGATE: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony have settled their bitter
legal battle over James Bond, with MGM retaining film rights to the superspy.
--TRY, TRY AGAIN: New-scenery-seeking Baywatch bound for Australia (again)
after ditching Hawaii over union contract disputes.
--REALLY BROKEN RECORD: Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard arrested (again). Friday in
Harlem. The second time in a week. The umpteenth time in the last year. The
charge (again): Driving with a suspended license.
--ON TRIAL: A $50 million lawsuit filed by the family of a gay man killed after
Jenny Jones' infamous "secret crush" episode scheduled to go to trial today in
Detroit. The show's makers are the defendants.
--BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Shock-rocking KISS to play Russia April 1-4. It's the
first time the band has played there.
--ALL CLEAR: Country star Randy Travis pardoned by North Carolina's governor
for bad things (burglary, larceny, etc.) he did as a randy youth.
--LIFE AFTER CRAIG: Ratings for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart-hosted Daily Show
up 12 percent in March over the show's previous all-time high.
--WORKING IT: Drag queen RuPaul honored with a special achievement award Sunday
at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's media awards.
--BRANDY Y2K: UPN picking up Moesha for the 1999-2000 season, the network
announced Monday.
--GOOAAAL! Oasis bad-boy Liam Gallagher and wife Patsy Kensit unhurt after
soccer hooligans lobbed a brick through their car window, Saturday in London.
TV GUIDE....
--THE LADY AIN'T A TRAMP: The New York Daily News issued an apology in Monday's
edition for including the caption "Reformed Tramp" under a photo of Jennifer
Lopez last Monday (March 22). "The caption was intended to refer to her change
in dress from her former look to her new look, but that was not clearly
explained by the caption," CEO and co-publisher Fred Drasner said. "We
sincerely apologize to Ms. Lopez for any inadvertent inferences that might be
drawn from the inappropriate caption, and to any readers we may have offended.
--OSCAR RAISES SHAKESPEARE'S SPIRITS: Riding high on the strength of its many
Academy Awards, Shakespeare in Love posted a whopping 48 percent gain at the
box office this weekend. Life is Beautiful, led by rowdy Roberto Benigni
increased its earnings by 43 percent. However, Saving Private Ryan, which took
home five Oscars, saw its box-office receipts dip by five percent.
--SHE LIKES IT LIKE THAT: Gwyneth Paltrow, you just won an Academy Award —
where are you going? Disneyland? Wrong! The gamine gal of the moment is going
to Williamstown, MA (where?), to star in a summer production of The Bard's As
You Like it. The Hollywood Reporter says Paltrow will play Rosalind, the
cross-dressing heroine of the play
--BAYWATCH GOES BACK TO AUSTRALIA: Are you keeping track of all this? According
to The Hollywood Reporter, Baywatch is going to Australia after all, and will
now be known as Baywatch Down Under. Executive producer Greg Bonnan says the
latest change of venue is due to a union glitch. "I'm heartsick. I wanted to
keep this show in America," Bonnan told Variety.
--KLINGER GOES AWOL: Jamie Farr, fondly remembered as the cross-dressing
Klinger on M*A*S*H, guest-stars on the April 30 episode of Port Charles, ABC
Daytime's General Hospital spin-off. Farr will play, a character named Ernie,
Eve's guardian angel, The New York Daily News reports.
--IT TAKES A VILLAGE PERSON: Victor Willis, a former member of The Village
People, comes clean on tonight's episode of Inside Edition and reveals that his
drug problems left him destitute and homeless; he was living in an abandoned
building in San Francisco until the city evicted him. What, was the YMCA too
crowded?— Jonathan Reiner
NY POST...NEAL TRAVIS...
--IT looks as if supermodel Kate Moss should snuff out the torch she's still
burning for Johnny Depp. I hear he just bought a $1 million beachfront villa in
St. Tropez as a refuge for himself, French singer Vanessa Paradis and the baby
they're expecting later this year.
--THOSE hard-working folks who handle our mail must have thought it a sick joke
when they read the story in yesterday's Times about how the U.S. Postal Service
is trying to improve its public image via movies and TV shows playing up the
human and dramatic sides of letter carriers. Rank-and-file workers think the
Postal Service would serve everyone better by just agreeing to a new contract
with them. Negotiations have been dragging on for months, and the last raise
the troops got was a 1 percent cost-of-living adjustment. No wonder some of
them ''go postal.'' (You heard the latest joke: What does it mean when the flag
outside the post office is flying at half-mast? They're hiring!)
NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with the proper
dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe. Here are a
few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott Bakula, Jerry
Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have suggested
him.
--JUDE LAW, who has been nibbling at major stardom for several years now, is
expected to take a big bite in '99, what with his David Cronenberg film
''eXistenZ,'' as well as ''The Talented Mr. Ripley,'' with Matt Damon, Gwyneth
Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. (The ''Ripley'' movie is much anticipated - and,
with that cast, but of course!)
--WOODY HARRELSON was not an invisible presence at a recent screening of his
''EDtv.'' He wore one of his signature hemp suits, scarfed macrobiotic
munchies, sipped fresh-squeezed spinach juice and was barefoot ...
--JOEL GREY spotted lunching in NYC with a group of Lions Gate execs who are
high on his turn as Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, in the
upcoming ''Empty Mirror.'' It is said to be a performance even more spookily
malevolent than his Oscar-winning turn as the emcee in ''Cabaret.''
NY POST...PAGE SIX....
--IRIS Rainer Dart hasn't been resting on her laurels since "Beaches" was
published and adapted into the weepy 1988 movie. Her latest, "When I Fall in
Love," hits shelves this week, and she's at work on the screen version for
Universal. Last week, addressing a group of young women from all over the world
at the Institute of National Studies, a perplexed Italian bambina with a poor
command of English asked, "How come if you're such a big feminist, you have the
nerve to write a book called 'Bitches'?"
--A SPORTS memorabilia agent who stood to make a fortune off Joe DiMaggio
memorabilia has seen his potential payday vanish before his eyes. A year ago,
Chicago-based merchandiser Jerry Remolt made a deal with the Yankee Clipper to
sign 1,000 jerseys replicating the slugger's old uniform. Remolt paid DiMaggio
$650 per signature and shelled out an additional $90 for each replica jersey.
Last year, having signed an initial batch of 200 shirts, DiMaggio signed
another haul of 400 garments. But when Remolt received that shipment, 339 of
the 400 shirts were ruined - the ink from the signatures had bled and smeared,
leaving DiMaggio's scrawl illegible and worthless. Remolt feels the second
batch of shirts from the manufacturer, Mitchell & Ness, were of inferior
quality, which caused the ink to smudge and seep into the jerseys. He's suing
the company and insurers who are refusing to pay for the damage. Remolt wants
the $1.6 million he says he would have gotten had he been able to sell 1000
perfect jerseys. As it is, Remolt never got any more signatures out of
DiMaggio, since the project was stalled while Remolt looked for a more
forgiving fabric.
--RAPPER-cum-robber Ghostface Killah (aka Dennis Coles) - a member of the
fabulously successful and wealthy Wu-Tang Clan - isn't happy with his new
prison salary. "I currently earn a meager prison wage of approximately $8 every
week," he griped recently in court papers, asking a judge to appoint him a free
lawyer as he appeals his conviction on charges he stole $1,300 from a parking
lot attendant. Ghostface is claiming he has no savings or property - even
though he was allowed to stall off jail for a year while he cut and promoted
his latest album.
--IF you thought supermodels only dated photographers, rock stars and
magicians, think again. Tyra Banks is going steady with a first-year law
student at Fordham University. Our spies in the law library stacks report Tyra
has been seeing "6-foot-6 and built like a Mack truck" Craig Taylor, who was
Tyra's high school sweetheart in L.A. So for the rest of you students out
there, hope springs eternal.
RUSH AND MOLLOY....
--Liam Gallagher, the bad-boy lead singer of Oasis, and his actress wife, Patsy
Kensit, may not be ordering season tickets for any soccer games. On Saturday,
just before the England-versus-Poland match, the couple was driving though
London's trendy Marylebone nabe when a bunch of drunken fans reportedly threw a
brick through the back window of their BMW.. . .
--Last night, thieves broke into the Ohm nightclub — favored haunt of Robert De
Niro and Matt Dillon — but came away empty. The bungling burglars managed to
break through the sidewalk, smash into the boiler room, blow up a wall and get
into an office where they tried — unsuccessfully — to drill open the safe. The
damage isn't stopping the W. 21st St. club from throwing a birthday party for
model Beverly Peele tomorrow. .
--Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard (who was slain in an apparent
anti-gay attack in Casper, Wyo.), had a bad case of stage fright Sunday
evening, but Olympia Dukakis came to the rescue with a pep talk at the 10th
Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Shepard was on hand to pick up the journalism award
for Casper's Star Tribune coverage of her son's killing. . . .
--Drew Barrymore is breaking out. In the new "Never Been Kissed," Barrymore
didn't need fake pimples for her role as a reporter who goes undercover at a
high school. "The other day, I was fortunate enough that I could work my own in
there," the actress says in the new issue of Teen People.
--Chris Rock, John Leguizamo and brothers Damon and Keenan Ivory Wayans laughed
over some grub at Coffee Shop on Union Square the other night. . . .
--Red Hot Chili Pepper Dave Navarro's number is up. The rocker lost his
cellular phone at Life on Friday night.
--The Artist We Still Call Prince may land in court soon — whether the normally
reclusive musician likes it or not. The Artist may be called downtown to
testify in the case of two alleged con artists charged with stealing more than
$250,000 from investors who thought they were buying shares in the purple one's
concerts. Jeffrey Brewer, 46, of Princeton, and Eric Moore, 28, of Raleigh,
N.C., were charged with fraud and grand larceny in August for allegedly
cheating four people and keeping the money for themselves. Defense attorneys
wouldn't sign a stipulation saying that the accused men had no connection with
The Artist, and "this is going to make it a three-ring circus," one official
told The News' Barbara Ross.
--Oliver Stone also is going to have his day in court. He's been called to
testify in a lawsuit that claims his "Natural Born Killers" was responsible for
an attack on convenience-store clerk Patsy Byers, who was left paralyzed in a
robbery-shooting in 1995. She died of cancer in 1997, but her family filed suit
against Stone and Time Warner, which was involved in the movie's production and
release. Stone is scheduled to give testimony on April 14 in Amite, La., said
Joe Simpson, an attorney for the Byers. The family says that Sara Edmondson
shot Byers while Benjamin Darrus waited outside a Louisiana store — and that
the two teenagers were inspired by the movie. The director's attorney argued
that the lawsuit threatens free speech, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on
March 8 that the case should not be dismissed and sent it back to the Louisiana
court.
MR. SHOWBIZ....
--Attention bachelors: Would you be willing to tie the knot with a Russian
mail-order bride if she looked like Nicole Kidman? (We'll pause a moment while
you all hit your heads on the ceiling leaping to the obvious conclusion.)
Variety says the leggy Australian star is nearing a deal to undertake just such
a role in Birthday Girl, a project being developed for Miramax by British
studio HAL Films. The plot concerns a strapping young London financier (Ben
Chaplin, who wooed Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo in The Truth About Cats and
Dogs) who decides to spice up his life by looking for love in a catalog. He
gets more than he bargained for — ain't it always the way? — when his feisty
fiancée (Kidman) shows up with her entire family in tow. If she signs, Kidman
will begin shooting the movie around the end of May in Australia. That location
and filming schedule would dovetail nicely with hubbie Tom Cruise's attachment
to Mission: Impossible 2, which is set to film Down Under any day now, pending
the resolution of a number of production snags.
--There's good news for another Hollywood couple — newlyweds-to-be Courteney
Cox and David Arquette have signed to star in the romantic comedy The Shrink.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cox will play a woman who — and don't
pretend you haven't wanted to try this one too — impersonates her therapist and
then falls in love with a patient (Arquette) who, it turns out, has a few
impersonation issues of his own. Actor-turned-director Richard Benjamin (Mrs.
Winterbourne, Milk Money) will helm the picture, which begins production April
19. Cox and Arquette will wrap The Shrink just in time for the June 15 shoot of
Scream 3, their fourth movie (and third Scream flick) together.
--The Mod Squad crashed and burned at the weekend box office, but Giovanni
Ribisi's career is still in high gear. The rising young star has inked a deal
to appear as the younger brother of Nicolas Cage's character in Gone in 60
Seconds. Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg and director Dominic Sena are tweaking
the script to make room for Ribisi. The movie will also feature Angelina Jolie
and will be produced by big-action bigwig Jerry Bruckheimer.
USA TODAY...
--LOS ANGELES — Who's that bodacious blonde tooling around Sunset Boulevard in
her pink Corvette convertible? Meet Angelyne, a.k.a. the Billboard Queen, whose
likeness is plastered on billboards in Hollywood, Times Square and various
locations worldwide. Her newfound fame grew Sunday when an Angelyne billboard
appeared in a scene on TV's new Futurama. Angelyne appeared at Planet Hollywood
recently for less than a half-hour for a screening of Angelyne's Dream
Experience, a 15-minute video and an art exhibit of 30 unframed self-portraits.
She's done 75. Others appear at Artluxe Gallery in Hollywood and sell for
$5,000 to $13,000. Does she paint any other subjects? "No. Should I?" she asks.
The Hollywood icon says she spends several hours a day on her artwork.
Angelyne, who won't disclose her age, tells USA TODAY that she started in the
business when a manager put her picture on a billboard and "everything
springboarded."
--Jerry Seinfeld was forced to defend Manhattan's Upper West Side — where he
lives and where his TV show was famously set — after an article by The New York
Times said the area was not chic or trendy. The Times reported on March 21 that
the neighborhood is no longer "party central," and has become "a sleepy
suburb." Seinfeld counterattacked in a letter published Sunday: "The article
said that since the Upper West Side lost Charivari (an expensive clothing
retailer) and the China Club (a night spot), it's equivalent to 'a mall in
Iowa.' It's true. Now, to get ripped off I have to traipse all the way over to
Madison Avenue, and to get crunched into a mass of pretentious drunken losers,
sometimes I don't know where to go."
--Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, is a little sad that Bart, Homer and
the gang don't offend people like they once did. "The Simpsons used to be the
downfall of Western civilization," says Groening, adding that he loved
complaints that the show undermined parental authority. Groening also says in
TV Guide's April 3 edition that he has a lot of confidence in his new animated
series, Futurama, a science fiction spoof set 1,000 years in the future. He had
originally written a part for the late Phil Hartman, who was to have voiced
space commander Zapp Branigan. In the comedian's honor, the unspoken first name
of the show's hero, Fry, is Phillip.
--The truth is in Chris Carter's mind. But he's not sharing. Carter, tired of
story line and script leaks of his hit show The X-Files, is keeping details of
his new Fox project secret — even from his own network, TV Guide reports. What
is known is that the show, Harsh Realm, is an adventure series about a
war-simulation program used by the military. It will star D.B Sweeney (The
Cutting Edge) and Scott Bairstow (Party of Five).
--Roberto Benigni fans are going to get more of the Oscar-winning Italian
actor. Lions Gate Films is re-releasing the 1994 Benigni comedy The Monster (Il
Mostro) starting Friday in Los Angeles and April 16 in New York. Also, Miramax
is planning to re release Benigni's Academy Award-winning Life Is Beautiful,
dubbed in English. No date has been set.
USA TODAY...JEANNIE WILLIAMS...
--OPENING: Annette Bening is onstage at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A., starring
in the Ibsen drama Hedda Gabler. Celebrating at last week's opening were her
hubby, Warren Beatty, and sis-in-law Shirley MacLaine, Garry Shandling, Mike
Nichols, Val Kilmer, Carol Burnett, Karl Malden, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Gabler
director Daniel Sullivan, adapter Jon Robin Baitz and David Geffen himself.
Daily Variety's Army Archerd wrote Monday that he agrees with Beatty, who said
of Bening's performance: "She is dazzling." Gabler may be extended beyond the
April 18 closing, says Gil Cates (who produced the Oscars and runs the Geffen).
--ARK NIGHT: Oleg Cassini showed off his new, faux "Evolutionary Fur" coats at
Saturday's Genesis Awards, given by the Ark Trust to the media for spotlighting
animal issues. One attendee who tried a coat said they look and feel positively
real. Susan Sullivan modeled at the Beverly Hilton hotel event. Kevin Nealon,
big on animal rights, goofed around backstage in one of Cassini's creations.
Co-host Montel Williams got an award for his talk-show segments on suffering
circus animals and the link between cruelty to animals and human violence.
Actor Robert Guillame, who's recovering from a January stroke, got an ovation
as his Sports Night took an award for a show on "the horrors of sport hunting,"
and graciously bowed his head. The awards are due to air May 4 on the Animal
Planet channel.
AlexShiwan
<19990330083400...@ng139.aol.com>:
>NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with the proper
>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe. Here are
>a
>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott Bakula,
>Jerry
>Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have suggested
>him.
IIRC several AGC posters thought Nic Cage would be a good DiMaggio (in a thread
shortly after he died)... By the way, I just noticed the other day that Cage
really resembles the image on the shroud of Turin. Or am I crazy? Never mind...
As far as physical resemblance to DiMaggio is concerned, Jerry Orbach is the
winner, IMO. Not that looking like someone in a biopic is a major factor in
casting...
-Lex (Mandarin Spice: AlexS...@aol.com)
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
---Charlie Chaplin
MCD LANCER
>--TRY, TRY AGAIN: New-scenery-seeking Baywatch bound for Australia (again)
>after ditching Hawaii over union contract disputes.
Let's do a headcount: everyone who gives a flying fuck where Baywatch films,
raise your hand. Hmm, no hands. My money's on it being cancelled after this
upcoming season.
>--REALLY BROKEN RECORD: Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard arrested (again). Friday in
>Harlem. The second time in a week. The umpteenth time in the last year. The
>charge (again): Driving with a suspended license.
The clue truck needs to back up and make a delivery to Mr. Bastard.
Helloooooo, stay out from behind the wheel until you have a license!
>--BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Shock-rocking KISS to play Russia April 1-4. It's the
>first time the band has played there.
The only things shocking about Kiss is how much it costs to go to a show and
the fact that they're still out on the road milking it out of the fans.
>--LIFE AFTER CRAIG: Ratings for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart-hosted Daily
>Show
>up 12 percent in March over the show's previous all-time high.
>
I thought I just read somewhere that he wasn't pulling in Craig's ratings?
>--THE LADY AIN'T A TRAMP: The New York Daily News issued an apology in
>Monday's
>edition for including the caption "Reformed Tramp" under a photo of Jennifer
>Lopez last Monday (March 22). "The caption was intended to refer to her
>change
>in dress from her former look to her new look, but that was not clearly
>explained by the caption," CEO and co-publisher Fred Drasner said. "We
>sincerely apologize to Ms. Lopez for any inadvertent inferences that might be
>drawn from the inappropriate caption, and to any readers we may have
>offended.
I read that in the paper last night. The DN must have really caught some shit.
Their gossip's going to suck for the next few months, I assume.
>--WOODY HARRELSON was not an invisible presence at a recent screening of his
>''EDtv.'' He wore one of his signature hemp suits, scarfed macrobiotic
>munchies, sipped fresh-squeezed spinach juice and was barefoot ...
This guy's about thirty cents short of a dollar.
Regards,
Mary Beth
~You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.~
* Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you
with experience. *
kpar...@nova.org
>
> >--BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. Shock-rocking KISS to play Russia April 1-4. It's the
> >first time the band has played there.
>
> the fact that they're still out on the road milking it out of the fans.
>
dates have just been postponed because of the current tensions between
the U.S. and Russia over the situation in Kosovo, according to a
spokesperson for Kiss.
Chris
Hal Hollywood
wrote:
<agcg...@aol.comBillie (AGC Gossip) said in Message-ID:
<<19990330083400...@ng139.aol.com>:
<
<
<>NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
<>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with
the proper
<>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe.
Here are
<>a
<>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott
Bakula,
<>Jerry
<>Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have
suggested
<>him.
<IIRC several AGC posters thought Nic Cage would be a good DiMaggio
(in a thread
<shortly after he died)... By the way, I just noticed the other day
that Cage
<really resembles the image on the shroud of Turin. Or am I crazy?
Never mind...
<
<As far as physical resemblance to DiMaggio is concerned, Jerry Orbach
is the
<winner, IMO. Not that looking like someone in a biopic is a major
factor in
<casting...
I like David Schwimmer for this role. Orbach may be a bit old to do
him in his heyday.
____________________
halhol...@aol.com
Hal Hollywood
Fred Hunter
> >--LIFE AFTER CRAIG: Ratings for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart-hosted Daily
> >Show
> >up 12 percent in March over the show's previous all-time high.
> >
>
> I thought I just read somewhere that he wasn't pulling in Craig's ratings?
>
Mary Beth! He's not! You just thought that was a BAD thing!
F
--
Fred Hunter's Mystery Web Page
http://home.earthlink.net/~fhunter/
"The thought of having your throat torn out by some
monster isn't likely to make you very gay."
The Scarlett Claw
maryanne kehoe
I already saw the announcement in the on-line edition of the Moscow
Times, the April 1 show is at Olympic Stadium in Moscow. Would have
loved to be there, just to hear them play "Detroit Rock CIty" and "I
Want to Rock and Roll All Night", my two favorite Kiss songs! Olympic
Stadium is huge (I have rode past there, it's on the way to the airport)
and holds about 50,000 people.
Maryanne.
Col. Sphinx Drummond
> On 30 Mar 1999 13:55:04 GMT, alexs...@aol.comSPAMdoff (AlexShiwan)
> wrote:
>
> <agcg...@aol.comBillie (AGC Gossip) said in Message-ID:
> <<19990330083400...@ng139.aol.com>:
> <
> <
> <>NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
> <>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with
> the proper
> <>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe.
> Here are
> <>a
> <>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott
> Bakula,
> <>Jerry
> <>Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have
> suggested
> <>him....
snip
> I like David Schwimmer for this role. Orbach may be a bit old to do
> him in his heyday.
Schwimmer? Orbach? What are were casting here?!?! Mister Lippet
Saves the Yankees? Jesus, those guys don't have half the grace of a
drunken mule. Jimmy Smits is just ludicrous. Who the hell is Noth?
Bakula, surely not...
Oh wait, it's not about DiMaggio's playing days. Uh... I think it depends
on who's cast as Marilyn.
-Hector
Meijhana
>>--LIFE AFTER CRAIG: Ratings for Comedy Central's Jon Stewart-hosted Daily
>>Show
>>up 12 percent in March over the show's previous all-time high.
>>
>
>I thought I just read somewhere that he wasn't pulling in Craig's ratings?
I read that, even though Jon's numbers have gone down since his first week,
they are still higher then Kilborn's were.
Kelly
Ziggy63442
>NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with the proper
>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe. Here are
>a
>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott Bakula,
>Jerry
How about cutie Andy Garcia
Ziggy
Indigo
>
> Hal Hollywood wrote:
>
> > On 30 Mar 1999 13:55:04 GMT, alexs...@aol.comSPAMdoff (AlexShiwan)
> > wrote:
> >
> > <agcg...@aol.comBillie (AGC Gossip) said in Message-ID:
> > <<19990330083400...@ng139.aol.com>:
> > <
> > <
> > <>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with
> > the proper
> > <>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe.
> > Here are
> > <>a
> > <>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott
> > Bakula,
> > <>Jerry
> > <>Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have
> > suggested
>
> snip
>
> > I like David Schwimmer for this role. Orbach may be a bit old to do
> > him in his heyday.
>
> Schwimmer? Orbach? What are were casting here?!?! Mister Lippet
> Saves the Yankees? Jesus, those guys don't have half the grace of a
> drunken mule. Jimmy Smits is just ludicrous. Who the hell is Noth?
> Bakula, surely not...
>
> Oh wait, it's not about DiMaggio's playing days. Uh... I think it depends
> on who's cast as Marilyn.
>
> -Hector
<snicker> <ahem> ditto. :-)
How about (don't kick me) drew barrymore for Marilyn? Ponder the
thought.
-Indie
greg m
>
> How about (don't kick me) drew barrymore for Marilyn? Ponder the
> thought.
>
> -Indie
hmm... yup, that works for me.
Greg
J
-snp-
>--Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard (who was slain in an apparent
>anti-gay attack in Casper, Wyo.), had a bad case of stage fright Sunday
>evening, but Olympia Dukakis came to the rescue with a pep talk at the 10th
>Annual GLAAD Media Awards. Shepard was on hand to pick up the journalism award
>for Casper's Star Tribune coverage of her son's killing. . . .
Re Olympia Dukakis, looks like she's had a face lift. Check this
week's Entertaiment Weekly 'zine (someone here mentioned a pic of
Gwyneth and her "ant hills) Olympia is on the same page with Joan
Rivers and someone else. Olympia's lift is extreme but she still looks
just on this side of good. Check it out.
J
fly...@pacbell.net
> <>NY POST..LIZ SMITH....
> <>--WE ASKED for suggestions about who could play Joe DiMaggio, with
> the proper
> <>dignity, in a coming TV movie about his romance with Marilyn Monroe.
> Here are
> <>a
> <>few names coming in from readers: Jimmy Smits, Chris Noth, Scott
> Bakula,
> <>Jerry
> <>Orbach. Smits seems a popular choice. At least a dozen people have
> suggested
> <>him.
>
> <IIRC several AGC posters thought Nic Cage would be a good DiMaggio
> (in a thread
> <shortly after he died)... By the way, I just noticed the other day
> that Cage
> <really resembles the image on the shroud of Turin. Or am I crazy?
> Never mind...
> <
> <As far as physical resemblance to DiMaggio is concerned, Jerry Orbach
> is the
> <winner, IMO. Not that looking like someone in a biopic is a major
> factor in
> <casting...
>
> I like David Schwimmer for this role. Orbach may be a bit old to do
> him in his heyday.
Schwimmer? That weenie couldn't carry Joe's coffee mug, much less, his
jock!
Orbach is WAY too old and has a dark edge that would undermine the
character!
Bakula played him in an heniuos Broadway musical about MM; the less said
about him, the better!
Smits, besides being a tan-skinned Latino, has a smoldering sexuality
and swagger that'd be suicide for the part, DiMaggio having had all the
smoldering sexuality of a door nob!
Orbach's ex-partner on "Law & Order," Noth might be an interesting
choice.
Nic Cage? For the love of God, NO, unless they want to turn Joe into a
raving loon!
The guy would have to be an unknown as well as the girl they get for
Marilyn. But, the casting won't be worth a lick unless the script is
good, and judging by what the guy who wants to do this has done (his
latest "effort" being the lame "Sonny & Cher" TV flick), I ain't exactly
holding my breath!