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 Obi-Wan's Brown Cloak Sells for $104,000 |
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Wednesday, March 07 2007 @ 09:53 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The brown hooded cloak worn by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the "Star Wars" films — and then forgotten for years in a warehouse — sold for $104,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder Tuesday at an auction of movie and TV memorabilia.
Audience members raised their paddles in rapid succession as costumes flashed across TV screens at Bonhams, a British auctioneer, as staff fielded phone bids from all over the world. When the hammer dropped on a Bond girl's cat-suit or Anthony Hopkins' army uniform, men in dark blazers whispered the prices into their cell phones.
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| No $3,900 Curry for Kanye West |
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Wednesday, March 07 2007 @ 09:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Kanye West is not eating any $3,900 curry, his management said Tuesday. The British Raj restaurant had said that a music promotion company was paying that princely sum, plus travel and accommodation for the restaurant's head chef, to send a fully cooked Indian meal from Wales to New York for a meeting with West and seven guests.
But the music star's publicist said West wasn't planning to be in New York during the week, and that the food wasn't for him.
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| Rosie Says She's Treated for Depression |
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Wednesday, March 07 2007 @ 09:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Rosie O'Donnell says she began being treated for depression after the Columbine school shootings and hangs upside down for up to a half-hour a day to improve her mental state.
When gunmen killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, O'Donnell said she felt as if it had happened to her children.
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| Radcliffe to Reprise Harry Potter Role |
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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 09:03 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in the final two "Harry Potter" films, Warner Bros. said Monday. Radcliffe, who plays the bespectacled schoolboy wizard in the Hollywood adaptations of J.K. Rowling's novels, will reprise the role in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
Warner Bros. will release the fifth installment — "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" — on July 13, a week before the book "The Deathly Hallows" is released. The show dates for the last two movies haven't been announced.
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| TV Networks Embrace the YouTube Model |
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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 09:02 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Ever conscious of a good trend, TV networks and advertisers are increasingly adopting the YouTube model of viewer-created content.
VH1, currently airing the third season of "Web Junk 20," will next month premiere the Jack Black-produced "Acceptable TV," which attempts to fuse TV with the Web. In February, Nickelodeon debuted a two-hour programming block called "ME:TV," featuring contributions from 10-year-olds. TLC last week began a six-part documentary series, "My Life as a Child," where children were given cameras to videotape their lives.
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| 'Spider-Man 3' to Make Debut in Japan |
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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 09:02 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
"Spider-Man 3" will make its worldwide debut in Japan on May 1, three days before the action film opens in the United States, Sony Pictures Entertainment said.
A star-studded premiere will be held April 16 at a Tokyo cinema. Those expected to attend include director Sam Raimi, series creator Stan Lee, and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
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| Biker Romp 'Wild Hogs' Debuts at No. 1 |
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Monday, March 05 2007 @ 09:48 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The biker buddy comedy "Wild Hogs" and its ensemble cast of John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy and Tim Allen was the weekend box office champ with a $38 million take, according to studio estimates Sunday.
It was Walt Disney Co.'s biggest March opening ever. It was also the largest-ever debut for the 53-year-old Travolta as well as the best non-animated movie debut for Allen, who is also 53. Macy turns 57 next week and Lawrence turns 42 next month.
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| Bobby Brown Bails on Radio Interview |
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Monday, March 05 2007 @ 09:47 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Almost as soon he was sprung from jail by a radio station's money, Bobby Brown and Hot 99.5 FM bailed on the deal.
The 38-year-old R&B singer spent three nights in a Massachusetts jail last week for failing to pay child support. He was released after the station paid the $19,150 he owed on the condition that Brown appear on "The Kane Show" for a week. He was to discuss the case and how he could turn his life around during studio appearances beginning Monday.
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| Hepatitis a Scare at Hollywood Parties |
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Wednesday, February 28 2007 @ 09:38 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
An employee of Wolfgang Puck Catering diagnosed with the hepatitis A virus may have exposed guests at several events, including Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue party, health officials said.
The risk of illness was "quite low," but anyone who ate raw food at the magazine's Feb. 14 party was urged to receive a preventive shot by Wednesday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said Tuesday.
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| Combs Accused of Battery in Hollywood |
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Wednesday, February 28 2007 @ 09:37 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Sean "Diddy" Combs was accused of battery at a Hollywood hotel the day of the Academy Awards, police said Tuesday.
Police took a report from someone who accused Combs of battery at the famed Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.
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| Jackson 'Evaluating' Las Vegas Offers |
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Wednesday, February 28 2007 @ 09:36 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Michael Jackson is "reviewing and evaluating" proposals for his future including several offers to perform in Las Vegas, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, but he doesn't feel any pressure to make a quick decision. Raymone K. Bain confirmed that, after a period of globe-trotting, Jackson is currently living in Las Vegas.
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| Not 'Idol' Contestant in Sexual Images |
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 08:06 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
A close friend of "American Idol" semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her that were posted on the Internet last week.
The pictures include one of four women posing topless at the beach, their hands covering their breasts, and others of a woman engaged in a sexual act. The postings were anonymous.
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| Brown Ordered Jailed Until He Pays $19K |
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 08:05 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Bobby Brown was ordered on Monday to remain in a county jail until he pays $19,000 in late child support and court fees, his lawyer said. "We're diligently working on getting those funds available from outside sources," said Phaedra Parks, an attorney in Atlanta where Brown currently lives. Parks doubted Brown would get out of jail before Tuesday morning.
Parks said the rhythm-and-blues singer has been struggling to meet monthly payments to Kim Ward, of Stoughton, the mother of his two teenage children.
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| Scholars Criticize Jesus Documentary |
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Tuesday, February 27 2007 @ 08:05 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
To resolve the question of whether the remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene may have rested in two limestone boxes discovered in a Jerusalem suburb, the filmmakers of a new documentary took novel approaches — including turning to statisticians.
Some religious scholars and archaeologists, however, have not been convinced by the numbers.
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| Chong to Raise Money For 'Guru of Ganja' |
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 07:24 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Comedian Tommy Chong will help raise money to defend the self-proclaimed "Guru of Ganja," who is charged with growing hundreds of marijuana plants for a dispensary.
Chong, who starred with Cheech Marin in stoner movie classics "Up in Smoke" and "Nice Dreams," will appear at a $125-per-person event for Ed Rosenthal.
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| 'Ghost Rider' Scares Up $19.7 Million |
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 07:21 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The comic-book adaptation "Ghost Rider" burned the competition at the weekend box office, fending off a rush of new movies to rake in $19.7 million in its second week, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Sony film starring Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stuntman turned Satanic bounty hunter continued its momentum after debuting last week with $52 million over the four-day President's Day weekend, the biggest opening ever for that holiday.
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| Oscars for Al Gore Global Warming Film |
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 07:20 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Former vice president Al Gore used the success of his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" to expand his efforts to educate people about global warming — and to tell a few jokes.
The film turned Gore's road show about climate change into a film that won Academy Awards for best documentary and best song.
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| Smith's Mother Files Appeal to Burial |
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 07:19 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Anna Nicole Smith's estranged mother asked an appeals court Monday to overturn a judge's decision over who controls where the starlet should be buried.
Lawyers for Virgie Arthur want the 4th District Court of Appeal to reconsider Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin's tearful ruling Thursday that gave the attorney for the centerfold's infant daughter the right to decide the burial plans. That attorney said Smith should be laid to rest next to her son in the Bahamas.
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| 'The Departed' Wins Best-Picture Oscar |
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Monday, February 26 2007 @ 07:18 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Martin Scorsese's mob epic "The Departed" won best picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday and earned the filmmaker the directing prize that had eluded him throughout his illustrious career. Forest Whittaker won for best actor and Helen Mirren took the best actress trophy.
"Could you double-check the envelope?" said Scorsese, who had been the greatest living American filmmaker without an Oscar. He also had never delivered a best-picture winner before, despite crafting such modern masterpieces as "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas."
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| Spielberg Reality Show Set for May |
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Friday, February 23 2007 @ 06:56 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
A new TV series from Steven Spielberg and reality mogul Mark Burnett that offers aspiring filmmakers a $1 million studio contract will air this spring.
"On the Lot" debuts with an hourlong audition episode May 16 on Fox. The first films produced by 16 finalists will air in a two-hour episode on May 28, with four contestants eliminated the following night, the network said.
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