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 Jet Li Says he Struggles With Love Scenes |
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Tuesday, January 16 2007 @ 06:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Action star Jet Li says he struggles with love scenes in his movies because of his introverted personality.
Li made the comment in his Web log while shooting the Chinese-language martial arts epic "Ci Ma (Piercing Horse)," in which his character becomes romantically involved with the character played by Chinese actress-director Xu Jinglei.
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| Aniston to Guest Star on Cox's New Show |
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Tuesday, January 16 2007 @ 06:51 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Jennifer Aniston is rejoining Courteney Cox on prime time, but this time they're anything but friends.
Aniston, 37, guest stars in the season finale of Cox's new FX Networks show, "Dirt," the network said Monday. She plays Tina Harrod, a rival magazine editor of Cox's ruthless tabloid queen, Lucy Spiller.
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| 'Lost' Producers Discuss Series' End |
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Monday, January 15 2007 @ 07:47 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Makers of the tropical island drama "Lost" say they're talking with ABC executives about setting an end date for the series.
There's no sense the finale is coming anytime soon. But knowing they have a deadline will help writers of the convoluted drama lay out how they want the story to end, producers said Sunday in a meeting with TV critics here.
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| Dance Film Stomps 'Museum' at Box Office |
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Monday, January 15 2007 @ 07:45 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The dance flick "Stomp the Yard" was a step ahead of the competition at the box office, debuting as the No. 1 weekend movie with $22 million.
Starring Columbus Short as a raw but talented dancer at the center of a step competition between rival college fraternities, the Sony Screen Gems movie knocked off 20th Century Fox's "Night at the Museum," which had been the top film for three straight weekends.
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| O.J.: Chapter is Not a Murder Confession |
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Monday, January 15 2007 @ 12:50 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
O.J. Simpson says a chapter from his unpublished book that hypothesizes how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend was created mostly from a ghostwriter's research and is not a confession.
"I'm saying it's a fictional creation," Simpson said Sunday in a telephone interview. "It has so many (factual) holes in it that anybody who knew anything about it would know that I didn't write it."
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| Brown's 5-Year-Old Son Left Out of Will |
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Friday, January 12 2007 @ 09:18 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The 5-year-old child of James Brown and his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, is not included in the will read Thursday to six of the entertainer's children, attorneys for the late singer say.
While the will provides for six children, Hynie's son, James Jr., is not one of those listed in the document, attorney Strom Thurmond Jr. told The Associated Press.
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| Widow Says Irwin Death Tape Destroyed |
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Friday, January 12 2007 @ 09:18 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
All footage of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's death has been destroyed, his widow said.
Terri Irwin told TV's "Access Hollywood" in an interview airing this week that the tape was destroyed when it was no longer needed for the investigation into his death.
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| iTunes to Sell Short Films From Sundance |
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Friday, January 12 2007 @ 09:17 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Nearly half of the short films being screened at this month's Sundance Film Festival will be available for purchase at Apple's iTunes store under a deal announced Friday.
The digital downloads will supplement the free streaming at Sundance's Web site, which will offer the shorts for only a three-month period beginning Jan. 18, the start of the festival in Park City, Utah. The iTunes downloads are expected to be available for three years and once purchased will play for at least the life of the owner's computer.
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| Croc Hunter's Daughter Makes TV Debut |
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Friday, January 12 2007 @ 09:14 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Bindi Irwin, the 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, followed in her dad's footsteps Thursday, using her American television debut to talk about animals.
The khaki-clad girl skipped across the stage holding a blue-tongued lizard as she greeted audiences of the "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
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| Walters Calls Trump 'Poor, Pathetic Man' |
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Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 06:53 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Donald Trump has called Barbara Walters a liar and Rosie O'Donnell a loser. On Wednesday, they both fired back. "Well, he's at it again," said O'Donnell, referring to a letter written to her by Trump and reported Tuesday by the media. The letter said Walters had told him that working with O'Donnell on ABC's "The View" is like "living in hell."
"That poor, pathetic man," said Walters, drawing whoops of approval from her TV audience.
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| Lost's Matthew Fox Talks About His Dark Side |
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Thursday, January 11 2007 @ 06:52 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Matthew Fox, who plays the heroic Dr. Jack Shephard on ABC's castaway drama "Lost," has a dark side. "I'm a liar and a cheat and a thief and the ultimate manipulator. ... I tell lies every day, man," the 40-year-old actor says in the February issue of Men's Journal magazine. "And when I say I'm phenomenally manipulative, I am."
Fox, who is now starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in "We Are Marshall," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, says he "can be unapologetically vicious" and is "absolutely an instigator."
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| James Brown's Body Has Not Been Buried |
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 06:11 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The body of soul singer James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including where he will be laid to rest.
For now, his body lies in a sealed casket in his home on Beech Island, said Charles Reid, manager of the C.A. Reid Funeral Home in Augusta, Ga., which handled the services.
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| Spears, Hilton Tie For 'Worst Dressed' |
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 06:09 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Dubbed "style-free and fashion deprived," Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tied for the No. 1 spot on Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual "Worst Dressed" list released Tuesday.
"Two peas in an overexposed pod," Blackwell said of the skimpy attire worn by the two celebutantes he called the "Screamgirls."
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| Golden Tomatoes for `Casino' and `Queen' |
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 06:09 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
"Casino Royale" and "The Queen" are more than just two of 2006's most favorably reviewed films - on Wednesday they became winners of the eighth annual Golden Tomato Awards.
The Golden Tomato Awards honor the best-reviewed films of the year as determined by the Web site RottenTomatoes.com, which compiles reviews from print, online and broadcast film critics to measure the percentage of favorable critiques.
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| Trump Widens War With Rosie O'Donnell |
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 06:08 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
A reported backstage confrontation, Donald Trump calling Barbara Walters a liar, the developer's feud with Rosie O'Donnell is a gift that keeps on giving for gossip columnists. And it can't get any tougher for the broadcast legend caught in the middle.
Trump sent a letter to O'Donnell on Tuesday, distributed by the TV show "The Insider," saying Walters told him in a private conversation that working with O'Donnell is "like living in hell."
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| Piven and Cusack Friendship May Be Over |
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Wednesday, January 10 2007 @ 06:06 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
Jeremy Piven played second banana to his friend John Cusack until his recent breakthrough in HBO's "Entourage," winning an Emmy Award last year for his role as sharklike agent Ari Gold.
Now Piven and Cusack, who studied acting at Chicago's Piven Theatre Workshop, which was run by Piven's parents, appear to be on the outs, or so Piven suggests in an interview in the February issue of Best Life magazine, on newsstands Friday.
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| O'Reilly and Colbert Will Trade Appearances |
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Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 11:07 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
It may feel like looking into the mirror for Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert next week.
The Fox News Channel host and Colbert, who has essentially based his comic character every evening on Comedy Central on him, will trade appearances on each other's programs Jan. 18.
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| Cartoonist Who Created Scooby-Doo Dies |
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Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 08:29 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
In a career that spanned more than six decades, Iwao Takamoto assisted in the designs of some of the biggest animated features and television shows, including "Cinderella," "Peter Pan," "Lady and the Tramp" and "The Flintstones."
But it was Takamoto's creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, that captivated audiences and endured for generations.
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| Man Waives Oprah Extortion Case Hearing |
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Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 08:27 AM CST 0 comments Post a comment
The case against an Atlanta man reportedly accused of trying to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey is likely headed to a grand jury.
Keifer Bonvillain, 36, was scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate on Monday but waived the preliminary hearing, said Randall Samborn, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.
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