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Flotsam & Jetsam
New Melrose Place To Be Sexy, Full Of Puns
12:32AM Richard Lawson | Today we have some small casting news about a Full House actor. More news about Tyler Perry. Also some stuff about Denzel Washington. But mostly we’re talking about Melrose Place. That’s mostly what we’re into these days. More »
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The Humiliation Of Amy Adams
12:46AM Richard Lawson | Law & Order: SVU will keep solving sex crimes, Amy Adams will embarrass herself, and strange casting could make for good television. More »
Gated Community, Nannies’ Shortcuts in Turmoil as A-Listers Go to War
3:19AM STV | To hell with the SAG strike: The real feud set to engulf Hollywood’s acting community is simmering in the tony enclave of Beverly Park. There, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington and Sylvester Stallone are just a few of the heavy-hitters embroiled in what has come to be known simply as GateGate. More »Josh Hartnett Latest In Long List Of Celebs To Make Ill-Fated Decision To Dabble In Theatre
10:25AM Molly Friedman | Radar reports that our favourite box office trailblazer, Josh Hartnett, has finally given up hope of nailing zingers on 30 Rock or appearing in a mildly successful movie and moved on to simpler pursuits: the London theatre. In a role that will certainly pay homage to Tom Cruise’s former career as an actor, Hartnett will appear as Rain Man’s Charlie Babbit opposite a less-heartthrobby Brit filling Dustin Hoffman’s pigeon-toed shoes. Most interesting of all? Hartnett manages to say, “It has always been my intent to work on the London stage,” without laughing. But the bigger question remains (ahem, Katie Holmes): why do movie stars assume tackling the theatre will be a breezy little side-job guaranteed to build acting cred? The track records of Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, and David Schwimmer beg to differ, after the jump. More »
Embattled Wesley Snipes Likened To Unifying Tree By Loyal Friends Denzel And Woody
9:03AM Seth | The Smoking Gun has uncovered yet another gem in Wesley Snipes’s “Oops! I failed to pay $38 million to the IRS—but isn’t that what the 861 Argument loophole is really there for? It isn’t? Well, then, you’re all racist!” Trial of the Century, reprinting two character reference letters recently penned by Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson. (You may recall that Snipes was acquitted of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges, but was convicted of a lesser count of failing to file tax returns, punishable by a potential jail term of up to 3 years.) More »
Brian Grazer Puts ‘American Gangster’ On His Back, Carries It Into Theatres Himself
6:00AM Defamer Hollywood | When roughly $25 million worth of Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington fans show up at the multiplex on long-gestating, twice-aborted Universal feature American Gangster’s opening weekend, not even the succession of credits reading “Produced by Brian Grazer,” “Based On An Idea By Brian Grazer To Do A Movie About A Magazine Article About A Drug Kingpin From The 70s” and “A Ridley Scott Film Shepherded By Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Who Simply Refused To Let This Crazy Dream Die” will give moviegoers an adequate appreciation of the Herculean efforts undertaken by the spikey-haired superproducer to finally bring his passion project to the screen. The LAT chronicles the mogul’s heroism in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles (budget overruns! eight-figure kill fees! cost-controlling script rewrites that ripped the very soul out of the story!), here recounting the dark moment when a momentarily defeated Grazer had to tell original director Antoine Fuqua that Gangster had been shelved: The loss cut deep. More »
