NIP/TUCK SPOILER ALERT!
As FX's Nip/Tuck goes into production on its third season today, it'll be looking a whole lot prettier. According to The Hollywood Reporter, inexplicably dumped Boston Legal beauty Rhona Mitra is joining the cast as a hush-hush recurring character that insiders hint will be a detective investigating the attack on Sean. In related news, series stars Julian McMahon and Dylan Walsh have both received bonuses in excess of a quarter of a million dollars. |
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MAKE A PRETTY PENNY
Brangelina's rollicking Mr. and Mrs. Smith made a killing at the box office this weekend, raking in $51 million and bumping Madagascar to No. 2. (with $17.1 million). Audiences weren't nearly so quick to warm to the screen's other thrill-seeking duo — kid flick Sharkboy and Lavagirl debuted in fifth place with a measly $12.5 million. Filling the blanks in the top five are Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (third place with $14.9 million) and The Longest Yard (fourth with $13.5 million). |
SCARLETT SEES RED
No matter what Vanity Fair prints in the Martha Stewart prison diaries in its August issue, readers are likely to be more interested in the story behind the cover story: Silver-screen sexpot Scarlett Johansson was reportedly supposed to be on the front page until the fallen domestic goddess booted her off. Wanna bet she takes the red swimsuit, too? |
NO BALL FOR CINDERELLA
According to the New York Post, although Russell Crowe was scheduled to join el presidente and his missus at the White House last Wednesday for a Cinderella Man screening, the actor cancelled the get-together following his arrest. No word on whether his regrets were phoned in. |
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
While the Jacko jury dickers over the dethroned king of pop's fate, Donald Trump has come to his defense, a mixed blessing if ever there was one. "If you look at [the accuser's] mother with the massages and the this and the that," the Apprentice moneybags told the New York Post, "I mean, give me a break." Profound stuff, that. |
AND PARIS THOUGHT SHE HAD PROBLEMS
The busboy who found — and kept — "Margaritaville" singer Jimmy Buffett's lost cell phone confessed to cops that his pals, clearly Mensa members all, may have used it to crank call Bill Clinton. The accused added that he and his posse checked out the address book while smoking pot, which we could have figured out for ourselves: Clear-headed, everybody knows it'd be easier to get a rise out of Hillary. |
WILL THE PAPARAZZI NEVER LEARN?
In Iran over the weekend to cover the upcoming presidential election for The San Francisco Chronicle, Sean Penn temporarily had his camera taken away. To further irritate the short-fused Clark Kent, officials suggested that maybe Jude Law wasn't such a great actor. |
AN UNPOPULAR VIEW
Since Barbara Walters revealed on The View that the sight of a mother breastfeeding her child next to her on a flight made her "uncomfortable," she's been under attack by women in favor of the practice. Randy teenage boys are also really, really ticked. |
KEEPIN' IT REAL
MTV has given the go-ahead to a buttload of new reality shows to fill the air during those rare instances when a Real World marathon isn't on. Among the series insuring we'll never see another music video on music television again: The Reality Show (billed as a "reality search competition"), Parental Control (a dating program) and Bad Dads, Phat Mums (an English import whose title we prefer not to dwell on). |
