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Wild About Movies BLOG Your Hollywood Gossip Page, Including photos of "Nicole Kidman Naked" Updated December 2007 "Nicole Kidman Naked" Photos Below "Nicole Kidman Interview - The Golden Compass"
Kitty Kelley's first written invective was directed towards Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis. "Jackie Oh!" was an instant NY Times Best Seller. Everyone from Elizabeth Taylor to Frank Sinatra to Nancy Reagan has since been ripped a new one by Kelley! And each of her books have done brisk business - since everyone loves gossip, even if it doesn't have a hint of truth to it? (Do you actually believe Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are a happily married, and sexually satisfied couple. And that Baby Suri is actually has any Tom Cruise DNA in her?) The first time Wild About Movies publisher Tim Nasson sat with Kitty Kelley was before the release of Kelley's "The Royals," which took on, well, The Royal Family. Nasson again sat with Kelly in September of 2004, just before the release of "The Family," a scathing, yet "brutally honest" (according to Kelley) peek into the lives of the Bush dynasty. Next up for Kelly? She tackles Oprah Winfrey. And she exclusively tells Tim Nasson, "I see Oprah Winfrey as probably the most powerful woman in our society. She has influenced every medium that she's touched. She personifies the American dreama and as such I see this biography as a book of hope and promise and success.... I think those are the virtues Oprah believes in and preaches and encourages her audiences to practice. Everyone has a different 'take' on this marvelously complicated woman so if you know anyone who's known her or worked with her, I'd love to hear from them." There you have it, or do you? If you do have anything on Oprah - good, bad or ugly - e-mail Tim Nasson and if the gossip sounds like it has even a hint of truth to it, he will forward it to Kelley, who just may be calling you!
J.K. Rowling, the series' author, announced the title on her website, today! The Queen loves "The Queen"
Ben Affleck's "Official Statement" December 14, 2006 We believe that Affleck actually put those words to paper, from the thoughts floating around in his very own brain about as much as we believe that he and Matt Damon actually wrote "Good, Will Hunting." You know that story! According to reliable sources, all around Hollywood, two-(or three)-time Academy Award winning screenwriter William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," and "All The President's Men") wrote the screenplay for "Good, Will Hunting," that Affleck and alleged "Good, Will Hunting" co-writer, Matt Damon won the Best Original Screenplay for, nearly a decade ago. Word is that Damon and Affleck brought a story idea to the Weinsteins, who, at the time, were heads of Miramax, and that the Weinstein Bros. loved the idea so much that they hired Goldman as ghost writer of "Good, Will Hunting," under the penalty of blacklisting, if not death, if he were to ever reveal the true author of the Oscar winning screenplay. Peter Boyle Dead at 71 December 13, 2006 Boyle, one of television's most famous grandfathers (and fathers), made America feel right at home every Monday night for eight years, at 9PM, when he stepped into the shoes of Frank Barone, whose famous catchphrase was "Holy Crap!" "Everybody Loves Raymond" ran for nine seasons, beginning in 1997, yet was not a bonafide hit until 1999. Boyle was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Emmy seven years in a row -1999-2005 - for his portrayal of Frank Barone, but, unfortunatley, never won! He did win an Emmy for appearing as a guest on "The X-Files" in 1996. Before his rise to fame on "Raymond," Boyle starred in a multitude of Academy Award winning films, including "Monster's Ball," opposite Heath Ledger and Halle Berry and "Taxi Driver," opposite Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster. Boyle is survived by his wife and two daughters. Broadcast Film Critics Announce Nominees December 12, 2006
New York & Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, and National Board of Review Awards
Golden Globe nominations are out Thursday and we will have them the minute they are announced. For now, click here to check to see if your favorite actors, and films have made the cut in the Biggest Three Awards Races. "The Departed" Wins Big December 10, 2006
For the complete list of winners... (continue) "2007 Oscars" December 8, 2006 Well, for starters, it would be a sin if the Best Picture/Best Director race wasn't against Martin Scorsese for "The Departed" and Mel Gibson for "Apocalypto." Why should Mel and his "Apocalypto" ride off into the fire with the statues? Simple. "Apocalypto" is as unique as they come and is the reason movie lovers dream of movies such as "Apocalypto." Helen Mirren has pretty much a lock on Best Actress for "The Queen." The only other sure-fire nominee from already released films; Meryl Streep from "The Devil Wears Prada." But this will be Helen's year! Want to read more WAM "Oscar 2007 Predictions" right now? Just click away...
DREAMGIRLS: December 1, 2006 Anyone who had hoped, wished or fantasized, that "Dreamgirls" the movie would be the "Chicago" to last year's bomb, "Rent," has anothet thing coming. "Dreamgirls," the movie based on the Tony winning 1980s musical, is so boring that most A list movie critics who have seen it, including Sara Edwards of Comcast News, thinks it is a movie of C-caliber status. " Love the first hour...then I was bored silly...and the song they added in to give Beyonce a "showcase" was too little too late. Jennifer [Hudson] is the star of that flick. So first hour gets an A, second hour a C. Beyonce still is wooden in her acting. Makes you miss the real Dreamgirl, Diana Ross." On a further note, Jennifer Hudson, who was in Seattle the other day, is trying to pull diva status - yes, the girl who was cast as one of the leads in "Dreamgirls," who was voted off "American Idol." According to inside reports at Paramount Pictures, "Hudson doesn't have enough time to do all of the interviews that she was scheduled for and a number of writers for daily newspapers had their one-on-one interviews canceled so that Hudson could make room for Newsweek Magazine." Wild About Movies publisher, Tim Nasson, who saw "Dreamgirls" the play, twenty years ago, and the movie, two weeks ago, says, "Dreamgirls is as horrible a movie production as 'Rent' was, and will, undoubtedly, make less money at the box office as 'Rent." Who knows? Nobody will care! Robert Altman: November 21, 2006 Altman, an admitted pot smoker, died not of heart disease, rather, cancer, which he had been diagnosed with 18 months ago. Altman is survived by his wife Kathryn and six children. Altman's last movie, "A Prairie Home Companion," starring among others, Meryl Streep and Lindsay Lohan, opened to mixed reviews earlier this year. Plans were already underway by Altman to start directing a new, however untitled movie, in February of 2007.
Rosie O'Donnell:
Eugene Levy & November 13, 2006
Christopher Guest, the writer, director and costar of the upcoming "For Your Consideration," and Eugene Levy, cowriter and costar of same film, were in Boston last week and Wild About Movies sat with them for an hour, discussing their careers from beginning to present. In addition to "For Your Consideration," an Oscar contender, we think, for Best Screenplay, Eugene Levy also stars in the fifth "American Pie: The Naked Mile." Is Eugene Levy naked in the straight to video, sure to be best selling Christmas DVD... Our interviews with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy go live Thursday. Do stay tuned. Borat: The Gay Sequel
According to our sources at Universal, they paid $45 million for the rights to produce "Bruno," - an uber-gay Austrian fashionista who fancies himself as "the voice of Austrian youth TV. The character first popped up in Cohen's TV series "Da Ali G Show." Sacha Baron Cohen, and his team, will earn a reported 15% of "Bruno's" grosses at the box office! On "Da Ali G Show" the bottle-blonde "Bruno" is seen travelling to trendy fashion shows all over the globe, where he pokes fun at guests and convinces them to make shocking comments about the industry. Let's hope Larry Charles, the director of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Borat," returns behind the camera.
The Rock, one year younger, and a lot hotter than Mr. Tim Nasson, was with a ravishing blonde bombshell, sipping Cosmos and eating the best pizza in Boston. How is Boston treating you?" asked Nasson, to The Rock." "Very, very well," said Mr. Johnson, to Mr. Nasson. (We should note that Mr. Johnson has put in an appearance at Davio's, one of Boston's Top 10 Best Restaurants, at least 8 times during his tenure in the city.) "You're Tim. Right?" asked Mr. Johnson to Mr. Nasson.
"Yes," replied Tim. "I remember you from the 'Gridiron Gang' junket in Los Angeles, a couple of months ago," said The Rock. Talk all you want. The Rock's movie, being shot in Boston, for the next 5 weeks, "The Game Plan," isn't in theaters until October 2007. Doogie Howser
"The public eye has always been kind to me, and until recently I have been able to live a pretty normal life. Now it seems there is speculation and interest in my private life and relationships. "So, rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love," reveals Harris to People Magazine, exclusively, the magazine of choice, lately, for coming out!
November 2, 2006 Come on. Isn't his ass, alone, worth keeping him around for? Reese, you ain't gonna get anything hotter, and you ain't getting any younger. Unless you're a lesbian and your hubby is actually a homosexual, you'd be wise to stay put! Just a little free advice from Wild About Movies.
Dr. McDreamy Or Dr. McHero
It’s become a black and white issue, literally. One, Isaiah Washington, is an alleged homophobe, and the other, Patrick Dempsey, seems to be not. Isaiah Washington called the newly self proclaimed homo, T.R. Knight, “a bitch" on the set of a recent "Grey's Anatomy" taping.Dr. Mc. Dreamy, Patrick Dempsey, stepped in and had a face-off with the black man. Dempsey, according to our sources, after the hate-crime comment towards Knight, (who we hear was known to be openly gay on the set, from day one), from Washington, got ‘up in his face’ to put him in his place. We hear, Dempsey, who is married with children, and not gay, said to Washington, who the jury is still out on, about his sexuality, “Bitch? You have never seen a bigger one than me. Shut the fuck up.”
The documentary style film, "Borat," with a cast of two, "Borat" and his assistant "Azamet," is a true "Candid Camera" meets "To Catch A Predator." Sascha Baron Cohen, a Jew, plays the character "Borat" as a third world country television reporter who comes to America under the guise of filming a documentary for his beloved homeland, Kazahkstan. While in the USA, and filming, the limited crew, told unsuspecting -soon to be made of big screen fools - that they were being filmed for a documentary that would only be shown in the former communist Russian state. Larry Charles, director and producer of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," stepped behind the camera of "Borat" - and a classic has been made. Wild About Movies publisher, Tim Nasson, interviews "Borat," in character, this weekend, and will bring you the offensive, hilarious exchange of words next week. "Borat" Let the Fist Fu#*ing Begin At a recent Phoenix screening, 350 unlucky souls were not only frisked going into the screening, but also on the way out, causing an exit delay of more than twenty minutes. Why? "Because there was a report of a person in the audience who had snuck in a camera phone taking a picture of the movie as it was playing on screen." No one was apprehended, since no camera phone was found upon exiting by the $5-an-hour rent a cops. Wild About Movies can think of a billion other ways 20th Century Fox could spend their lazily earned money. At the moment, Fox has posted not only the trailer of "Borat" on YouTube, but also a plethora of Deleted Scenes from the film, that normally wouldn't have been available until the DVD release. "She make special from milk from her tits," says Borat.
Truman Capote Is Dobby The House Elf October 16, 2006 Dr. McDreamy Becomes
Dwight from "The Office"
Shortbus Delivers At Box Office First Day In Release - Wednesday
John Cameron Mitchell Debuts Shortbus in Boston to Astounded VIP Audience September 29, 2006
"I think this was the best reception the movie has received, to date," said Mitchell, to Wild About Movies publisher Tim Nasson, after the screening. And in case you have been hiding under a bus, you should know by now that the movie has received raves from Roger Ebert, The Toronto Film Festival, The Cannes Film Festival and Time Magazine, not to mention its front page Arts cover story in the current Sunday NY Times. If you weren't one of the most fortunate to attend last night's premiere, WAM is sponsoring one more "Shortbus" screening in Boston (and many more, nationwide), so click away to enter to win a pair of passes! Get on the Shortbus: Not only are we proud to be sponsoring the screening, and pre-party, but we are happy to announce that we have hired a real 'shortbus,' the kind that takes the not so smart kids to school, to whisk away a few special WAM readers from the VIP pre-party to the U.S. premiere of Shortbus. If you think you have what it takes to make it on the VIP list and to get a ride on the real shortbus, to the "Shortbus" premiere, we hope with director John Cameron Mitchell on board, then e-mail us a RECENT JPG photo of yourself. We have room for two more, (plus you may bring one guest), so the pictures better be beautiful - and real (or you will be laughed away at the VIP party) - and beg like you have never begged before. Tell us why you you so deserve to be seen by all of the television cameras in Boston getting off the shortbus at the "Shortbus" premiere, in front of AMC Boston Common, tonight! Already, some of the VIPs include, Dr. McDreamy, we mean, Jeremy Abramson of Massachusetts General Hospital, and his beautiful lover, (a Dr. at Children's hospital); Thierry Kennel, GM of Boston's Four Seasons hotel, and his wife, Sophie; Charlie Guber, brother of Hollywood honcho Peter; George Mansour, Boston's oldest and wisest film booker; Stephen Pitcher, former GM of Loews Boston Common and current big shot at Utix.com; Dan Hagn, quite possibly the most beautiful boy in Boston, Janet Wu, and Boston Police Patrolman (also a hottie) Thomas Griffin. Start begging, now. Just e-mail wildaboutmovies3@aol.com
King attended the Boston critics screening of the Oscar caliber film yesterday, while at the same time, her cell phone went wild, (five loud rings), interrupting the riveted audience of about a dozen of her colleagues, including Wild About Movies publisher, Tim Nasson. After careening down the theater auditorium's steps to take her apparently life or death call, shouting "HELLO" into the phone for everyone in the theater to hear, she returned. But only for a few minutes. With more than thirty minutes of the film remaining King, acting as if she herself were HRH, The Queen, left the screening and never returned. We hope King either sees "The Queen" in its entirety, or at least the last thirty minutes she missed, before voting in the next Boston Society of Film Critics awards, this December. Because no one wants to fuck with "The Queen." SHORTBUS: Best Movie of 2006? What makes "Shortbus" a Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay contender? Tim Nasson, WAM publisher, thinks it is not only the film's unique ability to sexually arouse everyone in the audience, but also its complete and brutal honesty - including, but not limited to, the fact that it pretty much outs former NYC Mayor Ed Koch. "Shortbus" is a film that could best be described as the best episodes of "Desperate Houswives, "CSI," "Grey's Anatomy" and the movie "Brokeback Mountain," mixed together in a blender, with a large dose of reality, real life! What is the reality? Well, for starters, "Shortbus," is the first feature film that will be released in commercial movie theaters that shows - in its first five minutes - a man beating off and then, with the help of some yoga tricks, cumming into his own mouth, (yes, we swear); a dominatrix beating the shit out of her heterosexual subject; a heterosexual couple fucking, the male cumming, yet unable to make his wife cum - and, what we learn later, who has yet to ever cum in her life. However, as with "Brokeback Mountain, " and the above mentioned television soaps, "Shortbus" is not a pornographic film. It is one that will move you to tears, throughout, literally, even though it does have a happy ending! It is a fly on the wall look into the lives of every day people, such as the 'former mayor of NYC,' who have yet to or already have come to terms with their innermost and deepest, darkest secrets. Once you get over the erect and fully functioning penises, the close up pussy shots, the REALITY of life - both hetero and homosexual - you will realize that "Shortbus" is quite possible the most realistic commercial film ever made. Vanity Fair's Major Faux Pas Involving Paramount Pictures September 18, 2006
What you probably didn't notice was the major embarassment that VF is going through in their current issue, in addition, to the nonsensical Tom Cruise/Suri feature. On page 239, in their Vanity Fair 100 (i.e., the VF 100 faves, not really anyone who deserves an accolade, let alone accolades) kiss-ass puff piece, they list Tom Freston at #17. (They list Cruise at #35, right above NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg.) For all not in-the-know, Freston, had, at the time of the current VF publication, been CEO of Viacom, which owns Paramount Pictures, MTV and BET and Comedy Central, etc., etc..
Sylvester Stallone: Coming to Boston?
Word has it, whether that word is true or not, that dad, Sylvester, will be alongside son, Sage, to introduce the film. If that's true, then the current Boston Film Festival will have hit its high note. Sixty year old Sylvester debuts his "Rocky Balboa," yes, the umpteenth "Rocky" movie, this Christmas.
Check back Saturday. And, yes, we know, we usually only update the "Blog" on weekdays. This will be a special occasion, as we will have exclusive photos from the rooftop party at... well, we are not revealing the hotel! Is Baby Suri Adopted?
On a recent flight from Dallas to Boston, Wild About Movies publisher sat next to a highly regarded doctor and got into the inevitable discussion of Baby Suri. (Full disclosure, Nasson's copy of "Vanity Fair," with Baby Suri on the cover, was lying on the seat divider/armrest between him and the Dr.). "She's kind of a cute baby," said the doctor, to Nasson, "But she shows clear signs of having fetal alcohol syndrome. Do some research. Just Google the subject and you'll see." So we did, and will now let you make your own decision. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. What this means, if in fact, Baby Suri is a victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, is that either Mommy Katie was drinking up a storm, (which we couldn't blame her for doing), or the baby is adopted, as all of other Cruise's kids are - and that the baby's birth mother was a lush. Katie Holmes"Heartbroken" Holmes says she feels compelled to read tabloid stories because, "This is my future. This is my family, and I care so much about them. To see how someone as caring and good as Tom is - to see how things just get so twisted and turned around. I mean, where does it come from?" Try looking in the mirror, honey, perhaps? The way you and your 'family' have been carrying on for the past year and a half. The former Dawson's Creek star was also humiliated by the media coverage she received when she was expecting adding, "(I) was overjoyed being pregnant, and then had to withstand ridicule about my pregnancy when it was the most normal, non-controversial thing imaginable."
Justin Timberlake:
So, we're guessing, since Cameron ain't gonna be bendin' down, perhaps Lance Bass will be the one sending her "Bye, bye, bye." We always thought Lance and Justin would make the cutest couple. But, which would be the top? Worst Movie Of The Year, So Far?
Might we add that "The Departed" junket, a movie shot almost entirely in Boston, and starring Boston's own Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon, would be a suitable candidate for a junket in Boston. Where is the junket going to be? NYC. According to one of our sources, "Martin Scorsese," who lives in Manhattan, "is happier to do press for 'The Departed' in NYC." Hmmm. Maybe because the movie is yet another WB stinker. It has been sitting on the shelf for OVER a year. Steve Irwin: The Crocodile Hunter
Nicole Kidman Pregnant?
Scarlett Johansson has angrily dismissed claims her steamy sex scene in new movie The Black Dahlia is an unnecessary distraction. The 21-year-old beauty plays the woman caught between cops Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart, who are investigating the real-life unsolved murder of a wannabe actress whose mutilated body was discovered in Los Angeles in 1947. In the film, Johansson enjoys a sizzling romp with Hartnett and critics have complained they found it difficult to concentrate following the raunchy scene. The blonde star retorts, "Of course it's nice to be considered sexy, as a young woman in my prime. But I try not to think about the sexiness. And I never think about it being distracting from a scene." The Brian De Palma movie has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival yesterday and opens nationwide, later this month. Britney Spears
K. Fed Finally Finds A Real Job
We know he "really, really, really" watches "Sesame Street," "Blues Clues" and "Dora The Explorer" with the child he miraculously produced - and who shows no apparent signs of brain damage, (although, that's to be debated since the poor living baby doll was dropped on her head by her mother a couple of months ago.) We're also pretty confident that Baby Britney helps explain the confusing parts of all of her and her dad's favorite shows in the ga-ga language he must be fluent in. On "CSI" Federline will play an arrogant teen in the episode, who harasses investigators Nick Stokes (George Eads) and Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) on a job. John Mark Karr To Be Released from Colorado Jail August 29, 2006 It's quite simple. The epitome of 'weirdo,' John Mark Karr, has had an agent (yes, a personal agent, that is currently shopping his story around Hollywood), following him around since his arrest in Thailand. Was his false confession to the Ramsey murder all a ploy to turn himself into a star, or to make a movie based on his horrific, false claims? Give this to John Mark Karr. He will certainly not be extradited back to Thailand from the United States to face the child pornography charges he had been arrested for in that country. And he got a Business Class trip back to the United States, courtesy of the good 'ole US of A. The guy may be a case study, but he is no fool.
Emmy Controversy? Conan's Plane Crashes! August 28, 2006 With the exception of that unfortunately timed skit this year's Emmy Award show scored a home run. O'Brien, who will take over "The Tonight Show" for Jay Leno in two years, proved he is worth the impending promotion! Poking fun at almost everyone in the news, including Mel Gibson: "There are so many movie stars doing TV shows, now. Keifer Sutherland on Fox. Martin Sheen on NBC. And Mel Gibson on Al-Jazeera," joked O'Brien. For a complete list of Emmy winners... Real Snakes In A Theater? August 25, 2006
Cruise Keeping Mum Tom Cruise Persona-Non-Grata @ Paramount Snakes On A Plane Box Office Poison August 22, 2006 With hopes of a $40+ million weekend, the New Line team was sorely disappointed Monday when, accounting for Friday through Sunday grosses, their "Snakes" came in behind the three week old "Talladega Nights," with less than $15 million and at #2. Doesn't look like there will ever be a "Snakes On A Boat," let alone a "Snakes On a Space Shuttle." The film will be lucky to earn $40 million in its entire theatrical run. We can just hear the clock ticking and almost picture the pink slips being written out. See this past weekend's Top 20 at the box office. Haley Joel Osment Drunk, High & Poor?
TSA Restrictions Useless On a trip from Boston to Las Vegas yesterday, Nasson, wearing a pair of khaki pants, forgot that he had a tube of Lab Series for Men Lip Balm and a bottle of contact lens rewetting drops in one of his pockets. He realized he had snuck through 'security' with both items, while on the plane he instinctively reached for his rewetting drops and Lip Balm. Will breast implants be next? God knows what kind of tie-up that would cause at security! Not to mention the number of seats that would remain vacant.
Wild About Movies has learned that Mr. Reese Witherspoon (Ryan Phillippe) is thisclose to signing on for the role of Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the upcoming "Batman Begins" sequel. We're sure Mrs. Witherspoon will make him sign on the dotted line ASAP. She seriously needs some mommy time with the kids after paying the bills - on her own - for the past few years, choosing parts in both winners and stinkers, alike: "Walk The Line," "Just Like Heaven," "Legally Blonde 2," "Vanity Fair" and "Sweet Home Alabama." And that was just 2002-2005. In that same time period Mr. Reese Witherspoon apparently was home raising the kids he produced, having filmed bit parts in only two movies, including this year's Best Picture winner, "Crash." If the deal goes through, Mr. Reese Witherspoon will join Heath Ledger, who has already signed on to play The Joker, and new "Batman Christian" Bale in "The Dark Knight," which is the official title of the next "Batman" movie - a movie we're sure Warner Bros. can't make fast enough, with "Superman Returns" being the bomb it was this summer. Two-time Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner Michael Caine and (one-time) Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Morgan Freeman have also joined the cast. Philip Seymour Hoffman, reigning Oscar queen, is in talks to play The Penguin. If you can't wait a year to see Phillippe's double personality, fret not. You can see him in uniform and in the lead of Clint Eastwood's upcoming (October 2006) film, "Flags Of Our Fathers." Peter Berg Involved August 16, 2006
Wild About Movies spoke to someone who was on the set of The Kingdom the day assistant propmaster Nick Papac was killed. We have learned that the twenty-five year old, whose father is a propmaster in Hollywood, was hit by director Peter Berg's Cadillac Escalade, Saturday, August 12, 2006. According to our source, filming had ended and Berg's driver was bringing him back to his hotel. According to the official press release from Universal, "Nick Papac crashed his golf-cart-like vehicle into a sport utility vehicle carrying the director of the film." But this contradicts what our source told us—that "the Escalade hit Nick's golf cart." "Nick was driving a golf cart on a closed section of the Loop 202 [highway]," says our source, "picking up signs and license plates that were written in Arabic—signs that had been used all day during filming. All of a sudden, the Escalade hits Nick's golf cart, he goes flying and splits his head open, blood flowing everywhere. What I don't understand is, even though Peter Berg wasn't driving, how no charges have yet been filed against the driver for reckless driving. This was not an accident. There were no other vehicles on the road, except the two involved in the wreck. How the driver could not have seen the golf cart is beyond me," said our source. If this turns into a vehicular homicide case, Universal, the studio releasing the movie, may have wished they had used camels instead of golf carts when all is said and done. The Kingdom, starring Jennifer Garner and Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx, is set in the Arabian desert. The crew was filming the desert scenes on a stretch of highway outside of Phoenix, Arizona.
Conan O'Brien Isn't Laughing
Conan O'Brien, who will host NBC's telecast of the August 27 Emmy Awards, isn't laughing. Actually, he is pretty pissed off and has criticized ABC's decision to air "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" against it. (ABC is owned by Disney, and ain't paying a dime to show the prequel to this year's #1 movie). In all of Emmy history, rival networks have held to a gentleman's agreement to give the Emmys telecast a wide berth by airing series reruns against it -- particularly since their own stars and programs are up for awards. But ABC was allegedly pissed that its top-rated soaps, "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," were virtually ignored by TV academy voters this year and therefore decided to mount some strong competition. O'Brien commented, "It just isn't done." He pointed out that the strategy could backfire against ABC's only show in the Emmy running, "Grey's Anatomy, which was nominated in 11 categories. "ABC is pretty much saying, 'No one watch the Emmys! Screw you, Grey's Anatomy!'" O'Brien remarked. This year, the awards were moved to August for the first time in hopes of avoiding competition from NBC's Sunday-night football telecasts. Disney Stands By Mel Gibson August 14, 2006 Mark Wahlberg Wild About Movies has had a busy weekend. First, we sat with the cast of the upcoming "Hollywoodland," including Academy Award winners Ben Affleck and Adrien Brody and Academy Award nominee Diane Lane. And, today, with Mark Wahlberg for his upcoming Disney movie, "Invincible." (Wahlberg also stars in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," later this year). Our exclusive interviews arrive later this week. For now, enter to win a pair of passes to Free Advance Movie Screenings of both films. Liz Taylor's Nose Job
Fox Fuck Up?
OK. Well, Disney most likely will get the last laugh, as every Walden Media film, other than "Narnia," has been a Hirsohima size bomb. The worst being this year's "Hoot," released by New Line, which, to date, is the biggest bomb of the year at the box office! We are placing our bets on "How To Eat Fried Worms," too, being a stinker of epic proportions and New Line wishing they had left well enough alone! Focus Features Defying Conventional Wisdom:
As part of a multi-platform distribution and marketing effort for the new documentary feature film "The Ground Truth," Focus Features, yes, the studio behind the Best Picture Oscar loser "Brokeback Mountain," has decided to release the film in theaters on September 15th and immediately thereafter on DVD. "The Ground Truth," (to which Focus acquired worldwide rights this past spring) will be released theatrically to Landmark Theatres cinemas in at least a half-dozen cities (including New York, Boston and Los Angeles), on Friday, September 15th for a minimum of one week. Universal Studios Home Entertainment (parent company to Focus Features) will then issue a special edition DVD on Tuesday, September 26th. Marking the four-year anniversary of the U.S. presence in Iraq, nationwide community screenings of The Ground Truth will be held in local churches, libraries, hospitals, recreational centers, and living rooms on Wednesday, October 11th. Discussion guides and resource guides will be distributed. Jim Schamus, Focus Features CEO said, “We want as many people as possible to be able to see and hear The Ground Truth. We are stepping outside the industry box for the release pattern on this movie.”
Larry Hagman August 8, 2006
Home Alone August 7, 2006 Die Hard 4 August 4, 2006
Mel Gibson August 2, 2006 Dakota Fanning Nicolas Cage
The "Leaving Las Vegas" Best Actor Oscar winner is stepping into the sequined jackets and fanciful shoes of the late, gay Liberace, who passed away in 1987 at the age of sixty-eight. "I am producing and starring in a film that will concentrate on the most successful years of 'Liberace's' life," says Cage, referring to the singer's forties and fifties, when he was listed in The Guiness Book of World Records as the world's highest paid musician, and when he consistently sold out shows in Las Vegas. Cage has yet to select a director. The walking and talking Sally Sue, Liberace, vehemently denied he was gay throughout his life. He was, however, sued by a long-time, live-in lover in the early 80s, after they broke up - for more than $100 million.
Law & Order And Chances are that you have not yet seen "World Trade Center," (unless you were one of the hundreds of lucky folks to attend special advance screenings sponsored by Wild About Movies), since it isn't in theaters until August 9th. However, when you do, you will, if you're a "Law & Order" fan, notice at least twenty of the supporting cast members from "Law & Order" episodes. "The show [L&O]," says Oliver Stone, the film's director, "is shot in NYC, as was much of 'World Trade Center.' All of the 'Law & Order' actors, most, are residents of New York." And since much of 'World Trade Center,' the scenes not shot at the Los Angeles hangar (once owned by Howard Hughes), was filmed in NYC and neighboring New Jersey, it was a no brainer to hire local, tried-and-true talent. Clerks 2 Under Suspicion
If you read the June 30 WAM Blog, (scroll down, it's not that hard), then you shouldn't be shocked. We brought you the news, first. Kevin Smith, "Clerks 2" director, was adament about adding 10,000, actually, the first 10,000 people to join his moronic MySpace page, onto the "Clerks 2" credits. Yes, the official credits. If you know anything about imdb.com, then you know how important credits have become to any REAL movie star, director, producer, writer - um, anyone who had any REAL contribution to a fucking movie. Well, imdb might actually give Smith the finger he so deserves, and deny his 10,000 MySpace loser "FRIENDS" a space on the actual REAL credits of "Clerks 2." Wild About Movies July 26, 2006 It was bound to happen. No? Wild About Movies going to the dogs? Well, we have. And it's all because of "Lassie." Yes, the "Lassie" that saved Timmy from how many near-deaths, during her twenty year run on television - from 1954 through 1974? Well not only is "Lassie" back on the big screen, this fall, with the help of Oscar winner Peter O'Toole, Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton and Peter Dinklage but we have a way for you to enter for a chance to win a trip to Hollywood to not only meet "Lassie" but a chance for your dog to appear on a soon-to-be taped "Lassie" television special. What else? Bags and bags of Free Dog Food, and a chance to win a "Lassie" DVD compilation. Click here. Kathy Griffin: July 25, 2006 Privates of the Caribbean In One Theater Only
Oliver Stone July 20, 2006 Oliver Stone World Trade Center
Wild About Movies, which has offices in Boston and Phoenix was planning on sitting down with World Trade Center director Oliver Stone, Thursday, in Phoenix, where he was supposed to be - at The Ritz Carlton. We even invited 200 WAM VIPs to a Free Advance Screening in Phoenix that we're sponsoring, tonight, with the news that Oliver Stone would be introducing the film. For one reason or another, which we will get to the bottom of, Stone nixed the Phoenix trip. So - Wild About Movies, at the moment, is en route to Seattle, of all places, to sit and chat with the director about the film that many are calling a shoo-in for a Best Picture nomination at the next Oscars! We'll let you know if that's the case after we see it tonight. As for the 200 WAM VIPs with tickets to the World Trade Center screening tonight in Phoenix? Good news and bad! The good news is that the movie screening has not collapsed, it's still on. The bad news, for those who wanted to meet Stone, is that he ain't gonna be there!
While the U.S. could never find even one WMD, it seems that studios can't find anyone to buy their UMD. Target department stores removed movies in the UMD format from its shelves last week. UMD (Universal Media Disc) cartridges can only be watched in Sony's PlayStation Portable devices, in all their two-inch glory. In recent weeks, there have been reports that the cartridges have found few - if any - buyers. Some are now suggesting that Wal-Mart, the nation's largest home-video retailer, may be the next to clear out its UMD supply. More even than what the studios will be doing with all the abandoned UMDs, we are wondering what will become of the genius studio executives who gave the greenlight to this brilliant idea?
Kathy Griffin
Animated Angelina July 12, 2006 Dirty Movies
South Park Earns Emmy Nod
The controversial "Trapped In The Closet" episode of South Park, which poked fun at Tom Cruise, is the episode which earned creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone an Emmy Awards nomination last week. The parody, which questioned Cruise's (homo)sexuality and mocked his Scientology beliefs, was caught up in controversy when it first aired last November, and reportedly helped lead to South Park regular Isaac Hayes, a fellow Scientologist, quitting the show. Wild About Movies heard, last year, that if Comedy Central did not pull the plug on any/all future repeats of the episode that Cruise would refuse to do any publicity for the film release of "Mission Impossible 3." (Viacom owns Comedy Central and Paramount, which released "MI3.") Seems, though, that all the publicity in the world didn't help the movie. And rather than steer clear of the controversy, brave Emmy voters have embraced the daring "South Park" installment, declaring it worthy of a nod. The controversial episode hasn't been repeated but we're betting with the dismal box office returns of "MI3" and the fact that the episode is an Emmy nominee, that Viacom will now tell Tom Cruise to eat - Mr. Hanky - and die. (Update: Comedy Central, perhaps because of this Blog entry, has decided to reschedule the "Trapped In The Closet" episode on Comedy Central, July 19. TiVo it!) Nicole & The Fly WAM Thinks Not July 9, 2006
Wild About Movies is the first to wonder why Nicole Richie (the adopted daughter of Lionel) is 'feuding' with richer, and sluttier "Simple Life" co-star, Paris Hilton. But, word has it, which we do not believe for a half of iota, unless we are led to believe that Jeff Goldblum really needs some publicity, that Nicole Richie is rumoured to be dating Goldblum, after the couple were 'seen out and about together' in Hollywood. Wild About Movies, which has been bunkered down at The Four Seasons @ Beverly Hills for the past ten years, almost every weekend, has not seen, nor heard of a Nicole & Goldblum sighting, ever.
Dakota Fanning
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has often been accused of being an old-man's club that is out of touch with the sensibilities of young filmmakers, has invited 120 actors, directors, producers, composers and other young industry members to fill the vacancies of those who have died or retired. (Yes, once an Academy member, a member till death). Among those invited to join the group that hands out the Oscars each year is the 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning. Does that mean that we will be subjected to a plethora of kids being nominated next year? Maybe Abigail Breslin for "Little Miss Sunshine?" Wild About Movies has interviewed Fanning a few times and she does, in fact, watch R-rated movies. Others inductees include actors Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Dolly Parton, Keira Knightley and Rachel Weisz; German director Werner Herzog; composer Dario Marianelli; producer Cathy Schulman; screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière; and Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. We don't have the list of the deceased whose shoes they are filling.
Kathy Griffin, a Wild About Movies fave, whose biggest movie to date, we might add, is "Pulp Fiction," has been banned from "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Now, we can't figure it out. Ellen, a lesbian, who knows what it's like to have the wrath of God on her, is banning one of the comedy circuit's most talented, for what? "Because I talk trash about certain celebrities," says Griffin. Since when has it been a crime to tell the truth or what's on your mind - about anyone ? We will have you know, also, that KG was once a guest on Ellen's sit-com (in 1996, two years before Ellen 'came out'), but all of Hollywood and the gay community knew she was a, well, lesbo. We think Kathy knows when to open her mouth and when to not. "I'm banned from The Ellen DeGeneres Show which makes me sad because I'm a real admirer of hers. Apparently the show said, 'Well, we can't have you talking trash about celebrities, and our audience is friendlier than that. I am fascinated by how celebrities, by and large, don't have a good sense of humor about themselves, and yet they're so ridiculous," says Griffin.
Esteemed film critic (and screenwriter of "Beyond The Valley of the Dolls") Roger Ebert is recovering in a Chicago, Illinois hospital following emergency surgery. The 64-year-old, famed for his stubby "thumbs up, thumbs down" movie ratings, is in a serious but stable condition in the city's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Doctors operated on him this past weekend following complications from an earlier procedure to remove a cancerous growth from his salivary gland. His wife Chaz Ebert (and to think we thought her tubby hubby, Roger, was gay) says, "Roger is stable and responding well. Roger and I are so grateful for your prayers and support. Please give the big guy the space and time needed to recover until he is ready to use those thumbs again." Ebert, who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, has undergone four cancer surgeries in the past few years. All kidding aside, WAM wishes Ebert the best of luck in his recovery. FYI - Ebert's original movie debater, Gene Siskel, ("Siskel & Ebert"), died in 1999 following complications from brain surgery. A poll of moviegoers indicates that 83 percent of those who see ten or more movies per year in theaters also "frequently" or "sometimes" buy the DVD of many of the same movies, the New York Times reported yesterday. The study, conducted by Nielsen Entertainment, concluded that seeing movies in the theater and at home "are not mutually exclusive occurrences" and appears to boost arguments by theater owners that they would be harmed significantly if movies were released in theaters and on DVD simultaneously. Only thirty-six percent said they would skip the theater. Keith Richards Rob Schneider July 2, 2006 Hasselhoff Slices Open Hand
See Your Name On The Big Screen The Weinstein Company announced that beginning today, MySpace members will have the chance to have their names permanently listed in the ending credits of “Clerks II.” The first 10,000 people to add the “Mooby’s Presents: Clerks II” page to their friends list will automatically be permanently added to the ending credits of the film, both in theaters and on DVD. We wonder if that also means that IMDB will pick up the names and add them to their never ending database! Kevin Smith said, "I've been a total MySpace junkie since March of this year, and have given up countless hours to the ten-at-a-time art of friend-approving. For MySpace to let "Clerks II" into their "top 8," so to speak, is not only a major coup for the movie - it's like being able to say that I know Tom personally. Even though, y'know, I don't." Click here to get to work at becoming a wanna-be-star. Superman Returns June 30, 2006 Cannes Part Deux? Spider-Man 3 It's true. You will get your first glimpse of "Spider-Man 3" on the big screen, before "Superman Returns." Wild About Movies has learned that Sony Pictures has secured trailers of "Spider-Man 3" on all prints of "Superman Returns," now in theaters. OR, you can watch it right now, right here, for free. And, yes, SPIDER-MAN dons a black and white suit in the next movie, which you will see when watching the trailer... (continue)
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Its official. And, unfortunately, final. It won't be in theaters until at least 2009, perhaps not until 2010. But count on getting your hands on a copy of the final installment of the "Harry Potter" book,
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" sometime in 2007. 
Peter Boyle, most famous for the beloved television character Frank Barone on "Everybody Loves Raymond," died yesterday at the age of 71, after a history of multiple myeloma and heart disease.
Robert Altman, who stunned the world, by announcing he had had a heart transplant nearly a decade ago, while receiving an honorary Oscar at this year's Academy Awards (March 2006), died yesterday at age 81. He never won the Best Director Oscar, though he was nominated for it numerous times. Wild About Movies publisher, Tim Nasson, had the good fortune to sit with Altman once, for his late 90s film, "Cookie's Fortune."
Word is, or at least whispers, for the moment, that Rosie O'Donnell is in the running (one of the top two candidates) to replace Bob Barker next year for the 36th season of "The Price Is Right." Barker, who has hosted the show since its 1972 inception, announced his retirement last month. He plans on continuing to produce the show, selecting his replacement. It's reportedly down to O'Donnell and current "Family Feud" game show host, John O'Hurley. For more on the retiring Bob Barker, scroll down... 
It's obvious to any civilized person that there could never be a sequel to "Borat." How many new people could he fool, now that his movie is a contemporary classic? (Then again, we're surprised every time we watch "To Catch A Predator" on "Dateline," that there are so many imbeciles running rampant, especially in the Red States.) Well, there is good news. Sacha Baron Cohen's only other character from "Da Ali G" show, not yet a major motion picture, "Bruno," the flaming homo, will be in theaters in 2008. Universal Studios ponied up $45 million for the rights, the week before "Borat" was released.
Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies' publisher, was seated, serendipitously, next to "The Rock," Mr. Dwayne Johnson, at "Davio's" restaurant Saturday night.
First, this year, Lance Bass came out of the closet. A couple of weeks ago, T.R. Knight of "Grey's Anatomy" fame. If you think Harris's acting abilities as a gay character were fantastic - think again. It was method acting. Most recently, yesterday, Neil Patrick Harris. Harris, who plays a gay character on the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," and played it gay in Madonna's bomb "Next Best Thing" and gay on an episode of "Will & Grace," came out of the closet. According to reports, Harris's real life, longtime boyfriend, David Burtka, guest starred on a recent "How I Met Your Mother" episode and rumors began to quickly spread through Hollywood.
Sadly, Bob Barker, the host, producer and icon of morning TV's "The Price Is Right," is retiring - at the end of this season, the show's 35th. According to a statement, Barker, who will be 83 upon his retirement, said he might take on a movie role if the right one came along, but "I refuse to do nude scenes. These Hollywood producers want to capitalize on my obvious sexuality, but I don't want to be just another beautiful body..." 
Wild About Movies brought you the exclusive interview with 
Wild About Movies has learned through the true insiders of “Grey’s Anatomy” camp that there is no mystery at all about the on-set confrontation of Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington. 
Poor 20th Century Fox. Last weekend they had the bomb"The Marine." This weekend hey have the impending dud "Flicka." No need to start crying for the studio. "Borat," that crazy Kazakhstani, will be the studio and most likely year's saving grace at the movies when it opens on November 3rd.
According to reports from 20th Century Fox, a member of the press recorded a substantial amount of the upcoming movie "Borat" at a press screening in San Francisco recently - and leaked it onto YouTube. (We can't find the leaked sneak peek, though.) Due to that fact, all "Borat" promotional and press screenings, nationwide, are being monitored by Nazi like rent-a-cops. The same kind you find at virtually every airport across America. What are they looking for? Certainly not guns or WMD. No, something much more dangerous; camera phones and/or any kind of recording devices. 
Whether or not Toby Jones, who portrays Truman Capote in the current big screen Tru story, "Infamous," wins Best Actor next year is up for debate. But if you wonder who Toby Jones is, you're not alone. The only movies of any significance he has appeared in beforehand are "Harry Potter," in which he voices Dobby The House Elf and as Scree in the 2005 Best Picture nominee, "Finding Neverland." Unfortunately for Jones, whose onscreen version of Capote is wonderful, is not a hit with movielovers. The film debuted this past weekend with just over $2,000 per screen, compared to over $20,000 per screen for "The Queen."
According to our sources, Grey's Anatomy co-stars Patrick Dempsey and Isaiah Washington were involved in a heated argument on the set of their hit show on Monday which nearly ended in a fist-fight. Dempsey, 40, and Washington, 43, nearly came to blows during a spat over shooting issues. Washington tells People Magazine, "We were like two baseball players... nose-to-nose. We had a difference of opinions while working on set but we've resolved it." Washington, who plays Dr. Preston Burke says the fight began over "time and (keeping) the production going. The communication was lost in translation." But he says no punches were thrown adding, "Our faces are too beautiful for that!" Dempsey's representative says, "In close families arguments happen. They worked it out." Washington added jokingly, "I've never been that close to (Patrick) before. He has really pretty blue eyes." 
How bored are you at work, today? So bored that you would like Dwight from "The Office" to give you a call. Well, we're not kidding. He will call you. And we're also giving away ten copies of "The Office: Season 2" DVD Box Set through this weekend. So 
Shortbus,
We've all had enough of the current "Vanity Fair" feature about Tom Cruise and his alleged baby, Suri. She's either an adopted Fetal Alcohol Syndrome infant, we think, a product of the Chris Klein/Katie Holmes relationship, or an extra - yes, they have an abundance of 'extra' babies in Hollywood, for photo ops.
If you're one of the 50,000 fabulous, or unfabulous movie lovers who visit us each day from New England, you might be happy to learn that Sylvester Stallone 'may' be coming to Boston tomorrow night. Stallone's son, Sage, thirty, and we might add, half Sylvester's age, directed his second film, "Vic," actually a short film - only 32 minutes. And it debuts in this year's low-profile "Boston Film Festival." 
While this year's under-the-radar "Boston Film Festival" has brought about as much attention to the film festival as a fly on a black car would, we think... if Sylvester actually shows up, (and we're hoping, because we're breaking the 'news'), that the fest will get the recognition it deserves.
Katie Holmes has been devastated by the rumors and gossip surrounding the alleged birth of her baby Suri and her alleged relationship with Tom Cruise. The first photo of five-month-old Suri 'posing' with her parents appears on the cover of the October issue of 
Singer Justin Timberlake has turned up his nose at reports that he is engaged to his 'longtime' girlfriend Cameron Diaz. The singer helped kick off the fourth season of The Ellen DeGeneres Show by performing in New York City's Central Park, which was broadcast on Monday. After the performance, DeGeneres brought up "the rumor that you and Cameron are engaged." Timberlake tried to defer, asking the host how she could put him on the spot in front of the crowd of 10,000 people. 
When DeGeneres asked him where things stood between the couple, he said of recent press reports, "Funny thing, one week we're getting married, one week we've broken up. I can't keep up with it." When DeGeneres persisted and asked if the couple were engaged Timberlake said, "We're not engaged." He then added jokingly, "She hasn't given me a ring. I've waited for her to get down on one knee and ask."
Steve Irwin, the self proclaimed "Crocodile Hunter," met his death not in the jaws of the world's most powerful and
vicious
reptiles, rather, in the depths of the ocean. "Crikey." Irwin was
killed by a stingray, normally a defensive animal, which rarely attacks,
while swimming in shallow waters on the Great Barrier Reef, not far from the resort of Port Douglas in northern Queensland. He was filming a segment for a children's TV show he was making with his 8 year old daughter Bindy - who was not in the water at the time. The only time Wild About Movies publisher Tim Nasson had a chance to sit with Irwin, his wife and daughter Bindy, (who at the time was four), was at The Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, during the family's publicity stop for Irwin's one and only feature film, "Crocodile Hunter." Irwin's daugther, bounded up and down the hallways of the five star hotel, faster than a dingo looking for a new meal at dawn in an RV park, showing any who would watch, with the help of a stuffed crocodile, (the kind you would buy at FAO Schwartz, rather than what you would presumably find at a roadside gift shop in the Outback), how she catches animals in the wild. Perhaps, in the next half dozen years or so we will have a new Xena: Warrior Princess!
Kidman Pregnant? Nicole Kidman's representative insists photo agencies are manipulating images of the star to make her look pregnant. The Oscar winner has constantly been the subject of pregnancy rumors since hooking up with husband Keith Urban and insists she is not expecting. Kidman's representative, Catherine Olim, is convinced that photos are intentionally being distorted after one magazine paid $20,000 for a shot of the svelte star showing a bit of belly when her stomach is actually flat. She tells MSNBC, "(I'm) afraid they wasted their money. (Kidman's) not pregnant." Olim insisted Kidman wouldn't be "shooting a film, traveling to Rome for another film, then shooting another film if she were (pregnant)." She adds, "Incidentally, I'm virtually certain paparazzi are distorting photos to make her look pregnant. I've seen her, she's her regular slender self." 
Clooney Gay? Eligible superstar George Clooney is reportedly dating his "Ocean's Thirteen" co-star Ellen Barkin. Clooney, 45, and twice-divorced Barkin, 52, are said to be inseparable since meeting on the set of the sequel in Los Angeles. Birkin was divorced from her second husband Ron Perelman in February. An insider tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "George has been a shoulder to cry on for Ellen - he's helping her get over her divorce. She fancies him like mad and you can cut the sexual chemistry with a knife. He is so different from her ex-husband, which she loves." There go those rumors that Clooney is gay, at least until "Ocean's 13" wraps. Or do their time together prove just that point? She is a fag hag and he is helping her cope with her recent divorce? 
Britney Spears has registered for thousands of dollars worth of pricey baby gifts at a Los Angeles boutique - including a $1,200 baby chandelier. Posh store Petit Tresor is a favorite with celebrity moms and Spears has reportedly registered on the shop's website. A source confirms, "She's having a baby shower soon and has told friends that they can order gifts from the site. It's not like she's expecting her friends to buy everything for the baby. She's already spent, like, $30,000 at the store." The pregnant pop star's registry strongly suggests she's expecting a baby girl because of the predominately pink and frilly merchandise selected. We're expecting that K-Fed, the baby's father, will probably waltz in and buy a $5 gift card, from all of the pennies he rolled the night before. 
Wild About Movies has learned that Mr. Britney Spears, Kevin Federline, is making his 'acting' debut as a prick on TV show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." The 28-year-old dancer/gold-digger whose first album "Playing With Fire" is set to be released in October, (and probably relegated to the bargain bin immediately thereafter), began shooting the role last week. It is due to be shown on TV later this year. Federline says, "This is pretty much my first time acting. It's the first time I've actually had a speaking role. I was doing stuff for the Teen Choice Awards and got the call while we were rehearsing and I pissed in my pants! I was excited right off the bat. It's the only show that I really, really watch." 
Former suspect John Mark Karr will not face charges in the murder case of JonBenet Ramsey. The decision against charging the former school teacher came after sources said a sample of Karr's DNA did not match the evidence found at the murder scene in 1996. How does this figure into Wild About Movies?
WAM is certain we will see a movie on par with "The Silence of the Lambs," about Karr's life, within the next two years! Will Jonathan Demme direct? Stay tuned! Oh, and our money is on Jason Patric (with some dyed blonde locks) to play Karr, since William Hurt is much too old. 
And if you're wondering why David Hyde Pierce isn't our first choice to play John Mark Karr in "The John Mark Karr Story," the reason is self-explanatory: David Hyde Pierce has never carried a feature film. In fact, the only feature film he has appeared in during the past ten years, "Wet Hot American Summer," was one of biggest bombs of 2001. 
While the opening montage at last night's Emmy Awards show, hosted by Conan O'Brien, rivaled the best of Billy Crystal's Academy Award montages, NBC must have been sweating bullets, wondering how 'inappropriate' their plane crash joke would come off, only hours after a fatal commuter plane crash - a tragedy that killed nearly fifty people. Of course, the Conan plane crash skit was taped weeks ago and would have been almost impossible to edit at the last minute.
A: New Line Cinema was trying to get some free publicity for their summer bomb "Snakes On A Plane." B: A bunch of Phoenix, Arizona juveniles were so bored they risked their lives, capturing live rattle snakes, then dumping them in a Phoenix theater? C: The Phoenix, Arizona media is, for the most part, incompetent and ran with choice B, even though it was a hoax? If you answered C, you would be correct. Phoenix, Arizona police have denied reports live rattlesnakes were released in an AMC theater during a screening of Snakes On A Plane last week, insisting the claims are a hoax. Local news reports on Tuesday said moviegoers were terrified when two live venomous rattlesnakes were released at a showing of the Samuel L. Jackson film last Friday. Phoenix police sergeant Joel Tranter admits there is a shred of truth to the story - a 10-inch rattlesnake was found on Friday in a hallway at the movie theatre, but is thought to have slithered there on its own. A security guard swept the snake up outside and trapped it in a plastic container until a member of the Arizona Herpetological Association could haul it away. Snake handlers had also been called to the theatre earlier in the day to retrieve another rattlesnake from outside. Theaterfuls of live rattlesnakes or not, "Snakes On A Plane" auditoriums will undoubtedly be empty this weekend, the film's second and probably last in wide release.
Since both "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider" are owned by Viacom and Viacom is owned by Sumner Redstone, who gave nutcase Scientologist Tom Cruise the boot from Paramount yesterday, Cruise's other half of his production team, Paula Wagner, decided to 'respond' to the 'public humiliation' that befell Cruise yesterday. Running over to WB owned "Extra," Paula Wagner said, last night, "I think it's disgraceful that someone who wants to end a business deal...makes it personal...it's the height of unprofessionalism...we think people will find it hard to work with Paramount in the future." Really? Find it hard to work with Paramount in the future? Yes. They've had it shitty since "Titanic," nearly ten years ago. But, the fourth quarter of 2006, alone, promises to be a goldmine for the studio with the following films to be released: "Flushed Away," (from the winner of last year's Best Animated Oscar), "Flags Of Our Fathers," (Clint Eastwood's potential third Best Picture winner), the live-action remake of "Charlotte's Web," (starring the 'beloved' Dakota Fanning. And "Dreamgirls," the event-musical of the Christmas moviegoing season! Not to mention "Transformers: The Movie" next summer and "Indiana Jones 4." We're pretty sure almost every A-list star will be begging to work with them in the months and years to come! 
It seems that Paramount is having the last laugh at Tom Cruise's expense, even though the "South Park" episode mocking the world's most famous Scientologist failed to win an Emmy last week. In a first, the studio publicly refused to renew Cruise's multi-hundred-million dollar contract at their studio. The actor, for nearly a decade and a half, had made all of the movies with his production company under the Paramount banner. But no more. Paramount now believes that Mr. Cruise's behavior hurt the box office of his most recent film, "Mission: Impossible III." Now, Mr. Redstone said he wants to sever the studio's connection to its biggest star. "As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal," Mr. Redstone said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. "His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount." In the other corner, Paula Wagner, Cruise's producing partner, insists that they were the ones to walk away from Paramount, after they had found a couple of hedge funds that were willing to take them on! More about this as it becomes available! 
We're hardly shocked at the charges that are piling up against eighteen year old Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense"). A month ago he smashed his car into a mailbox, and was charged late last week with driving with a blood alcohol level of .16, twice the legal limit, and with possession of marijuana. Big whoop! What we're baffled about is why "Forrest Gump" star, Osment, is tearing around in a 1995 Saturn. Shouldn't he, at the very least, at his age and status, be smashing into mailboxes in style? Perhaps in a Hyundai Azera?
Wild About Movies publisher, Tim Nasson, found out, unintentionally, that the new TSA rules prohibiting gels, liquids and the like are pretty useless and seem to be a smokescreen to create a facade that security measures are in place to protect all from being blown to smithereens 35,000 feet above the Atlantic. 
EXCLUSIVE: That photo you see of Peter Berg, actor cum director, couldn't paint a better picture of how he must be feeling at this very moment.
While Disney, (which owns ABC), shit-canned Mel Gibson from producing their upcoming Jewish Holocaust survivor miniseries, they've decided to leave well enough alone and release Mel's "Apocalypto" this Christmas, as planned. There had been talk during the past couple of weeks, immediately after Gibson's Anti-Semitic remarks to police who arrested him for 'allgedly' driving drunk, that Disney would try to sell "Apocalypto" to a smaller, independent, less publicly owned company. "It's not true," said a Disney spokewoman, Friday afternoon, when asked if Disney was selling the film. Does Disney's sudden confidence in Gibson mean that the broughhaha is dying down, now that Gibson is tucked away at a five star rehab facility getting help for his alcoholism? We think that after thinking, pondering, Disney realized no other studio, big or small, wanted to touch the film with a ten foot spear! Stay tuned! 
Movie has been legend Elizabeth Taylor's plastic surgery secrets are set to be exposed in a new book written by her pal Michael Jackson's celebrated biographer. Author J. Randy Taraborrelli, (like he really needs such a complex name), is revealing all about Taylor's remarkable life in in-depth tome Elizabeth, but it's claims the acting great had a nose job in her 20s that will shock many fans. Taraborrelli says, "She had her first plastic surgery when MGM (studio bosses) deemed her nose was too thick."
The writer claims Taylor's nose job was performed by the surgeon who worked on Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe. Taraborrelli also explores the details of the 74-year-old Hollywood icon's eight marriages and reveals her father was an alcoholic, who was possibly gay. O.K! That explains why she is such a fag-hag! (Especially to Michael Jackson. Is it in the blood?)
Escalating the battle for the family audience, Fox Filmed Entertainment has lured Walden Media, the production company responsible for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," away from the Walt Disney Co. "Disney needed us less than other companies that are striving to get into that area," David Weil, chief executive of Anschutz Film Group, Walden's parent company, told Wednesday's Los Angeles Times. "Fox recognized that their needs and our interests overlapped." The newspaper said that Walden executives met with four studios before signing with Fox. Under the deal, Fox will release five or six Walden-produced movies annually, beginning with "Mr. Magorium's Emporium," starring Dustin Hoffman, next year. Walden is owned by Phillip Anschutz, who also owns the Regal Theatres chain, the nation's largest, as well as Staples Center in Los Angeles and the L.A. Kings hockey team. 
Veteran actor Larry Hagman is thrilled he got to guest star on sexy plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck, because he was able to speak racy dialogue for the first time in his career. The actor has starred in such iconic feel-good shows such as I Dream Of Jeannie and Dallas, but he admits it was time to branch out into more adult territory. He tells US OK! magazine in Nip/Tuck he plays a patient who wants surgery on his penis. He "has his gonads removed. They say, 'What size would you like?' And I say 'kiwi size.' Forty years on television and I've never been able to say things like that!" But no one has teased him for his squeaky-clean screen past, adding, "Everyone's been so nice to me. Of course, I'm an icon and I expect that shit."
Former child star Macaulay Culkin has signed up for a dirty new role in a film focusing on group sex. The movie, "Sex And Breakfast," is a dark comedy about a couple with problems in the bedroom who seek guidance from a therapist. The counselor then suggests group sex as a solution to their problems. What's up with the proliferation of child stars cum nude stars - Harry Potter, Dakota Fanning, and now Macauley. The film has already begun shooting and also features has beens who never were Eliza Dushku, Alexis Dziena and Kuno Becker.
It's been how long since Bruce Willis has been worth the money any studio has paid him? We think "The Sixth Sense," about seven years ago. So, when you can't beat 'em, join 'em, in another sequel, that is. Twelve years after the release of the last "Die Hard," "Die Hard: With a Vengeance," 20th Century Fox will release the next installment in the "Die Hard" franchise. Bruce Willis will return to the big screen as NYC cop John McClane in "Live Free or Die Hard." The film, scheduled to begin shooting next month, will be released in theatres on June 29, 2007. Fox said the release date is particularly appropriate since the storyline is set around July 4. Len Wiseman, who directed both "Underworld" films, will direct. In the film, an attack on the country's computer infrastructure begins to cripple the nation. But the man behind the attack never expected an old-fashioned cop to mess up his plans. 
It was another day of crisis management for Mel Gibson as the film industry debated whether he would ever be able to overcome the apparent damage to his career resulting from his anti-Semitic remarks following his DUI arrest over the weekend. Although Gibson issued a more detailed apology for his statements, several PR advisers said that it came too late. Washington, DC-based PR exec Richard Levick told MSNBC, "In the first 24 hours, people start forming opinions. ... He has constantly been behind the story." Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League, told the Associated Press that he felt "a little bit uncomfortable" about Gibson's apology, since it appeared to be the careful work of publicist Alan Nierob. "To what extent is it a true reflection of Mel Gibson's true feeling?" he asked. He also noted that Nierob had told him two years ago that Gibson wanted to meet him to discuss his The Passion of the Christ with him. He said that the meeting was never arranged. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, noted, "Anti-Semitism is not born in one day and cannot be cured in one day, and certainly not through the issuing of a press release." On the other hand, Mandalay Entertainment Chairman Peter Guber said that any attempt to blackball Gibson would "fly in the face of what free speech is. ... Anybody trying to prevent anybody from being gainfully employed is distasteful to me." Similarly producer Lynda Obst told the newspaper, "This could be an opportunity where we say to anti-Semites that Jews don't boycott. ... I don't like any forms of blacklist." Meanwhile L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke has written that Gibson's publicists have ruled out any TV appearance by the besieged movie star anytime soon. She also reported that "Dateline NBC" is working on a feature about the Gibson incident to air next Sunday. In addition, Finke quoted "a source intimate with his situation" that Gibson was on the verge of suicide at the time he was stopped while reportedly driving around 90 miles an hour. "If that cop hadn't stopped him, this guy was going to be wrapped around a pole," Finke's source said. "This is such a bigger issue than 'Will he work again?' This is about his not wanting to live anymore." (And Wild About Movies says to Nikki Finke and anyone else who has a comment, 'If he was suicidal, then, there is nothing anyone could do. Let him wrap his fucking car around a fucking pole.' But, also, we are best friends with Peter Guber's JEWISH brother, Charlie, and we bet the fucking house on the fucking Jewish Guber family, who is worth, collectively, about $2 billion, that Charlie, Peter's older brother, has a lot more to say about those fucking comments. (Yes, we even have Peter and Charlie's personal cell phone numbers.) STAY TUNED!
Note to Anti-Semetic actors who are pulled over for being drunk: Keep your hateful thoughts to yourself, and your fucking mouth shut, especially if you have a vested interest in a certain community. ABC on Monday canceled development with Mel Gibson's production company of a planned TV miniseries about a Holocaust survivor, Flory A. Van Beek. The deal, with Gibson's Icon Films, was originally greenlit by the network two years ago following the success of Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. "Given that it's been nearly two years and we have yet to see the first draft of a script, we have decided to no longer pursue this project with Icon," an ABC spokeswoman said. No mention was made in the ABC announcement about Gibson's anti-Semitic outburst following his DUI arrest over the weekend but all one needs to do is put 2 + 2 together. Earlier in the day, L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke, in an interview with Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, asked about the planned miniseries. Hier said that "it seems inconceivable" that the Flory project should be produced by Gibson. "That would be like getting somebody that has a past association with the KKK to do a film on [blacks. The blacks] would be up in arms. That's the way Jews feel. If you don't like the Jews, don't do a film about the central issue of modern Jewish history, the Holocaust." Gibson himself issued a new statement this morning, apologizing "specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said. ... Please know from my heart that I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith." He offered to "meet with leaders in the Jewish community ... to discern the appropriate path for healing." Mmm hmmm. Which of his publicists rehearsed that load of shit with him? 
Wild About Movies was one of the first to bring you the news that child actress Dakota Fanning is set to shock her 'adult' admirers in new movie "Hounddog," because she has shot child rape scenes and appears semi-naked. The controversial film is a dark and violent story set in American's rural south - and the 12-year-old's mother and agent are convinced her gritty performance is Oscar-worthy. However, now Fanning's agent Joy Osbrink tells the New York Daily News, "It's not just the rape scene - the whole story is challenging Dakota as an actress. And I've never been so proud of her in my life. I've seen the dailies, and in every scene she gets better and better." Insert filthy, dirty joke here.
Nicolas Cage, one of this year's most visible on-screen famous faces, and voices - "The Ant Bully," "World Trade Center," "The Wicker Man," three movies of his to be released within one month of each other - and next year's "Ghost Rider," recently told Wild About Movies, while in Boston, that he would be lighting a candelabra, and returning to Las Vegas. 
Kathy Griffin. A Wild About Movies fave. She, according to her own words, had been banned from "The View." Well, she is back on "The View," Thursday. You heard it here first. "Can you fucking believe that Katherine McPhee was asked to be Guest co-host? And I was not? At least I am the lead guest," laughs Kathy Griffin, self-proclaimed star of 'Life On The D-List.' If she doesn't watch out, she will end up Miss B-List, next year, if the show is renewed! Stay tuned for the Wild About Movies Exclusive Interview, live, later this week.
Wild About Movies has learned that Nicolas Cage stormed out of an interview in NYC recently, while on a press tour for "World Trade Center," when an interviewer questioned his current relationship, er marriage, with/to Alice Kim, who happens to be just shy of twenty years his junior. "This interview is over," Cage reportedly said, as he pushed back his chair and up and marched out of the interview suite. Thankfully, for the person conducting the interview, the publicist had just given the two minute warning - meaning that most of the pertinent questions had already been asked, such as "How tough was it playing the real life WTC survivor,
John McLoughlin?" Cage certainly does make headlines with his choices in spouses. Wife number two, Lisa Marie Presley, (who had earlier been married to whacko jacko, Michael Jackson), and Cage, divorced after less than two years of marriage. There is some good news, here, for Cage's child bride. He lends his voice to "The Ant Bully," in theaters Friday. A perfect date movie for the two, so we think!
Update: While Tim Nasson, Wild About Movies' publisher, didn't get a whiff of any whacky tobaccy, seeping from under Oliver Stone's door last night, he just finished up lunch with the director - a plate of fruit and cheese, and crackers - none of which Stone touched, he just wanted his coffee - and learned that Stone has decided to release a director's director's cut of "Alexander," the movie that Stone describes as a "Fucking nightmare. It's [the new, new "Alexander"] going to be the Cecile B. Demille version. About 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 hours." Thankfully, "World Trade Center," based on the rescue of two NY Transit cops from the rubble of the World Trade Center, comes in at just over 2 hours. "It was hard, condensing 24 hours in the lives of these men into a two hour movie." Stay tuned for the complete Oliver Stone interview.
If you joined Wild About Movies earlier today, for the morning blog, you remember that we wondered aloud if Kathy Griffin was a cunt, because her publicist told us that she wasn't doing interviews, blah, blah, blah. Well, since the cunt post, we received a ton of hate mail from Kathy lovers telling us to go fuck ourselves, more or less, and a phone call from Kathy's publicist, who, low and behold, invited us to Kathy's show tonight in Los Angeles and for an interview with the sassy red headed, foul-mouthed comedienne after the sure-to-be pee-your-pants its so funny performance. It seems like the Queen of the D-list is not only not a cunt but a class act. Now the task is to think of what to ask Griffin during the interview, so that we can convey her hilarity as best we can to you! We'll try to tape it and put it live on the site so you can see and hear her, instead of having to read it. 
Kathy Griffin. She is the self-proclaimed queen of the D-list. Or is she really Star Jones (whom she has publicly called a bitch) in white-face, or worse, a cunt? Yes, we said it, and we wonder. It's quite easy for Wild About Movies to secure an interview with just about any A-list star. During the past month, Wild About Movies' publisher, Tim Nasson, has sat down with 
All the King's Men
Wild About Movies has learned, following months of speculation, that Keith Richards' Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 cameo will be filmed when The Rolling Stones European tour wraps up in September. Johnny Depp famously based his character Captain Jack Sparrow on the guitarist, and Richards has long been touted for an appearance as Depp's father in one of the two forthcoming sequels. And, after endless on and off speculation, director Gore Verbinski has confirmed Richards will appear in the third Pirates movie, despite falling out of a palm tree in April and subsequently undergoing skull surgery.
Rob Schneider is reportedly recovering from heatstroke and food poisoning after fainting on the set of his new movie. The Douche Bagalo star, 42, was shooting his latest comedy, Big Stan, in a derelict Stockton, California prison on Wednesday morning when he passed out and was taken to hospital. The actor, who has just recovered from a bout of flu, was shooting a scene at the Northern California Women's Facility in temperatures as high as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. His publicist says, "The combination of bad food and the heat just hit him. He's back on the set directing - presently! Oy! Wild About Movies wonders why the fuck Rob Scheinder was subjected to "bad food?" Perhaps a memo will be sent out!
Actor David Hasselhoff was rushed to a London hospital on Thursday after slicing his hand open during a bathroom accident. The 53-year-old "America's Got Talent" judge and former "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider" star, who is currently in the British capital shooting an advertising campaign, was taken from his hotel to St. Thomas' Hospital for emergency surgery. Hasselhoff severed a tendon on shards from a glass shelf, which he 'accidentally' smashed on the bathroom wall while shaving. A hospital aid tells British newspaper The Sun, "David was about to shave when he hit his head on a shelf, which shattered. His hand was cut quite badly." Wild About Movies just wonders what he was about to shave. 
Organizers of the 31st annual Toronto Film Festival, which opens on Sept. 7, unveiled a slate of films that gave the Canadian festival the appearance of a rerun of May's Cannes Film Festival. Nearly all of the films, which will be making their North American debuts, were originally screened at Cannes, including Ken Loach's "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," starring Cillian Murphy (pictured, left), which won the Palme d'Or, and Alejandro González Iñárittu's "Babel," starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, which won the best director award. Perhaps Brad will make a Pitt stop at Toronto, since he was with wife who was with child during the Cannes Fest. 
While 20th Century Fox is hoping for some magic at the box office this Christmas with "Eragon," the first in the Christopher Paolini trilogy to make it from page to screen, the studio has just bought the rights to the trilogy by Scott Westerfield, that begins with "Uglies." It's a teen fave, (so start snooping around your kids' rooms, now, if you want to sneak a peek at the novel), about kids who are called, well, "Uglies," until they reach sixteen, where they are then surgically transformed into attractive "Pretties." A precocious teen is threatened with being denied the procedure unless she spies on a pal who skipped the operation and joined a rebellious group. Look for the movie to hit theaters sometime next year. It has not yet been cast, so stay tuned for updates. We can think of no one better than the now eighteen year old Haley Joel Osment to play the role - in drag.
The former Mrs. Tom Cruise is now Mrs. Keith Urban. Nicole Kidman, 38, married country crooner Keith Urban, 39, Sunday in Australia. It was Urban's first marriage, and Kidman's second. The fairy tale wedding guests included Naomi Watts, Russell Crowe and Rupert Murdoch. Jesuit Father Paul Coleman, presided over the wedding ceremony. And, sadly, Wild About Movies was NOT invited. Kidman has three movies opening later this year, including one where she lends her voice to an animated penguin, in "Happy Feet."
Aaron Spelling, a one-time movie bit player turned billionaire, died at age 83, Friday, from complications from a stroke he suffered on June 18th. Spelling, the father of actress Tori, (whose real name, you may be surprised to find out is - vicTORIa), created many of TV's favorites, including: "Beverly Hills, 90210," (starring Tori), "Dynasty," "Melrose Place," "Fantasy Island," "T.J. Hooker," "Starsky & Hutch," "Charlie's Angels," "Love Boat," "Hotel," and countless other television faves of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s. (Yes, "7th Heaven" is a Spelling production, too).
