Veteran actor Burt Reynolds is recovering from quintuple bypass surgery. Insiders tell The Insider that the Smokey And The Bandit star underwent open heart surgery in a Los Angeles hospital last week and is now recovering at home under the watchful eyes of a team of nurses.
No word on his condition…..
Hollywood kills another classic: A big screen version of the 1960’s TV classic Gilligan’s Island is reportedly in the works.
The show — which spawned the 1978 TV movie Rescue From Gilligan’s Island — centered on the exploits of seven shipwrecked castaways deserted on an uncharted and uninhabited island in the Pacific.
The sitcom, which ran on CBS from 1964 to 1967, is being developed for the big screen by Warner Bros. and Atlas Entertainment. Producers say the proposed movie, still in preproduction, will take a contemporary look at the classic series.
“The characters are so good,” producer Charles Roven told Variety on Wednesday. “We think it’s going to be a great story to transport these cultural icons to the modern day.”
Gilligan’s Island ended in April 1967 with the castaways still stranded after the show wasn’t renewed for a fourth season.
“You don’t need to roam, ’cause there’s no place like home…..”
In Day 3 of its week of “Great TV Families Reunited,” The TODAY Show has brought together the surviving members of the cast of the hit ’80s sitcom 227 for the first time in 20 years!
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For those of you who may not have heard, Oscar-nominated actress/comedienne Mo’Nique is A-OK with her husband making sexy times with other women. The thrice married, twice-divorced Precious star says her hubby Sidney Hicks digs those famously hairy legs so much that it’s totally fine if he wants to get his Tiger Woods on and bed a few dozen chippies when Mo isn’t in the mood. Meanwhile, she’ll never stray. Excuse me?!
Is it cheating if she knows about it?
“Let me say this: I have not had sex outside my marriage with Sidney,” the Best Supporting Actress nominee says in this year’s Barbara Walters Oscar Special. “Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That’s not a deal-breaker. That’s not something that would make us say, ‘Pack your things and let’s end the marriage.’ What if it’s 20 times? So what? We’ve been best friends for over 25 years, and we truly know who we are. Oftentimes, people get into marriages and they don’t know who they’re laying next to. I’m very comfortable and secure with my husband.”
A New York chauffeur who accused supermodel Naomi Campbell of slugging him as he transported her around Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday will not press criminal charges against the temperamental catwalk queen.
The Associated Press reports that police consulted with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and issued a harassment report against Campbell, which doesn’t carry any penalty.
Police do not expect to make any arrests in the case.
At approximately 1 PM Tuesday afternoon, the 27-year-old driver flagged down a police officer and alerted the official that Naomi Campbell hit him from behind, causing his head to strike the steering wheel of the black Cadillac Escalade and bruising under his right eye. The fashionista then fled on foot.
The chauffeur, who also drives Campbell’s boyfriend, has not revealed whether or not he will pursue the matter in civil court.
Sorry, RiRi, but that bod comes with a price tag. Cindy Percival, Rihanna’s former trainer, is suing the singer for nearly $27,000 in unpaid wages and fees from a series of high-end workout sessions last year.
According to TMZ.com, Percival filed a suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week, which accuses the “Umbrella” hitmaker owes her payment for several weeks of intense training between September and October 2009. In the court papers, Percival claims she charged the star $1,500-a-day for her services and is still owed a total of $26,144 for her work.
ABC has passed on a development deal that would have brought a television adaptation of last fall’s castastrophe-related blockbuster 2012 to the small screen.
According to Entertainment Weekly, he drama series would have been a continuation of the apocalyptic film, depicting the epic aftermath of the disaster. ABC executives had originally hoped that the pilot would replace Lost, which ends its six season run in May.
On Tuesday, legendary tenor Andrea Bocelli was rewarded for his contributions to music with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Despite losing his sight to glaucoma at age 12, Bocelli won his first song competition at 14, completed law school, and has gone on to become one of the most esteemed vocalist in history.
His classical recordings include “Viaggio Italiano,” “Aria — The Opera Album,” “Sacred Arias”; “Il Trovatore” and Massenet’s “Werther.” Bocelli’s most recent album, My Christmas, spent six weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.
A sketch poking fun at the Oscar-nominated blockbuster Avatar has been nixed from this weekend’s Academy Awards, taking Sacha Baron Cohen along with it. The man behind Ali G, Borat, and Bruno had been tipped to add a new role to his repertoire — Oscars presenter — at this year’s ceremony, but plans to have Baron Cohen join fellow comic actors Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, and Ben Stiller in handing out statuettes have been yanked over fears that the funny guy would offend Best Director nominee James Cameron.
According to New York Magazine’s Vulture Column, Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, who are producing the Oscar telecast, pulled sketch over fears that the Avatar director might get so angry that he’d walk out of the ceremony. An unidentified tattles told the column that Baron Cohen intended to appear onstage in character as a female Na’vi, whose statements would be translated by Ben Stiller. Baron Cohen would become increasingly angry with Stiller’s obviously false translations, and then reveal that “she” was pregnant with James Cameron’s love child.
Last month, Shankman revealed that Sacha was the first choice to host this year’s ceremony, but noted that “the Academy swatted it down. They thought it was too big of a wild card.”
Academy spokeswoman Toni Thompson confirms that Baron Cohen is no longer presenting citing “creative differences.”
The 82nd Academy Awards will be presented this Sunday, March 7 at the Kodak Theatre and broadcast live on ABC.
A rep for former child star Eve Plumb has denied reports that a rumored rift between Plumb and her former Brady Bunch castmate Maureen McCormick caused the cancellation of a Brady reunion planned on NBC’s The TODAY Show this week. Eve’s rep tells Entertainment Tonight, that the actress considered the offer to appear with her former castmates, but decided to decline.
The rep says that Eve had spent two weeks in the Big Apple last month and didn’t want to return so soon for a brief TV appearance.
“What do you think, guys?” Kelly Osbourne wants her followers on Twitter to share their feedback on her new lavender hair color.
The Fashion World just can’t get enough of the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore.
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/that_jersey_look_5GXe04XCAtEtsLy3F4ZhXN#ixzz0h7HxcsNi”>We hear the well-gelled and heavily-tanned “guidettes” of the breakout reality smash — which includes Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “J-WOWW” Farley — were photographed in NYC on Tuesday for a Miss Manners-themed photoshoot that will appear on the pages of an upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar.
“I’ve only been with two men my entire life. My childhood sweetheart and Brian. I can never have sex with someone that I don’t love, ever. The idea makes me sick. I’ve never even come close to having a one-night stand….” Megan Fox on Her Limited Lovers, Harper’s Bazaar UK, April 2010
A Florida woman has been charged with second degree criminal mischief after allegedly driving across the East Coast and trespassing on a Long Island, New York estate she erroneously believed to be that of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Cemelia Green, of Jacksonville, Florida, is accused of entering the rapper’s East Hampton estate on two separate occasions in February. Officials say Green appeared at a home in East Hampton on Feb. 12, claiming to be Combs’ wife. A maintenance worker called police, and the woman she fled. On Feb. 22, she returned and asked directions to Combs’ home at the East Hampton police station, but was refused. Shortly after, police arrested Green at the house where she was seen Feb. 12.
Green was found “wandering” behind Combs’ house and was subsequently arrested by cops after returning to her car. She was charged and is currently in Suffolk County Jail on $5,000 bond. East Hampton Town Police say the woman has a history of mental illness and had driven to East Hampton from Florida in a rental car she slept in for several days.
The sister of actor Christian Bale filed for bankruptcy in a British court this week, but the cash-strapped woman is unlikely to receive any help from her Batman-starring brother because of a bitter family feud that followed the actor’s arrest on assault charges in 2008.
In July 2008, Bale, 36, was taken into custody by cops for allegedly assaulting his mother, Jenny, and sister, Sharon, at London’s Dorchester Hotel before the World Premiere of The Dark Knight. Sharon, 42, admits she regrets calling the authorities to intervene, but she says she was angry after Christian lost his famous temper in front of her impressionable young children. The charges were later dropped, but the star has refused to speak to his family for more than two years.
Sharon tells London’s The Sun: “I had an argument with him because he was totally out of order in front of my children. I’d had enough of the violent temper. There was a reason I called the police. It was his behaviour. It flared up into a ridiculous thing and he has not spoken to us since. I regret going to the police. We don’t speak any more. It’s totally his decision and it makes us all very sad. My mother is heartbroken that he doesn’t talk to us…..Christian doesn’t know about the bankruptcy….I wouldn’t expect him to help…….I hope my family will be able to stay in our home but I won’t know until the bankruptcy order is officially filed.”
In today’s installment of “Kids Singing Things They Probably Shouldn’t Be Singing,” eight-year-old Laura Fontana –whose pantsless — rocked Brazil with a gyrating, pantless performance medley of Lady Gaga’s greatest hits. TV audiences can’t get enough of her. Interesting, especially considering that Brazil censors recently yanked a beer commercial starring Paris Hilton.
America’s favorite Guidos are back in two more fist-pumping, best picture-nominee reenactments for TBS’ Lopez Tonight. In the latest spoofs, DJ Pauly D portrays an alien from Avatar, and Snooki recruits a team of Guido soldiers in a sketch poking fun at Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.
Wyclef Jean & Wife Marie Claudinette….
Sucia! Wyclef Jean’s wife is reportedly fuming after finding a naked picture of his former manager on his cell phone.
Fashion designer Marie Claudinette — who married the former Fugee in 1994 — reportedly demanded the Haitian rapper-turned-humanitarian sack manager Lisa Ellis after she discovered a nude image of the fortysomething covering her unmentionables with just her hands stored on Clef’s phone.
“Claudinette flew into a jealous rage. She jumped to the conclusion that something may be up between Wyclef and Lisa,” The New York Daily News quoted one insider as saying. “She told Lisa to stay away from her husband. To embarrass Lisa, she also e-mailed the nude picture to a number of people in the music business,” the insider added.
Ellis, on the other hand, insists her relationship with Wyclef was strictly business.
“Photographer Mark Baptiste took a portrait of me in December 2008 for an art book. It was tastefully done. Someone leaked the photo. I don’t know who did it, but the photo had nothing to do with my resignation as Wyclef Jean’s manager.”
Former Republican vice presidential nominee turned into a stand-up comic on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show Tuesday, dropping one-liners about the White House, Congress, and actress/comedienne Tina Fey.
– The cast of Ghost Whisperer celebrated the 100th episode of the hit supernatural series in West Hollywood last night….
-Hulu.com is losing Comedy Central’s Colbert Report & The Daily Show…
-Mixed race actress Paula Patton finds the term “biracial” offensive…..
-The Smithsonian says “Thanks, But No Thanks” to the suit O.J. was wearing when he got away with murder O.J.’s so-called “acquittal suit…..”
-Rap’s Diamond Princess, Trina, is trying to explain how her nekkid cell phone pics ended up on the Interwebs…..
-Speaking of Trina: Khia, Sit’cho Butt Down!
-Former Nirvana member Dave Grohal is hoping Shelley Duvall will portray him in the proposed Kurt Cobain biopic. That could work…..
-A producer of the Oscar-nominated war drama The Hurt Locker has been banned from attending this weekend’s Academy Awards after launching an email campaign to convince Academy members to vote for his film….
-Just call them Boobs of Steel: Bulletproof Breasts stop speeding bullet. A Beverly Hills woman’s breast implants are being credited with saving her life after she was shot at point-blank range with a semiautomatic assault rifle during a botched robbery last month….
-A Complete Discography on Gang Starr lyricist Guru and The Most Beautiful Girls Celebrating Birthdays In March…..
-Hailey Glassman’s still making jokes about Jon Gosselin’s peen…..(LINK NSFW!)
–Quadriplegic fan loses sight in concert accident….
–Here’s an interview with the teenager spearheading California’s “Cut Cussing Campaign…..”
-Brittany Murphy left her entire estate to her mother….
–The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Vicki wants to explain why she was recently photographed with her tongue knee deep in a frat boy…..
-New trailer for Disney’s Prince of Persia!
-Englishman arrested for walking dog while driving? And you thought Americans were lazy!
-A must-have for those who like to sleep on the job!
-William Shatner will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Banff World Television Festival…..
-A private memorial has been planned for Growing Pains star Andrew Koenig…..
-An Ohio woman gives birth on her wedding day…..
–“Obama Quarters” are showing up all over New York City, but are they real?
-Comedy Central has greenlit a new comedy about a group of slacking telemarketers….
-A 5th grader in California is in hot water after lacing cereal with marijuana and distributing the snacks to her classmates….
-In a move ripped straight from the pages of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Wonka Candy is launching a real-life Golden Ticket Contest…..