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Thursday, Nov 26, 2009
Will the Jayson Blair story ever make it to the screen? Will Gwyneth Paltrow leave Hollywood for Spain? Will the Dixie Chicks ever win another CMA award? Plus: Keanu Reeves, Man of Mystery!
Nov 6, 2003 | Get ready for another controversy about a reality-based movie. Screenwriter Jon Maas, who worked on "America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story," is now researching a project about infamous New York Times reporter Jayson Blair and is hitting some walls. When he called Tom Kunkel, dean of the journalism school Blair attended, he got a "no comment." Said Kunkel, "I think it's deplorable that there is a movie about this that will just add further notoriety to this terrible situation. Look, I'm obligated to talk to journalists -- and I have -- but we're talking about a movie here. I feel no obligation to talk to a Hollywood producer about a situation that I find repugnant. I understand why he's upset, but I don't care." (Washington Post)
Gwyneth Paltrow has just been given a plot of land in Spain from generous friends (who hasn't?) and she plans to build a little casa there as a refuge. "I come here about four times a year because it's the farthest from Hollywood you can get," says Gwynnie. "The way the Spanish live is really healthy. Everybody eats a clean Mediterranean diet. They come home from work and have a leisurely lunch with their families, then take a nap. They go back and work til eight, then go out and dance all night." Sounds kinda like Hollywood! (Ananova)
Proving once again that death is a great career move -- but suggesting that speaking freely isn't -- Johnny Cash was given every prize in the book at last night's Country Music Awards. On hand to celebrate the dearly departed Man in Black was everyone from Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson to Shania Twain and Toby Keith. But guess who didn't show? Outspoken outcasts The Dixie Chicks. Oops, guess their invite got lost in the mail -- or maybe they just didn't feel welcome ... (MSNBC)
Headline of the week: "Pondering the mysterious Keanu Reeves." The article goes on the analyze why the star of such films as "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" and "My Own Private Idaho" is criticized for taking a big budget movie one year and doing an indie the next. And it quotes the mystery man's reactions to such critiques: "Yeah, I mean bad reviews suck, man. It's terrible. It's a drag. But it's still just a review. It sucks to have a bad review, but it's not like after I get a bad review, I run outside and start drinking and have a kind of catastrophic depression." Mystery man, indeed. Kind of like in "Being There."
