While other actresses are being photographed at Starbucks every day, Scarlett Johansson, 21, is quietly making one movie after another. She has six films finished or in the works since Black Dahlia. Here she is at the Dahlia premier in Italy looking like a classic beauty from the golden age of Hollywood.
Brad Pitt’s exgirlfriend Juliette Lewis, attempting to prove that not ALL Scientologists are eccentric. To be fair, we’ve seen and heard her band Juliette and the Licks, and they sound a LOT better than Juliette’s questionable stage attire would indicate…
Here’s a fashion moment from the Video Awards that we didn’t want you to overlook. Ice T, the godfather of gangsta rap, and his wife Coco, who calls herself a “swimsuit model” – showing off their sartorial splendor…
Supernova drummer Tommy Lee was catching a smoke, sitting outside an airline building at the Burbank airport deep in conversation with a pretty young girlfriend and his pushy assistant. A steady stream of people came outside to light up and each time the protective assistant jumped up and blocked Tommy, presumptuously waving the outsiders away, insisting “No autographs!” The smokers were irked and finally after a number of them had been shooed away from Tommy, one informed the overzealous assistant “Excuse me but this is the airport employees smoking area – we come here to SMOKE, not to get anybody’s autograph!” and Tommy’s assistant FINALLY shut up. Is Rockstar Supernova giving the usually down-to-earth rocker a big head?
( click here to find out which Rockstar Supernova contestant Tommy’s band prefers )
The arrest of the former lead singer of the Village People, Victor Willis, (the cop) brings to mind a story that might NOT amuse his exwife Phylicia Rashad. In 1980, Willis’s drug use apparently caused him to split with the successful group AND his wife Phylicia. (We bet she’d like to forget THAT period of her life.) Phylicia went on to star on The Cosby Show and drug addled Victor became a fixture on the streets of San Francisco . One day in the early 90’s a friend of ours was walking on Haight and Fillmore and encountered Willis with a blanket on the sidewalk, hawking women’s clothing. There were shoes, boots, lingerie, and assorted sweaters etc. “Fifty cents apiece!” he yelled “These are Phylicia Rashad’s clothes – I used to be married to her! And there’s more where this came from!” Our friend bought a slip, and we wonder -what would Claire Huxtable have thought of this?
The loss of actor Glenn Ford immediately brought to mind one of our favorite movies of ALL time – Blackboard Jungle. It was a shocking sensation in the fifties and every kid HAD to see it. It was the first movie about juvenile delinquents and featured the first hit rock n roll song – Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock. It became the theme song of the greaser generation. When that song played at the start of the movie, the audience was ready to rumble. Glenn Ford played a mild mannered teacher assigned to tame a classroom of greasy inner-city thugs including young Sidney Poitier. They nicknamed their teacher Daddy-O and when Vic Morrow pulled a knife on Ford in class – he was sent to the principal’s office! We’ll miss you Daddy-O.
Photo: Gary Lewis
It took the Emmys to make us realize what hot guys these two actresses have nabbed for themselves. Has Mariska Hargitay’s husband Peter Hermann gotten better looking, or is this the first close look we’ve taken? Peter’s an actor who appeared on Sex and the City. And Jennifer Love Hewitt’s latest boyfriend Ross McCall looks like a keeper. He’s an actor from Scotland who has an interesting background – when he was 10 he played young Freddie Mercury in “The Miracle” Queen video.
Who would have guessed Lucille Ball was a big fan of Tom Cruise! Tom’s ties to Paramount are deeper than we realized. Years ago, after Risky Business was released, Lucille Ball and her husband Gary Morton produced Tom’s next film, “All The Right Moves.” The Mortons and Cruise were considered an odd pairing at that time in Hollywood, but Lucy liked Tom and once described him as “a clean cut all American kid.” Eventually, Tom moved his offices into the enormous Lucille Ball building at Paramount and by the time he left last week, he was occupying the entire structure. So he must be feeling some sentimental twinges.
Redondo Beach was up for grabs last week when Pirates of the Caribbean lowered their anchor there to film scenes for Pirates III. Actually the location boat was out in the ocean but the beach town was loaded with equipment trucks, huge trailers, and looky-loos. Everybody wanted a glimpse of Johnny Depp. And they got one. Each night after filming wrapped, Johnny showed up in the parking lot of Captain Kidd’s fish restaurant where he posed for endless pictures with children and signed autographs. A restaurant employee was amazed “He was SO nice to everyone and spent hours with his fans.” No sign of Orlando Bloom.
As readers know, we still insist that Justin Timberlake’s romance with Cameron Diaz is doomed. Justin really cares for Cameron, so he tried to negotiate a clean and friendly split a few months ago. He wanted to be free to have fun on the road when his tour started in the fall. Cameron flatly refused to end their romance and convinced him to spend the summer with her. NOW we hear Cameron was absent from Justin’s NY listening party at G-Spa , although she WAS on the east coast. According to PerezHilton.com Justin made it clear on an upcoming Ellen show that he has NO marriage plans. This romance is unravelling – slowly and surely – wait and see!
