LUCKY GIRL: Gorgeous Rachel Weisz, the girl who drove The Mummy crazy, admits that there is someone who gets her motor all revved up. Weisz is about to begin work with co-stars Robert Pattinson and Hugh Jackman on Unbound Captives and she has let it slip that she could very easily get ‘into’ the Twilight star. She gushes, “He’s got the whole rebel vibe – he’s not star struck. Meeting him was vampirific. He sucked my blood!”
TWO LEGENDS: There isn’t much that you’d think would scare Dame Judi Dench. The great English actress who has given life and breath to Queen Elizabeth I and to 007’s boss “M” has always seemed pretty much indestructible. That is until the day she had to do her musical number in Rob Marshall’s new hit, Nine. She looked out and saw none other than Sophia Loren sitting beside the director ready to watch her sing. The otherwise unflappable Dame Judi admitted, “I’ve never been more frightened than at that moment. I’d never met her and there she was sitting down and ready to watch me!” As another Englishman once reminded us, All’s Well That Ends Well and Dame Judi’s musical number left ‘em wanting more.
TWO “CLASSICS”: Between TV and the movies there have been no less than four versions of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice since 1980, three alone, since 1995. Just when everybody was thinking there’d have to be a decent interval before someone made yet another version, Natalie Portman has come up with a new take on the classic love tale. The beauty who broke onto the scene as Queen Amidala in Star Wars came across a book by Seth Grahame-Smith who came up with the idea of marrying two very disparate classic movie genres. Their movie will be Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! There you go, the love story of the ages coupled with the flesh eating undead. It’s sure to be box office gold. Oh, yes and that last sentence was written with tongue firmly in cheek.
HE’S AVAILABLE!: English hunk Robert Pattinson has just given hope to thousands of young, and not so young, girls. The Twilight star who has been the subject of countless rumors linking him to numerous “A” list starlets has decided to set the record straight. The twenty-three year old mega star has uttered the words that girls across the world have hoped to hear, “I am single, almost everything that comes out about my private life is false. But if you read the magazines, it seems that I have a frantic high life.” He describes his dating life, “As soon as I like a girl, I start to beat myself up to the point of ridiculousness and then they hate me to the point of dumping me.”
MESSY GUY: Sometimes the make-up artists and cosmeticians who take care of the stars become celebrities themselves, but very few stars find that other stars are willing to trim and polish up their cast mates. Hugh Grant is in that very small number. While he and Sarah Jessica Parker were between shots in their hit Did You Hear About the Morgans? the ever fashionably put together Parker noticed that Grant’s fingernails were not looking their best. In fact, she says, “He looked like he clipped his nails with his teeth. Otherwise he’s beautiful and groomed – so every Tuesday I did his nails.” A bemused Grant says, “We are all like that in England.”
CHRISTMAS FIGHT: Megan Fox and boyfriend Brian Austin have had a Christmas snit over where to spend the holiday this year. Each was pulling for his/her parents and friends back home. Neither wanted to be away from their family and now it looks like they’re going to be miles apart. Fox has the perfect make up gift for Austin, a fire engine red 1966 Mustang fastback she purchased from an on line auction site. As long as nobody said anything unforgivable, look for them to be cuddling back together in January and cruising around town in that classic car built long before either of them was born.
ALL BOY: Rachel Weisz is worried about her three-year old son, Henry. More accurately, she’s worried about introducing him to new people, especially women. Although Henry is just a toddler, he’s already developed a strong attraction to the female form. The beauty says her son, “...is interested in two things—firemen and women’s breasts. He talks about them all the time and is convinced I’ve got the biggest breasts in the world, which is clearly not true. He hasn’t embarrassed me yet, but I’m sure that’ll happen sooner rather than later.”
FINALLY HAPPY: After one unhappy marital experience, Mariah Carey says she’s, “...more complete now, I’ve found the other part of me and am in a different place and that’s nice to experience.” The singer who married Nick Cannon on a Caribbean island after a breathtakingly fast romance last summer says she’s so harshly self critical that she never really expected to be truly happy. But, she is overjoyed now to find that her TV host husband has filled in all her vacant spaces and she’s happier than she could have believed possible.
WHAT’S THE TRUTH: Justin Timberlake keeps denying a split with girlfriend of three years, Jessica Biel has happened or is about to happen. But, his recent behavior in New York City certainly started the tongues wagging, all over again. There he was chatting up a whole bevy of beauties in a series of watering holes. He had his posse with him and they did nothing to reign him in. Instead a bartender claimed that the posse seemed to be egging him on. Just a month ago, Beil was asked about the rumors and other sightings and sighed and said, “You have to cultivate a sense of humor about all this.”
A GIRL HAS NEEDS: Jennifer Garner loves her husband Ben Affleck, but he’s only a man and in Garner’s view a girl need other girls around her to be happy. The couple can frequently be found camped out on each other’s movie sets and that’s good as far as it goes, but Jennifer insists, “I miss my girlfriends. That’s the hardest part about being on location when it’s not for my own project. I can live with Ben working crazy hours, but I can’t live without girlfriends; I just need someone to bitch about it to.”
LOVING IT: Australian hunk Sam Worthington is homeless and likes it that way. The actor from Down Under says that once he decided to really work at being an actor, he decided that he didn’t want a home. He’s had some very nice paydays recently, not the least of which was for the blockbuster Avatar, but he says he’s discovered that he very much prefers living in hotels and occasionally camping out with friends. He claims, “I like going from hotel room to hotel room. They make your bed and fill the bar for you. With a house, you’d have phone bills, and the rest of that to deal with.” When he meets the right woman, she’ll tame him.
GUY’S OTHER LIFE: It’s not enough that Guy Ritchie’s latest movie, Sherlock Holmes, is slated to be another blockbuster, he’s go some spare time on his hands and has decided to fill it by becoming a barkeep in New York City! The ex-Mr. Madonna already has a very successful pub in London’s fancy Mayfair district and New York just seems like a natural for him. His London joint has become very popular with American actors over there for London premieres and stints on the West End, it isn’t that great a leap to ask if once the Gotham place is up and running – can a Beverly Hills one be very far behind?
A SURE SIGN: Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper seem ready to take their relationship a step further. They’ve officially been a couple since Cooper introduced his girl to his parents last September. Each had been playing the field a bit following a number of failed relationships. Now, they’re house hunting in L.A. and all their friends hope this time they’ll find the magic.