Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Writers and producers for the ABC hit Grey's Anatomy are fuming after Katherine Heigl said last week that she had opted out of the Emmy race because she was not given good enough material to work with last season. The remark has fuelled speculation in Hollywood that Heigl, 29, wants out of her contract on the series. This is the second time in little over a year that a dispute between Heigl and the show's producers has spread beyond the studio soundstage. Heigl may well be the most visible star in the show's ensemble cast.
Life Off Mars: Veronica Mars fans could be in for a reunion on NBC's Heroes this fall when Francis Capra, who played toughie Weevil on Mars, joins the show as recurring character Jesse. TV Guide says Jesse is a villain who will cross paths with Peter Petrelli (Milo Ventimiglia). Still to be confirmed is whether the former Veronica, Kristen Bell, will reprise her Heroes role as Elle Bishop.
Fox Hearts Huckabee:
Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.
Huckabee, who served as governor of Arkansas for 10 years, dropped out of the race in March after John McCain won enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination.
"I hope to bring the unique perspective from `inside the dragon's belly' as well as to try and speak for the millions of hardworking middle-class Americans who really do feel that their voices are not being heard," Huckabee said in a statement.
Voight 24's New Villain:
In his first series role in 40 years, Jon Voight has signed on for the upcoming seventh season of 24. On the Emmy-winning Fox drama, Voight will play Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) nemesis and the one pulling the strings behind next season's terrorist threat. The character will be introduced during 24's two-hour Season 7 prequel, now shooting on location in South Africa and slated to air Nov. 23, with Season 7 of the series kicking off in January.
Pay Up, Say Idol Musicians: A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. against the producers of American Idol, claiming musicians were underpaid because the show's live music was re-recorded for reruns. The American Federation of Musicians filed the suit seeking unspecified damages last week in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that American Idol Productions Inc. violated a collective bargaining agreement.
That contract says the show's musicians should be paid royalties for rebroadcasts of the show, the lawsuit said.
LATE NIGHT
Strombo at 11: Dave Foley
Letterman at 11:35: Mike Myers, Adele
Leno at 11:35: Anne Hathaway
Stewart at 12:05: David Iglesias
Kimmel at 12:06: Rerun
Colbert at 12:35: Kenneth R. Miller
Ferguson at 12:37: Alfred Molina, Salman Rushdie
Conan at 12:37: Mario Batali, the Lordz
Daly at 1:36: Dan Abrams
Monday, June 16, 2008
Two Step Salsa too hot for Affirmed foes
Everest Stables' homebred TWO STEP SALSA (Petionville) kicked into another gear at the top of the stretch and streaked home an impressive, 3 3/4-length winner of the $107,100 Affirmed H. (G3) over the Cushion Track at Hollywood Park on Sunday. Conditioned by Julio Canani, the even-money favorite completed the 1 1/16 miles in 1:41 2/5 and gave back $4, $2.80 and $2.20 under Martin Pedroza.
Tres Borrachos (Ecton Park) broke best but was soon overtaken by Two Step Salsa, who led through splits of :23, :46 3/5 and 1:11 for the opening six panels. Approaching the final turn, Dixie Chatter (Dixie Union) made a big move from well back while widest, drawing on near-even terms with the leader, but Pedroza had plenty left and quickly spurted away from that rival in a fine showing.
"This horse is just a freak, that's all I can say," Pedroza marveled. "He just does everything so easy. They came up to him on the turn, and I just let him out a notch, and whoosh!"
Tres Borrachos stayed on well along the rail to register a clear second as the 7-2 third choice, good for $3.60 and $2.40. Dixie Chatter garnered show honors at 5-2, worth $2.60. The $1 exacta paid $6.60, the $1 trifecta $17.30 and the $1 superfecta (1-5-7-6) returned $54 with Bingham (Monarchos) in fourth. Wind's Legacy (Millennium Wind) and Exuma (Ecton Park) completed the order of finish while Ez Dreamer (In Excess [Ire]) and Trevor's Clever (Stephen Got Even) scratched.
Two Step Salsa improved his career line to 5-4-1-0, $203,990, while picking up his second consecutive graded tally. The Kentucky-bred sophomore is unbeaten from four Cushion Track efforts, with the lone blemish on his resume coming as a runner-up showing in the grassy Harry Henson S. in April. Most recently, the dark bay romped in the Lazaro Barrera Memorial S. (G3).
The winner is out of the unraced Two to Waltz (Seattle Slew) and has a pair of unnamed full brothers, a yearling colt and a 2008 colt.
Tres Borrachos (Ecton Park) broke best but was soon overtaken by Two Step Salsa, who led through splits of :23, :46 3/5 and 1:11 for the opening six panels. Approaching the final turn, Dixie Chatter (Dixie Union) made a big move from well back while widest, drawing on near-even terms with the leader, but Pedroza had plenty left and quickly spurted away from that rival in a fine showing.
"This horse is just a freak, that's all I can say," Pedroza marveled. "He just does everything so easy. They came up to him on the turn, and I just let him out a notch, and whoosh!"
Tres Borrachos stayed on well along the rail to register a clear second as the 7-2 third choice, good for $3.60 and $2.40. Dixie Chatter garnered show honors at 5-2, worth $2.60. The $1 exacta paid $6.60, the $1 trifecta $17.30 and the $1 superfecta (1-5-7-6) returned $54 with Bingham (Monarchos) in fourth. Wind's Legacy (Millennium Wind) and Exuma (Ecton Park) completed the order of finish while Ez Dreamer (In Excess [Ire]) and Trevor's Clever (Stephen Got Even) scratched.
Two Step Salsa improved his career line to 5-4-1-0, $203,990, while picking up his second consecutive graded tally. The Kentucky-bred sophomore is unbeaten from four Cushion Track efforts, with the lone blemish on his resume coming as a runner-up showing in the grassy Harry Henson S. in April. Most recently, the dark bay romped in the Lazaro Barrera Memorial S. (G3).
The winner is out of the unraced Two to Waltz (Seattle Slew) and has a pair of unnamed full brothers, a yearling colt and a 2008 colt.
Jason Bateman
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Hot off his pilot directing debut with "Do Not Disturb," actor/director Jason Bateman has inked a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV.
Under the one-year pact, Bateman will develop series projects for the studio through his F+A Prods. banner.
20th TV chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman were impressed by Bateman's work on "Disturb," a workplace comedy starring Jerry O'Connell that was the only live-action comedy pilot Fox picked up as a new series for next season.
"He did an excellent job on the pilot visually, brought great energy and enthusiasm to it and, as an actor, he really understands how to talk to and motivate actors," said Newman, who also is an occasional Bateman golf partner. "Hopefully he will be a better director than golfer."
Bateman, who starred on the 20th TV-produced "Arrested Development," also is slated to provide the voice for a character in Mitch Hurwitz's animated Fox comedy "Sit Down, Shut Up," from Sony TV and 20th TV.
Bateman next will be seen on the big screen in the Will Smith-starring "Hancock."
Under the one-year pact, Bateman will develop series projects for the studio through his F+A Prods. banner.
20th TV chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman were impressed by Bateman's work on "Disturb," a workplace comedy starring Jerry O'Connell that was the only live-action comedy pilot Fox picked up as a new series for next season.
"He did an excellent job on the pilot visually, brought great energy and enthusiasm to it and, as an actor, he really understands how to talk to and motivate actors," said Newman, who also is an occasional Bateman golf partner. "Hopefully he will be a better director than golfer."
Bateman, who starred on the 20th TV-produced "Arrested Development," also is slated to provide the voice for a character in Mitch Hurwitz's animated Fox comedy "Sit Down, Shut Up," from Sony TV and 20th TV.
Bateman next will be seen on the big screen in the Will Smith-starring "Hancock."
Friday, June 13, 2008
KATRINA KAIF VOTED WORLD'S 'SEXIEST WOMAN'
Good news for Bollywood. Its leading beauty Katrina Kaif has been voted the 'Sexiest Woman in the World'. A UK men' magazine has revealed this on the basis of its online poll in India. Thus, Kats has not only put Bollywood's hot girls like Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Bipasha Basu behind her in the race for the world's sexiest woman, but also Hollywood's superstars - Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson and singers Rihanna and Madonna - besides several other world's sexy women. Katrina has expressed her great joy over this stunning news about her.She has been presently basking in the glory of Abbas-Mustan`s 'Race' in Dubai and her recent victory has added to her excitement. Incidentally, her boyfriend actor Salman Khan is already known as the world's sexiest man. Bollywood circles wonder if it has the proud privilege of having the world's sexiest pair! At present, both are busy in doing Subhash Ghai's 'Yuvaraj', where Katrina is playing the role of a musician. The industry has welcomed the UK men' magazine survey declaring Katrina as the world's sexiest woman and feels that she is indeed a rare combination of innocence and sensuousness.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Hot music
Sun-starved and winter-worn people swarmed to Seattle Center on Saturday, lured by lovely weather, live music, an excellent admission price and the good vibrations of a joyful crowd.
Children ran laughing and half-dressed through the Center Fountain, ponytailed men danced the marimba without care and young women with bare feet gave away free hugs and smiles at the 37th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival.
Thousands of people wandered the grounds, listening to headline bands on stages, gathering around sidewalk musicians, eating street-fair snacks and shopping at stalls offering tie-dyed clothing, silver jewelry and trinkets from around the world.
Jeff Astle, a Vashon Island worm farmer and woodcutter, went back and forth between the Mural Amphitheatre and the Fountain Lawn Stage most of the day in search of the music that moves him.
"I'd never danced before," he said about his introduction to marimba 20 years ago. "But I heard this and I said, 'Excuse me, I've gotta go dance.' "
Astle, who along with many others danced vigorously to Shumba Youth Marimba Ensemble and Mukana Marimba, said he has not missed one single day of the festival in two decades.
Another longtime festival fan, Sheena Grannis, was watching The Tallboys String Band near the Center House. Every year, she and her sister get a hotel room in Seattle so they can enjoy full-out the four-day event.
"I think it's absolutely the best in terms of quality and variety of music," said the Bellingham woman. "I love it. Where else can you pay $10 for an entire day of fantastic music?"
The festival is free, but $10 donations are requested. The cultural focus of this year's festival is "Urban Indians," with Tlingit totem pole carvings, a display of traditional powwow regalia, storytelling, music, gallery exhibits and dance throughout the weekend.
Upcoming music highlights include the "Just for Kids" showcase and "Indigenous & Indigenius Hip Hop" today; and "The Many Shades of Gospel Music" and "Bhangra and Bollywood" performances on Monday.
Appreciative crowds gathered around several musical groups playing off the path between Center House and the Fisher Pavilion.
Members of Sassparilla, an "insurgent blues" band from Portland, said they were playing offstage this year because they actually earn more money for beer and food that way, according to guitarist Gus Richmond.
Other members of the band are Pappy MacDonald on the harp; his son, Sweat Pea MacDonald, on the washboard; Franco Frantz on the percussive base; and Dr. Caffee on what she called the "junk drum set."
Similarly, Hail Seizures, an Olympia-based "acoustic hard-time punk" band made up of former Evergreen State College students, hit a sweet spot with listeners.
"Actually, I bought their album," said Zack Olson, a 19-year-old from Mountlake Terrace with dyed black hair and several piercings. "I think they're legit. They've got an original sound."
The band's energy, said his friend Bryce Owings, was "awesome."
Children ran laughing and half-dressed through the Center Fountain, ponytailed men danced the marimba without care and young women with bare feet gave away free hugs and smiles at the 37th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival.
Thousands of people wandered the grounds, listening to headline bands on stages, gathering around sidewalk musicians, eating street-fair snacks and shopping at stalls offering tie-dyed clothing, silver jewelry and trinkets from around the world.
Jeff Astle, a Vashon Island worm farmer and woodcutter, went back and forth between the Mural Amphitheatre and the Fountain Lawn Stage most of the day in search of the music that moves him.
"I'd never danced before," he said about his introduction to marimba 20 years ago. "But I heard this and I said, 'Excuse me, I've gotta go dance.' "
Astle, who along with many others danced vigorously to Shumba Youth Marimba Ensemble and Mukana Marimba, said he has not missed one single day of the festival in two decades.
Another longtime festival fan, Sheena Grannis, was watching The Tallboys String Band near the Center House. Every year, she and her sister get a hotel room in Seattle so they can enjoy full-out the four-day event.
"I think it's absolutely the best in terms of quality and variety of music," said the Bellingham woman. "I love it. Where else can you pay $10 for an entire day of fantastic music?"
The festival is free, but $10 donations are requested. The cultural focus of this year's festival is "Urban Indians," with Tlingit totem pole carvings, a display of traditional powwow regalia, storytelling, music, gallery exhibits and dance throughout the weekend.
Upcoming music highlights include the "Just for Kids" showcase and "Indigenous & Indigenius Hip Hop" today; and "The Many Shades of Gospel Music" and "Bhangra and Bollywood" performances on Monday.
Appreciative crowds gathered around several musical groups playing off the path between Center House and the Fisher Pavilion.
Members of Sassparilla, an "insurgent blues" band from Portland, said they were playing offstage this year because they actually earn more money for beer and food that way, according to guitarist Gus Richmond.
Other members of the band are Pappy MacDonald on the harp; his son, Sweat Pea MacDonald, on the washboard; Franco Frantz on the percussive base; and Dr. Caffee on what she called the "junk drum set."
Similarly, Hail Seizures, an Olympia-based "acoustic hard-time punk" band made up of former Evergreen State College students, hit a sweet spot with listeners.
"Actually, I bought their album," said Zack Olson, a 19-year-old from Mountlake Terrace with dyed black hair and several piercings. "I think they're legit. They've got an original sound."
The band's energy, said his friend Bryce Owings, was "awesome."
Gwyneth Paltrow
Taking a break to look after her kids was a career risk, says Gwyneth Paltrow.
Nattering at the Cannes Film Festival, where her new movie, Two Lovers, debuted, Ms. Paltrow said she wasn't sure the movie industry would welcome her back.
"Hollywood is pretty cutthroat," she said, "and everybody's got a short memory, and there's always somebody younger or hotter or, you know, prettier or whatever. And I was very realistic about the fact that there might not be any more room for me."
Nattering at the Cannes Film Festival, where her new movie, Two Lovers, debuted, Ms. Paltrow said she wasn't sure the movie industry would welcome her back.
"Hollywood is pretty cutthroat," she said, "and everybody's got a short memory, and there's always somebody younger or hotter or, you know, prettier or whatever. And I was very realistic about the fact that there might not be any more room for me."
Cannes festival
CANNES, France - Being an American moviegoer at Cannes - at any international film festival, but especially Cannes - is like staggering out of Plato's cave into the sun. So this is how the rest of the world sees movies.
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The Palm D'Or for the festival's best film will be awarded today, but perhaps the most weirdly instructive day was last Sunday. At midday came the worldwide premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the event toward which the glam-obsessed side of this famously conflicted festival had been heading at full steam for five days. In attendance was the cream of cinema royalty, men with names like Spielberg, Lucas, Ford, and LaBoeuf. The paparazzi and the fans lining the red-carpeted steps of the Palais de Festi vals screamed themselves hoarse. The movie? It was pretty good.
Earlier in the morning of the same day, an Italian film called "Gomorra" screened as part of the main competition (Hollywood extravaganzas like "Indiana Jones" and "Kung Fu Panda" are quarantined in the "Out of Competition" category so they won't contaminate the art). Based on a runaway nonfiction bestseller in its native country, the film is a sprawling yet taut multi-character drama exposing the dominance of organized crime in every aspect of life in Naples. A glib way to describe it would be "The Godfather" as made by Robert Altman.
Directed by Matteo Garrone, "Gomorra" was instantly recognized as one of the finds of Cannes 2008, and what makes it special is that it doesn't resort to the standard crime-movie tricks. It feels newly observed, with characters at lower levels of Mafia enterprise - an aging bagman (Gianfelice Imparato), a tailor (Salvatore Cantalupo), a 10-year-old kid (Salvatore Abruzzese), the naive assistant (Carmine Paternoster) to a toxic waste disposal contractor - making the moral decisions that will define them. "Gomorra" isn't "entertainment" as most American moviegoers define it, and yet it's absurdly entertaining. It makes "The Sopranos" look like a cable show.
This is what Cannes is for, among other things: to remind the entertainment press that there are other stories to be told and other ways of telling them. (Our job is then to remind you.) These can be playful: Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" is a family-holiday-hell tale given eccentricity and heft by a cast that includes Catherine Deneuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni, and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" star Mathieu Amalric; it unfolds like a novel and bleeds real blood.
more stories like this
The Palm D'Or for the festival's best film will be awarded today, but perhaps the most weirdly instructive day was last Sunday. At midday came the worldwide premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," the event toward which the glam-obsessed side of this famously conflicted festival had been heading at full steam for five days. In attendance was the cream of cinema royalty, men with names like Spielberg, Lucas, Ford, and LaBoeuf. The paparazzi and the fans lining the red-carpeted steps of the Palais de Festi vals screamed themselves hoarse. The movie? It was pretty good.
Earlier in the morning of the same day, an Italian film called "Gomorra" screened as part of the main competition (Hollywood extravaganzas like "Indiana Jones" and "Kung Fu Panda" are quarantined in the "Out of Competition" category so they won't contaminate the art). Based on a runaway nonfiction bestseller in its native country, the film is a sprawling yet taut multi-character drama exposing the dominance of organized crime in every aspect of life in Naples. A glib way to describe it would be "The Godfather" as made by Robert Altman.
Directed by Matteo Garrone, "Gomorra" was instantly recognized as one of the finds of Cannes 2008, and what makes it special is that it doesn't resort to the standard crime-movie tricks. It feels newly observed, with characters at lower levels of Mafia enterprise - an aging bagman (Gianfelice Imparato), a tailor (Salvatore Cantalupo), a 10-year-old kid (Salvatore Abruzzese), the naive assistant (Carmine Paternoster) to a toxic waste disposal contractor - making the moral decisions that will define them. "Gomorra" isn't "entertainment" as most American moviegoers define it, and yet it's absurdly entertaining. It makes "The Sopranos" look like a cable show.
This is what Cannes is for, among other things: to remind the entertainment press that there are other stories to be told and other ways of telling them. (Our job is then to remind you.) These can be playful: Arnaud Desplechin's "A Christmas Tale" is a family-holiday-hell tale given eccentricity and heft by a cast that includes Catherine Deneuve, her daughter Chiara Mastroianni, and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" star Mathieu Amalric; it unfolds like a novel and bleeds real blood.
Bette Bourne is between a Rock and hard place
There's a scene in City of Night, John Rechy's landmark gay novel, in which the narrator surveys the graffiti on a lavatory wall. Beneath the obscene drawings and offers of sexual favours are the words: “In the beginning God created fairies and they created men.”
If ever there was a fairy who lived up to this claim, it was Henry Willson. The so-called Fairy Godfather of Tinseltown, Willson was the Hollywood agent who created Rock Hudson. Now his tale is being told in a new play, Rock, written by Tim Fountain and starring Bette Bourne (pictured) as Willson.
For Bourne, it's a gay Pygmalion. “My character turns this gasoline attendant into the highest paid movie star on the planet. He takes a callow youth and turns him into Rock Hudson, who was the perfect, ideal man - or so everyone thought.”
Hudson's screen image was rarely straightforward, whether he was doing comedy in Pillow Talk or trying to disguise the ravages of Aids in Dynasty. But Bourne suggests that his manly screen image was weakened after he starred in Giant with James Dean in 1956.
“In that film was the person who ruined men like Rock Hudson,” Bourne says, “because from that point forward everyone wanted the boy who needed looking after. We wanted to nurse and cuddle James Dean, whereas previously we'd wanted men like Rock to do the nursing and the cuddling.”
This isn't the first time that Bourne and Fountain have worked together. A decade ago he earned critical plaudits for his role as Quentin Crisp in Fountain's one-man play Resident Alien. “It was 1999, the year of Quentin's death,” Bourne remembers. “In fact, Quentin died on the night of the tenth performance at the Bush. He was a sweetheart. We got along very well.”
Like Crisp, Bourne is a “stately homo” who has enjoyed an unusual career. In the 1960s he studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and performed on the West End stage under his given name, Peter Bourne. In 1969 he toured with Ian McKellen in a double bill of Edward II and Richard II. A year later he came out - and not just as any old theatre queen but as a radical drag queen.
He turned his back on straight theatre and joined a drag commune in Notting Hill. In 1976 he saw a performance by the New York gay cabaret troupe Hot Peaches. He toured with them that summer and a year later formed his own cabaret troupe, Bloolips. The company specialised in madcap celebrations of “queerness” - part pantomime, part sexual politics, all singing and all dancing. They continued for the best part of 20 years, producing fun-filled, pun-filled shows with titles such as Lust in Space, Get Hur and Living Leg Ends. The company finally disbanded in the early 1990s.
“I'm not a career person,” Bourne says. “I never had a plan. I just bob along like a buoy on the ocean, bumping into whatever comes my way.”
Still, he hasn't done too badly for himself. The last time we met was in his dressing room at the RSC, where he was playing Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (he had previously played the part of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet). The day after this interview he was off to Paris to shoot scenes with Michelle Pfeiffer for the new Stephen Frears film of Colette's Chéri. “I loved his film My Beautiful Laundrette,” he says, “and the fact that those two actors didn't signal to us that they weren't really queer.”
My Beautiful Laundrette was released in 1985, the year that Rock Hudson died. Much has changed since then, but there are still no openly gay leading men in Hollywood. “Most of the people who are out now are what we used to call character actors,” Bourne says.
What about his role in Chéri? “I play a sort of old harridan queen who makes poisonous remarks.” How on earth will he get into character, I ask? He fixes me with a regal stare. “I never think differently about the way I approach characters,” he says grandly. “Whether they are based on real people or totally fictional, I always aim for the truth.”
If ever there was a fairy who lived up to this claim, it was Henry Willson. The so-called Fairy Godfather of Tinseltown, Willson was the Hollywood agent who created Rock Hudson. Now his tale is being told in a new play, Rock, written by Tim Fountain and starring Bette Bourne (pictured) as Willson.
For Bourne, it's a gay Pygmalion. “My character turns this gasoline attendant into the highest paid movie star on the planet. He takes a callow youth and turns him into Rock Hudson, who was the perfect, ideal man - or so everyone thought.”
Hudson's screen image was rarely straightforward, whether he was doing comedy in Pillow Talk or trying to disguise the ravages of Aids in Dynasty. But Bourne suggests that his manly screen image was weakened after he starred in Giant with James Dean in 1956.
“In that film was the person who ruined men like Rock Hudson,” Bourne says, “because from that point forward everyone wanted the boy who needed looking after. We wanted to nurse and cuddle James Dean, whereas previously we'd wanted men like Rock to do the nursing and the cuddling.”
This isn't the first time that Bourne and Fountain have worked together. A decade ago he earned critical plaudits for his role as Quentin Crisp in Fountain's one-man play Resident Alien. “It was 1999, the year of Quentin's death,” Bourne remembers. “In fact, Quentin died on the night of the tenth performance at the Bush. He was a sweetheart. We got along very well.”
Like Crisp, Bourne is a “stately homo” who has enjoyed an unusual career. In the 1960s he studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and performed on the West End stage under his given name, Peter Bourne. In 1969 he toured with Ian McKellen in a double bill of Edward II and Richard II. A year later he came out - and not just as any old theatre queen but as a radical drag queen.
He turned his back on straight theatre and joined a drag commune in Notting Hill. In 1976 he saw a performance by the New York gay cabaret troupe Hot Peaches. He toured with them that summer and a year later formed his own cabaret troupe, Bloolips. The company specialised in madcap celebrations of “queerness” - part pantomime, part sexual politics, all singing and all dancing. They continued for the best part of 20 years, producing fun-filled, pun-filled shows with titles such as Lust in Space, Get Hur and Living Leg Ends. The company finally disbanded in the early 1990s.
“I'm not a career person,” Bourne says. “I never had a plan. I just bob along like a buoy on the ocean, bumping into whatever comes my way.”
Still, he hasn't done too badly for himself. The last time we met was in his dressing room at the RSC, where he was playing Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (he had previously played the part of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet). The day after this interview he was off to Paris to shoot scenes with Michelle Pfeiffer for the new Stephen Frears film of Colette's Chéri. “I loved his film My Beautiful Laundrette,” he says, “and the fact that those two actors didn't signal to us that they weren't really queer.”
My Beautiful Laundrette was released in 1985, the year that Rock Hudson died. Much has changed since then, but there are still no openly gay leading men in Hollywood. “Most of the people who are out now are what we used to call character actors,” Bourne says.
What about his role in Chéri? “I play a sort of old harridan queen who makes poisonous remarks.” How on earth will he get into character, I ask? He fixes me with a regal stare. “I never think differently about the way I approach characters,” he says grandly. “Whether they are based on real people or totally fictional, I always aim for the truth.”
Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal hot date
JAKE Gyllenhaal has laughed off rumours that he is about to pop the question to longterm girlfriend Reece Withersoon.
Despite efforts to keep their romance under wraps, reports are rife that the hot Hollywood couple are getting engaged soon, sparked by insider reports that the pair are head over heels in love and ready to take the next step. A source close to Reese told the American issue of OK magazine the relationship was "very serious". “They’ve been talking marriage for a while. They’ll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together.” The Brokeback Mountain star's producer friend Ryan Kavanaugh told US press that the actor is head over heels, saying recently: "I just think he loves her. "He has obviously had his fair share of dating. "I think eventually you come to a place where you know what you want and seeing what we saw on the set, he was certainly completely devoted to her and really loves her." But Gyllenhaal's spokesperson Carrie Byalick dispelled speculation, telling OK!, "There are no current wedding plans." Last week the Legally Blonde star , 32, was photographed on a romantic picnic date on Malibu beach with her hot Hollywood boyfriend , 27. Witherspoon wore a blue bikini for the beach outing which doubled as a day out for the pair's dogs - Jake's German Shepherd Atticus and her pug Coco. Witherspoon has two children Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, from her previous marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe. The two broke up in October 2006. The actress started dating Gyllenhaal the following March after they met on the set of their film Rendition. The pair have been inseperable since. The hot twosome were recently spotted grabbing some lunch out in Los Angeles, California, looking so happy together. Gyllenhaal has never been married before.
Witherspoon commands an asking price of between $17 million and $22.5 million a film, making her the highest paid actress in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter's latest list of highest-paid actresses.
Despite efforts to keep their romance under wraps, reports are rife that the hot Hollywood couple are getting engaged soon, sparked by insider reports that the pair are head over heels in love and ready to take the next step. A source close to Reese told the American issue of OK magazine the relationship was "very serious". “They’ve been talking marriage for a while. They’ll be formally engaged any day now. They want to spend the rest of their lives together.” The Brokeback Mountain star's producer friend Ryan Kavanaugh told US press that the actor is head over heels, saying recently: "I just think he loves her. "He has obviously had his fair share of dating. "I think eventually you come to a place where you know what you want and seeing what we saw on the set, he was certainly completely devoted to her and really loves her." But Gyllenhaal's spokesperson Carrie Byalick dispelled speculation, telling OK!, "There are no current wedding plans." Last week the Legally Blonde star , 32, was photographed on a romantic picnic date on Malibu beach with her hot Hollywood boyfriend , 27. Witherspoon wore a blue bikini for the beach outing which doubled as a day out for the pair's dogs - Jake's German Shepherd Atticus and her pug Coco. Witherspoon has two children Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4, from her previous marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe. The two broke up in October 2006. The actress started dating Gyllenhaal the following March after they met on the set of their film Rendition. The pair have been inseperable since. The hot twosome were recently spotted grabbing some lunch out in Los Angeles, California, looking so happy together. Gyllenhaal has never been married before.
Witherspoon commands an asking price of between $17 million and $22.5 million a film, making her the highest paid actress in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter's latest list of highest-paid actresses.
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