March 27, 2003 |
SHE HAD IT COMING
After two weeks of close calls, diva-in-training Julia DeMato finally got the hook on American Idol last night and believe it or not, I kind of felt bad for the prickly 24-year-old. Of course, no one took the cosmetologist's ouster harder than poor Kimberly Caldwell. The talent-show vet who was among the bottom three vote-getters sobbed uncontrollably after learning of DeMato's fate. I've got two words for Tammy Faye's long-lost daughter: waterproof mascara! |
SPEAKING OUT
Lisa Marie Presley is breaking her silence about her marriage to Michael Jackson, and it's not pretty. The wannabe pop star confesses they did have sex "for a while," but now feels Jackson manipulated her to improve his image and dispell rumors that he was gay a stunt that backfired big-time. The final straw came when Presley read an interview in which Jackson claimed she told him Elvis had a nose job, which she denies. |
TANGLED WEB
Sony is delaying the release of Spider-Man 2 from May 7, 2004, to July 2, 2004. The postponement has nothing to do with star Tobey Maguire's bad back, however. According to reports, the sequel got bumped after filming of Maguire's horse-racing drama Seabiscuit ran into February a month after Spider-Man 2 hoped to begin production. Universal, meanwhile, wasted no time occupying the early May vacancy. The studio is moving its big-budget monster epic Van Helsing into the coveted May 7 slot. In the film, Hugh Jackman plays a vampire hunter who battles such classic creatures as Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolfman and Michael Moore. |
THE TRADITION CONTINUES
ABC has rescheduled Barbara Walters's annual Oscar special, featuring interviews with Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and Renιe Zellweger, for Tuesday at 10 pm/ET. According to published reports, Walters and Moore share a same-sex smooch on the show. (No word if there was any tongue action.) The network, meanwhile, has postponed its one-hour reunion special Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement from April 1 until later this season. The delay is due to the ongoing war coverage. |
JUST SHOOT IT
Word has it that NBC has finally put Just Shoot Me out of its misery, although a network maintains that the six-year-old sitcom "has not been canceled." Well, that's regrettable. |
LITTLE ANGEL
Angel star Charisma Carpenter gave birth to a baby boy, Donovan Charles Hardy, on Monday in Los Angeles. This is Carpenter's first child with hubby Damian Hardy. |
SHORT CUTS
Viacom has inked a deal to launch a 24-hour, Chinese version of MTV in a million households in the southern province of Guangdong, China, next month... The Rolling Stones have postponed two concerts this weekend in Hong Kong as a result of the deadly pneumonia outbreak in Southeast Asia. |
QUEEN FOR A DAY
The mayor of Lambertville, New Jersey, is declaring Saturday "Zora Day" in honor of Joe Millionaire winner Zora Andrich who hails from the quaint riverside community. Planned events include the reading of two proclamations, a parade and a luncheon. Rumor has it that Andrich's Millionaire rival, fetish video star Sarah Kozer, will stop by and lick everyone's feet. |
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