April 25, 2005 |
REUNITED
It looks like former West Wingers Rob Lowe and Aaron Sorkin have buried the hatchet. Lowe is set to headline a stage revival of Sorkin's A Few Good Men in London beginning this August. "I try to make it a policy to stay on good terms with the few geniuses I know in the world," Lowe tells Variety. "There was never a problem between us, and this was a case of kismet. I called him, and when he told me he was adapting the play for the West End, it was exactly what I wanted to do." That, and get off the unemployment line. |
WHERE THERE'S A WILL...
The four stars of Will & Grace can buy that seventh summer home after all. Despite talk that Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally would likely take a pay cut to return next fall, The Hollywood Reporter says the quartet have secured "significant salary bumps" for an eighth season. According to the trade paper, each of the actors will pocket $600,000 per episode, compared to $400,000 per episode this season. This marks the first time Mullally and Hayes will be brought up to full paycheck parity with Messing and McCormack. Shelley Morrison, meanwhile, will be brought up to full paycheck parity with a cashier at Payless. |
DINO-MITE!
Will Ferrell has signed on to headline Universal's big-screen comedy adaptation of the classic tube series Land of the Lost. Ferrell will play forest ranger Rick Marshall, who, while rafting with his two kids, gets sucked into a time vortex and transported to a mysterious world populated by dinosaurs and Sleestaks. |
HOUSEWIVES IN HARMONY?
Despite what you may have read in the pages of Vanity Fair, the ladies of Desperate Housewives are pals on and off the set — at least according to costar Felicity Huffman. "We're all friends," she tells Reuters. "We all get along. I love going to work." In fact, Huffman says she, Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross have tea regularly; Longoria and Cross go on "serious shopping forays"; and Teri Hatcher and Cross are always playing games together. Their current favorite: shooting daggers. |
COST IN TRANSLATION
Something has come between Ashton Kutcher and his Calvin Klein underwear campaign: The Interpreter. The Nicole Kidman-Sean Penn thriller opened at No. 1 with a better-than-expected $22.8 million. That pushed last week's top flick, The Amityville Horror, into second place with $14.2 million, followed by Sahara (No. 3 with $9 million) and Kutcher's new romantic comedy A Lot Like Love (No. 4 with $7.7 million). As you'll recall, the Punk'd screwball promised to do a Calvin Klein undies ad if Love debuted atop the box office. With that losing bet behind him, Kutcher has made a new wager with moviegoers: If his next film tanks as bad as this one, he'll do a Burger King ad with Hootie. |
LOLLA... WHO?
The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr., M8, Widespread Panic, the Killers, Arcade Fire, Blue Merle, Digable Planets, Dragonfly Inn Guest No. 1, Death Cab for Cutie, Los Amigos Invisibles and Louis XIV are among the acts performing at this year's Lollapalooza festival, which takes place July 23-24 in Chicago's Grant Park. Now, try to guess which one of the aforementioned groups I made up. (For the answer, keep reading...) |
MARRIAGE-MINDED
Elton John has announced plans to marry his longtime partner, David Furnish, in a civil ceremony sometime next year. That is, unless Madonna shows up and starts lip-syncing, in which case the civil part will go out the window. |
MOURNED
British actor Sir John Mills, who snagged an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a mute village idiot in Ryan's Daughter, died Saturday of a chest infection. He was 97. |
ARE WE THERE YET?
Prosecutors in the Michael Jackson child-molestation trial are expected to wrap up their case this week, clearing the way for the defense to take over and for me to solve the above riddle: Dragonfly Inn Guest No. 1 is the fake band. (But AA readers knew that.) |
TOUCHED BY REALITY
Überproducer Mark Burnett is developing a reality version of Touched by an Angel that could feature Angel stars Roma Downey and Della Reese, per The Hollywood Reporter. "It's an unscripted show that will be about bringing hope to people," says Burnett, who is talking to Donald Trump about doing crossover appearances as God. |
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