September 13, 2004 |
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Sharon Stone raised some eyebrows at Saturday's Creative Arts Emmy Awards, where she picked up the Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series statue for her multiepisode arc on The Practice. In accepting her trophy, the out-there thesp — who played a lawyer who communicates with God — told the audience, "You are the voice of God that speaks through me. Thank you." (Paging CVS Rapid Refill.... ) Elsewhere, Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series went to Stone's Practice costar William Shatner, while Laura Linney and John Turturro won for their respective comedic stints on Frasier and Monk. Meanwhile, HBO's underrated Dust Bowl drama, Carnivale, won a leading five awards, including title design, hairstyling, costumes, art direction and cinematography. That should take some of the sting out of this Sunday's main event, where Carnivale is (inexplicably) up for nothing. Speaking of baffling snubs, Gilmore Girls won its first Emmy — for best nonprosthetic makeup. Finally, the Academy got it right! |
SIMON SAYS SUE
American Idol creator Simon Fuller is suing his top judge, Simon Cowell, for copyright infringement and breach of contract. Fuller claims Cowell's new U.K. competition series The X Factor is essentially a rip-off of the Idol format. The falling-out between the Simons has insiders wondering whether Cowell's Idol days may be numbered. A Fox rep, however, tells the New York Post that Judge Dread "will be a part of the show." He'll be the guy responsible for applying Paula's nonprosthetic makeup. |
RISE OF EVIL
Horror sequel Resident Evil: Apocalypse made a killing at the weekend box office, debuting at No. 1 with $23.7 million. Kim Basinger's new thriller Cellular, meanwhile, got so-so service, opening at No. 2 with $10.6 million. |
SHORT CIRCUIT
After 30 years of playing cinema's most famous mechanical manservant, Anthony Daniels bid farewell to C-3PO last week when he completed work on Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith. Too bad digital effects sucked all of the magic out of the moment. "For the final shot," he tells Reuters, "I walked along a blue corridor with a blue background behind me talking to someone who wasn't there." Where was R2-D2? In Massachusetts applying for their marriage license, silly. |
YOU GO, GIRLS
MTV's Making the Band is undergoing a sex change. After that whole Da Band da bacle, host/producer P.Diddy is trying his luck with an all-girl band for the show's upcoming third incarnation. Auditions will take place in early October in Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and Hooters. |
UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED?
Fox News-man Geraldo Rivera is suing the co-op board of the Edgewater, N.J., housing development he lives in, claiming members failed to return a $10,000 deposit on one of his properties and are basically making life hell for him. "They are arbitrarily and capriciously interfering with my house," he told The Record newspaper, "down to minimalist details like whether or not I should have a fish tank." Sounds like someone's gettin' a taste of a bitter pill I like to call Al Capone's Vault Karma. |
AN UNFINISHED LIFE
Thirtysomething creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick are setting their sights on twentysomethings in a new ABC drama titled 1/4life. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show will follow a group of young adults as they experience their "quarter-life crisis," which they'll later refer to as "We never had it so good." |
MOURNED
Broadway legend Fred Ebb, who wrote the lyrics for such musicals as Chicago, Cabaret and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 76.... Actor O.L. Duke, who appeared opposite Denzel Washington in Antwone Fisher and Out of Time, was killed in a New York City car accident Friday. He was 51. |
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