July 08, 2005 |
Hulk Hogan Pins Down Reality TV
By Matt Webb Mitovich
TVGuide.com: In 1987, you became the first man to beat Andre the Giant. What do remember most about that bout?
Hulk Hogan: Just that he weighed almost 700 lbs., and I had no idea what was going to happen. Andre could either be the nicest man in the world or the mean giant, and it was one of those nights where he was feeling his oats. Halfway through the match, he goes, "Body slam me!" I said, "What?! I can't!" But he scared me to death, so I just picked him up and did it.
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Without a Trace's Lady Killer
By Johanna Schneller
The scene isn't working. Not because the lead actors, Without a Trace star Poppy Montgomery and David Sutcliffe, aren't gelling. They are. But this moment in their Lifetime TV-movie Murder in the Hamptons — airing Monday at 9 pm/ET — needs more juice.
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Dispatches from Into the West
By Tim Appelo
Some Native American extras from TNT's hit 12-hour miniseries — airing Fridays at 8 pm/ET — recently alleged in a television trade publication that they were underpaid and overworked in frigid weather during the show's arduous four-month shoot in New Mexico last year.
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July 08, 2005 |
POOR KIDS
The seventh sign of the Apocalypse is now officially upon us: Britney Spears is expecting twins, the New York Daily News reports. What's more, a spy for the paper's Lowdown... |
JUST A GIGOLO... WITH A DESK JOB
When Howard Stern leaves Infinity Broadcasting at the end of the year, among the personalities in line to replace him at the mike is David Lee Roth. So says SteppinOutMagazine... |
FANTASY ISLAND
What do you acquire if you're a star who has everything? No, Angelina, not Ethiopian babies — an island! Leonardo DiCaprio has bought himself Blackadore Caye, off the ... |
STARS POWER
Gee, we never saw this coming: Dancing with the Stars won the night Wednesday, scoring nearly 22 million viewers and, if there's any justice in Hollywood, bringing a stack... |
NOT-QUITE-LIVE 8
After being taken to task for incessantly interrupting their Live 8 coverage, MTV and VH1 are going to rerun 10 hours of it commercial-free tomorrow. VH1 will broadcast the first five... |
ZSA ZSA'S OK
After suffering an apparent stroke, Zsa Zsa Gabor underwent emergency surgery Wednesday to clear a blocked artery. The movie starlet-turned-cop-slapper has been under a lot ... |
HE CAN'T GO FOR THAT
Hall & Oates have canceled all of their concerts until next month so that lead vocalist Daryl Hall can recover from Lyme disease. "We promise to make it up to (our fans... |
REALITY BITES BACK
Reality-TV "writers" have filed a lawsuit against the fat-cat producers of their shows in hopes of forcing them to sign a contract abolishing "sweatshop" working conditions. But really... |
COURTING CONTROVERSY
Morgan Freeman is investing in ClickStar, Inc., a digital entertainment company that — sometime next year, they hope — will let moviegoers watch films online before their DVD... |
FINS TO THE LEFT, FINS TO THE RIGHT
Armageddon screenwriter Shane Salerno has been brought in to give a little extra bite to the script for the Jurassic-shark thriller Meg, Twister director... |
IT'S A DEAL
Although ABC took a pass on the hit international game show Deal or No Deal — some kind of gambling hooey — NBC has bought the rights to the series and is hurrying it into production... |
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