July 12, 2005 |
Johnny Depp's Still a Cry-Baby
By Daniel R. Coleridge
TVGuide.com: Cry-Baby was perhaps the most mainstream or "ready for prime time," of all your many wacky movies.
John Waters: I disagree. Pecker is probably my nicest movie. Just 'cause Cry-Baby is a musical, people forget that I have a very dysfunctional, disturbed family in it. I have an ingenue who drinks her own tears because she's in love with Johnny Depp. That's some kind of sexual fetish I don't even have a name for; I didn't even have tear drinkers in A Dirty Shame. Plus, [adult film-star-turned-actress] Traci Lords is in it, Patricia Hearst... I hardly think it was your normal studio movie.
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Do Your Kids Need Brat Camp?
By Matt Webb Mitovich
Two weeks ago, amid cries of racism and prejudice, ABC abruptly pulled the welcome mat out from under Welcome to the Neighborhood, a controversial and as yet unaired reality show in which several, um, "diverse" clans vied for a house in a coveted community. The cancelation, while commendable, left ABC with a bit of a public-relations black eye, and one could understand if the execs behind the net's next daring unscripted series were given a bit of a scare by Neighborhood's fate.
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Carly Simon's Candid Talk
By Ileane Rudolph
TV Guide: Moonlight Serenade has a very intimate, mellow feel.
Carly Simon: Our intention was an album that you could make out to. [Laughs]
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July 12, 2005 |
LOW BLOW
UPN is coming under fire for an installment of WWE Smackdown that appeared to depict a terrorist-like attack in the ring. The sketch — which aired last Thursday, the same day... |
IDOL WATCH
American Idol is extending this year's auditions to 50 U.S. cities. Although the locations have not been announced, producers are said to be looking at cities that have a heavy... |
SAVED BY THE [CHURCH] BELL
Saved by the Bell grad Tiffani Amber Thiessen married actor-boyfriend Brady Smith Saturday at a private estate in Montecito, Calif. This... |
REMEMBERED
Character actor Kevin Hagen, best known as Little House on the Prairie's good-hearted Dr. Hiram Baker, died Saturday of esophageal cancer. He was 77. Hollywood is also... |
COMPUTER SAVVY
Dude, Sheryl Crow's getting a Dell endorsement deal! The Grammy winner has signed on to serve as the computer giant's new spokesperson. Her first commercial will debut next week... |
SECONDS, ANYONE?
Sony Pictures is quietly developing a string of sequels that have direct-to-DVD written all over them. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has greenlit Hollow Man 2... |
SPEAKING OF SEQUELS...
Is Djimon Hounsou looking to get smacked in the head with a telephone? The actor claims a follow-up to the Oscar-winning epic Gladiator is in the works — sans leading ... |
CASE CLOSED
The dude accused of plotting to abduct David Letterman's young son reached a plea agreement with prosecutors Monday. Under the deal, Kelly Frank pleaded guilty to lesser... |
SOAP FANS, BEWARE
The Big Three networks are expected to break into regular programming Wednesday afternoon to televise the launch of the space shuttle Discovery. This is the shuttle's first mission... |
RECOVERING
Angela Lansbury will undergo knee-replacement surgery Thursday following a spill she took on stage at the Hollywood Bowl Friday, Variety reports. Lansbury was performing... |
SHORT CUTS
Comedy Central has acquired rerun rights to TV's funniest comedy, Scrubs. The cabler will begin airing the episodes in fall 2006... The next edition of ABC's The Bachelor<... |
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