Category: Actresses (Page 231 of 258)

“She’ll need 200 raindrops on roses, a couple dozen whiskers on kittens…

“…a few bright copper kettles, and some warm woolen mittens. Oh, and don’t forget the brown paper packages tied up with strings: Woody Allen forgot those once, and she ripped him a new one, but good.”

Scarlett Johansson has backed out of a commitment to play Maria Von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s production of “The Sound of Music,” set to open in London’s West End this November. Sources from Weber’s camp say the starlet’s excessive demands were the dealbreaker:

“Her people were not ‘pro’ the idea. It became clear that it wasn’t going to work because the demands were so ridiculous,” Lloyd Webber was quoted as saying in The Times newspaper.

He said Johansson’s representatives “couldn’t understand why she would want to appear in the West End for $18,500 a week when she could be earning $10 million for a movie.”

It was annoying because she really wanted to do it,” Lloyd Webber was quoted as saying.

Publicist Marcel Parisbeau said it was a busy work schedule and not pay demands that sank the actress’ chance to play the role made famous by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film version of the musical.

“It is true that there were some discussions regarding Scarlett and the production of ‘The Sound of Music.’ But Mr. Webber’s statement regarding the demands is extremely exaggerated,” Parisbeau said in a statement. “Her management team was simply asking for terms that an actress of her stature would ask for.”

Interestingly, in the absence of Miss Scarlett, Weber has turned to a different sure-fire source for drawing attention to his revival: He plans to cast his leading lady via a reality-TV competition called (what else?) “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”

Start working on that audition tape now.

Maura Tierney splits from her husband of 13 years

Based on the above photo, which aspect of the former “NewsRadio” star’s breakup is most surprising?

a) That Maura was ever married to this guy in the first place;
b) That it took 13 years for her to realize she could do better, despite romancing Goran Visnjic (aka “Vladimir Yummy”) on “E.R.”; or
c) That Maura is not already making up for lost time with some hot young twentysomething…like, say, Jesse Metcalfe?

Hallelujah! PREACH IT, Brother Jimmy!

James Robinson, CEO of Morgan Creek Productions, is mad as hell at Lindsay Lohan…and he’s not going to take it any more! Not only did he write a letter, chastising her unprofessional behavior, he didn’t bother sending it to any stinkin’ intermediary; it went straight to Lohan herself!

You can check out the letter here, but this line alone should tell you that he’s laying it all out on the table:

“You and your representatives have told us that your various late arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness; today, we were told it was ‘heat exhaustion.’ We are well aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so called ‘exhaustion.’ We refuse to accept bogus excuses for your behavior.”

BUSTED!!!!!!!

United Airlines institutes ban on black women with attitude, hair dryers

Plus-size African-American comedian (and apparent front-runner for “The View”’s Star-Jones-size vacancy) Mo’Nique claims she was recently ejected from a United Airlines flight for racist reasons:

The incident started when her hair stylist stashed a hair dryer in a first-class bin. While Mo’Nique was flying in the front of the cabin, her aide was in coach.

The “Showtime at the Apollo” host said she tried to keep her cool when a flight attendant first questioned the stylist’s actions. But things escalated when another flight attendant allegedly refused to believe the beauty tool belonged to Mo’Nique.

“Tell your people that the next time they have an attitude, they are being thrown off. … Since 9/11, we don’t play around,” one flight attendant allegedly told Mo’Nique.

“Are you equating my hair dryer with 9/11?” Mo’Nique said she retorted.

Representatives for United denied the allegations of racism, and indicated that they would be happy to eject hefty white-woman-with-attitude Rosie O’Donnell from a future flight in order to demonstrate their race-neutral approach to inconveniencing customers.

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