Hugh Grant Kicks A Photographer and more[Entertainment Week]
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Halle is getting an ego, Bond fans aren't happy with Daniel Craig, and Donald and Martha are bickering again, Kerry Rickard writes.  Hugh Grant has been showing his mean streak lately. A confrontation with a photographer in Central Park spurred the actor to start kicking the offending paparazzo in the butt in an effort to gain some personal space, somewhat like the fights with Colin Firth in both Bridget Jones movies. The pictures from that alone must have been worth it. Cue “It’s Raining Men.”J-Lo isn’t the only bootylicious actress with a complex. Recent reports suggest Halle Berry has been laying on the superiority with respect to her very sensual self. Berry, 39, apparently held up traffic for several minutes in New York while chatting with acquaintances, her waiting taxi causing cars to get backed up all the way up the block. Berry also refused to ride in the limo sent to pick her up from a tour of Harvard University because it was white, not black. Why all the hate, man – limos are all the same on the inside. Speaking of ex-Bond actors, UNICEF goodwill ambassador Roger Moore wants us to give the new face of 007 a chance. The plea comes in response to a group of Bond fans launching the site www.craignotbond.com, created to protest the (cost-efficient) choice of Daniel Craig as the ultimate secret agent. Craig, who got his front teeth knocked out while filming the upcoming 21st Bond movie Casino Royale, does not fit the typical 007 profile of dark, mysterious, blue-eyed and 100% sexy. Then again, he is British and we’ve seen Hollywood work with less. Regardless, several of the runners-up for the title, notably Clive Owen, Jude Law and Ewan McGregor, would all have been a heck of a lot better, personality-wise. Even Hugh Jackman (as un-English as you can get) might have been well-suited in the role – no one can say that Jackman’s Wolverine didn’t have a very seductive animal magnetism. And charismatic magnetism is what being Bond (James Bond) is all about. Not being a buck-toothed twit. Music On the music scene, vengeance is the keyword: Nick Lachey has announced that he will take ex-wife Jessica Simpson to court for alimony. The marriage, which was supposed to be a storybook American wedding (a minister’s virgin daughter, a handsome, all-American boy, a love so deep it precluded a prenuptial agreement) is quickly taking a turn for the perverse. As much as I’m not a Simpson Clan fan, no one can deny that Jess worked hard for the money she earned (roughly $30 million, through record sales, concerts, a movie and providing the angst element of the couples' reality show.) And what exactly has Nick done, other than lounge around being filmed in his own house, being the cause of said angst when he, i.e. goes to the Playboy Mansion? What exactly is he trying to prove by taking his wife’s money, anyway? C’mon, Nick. You know that makes you less of a man. A new push in the anti-war effort will begin on March 20th, the 3-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. REM lead Michael Stipe has joined forces with outspoken military mom Cindy Sheehan to tour with other authors and musicians (who, a couple of generations ago, would probably have been blacklisted by McCarthy and accused of being pinko commies) to promote the anti-war movement. The Bring ‘em Home Now concert will also feature Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, and Steve Earle. Sheehan plans to follow up the concert with a cross-country speaking engagement, visiting 15 different cities to spread the Bring ‘Em Home Now message. |
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