IT’S A BOY FOR CLAIRE DANES
Homeland star Claire Danes is a new mom. The actress and her husband Hugh Dancy welcomed son Cyrus Michael Christopher on Monday. This is the first child for the couple, who married in 2009.
LOHAN NOT TO BLAME FOR TRASHED TRAILER
Lindsay Lohan is once again blaming someone else for her misfortune. Earlier this year, Lindsay was blamed for trashing her trailer on the set of Scary Movie 5, with one report alleging she clogged its toilet, as well as other toilets on the set. Well, Lindsay is vehemently denying to friends she was responsible for the trailer being destroyed. She claims producers were upset she missed the first day of shooting (she said she had walking pneumonia) and when she finally arrived, the trailer was already a disaster. She says after she was done shooting her cameo she was told she would not get her full paycheck in order to cover the damages. Lindsay’s friends say she tried to fight execs over the cut in her salary, but after weeks of negotiations she finally gave in and took the lesser amount.
CRUISE DENIES DATING MALIN AKERMAN’S SISTER
A rep for Tom Cruise has shot down a report in The Sun that claimed Tom was dating Jennifer Akerman, the sister of his Rock of Ages co-star Malin Akerman. The paper claimed that Tom and Jennifer hooked up at the Stockholm premiere of his film Jack Reacher. And while the duo was seen talking at the premiere, a rep for Tom calls the dating story “lies.”
CANNON DUMPED KIM KARDASHIAN OVER SEX TAPE
Nick Cannon is opening up about his brief relationship with Kim Kardashian. The America’s Got Talent host dated the reality show star in 2006, but says he dumped her because she lied about her sex tape. “We talked about this tape, and she told me there was no tape,” said Nick. “If she might have been honest with me I might have tried to hold her down and be like ‘That was before me,’ because she is a great girl. She’s actually one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. But the fact that she lied and told me that there was no tape?” Nick went on to say that Kim was “a great businesswoman,” and added, “I still think she might have had a part to play with (its release).”
Q-What’s the name of the 2002 movie in which Nick plays a member of a college marching band? Drumline
JACKSON BLAMES THOMPSON FOR SNL CURSE
Guess we shouldn’t expect to see Samuel L. Jackson and Kenan Thompson starring in any movies together. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Pulp Fiction star blamed Thompson for letting the “F” word slip during Jackson’s appearance on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. "He was supposed to cut me off!" Jackson said, adding, “I'm used to working with professionals that know their lines. Even ones that are written on cue cards in front of you."
Q-What is the name of the eye-patch wearing character Jackson plays in The Avengers? Nick Fury
EDWARDS & HUNTER’S LOUD SEX ANNOYS NEIGHBORS
Disgraced former senator John Edwards sure is having a wild time with his mistress Rielle Hunter. According to The National Enquirer, Edwards moved Rielle and their love child Quinn to North Carolina to be closer to him, which is not making Rielle’s neighbors very happy. Apparently Edwards spends most nights at Rielle’s Chapel Hill home and the couple has such loud sex the folks around them have been complaining. “When they get a little tipsy, they get so frisky that their lovemaking becomes embarrassingly loud,” said a source. “One day an elderly neighbor walked right up to Rielle and said, ‘Try to keep it down next time.’ John was mortified when Rielle told him but she clearly gets a kick out of it.”
SAM DONALDSON BUSTED FOR DUI
ABC newsman Sam Donaldson was arrested for DUI in Delaware on December 1st. The 78-year-old was pulled over after he drove his car into a shoulder. He was given a field sobriety test, which he failed, and arrested for DUI. Law enforcement tells TMZ that Donaldson was very cooperative.
APATOW WON’T EDIT SCENE FROM MOVIE
Judd Apatow tells TMZ he has no plans to cut a scene from his new movie This Is 40 in which a character jokingly plays a “murder game” with his kids. In the scene in question, Albert Brooks’ character, who is looking for ways to save money, is getting ready to spray his kid with a hose and jokes, "Line up! Line up for murder! Come on! Who wants to be killed?" and then after he sprays them, adds, “all right, the kids are murdered. That will save us money.” Apatow says he wrote the script two years ago, long before the Connecticut tragedy, and says it “is spoken by a sarcastic father kidding with his kids.” Apatow adds, “In light of recent events I understand if some people might make an unfortunate association or put it in a context in which it was not intended.” This is 40 opens Friday.
TEBOW & BELLE CALL IT QUITS
Tim Tebow is single again. Us Weekly reports that the New York Jets quarterback and actress Camilla Belle have split after less than two months of dating. Explained a source, “It just didn’t work out.”
KIMMEL TALKS COMPETING WITH LENO
Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t seem to be worried about going up against Jay Leno now that Jimmy Kimmel Live is moving to 11:35 pm. In a conference call yesterday he compared the Tonight Show host to Jason from the Friday the 13th movies saying, “Just when you think he’s dead, he comes back.” And Kimmel doesn’t seem to think Jay will be his competition for long. “The fact is that NBC is going to make a decision someday. As much as he would like it, Jay Leno can’t stay on television forever and Jimmy Fallon is the heir apparent,” he explained. The Tonight Show plans to move up their start time to 11:34 to get a minute head start on the ABC late night talker, which Kimmel takes as a bit of a complement. “It tells me that they are a bit concerned,” he said. “I’ll be curious to see how long that goes on. That’s a trick designed to bring up their ratings in the first month. What really matters is how you do in May and that’s when we’ll know where we stand.”
THE MATRIX & DIRTY HARRY ADDED TO NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY
Twenty five films have been added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, including Dirty Harry, The Matrix, A Christmas Story and A League of Their Own. The National Film Registry, which was established by Congress in 1989, “spotlights the importance of preserving America’s unparalleled film heritage.” Other films making it this year include: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the 1950s western 3:10 to Yuma, Richard Linklater’s Slacker, the documentary The Life and Times of Harvey Milk and Anatomy of a Murder.
Q-The Western 3:10 to Yuma was remade in 2007 starring Russell Crowe and what Batman Begins star? Christian Bale
MARSDEN A DAD FOR THE THIRD TIME
James Marsden is a new dad. Brazilian model Rose Costa, who the 30 Rock star briefly dated earlier this year, gave birth to a baby boy, William Luca Costa-Marsden, on December 14th. Marsden is already dad to daughter Mary James, 7, and son Jack Holden, 11, with ex-wife Lisa Linde.
BURN NOTICE STAR A DAD
Burn Notice star Jeffrey Donovan and his wife Michelle Woods are proud parents of a baby girl. “She is a healthy and happy baby girl, and we are incredibly blessed to have her in our lives,” said the couple, who did not release any other details about the child.
Q-Donovan and Angelina Jolie starred in what 2008 Clint Eastwood film? Changeling
GORGA RELEASING BOOK ABOUT HER MARRIAGE
Melissa Gorga is releasing a book. The Real Housewives of New Jersey star has landed a publishing deal with St. Martin’s press, which will release Love, Italian Style: Secrets of My Hot and Happy Marriage. Melissa says the book will offer readers, “practical strategies on how to strengthen their marriage, amp up the passion, and the secrets that make my marriage as sexy and hot as it is warm and loving." So far, no date has been set for its release.
MISCELLANEOUS MOVIE NEWS
Angelina Jolie, whose directorial debut In The Land of Blood and Honey was released in 2011, is in talks to direct the World War II drama Unbroken. The movie is an adaptation of the 2010 book about Olympic athlete and war veteran Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash during the war and clung to life on a raft for 47 days before he was captured by the Japanese and sentenced to time in a prisoner of war camp.
Jon Voight is in talks to join the upcoming movie Reagan, about the 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan. Voight will play a Soviet KGB agent whose job it was to track the president.
Jackie Chan will join Sylvester Stallone in the third installment of The Expendables franchise. Jackie said he was invited to be in the second film but was too busy shooting another movie. There’s no word on when The Expendables 3 will begin shooting.
Hugh Jackman will once again grow out his muttonchops to play Wolverine. The actor, whose new film Les Miserables opens Christmas Day, has signed on to reprise his role of the clawed mutant in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to 2011’s X-Men: First Class. Original X-Men Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are already on board for the flick, which also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence.
Universal has announced that Riddick will hit theaters on September 6th. This is the third installment in the Vin Diesel franchise, which started with 2000’s Pitch Black and was followed by 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick.
Looks like Kristen Stewart will not be romancing Ben Affleck in her next film. The actor/director has dropped out of the grifter romantic comedy Focus because he couldn’t fit it into his schedule. Earlier this month, Stewart confirmed that she had signed on for the film.
TV TIDBITS
Discovery Channel has decided not to move forward with Ted Nugent’s Gun Country. The program aired as a special in October, but Nugent claimed the network was interested in picking it up as a regular series. A spokesperson for Discovery now says the show will not return with any new episodes.
Will & Grace star Sean Hayes is returning to TV. Deadline.com reports that the actor will star in a yet-to-be-titled father/daughter comedy for NBC. He’ll play a dad who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter, who has recently moved in with him.
TLC has given the go-ahead for Pageant Wives, a special that delves into the world of the highly competitive Mrs. Pageant circuit. The show, which could be turned into a series, follows five aspiring married pageant queens from the Denver area.
