| Tori Spelling To Star In Reality Series on Oxygen | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:08:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, NY (October 25, 2006) --Famed actress, pop culture icon and mother-to-be Tori Spelling ("So NoTORIous," "Beverly Hills 90210") and her actor husband Dean McDermott will make the move from performers to proprietors, by opening their own bed & breakfast in a new Oxygen reality series. The newlyweds created the show and will executive produce the series along with executive producers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato of World of Wonder Productions, the production team behind the Bravo series "Show Biz Moms & Dads." Six episodes of the 30-minute series are set to premiere spring 2007. Giving new meaning to the term luxury accommodations, the McDermotts will leave their Hollywood lifestyle behind for the picturesque wine vineyards of southern California to invest Spelling's entire life savings and her $800,000 inheritance into opening an inn.... | |
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| | | Kevin Costner was first choice for WTC | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:03:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | When director Oliver Stone was planning "World Trade Center", his first choice for the leading part of Sgt. John McLoughlin was Kevin Costner. Hollywood insiders claim that production company Paramount Pictures was very concerned with Stone at the helm and Costner in the leading role because the film could delve into another conspiracy theory. In 1991, Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner worked together on "JFK" which deals with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. George Clooney was Stone's second choice but turned down the role. Nicolas Cage plays the part in the film, which will be released in local cinemas this week. .... | |
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| | | Kevin Costner Blasts George W. Bush Assassination Film | | Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:11:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Costner has waded into the debate about controversial new movie "Death Of A President," insisting British director Gabriel Range failed to consider how George W. Bush's family would react to scenes of the President being assassinated. The star was caught up in the controversy at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada over the weekend, where he premiered his new film, The Guardian, alongside the screening of "Death of A President." Movie fans reportedly sat in stunned silence at the end of Range's screening, which featured doctored images of Bush getting shot, and Costner, who wasn't in the audience, isn't happy with what he's heard about the film. He says, "It's awfully hard if you're his children, his wife, his mother, his dad; there's a certain thing we can't lose as human beings, which is empathy for maybe the hardest job in the world.... | |
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| | | Kevin Costner Returns To Field Of Dreams To Hawk DVDs | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:16:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you build it, they will come. And then if you go back there 17 years later when you're not really very famous any more, they will come again, only not so many of them and with about 75% less enthusiasm. That's what Kevin Costner discovered at the weekend, anyway, as he returned to the Iowa location of his 1989 movie Field Of Dreams to hawk some kind of DVD rental service. As well as a free screening of Field Of Dreams for 5,000 fans, there some mixed news - the bad news was that Kevin Costner decided that a 75-minute concert by him and his band would be exactly what the Field Of Dreams fans wanted, and the good news was that at no point did Kevin Costner have a wank at a masseuse like he supposedly did in Scotland a couple of years ago. It's surprising what having a film crew can do for a location, isn't it? Since it was heavily featured in The Da Vinci Code, the tiny Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland has become a major tourist attraction, to such an extent that a five-G rollercoaster has now been built around the mythic Apprentice Column, and the proudest moment of Ashford in Kent remains the day that the bloke from 2.4 Children threw a frisbee in a town park onscreen for one second at some point in the early nineties.... | |
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| | | Kevin Costner Thrills Fans at 'Field of Dreams' | | Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:03:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kevin Costner returned to the home of his hit baseball movie 'Field of Dreams' as part of a touring movie road show on Friday. More than 5,000 fans watched the 51-year-old perform a concert in Dyersville, Iowa, before a screening of the 1989 movie, in which he played a farmer who built a baseball diamond in his cornfields in a bid to resurrect the legendary Chicago Black Sox team. Costner also spent time pitching the ball to some young fans and also found himself caught in the middle of the dispute between the two families who own the land. The Lansing family, which owns the farmhouse, right field and most of the infield, elected not to be part of the event. At 6:00pm (local time) they closed off their portion of the property and forced fans to crowd into the left and center parts of the field.... | |
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| | | Zero or hero? | | Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 5:02:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Paul Giamatti might have been an academic - his father was president of Yale - but instead became an actor making his name as the 'ordinary man' of indie films. Now finally, the laidback star of Sideways is an unlikely leading man in M Night Shyamalan's controversial new film. By Gaby Wood Sunday July 30, 2006 The Observer .... | |
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| | | TV recalls 9-11, but will viewers be overloaded? | | Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 11:07:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | Five years later, television will remember the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, with dozens of programs, from an epic miniseries to documentaries and investigative reports. So pervasive are the retrospectives that TV critics previewed six, an unusually large number on any topic, in the first half of the current 18-day summer tour. Whether America will watch hour upon hour of such specials is another issue. The biggest is ABC's six-hour miniseries The Path to 9-11, which premieres Sept. 10 and 11. "People have asked me if enough time has passed," says Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment. "To me, what's important is this isn't just a document of history." The $30 million drama program depicts events from the 9-11 Commission Report and looks back at the years before the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.... | |
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| | | Dragonfly walk unveils agile bug | | Posted Saturday, July 08, 2006 1:07:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | They are aerodynamic marvels. They seem mystical. Their colors inspire artists and makers of jewelry. And they are believed to have existed for at least 250 million years. "NASA and the military have studied dragonflies because they are so agile," said Roger Racut, a Mesa engineer who works for TRW. .... | |
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| | | It s like pulling teeth | | Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:06:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are as joined together in American frontier mythology as Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig are in baseball. Wyatt Earp, a peace officer in cattle and mining towns of the Old West, is the one modern movie audiences most easily identify with, whether played by Burt Lancaster, Kurt Russell or Kevin Costner. But Doc Holliday, the aristocratic son of a Georgia plantation owner, always seems to enter the Earp movies through a side door before stealing the film, as Kirk Douglas does in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," Dennis Quaid in "Wyatt Earp" and Val Kilmer in "Tombstone." In the movies Doc appears as a Western version of a Joseph Conrad character, a tarnished cavalier with a mysterious past whose strongest virtue is loyalty to Wyatt Earp.... | |
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