The daily dish… a spicy serving of celebrity news
Baz is behind …
Director Baz Luhrmann says he has yet to finish his $130 million epic film “Australia,” despite the fact it’s due for a world premiere next week.
“We’re right up against it, I literally have to on Friday night push that button,” he told Reuters.
The 46-year-old director, who has spent the last four years working on the movie, said he was “going back to the mixing desk to finish it in 24 hours.”
Nicole Kidman and co-star Hugh Jackman were on Oprah Winfrey’s show Monday, where the host praised the rough cut of the movie, saying: “I have not been this excited about a movie since I don’t know when.”
Kidman stars as an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling Outback property and falls in love with a cowboy, played by Jackman. The couple find themselves caught in the Japanese wartime bombing of Darwin.
Elton speaks …
In the aftermath of the passage of California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Elton John says he thinks civil unions are the way to go.
In December 2005, John and David Furnish tied the knot in a civil partnership ceremony in Windsor, England. “We’re not married. Let’s get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage.” John and Furnish, and their two cocker spaniels Marilyn and Arthur, were in New York for the annual benefit for the
Elton John AIDS Foundation, reports USA Today.
“I don’t want to be married. I’m very happy with a civil partnership,” John said.
Stork report…
Adam Sandler and his wife, Jackie, have welcomed their second daughter.
A posting on Sandler’s Web site says Sunny Madeline was born Nov. 2.
The statement says: “Everyone is happy and healthy.”
The couple have been married since 2003. Their daughter Sadie was born in May 2006.
Puzzle donation …
New York Times crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz plans to donate his collection of more than 20,000 puzzle books and magazines to Indiana University.
Shortz told the Indianapolis Star that he discussed the bequest with IU library officials last spring when he was in Bloomington to give the school’s commencement address. His collection includes the first American crossword puzzle, printed in the now-defunct New York World in 1913. His oldest book is from 1543.
Shortz graduated from Indiana in 1974, using the school’s Individualized Major Program to earn a degree in what he calls “enigmatology” — or the creation of puzzles.
Robbins rebuts …
Actor Tim Robbins’ difficulty in voting on Election Day was his own fault, New York City’s Board of Elections maintains.
Representative Gregory C. Soumas wrote a letter to Robbins, telling him that he was not on the rolls at the poll site he visited last week “because you simply went to the wrong poll site.” Soumas said Robbins filed a new voter registration form in February 2004, changing his voting address. The letter said Robbins should have gone to the new site.
Robbins, 50, strongly disagreed. He told the Associated Press he voted at his old polling place numerous times in recent elections (which Bettye J. Williamson, a longtime poll worker in his precinct, has verified) and was never notified he should vote anywhere else. “The system is in need of repair,” said Robbins.
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