Celebrity Gossip
Brits give Dench the boot
The Brits seem to have turned against their pet favorite Dame Judi Dench. One critic refers to her now as “a magnificent and once discriminating actress whose reputation alone can turn a show into a guaranteed hit.” Then he refers to her “formidable old boot mode, [which] she has honed playing such roles as Queen Victoria, Lady Bracknell, Elizabeth I and Min the Bond movies.” Since this critique, Judi sprained her leg and is functioning onstage with a cane, performing in “Madame de Sade,” a play by the late Yukio Mishima. The critics hated that too.
(I think they’re just mad that Dame Judi Dench has made pots of money of late in commercial movies as 007’s boss. Actors are supposed to starve, you know.)
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Madonna’s ex, Guy Ritchie, is now getting kudos in the foreign press simply because his marriage ended. They are saying he’ll come into his own with a remake of “The Wild Geese,” a big-budget film that will have real star names. This is being made by those folks who gave us “300.”
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Julia Roberts is the revived movie star of the hour with her appearance in “Duplicity,” co-starring Clive Owen. But Julia insists she is no longer catnip for the paparazzi. “Not many follow me now. It’s just the slow ones who haven’t yet figured out I’m not the one to follow.”
What next for Julia? Well, she has a movie coming soon that she made two years ago, with her husband Danny Moder as the director of photography. It is a family drama called “Fireflies in the Garden.”
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The wizard actress Debra Winger, who says she didn’t make a comeback in “Rachel Getting Married” because she had never retired, has this analysis of current moviemaking: “I find it sort of hair-raising ... celebrities are pulling the films along with them to hold them up. It used to be that the film was the thing—the film opened and we showed up to support it. Now it’s all about the red carpet and celebrity. This stupidity about celebrity is just crazy. We just need to stop feeding it so much and start to talk about real things again.”
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Sarah Jessica Parker wore a black dress when she wed Matthew Broderick. Now she says she was wrong and if it were happening today—“I’d wear a beautiful, proper wedding dress, like I should have worn on that day.”
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Jennifer Aniston says she doesn’t understand the hoopla about her divorce from Brad Pitt and his relationship with Angelina Jolie and she has not discussed any of this with her ex. She says of the continuing interest in her past— “I’m baffled.”
And I am grateful to writer John Hiscock for so many fabulous quotes right from the horses’ mouths.
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