When actor-director Dennis Hopper showed up alone at superagent Irving "Swifty" Lazar's annual Oscar wing-ding at Spago in Los Angeles, the room started buzzing with the news that Hopper and his wife of almost three years, the former Katherine LaNasa, are now estranged.
LaNasa, a ballet dancer and choreographer, met Hopper in 1987. The couple married in June 1989, when she was 22 and he was 53. They have a son, Henry Lee, 19 months. Hopper has been married three times before and has two grown daughters.
Hopper's assistant says the actor is "hoping for a reconciliation" with his wife but refused to comment further.
U2 CAN BE A PRODUCER
U2 lead singer Bono moves a step closer to becoming a Hollywood film producer now that Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, has bought the rights to Million Dollar Hotel, a screenplay Bono has been developing with writer Nicholas Klein.
Bono's proposed movie is a drama based on hotel lore about the Million Dollar Hotel, the nickname of an establishment located in downtown L.A.'s skid row. The hotel's roof was the site of U2's 1987 "Where the Streets Have No Name" video.
Neither Bono nor Gibson is expected to appear in the film, which was described to us by our source as "an ensemble piece, not a star vehicle."
DAN AYKROYD GETS TUBED
Pilot alert: Dan Aykroyd, whose post—Saturday Night Live movie career has seen more flops (Nothing but Trouble and Loose Cannons) than hits (Ghost-busters and Driving Miss Daisy), is poised to return to TV as the executive producer, writer and star of C.C.P.D., a half-hour comedy pilot for Fox.
A Fox rep described the show as "a parody of cop shows" set in the mythical town of Chemical City, Calif. Aykroyd plays the town's police chief, Randy Belstrap, who spends most of his time bailing out the men and women who serve under him.
Aykroyd's rep says, "This project is very much his humor."
PARK THE CAR IN JACKSON'S HAT
How much would you pay for one of Michael Jackson's trademark fedoras?
Bidding on one of Jackson's hats opened at $500 during the annual fund-raising auction at the Center for Early Education, a well-known private nursery and elementary school in L.A. that caters to the children of Hollywood celebrities.
There were no takers. "Nobody bid, nobody wanted it," reports a source who was there.
By contrast, the most expensive item auctioned off was the school's highly coveted underground parking space reserved for parental use. Television sports producer Don Ohlmeyer nabbed it for $10,500, outbidding singer Pia Zadora.
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