Brad Pitt couldn't be too happy about his recent career choices. Since his last three movies—Meet Joe Black, Seven Years in Tibet and The Devil's Own—performed poorly at the box office, he's sure to be banking on Fight Club, a thriller in which Pitt plays an anarchist. The film was to be released in August but has been pushed back to the fall. Usually that's not a good sign, but a source close to Pitt insists there are no problems with the film. "It's just not ready and it's a complicated film," she says. "We could have made the Aug. 6 date," a studio rep tells me. "But the film would not have been ready until right before release. We're excited about this movie and want to screen it well in advance for critics." But even if Fight Club gets clobbered, there's no cause for Pitt to be concerned, says a top casting director. "He's in a valley now, but we need him. There are so few truly viable movie stars."

Adam Sandler is so concerned about his privacy that he wouldn't walk up the red carpet with his girlfriend, model Jackie Titone, at the L.A. premiere of his hit film Big Daddy. She hung back with her family while Sandler strolled past the press. (If you want a glimpse of the dark-haired beauty, however, check out the sports bar scene in the film: She's the waitress who takes his order for a root beer.) I hear the couple are now living together in Bel Air, Calif.

Teenage songbird Britney Spears just completed her first movie role, a cameo in the upcoming comedic drama Jack of All Trades. She plays a flight attendant who delivers coffee to the cockpit, where pilot Kenny Rogers says, "Thanks, you're my lady." His copilot is Harry Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band, who says, after taking a sip, "Ah, that's the way, aha, I like it." Had they had time for a refill, surely the next line would have been one taken from Spears's hit single: "Hit me, baby, one more time."

With the film version of author Sebastian Junger's bestseller The Perfect Storm set to begin production July 26 in L.A., the makers are concerned with casting—in more ways than one. George Clooney will star in the tale of a fishing vessel that got caught in one of the worst storms of the century. The other two leads have yet to be chosen, although I hear they are likely to be Mark Wahlberg and Diane Lane. The actors who make up the crew recently were schooled in the art of long-line fishing. (Clooney, who plays the ship's captain, will join the rest of the cast after Labor Day; he's currently filming Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?)

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On July 17, the Superior Galleries in Beverly Hills will auction off locks of hair from two of pop culture's icons. A single strand of Marilyn Monroe's hair is expected to fetch $600-$800, while a lock of John Lennon's clippings could net $2,500....

Now that Chicago Hope is being revived by series creator David E. Kelley, I hear that Barbara Hershey may be joining the cast next season as a strong-willed heart surgeon not unlike that of the departing Christine Lahti's character.

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