From PEOPLE Magazine
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Brad Pitt spent some unscheduled time with fans at the Emmy Awards. During a commercial break he stepped into the Shrine Auditorium's lobby to take a breather. But he didn't make it back inside before the doors closed, leaving Pitt stuck in the lobby. When admirers spotted him, they asked if he'd pose for pictures with them. So, with nowhere to hide, Pitt graciously smiled for the cameras.
Perhaps to raise his own spirits after the disappointing box office performance of Eyes Wide Shut, Tom Cruise, a licensed pilot, splurged on a couple of grown-up toys. He bought two airplanes: a Gulf-stream ($40 million, give or take a few bucks) and a World War II fighter plane (around $1 million).
Fans of Mike Myers—yeah, baby!—may not recognize him in Mystery, Alaska, an upcoming sports flick directed by Jay Roach, who also directed him in Austin Powers and its sequel. Myers plays a cynical ex-hockey player turned sportscaster who covers a ragtag team's pivotal game against the New York Rangers. "He had wanted to do a hockey film for a long time, and he confessed envy that I was doing it," says Roach, who wanted to give Myers, a hockey fanatic, a bigger part, but he didn't have a role that fit his comic abilities. "He wears a Mike Brady wig and has a broken nose," Roach says with a laugh. "He completely transformed himself as he likes to do and then lost himself in that character."
Fast Takes:
Filming has begun in L.A. on Bounce, a romantic film starring ex-lovebirds Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck. And yes, the two agreed to costar after their breakup. Both are fans of Bounce writer-director Don Roos, who previously wrote and directed The Opposite of Sex....
Jennifer Love Hewitt and her boyfriend of 18 months, MTV's Carson Daly, have split. No doubt the Party of Five alum will be busy this fall with her new. FOX series Time of Your Life....
Sept. 24 will mark Hugh Downs's final appearance on ABC's 20/20. On it, he tells co-anchor Barbara Walters that marijuana should be legalized. "I poked at [saying it] a little bit in years past," says Downs, who is particularly interested in the medical benefits of the drug. "But the roof fell in so hard that I decided to back off." Until now.
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