Kevin Costner tells me he hesitated to make For Love of the Game, his third baseball movie, following Bull Durham and Field of Dreams. "I wasn't actually looking [for a baseball movie]," he says now. "When I first read this, it didn't track right. But when I was ready, I took it, and hopefully you like the end result." One of the steps Costner took to ensure a home run was to go to bat for Kelly Preston, who plays his girlfriend. "Once I saw the list of girls being considered, I pushed for her," he says.
Actor Jerry O'Connell, who played the star quarterback in Jerry Maguire, is now suiting up for another role. In Mission to Mars, Brian De Palma's bigbudget feature currently shooting in Vancouver, O'Connell costars with Tim Robbins and Gary Sinese as a young astronaut who spends a lot of time in a space suit with its own cooling system. O'Connell says his costume is pretty studly: "It's white. It's beautiful. I hate to take it off. I want to wear it to bars, walk up to the hottest woman in the place and say, 'Hi, what do you do?' It's that cool."
This season on Diagnosis Murder, Dick Van Dyke's character, supersleuth Dr. Mark Sloan, gets a romantic interest, played by Joanna Cassidy, 55. "She's a delight. We each feel the chemistry," says Van Dyke, 73. "The only problem is that she looks too young for me. But I figured, 'Let him be a dirty old man.' "
Fast Takes: Although ailing actor Martin Lawrence missed the L.A. premiere of his hit movie Blue Streak, he was still fussed over by photographers. For the benefit of a pal who videotaped the premiere for Lawrence, camera crews acted as if Martin were there, calling his name and pretending to interview him. Lawrence was given the video as a gift.... Los Angeles concertgoers who showed up at the Greek Theatre for a Bonnie Raitt-Bruce Hornsby-Shawn Colvin performance were delighted when Jackson Browne appeared on center stage. Browne, whose name didn't appear in any of the concert promotions, explained that he too was part of the tour. But he will also be performing with the Eagles in L.A. on New Year's Eve and had a verbal agreement with the band not to appear in any ads for other performances in L.A.
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Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
