Calling all butt doubles! Yep, Hollywood's Central Casting was looking for just that for a low-budget movie called Larceny starring Tyra Banks. The part called for an African-American woman with pants size 6 to 8 to fill in for a scene involving a view of Banks's posterior. (Nonunion payment for the appearance is $300.) Despite the fact that Banks models lingerie for Victoria's Secret, she refused to do the scene because she won't do nudity on film.
Speaking of backsides, many TV viewers recall David Caruso baring his on NYPD Blue. He left the hit show to do Jade and Kiss of Death, both of which tanked at the box office in 1995. But now he's in the big-budget thriller Proof of Life playing a hostage rescuer. The chemistry between star Russell Crowe and Caruso is terrific (as is that between Crowe and his other costar Meg Ryan). But director Taylor Hackford, who worked with Caruso in 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman, had to fight to get him the part. "In five years, this is the first big movie that I've gotten to be in," says Caruso. "But this has been worth the wait. Here I am talking to Meg Ryan, and she seems to be listening to what I'm saying."
When Mel Gibson was making What Women Want in Chicago earlier this year, Steve Martin was also there, filming his movie Novocaine. Women's director Nancy Meyers and Martin are old friends (she cowrote both Father of the Bride films in which Martin starred), so when he dropped by her set one day, Meyers decided to play a joke on the film's studio, Paramount. She put the comic actor in a pivotal scene of the movie in which Gibson runs down a street, stops and looks up at costar Helen Hunt's apartment. Meyers then sent the footage to the studio to see if anyone would notice. Nobody did. It wasn't until six weeks later that one exec commented on how funny it was to have Martin running alongside Gibson. Not surprisingly, the scene was cut.
The call of Tarzan on the syndicated jungle adventure series Sheena might not seem so strange, but it certainly shocked star Gena Lee Nolin. The actress was cutting her 29th-birthday cake on the Orlando set Nov. 29 when she heard that familiar yell. She turned to see a loincloth-wearing refugee from Chippendales headed straight for her. Turns out the cast and crew had hired the male stripper as her birthday surprise. "I was speechless," says Nolin, who isn't used to such celebratory excess. "For my bachelorette party I went to the Hard Rock Cafe and had a glass of wine."
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Saved by the Bell Reunion
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