Next fall Courteney Cox Arquette will step behind the camera as the creator and executive producer of Mix It Up, a home-improvement reality show scheduled to air on the WE: Women's Entertainment cable network. Cox can thank her husband, David Arquette, for Mix It Up, which will profile couples and roommates with differing design tastes. Turns out, when Cox and Arquette first moved in together about four years ago, Cox was appalled at Arquette's furnishings, especially his coffee table—a sculpture of a woman on all fours balancing a glass tabletop on her back. Resisting her initial impulse to toss all of Arquette's stuff, Cox managed to work the piece, as well as the rest of his furnishings, into her design for their home. "My friends knew I was in love," says Cox, "when I worked that coffee table into my living room."
Singer-actress-entrepreneur Jennifer Lopez is now looking to add "restaurant mogul" to her list of hyphenates. Last year J.Lo opened Madre's, a Cuban/Puerto Rican-style eatery in Pasadena. Now I'm told the singer wants to set up a second restaurant, possibly in Las Vegas. She and fiancé Ben Affleck recently met with officials from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino about setting up a Madre's on the premises, but those talks fell through. Now Lopez is hunting around for other potential venues.
Actor Gary Dourdan, who plays forensic investigator Warrick Brown on CBS's top-rated crime drama C.S.I., is seeing English TV personality—and George Clooney's former girlfriend—Lisa Snowdon. Dourdan and Snowdon met about six months ago through mutual friends, and I hear the relationship is quite serious. Even though Snowdon is based near London, she's a frequent visitor to the Los Angeles set of C.S.I.
Daryl Hannah is all in favor of alternative fuels. However, she has no intention of giving up her big, honking Chevy Suburban, which she uses to tow a horse trailer and her four horses at home in Colorado. So the actress came up with a solution: She bought a modified SUV that runs on used vegetable oil. There are an estimated 150 of these "grease cars" on U.S. roads. Typically, regular diesel engines are converted, using kits that cost between $350 and $800. Hannah gets her fuel supply from fast-food restaurants, who give her vats of used oil for free. One drawback: When in use, the vehicle tends to smell like a giant fry cooker.
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