On May 7, Roseanne begins a 3½-week run playing the Wicked Witch of the West in a production of The Wizard of Oz at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. But there are some who suspect she's already in character. According to sources at a recent Los Angeles photo shoot at which Roseanne was to wear her witch's costume for the first time, the soon-to-be-former sitcom queen threw a hissy fit when she was shown three pairs of $500 boots selected for her, complaining that none were sufficiently "witchlike." The shoot was held up for three hours while production assistants scurried around town looking for wickeder footwear. At last their search, turned up the pointy, faux patent-leather boots you see pictured here. The cost? A mere $21....
There is no wedding date, and they're not even officially engaged. Still, I'm hearing that Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke are talking marriage. The two became romantically involved last April when they costarred in Gattaca, a sci-fi thriller due this fall, and have been inseparable ever since. Their rep had no knowledge of the couple's plans, but word has it that Thurman and Hawke could tie the knot before their film opens....
A woman walked up to Anthony Minghella in L.A. the night he won the Directors Guild of America's best director award for The English Patient and said, "Oh, Billy Bob Thornton! I just loved your movie Sling Blade." A few days later, Minghella and Thornton were taking a cigarette break at the Academy Awards nominees luncheon (Minghella is a nominee for writing and directing, Thornton for writing and acting) when they realized that, yes, they do look alike. So the two men promptly exchanged name tags and returned to the luncheon, hoping to cause whatever confusion they could....
Since the recent murder of fellow rap artist Biggie Smalls, Ice-T has said he feels unsafe and Snoop Doggy Dogg has postponed the start of his upcoming concert tour. One of them may find refuge in the movies. Ice-T and Snoop are competing with others for the role of Iceberg Slim, a renowned procurer of the '40s, '50s and '60s who claimed to have employed 1,000 prostitutes in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland. The film, aptly titled Pimp, is based on Slim's bestselling 1969 autobiography. I hear that both rappers separately contacted Quincy Jones and Mark Burg, coproducers of the project, about the starring role. A casting decision is expected by May....
Woody Harrelson, who earned an Oscar nomination for his starring role in The People vs. Larry Flynt, feels there's a lot more to being environmentally alert than separating cans and newspapers from the rest of the garbage. On Barbara Walters' annual Academy Awards special, airing March 24 (ABC), Harrelson talks about "retaining your ching" and how he has learned from "ancient Chinese understanding" to withhold ejaculation during sex. "Sometimes it works," he says, "sometimes it doesn't." But does that mean, Walters asks, that the "sperm staying in you gives you greater strength?" To which Harrelson replies, with a straight face, "It's really recycling."...
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