Presidential adviser Vernon Jordan can't avoid seeing his image on TV, but now he's on the big screen as well. Savvy moviegoers may recognize that the familiar-looking lawyer Kenneth Branagh turns to for advice and counsel in The Gingerbread Man is Jordan, who plays that role in real life for President Clinton. His acting turn, Jordan says, resulted from a jovial remark he made last year to an agent pal ("Hey, if you're worth a damn, you can get me in a movie!"). Sure enough, the call came offering him a small part in Gingerbread Man, and Jordan flew to Savannah for three days of work. "It was a hoot," says Jordan, who didn't flub any of his lines. "I didn't have sense enough to be nervous." In fact, now that he's a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild, Jordan's ready for his next cameo: He'll play a judge in Rounders, an upcoming drama that stars Matt Damon....
Life may be about as good as it gets these days for Jack Nicholson. The 60-year-old actor, who recently won a Golden Globe as well as a Best Actor Oscar nomination for As Good As It Gets, has been spending a lot of time with his off-again, on-again girlfriend, actress Rebecca Broussard, and their two children, Lorraine, 7, and Raymond, 6. "They're the closest they've ever been," a source tells me. "They are finally talking about getting married."...
On the other hand, be leery of those reports that Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein, the executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner, are tying the knot on Valentine's Day. "Don't believe everything you read," Bronstein tells a source of mine. Well, he should know....
Although Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise signed on to cohost the social season's splashiest event—the Fire & Ice Ball last December—the couple never made it out of London, where they've spent the past 15 months shooting director Stanley Kubrick's thriller Eyes Wide Shut, which finally wrapped Jan. 31. They will, however, join cochairs John Travolta, Kelly Preston and Angela Lansbury on March 21—just two days before the Oscars—as vice chairs of the Princess Ball, the first event in the U.S. to benefit the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and Aid for AIDS....
As a comedic actor, Harvey Fierstein (Independence Day) doesn't need nepotism to get a job, but why not take advantage? Fame L.A., the syndicated TV show, asked folk-rock singer Shawn Colvin to play herself in an upcoming episode. The plot calls for Colvin, who has been nominated for three Grammys this year for her single "Sunny Came Home," to sing a duet with her manager. Fine, said Colvin's manager, Ronald Fierstein, who recruited his brother Harvey. "It won't be a chart topper," Harvey says of their duet. "Celine Dion doesn't need to sulk—but I'm no slouch in the musical department."
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