On Saturday, June 16, actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans and Daphne Polk finally tied the knot after 12 years and four children together. The nuptials took place before 200 guests at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa north of L.A. Eddie Murphy's wife, Nicole, who is pregnant with the couple's fifth child, was in the wedding party, as was Jada Pinkett Smith. So what took them so long to make it official? Says a source close to the groom, whose next directorial effort, Scary Movie 2, opens July 4: "They were busy."
It was an especially nice Father's Day for Courteney Cox Arquette Arquette and her dad, Richard, who has been undergoing chemotherapy for liver cancer. "I'm weak as hell, but it's working," says the 70-year-old resident of Panama City Beach, Fla. Even so, he flew to L.A. to help "C.C.," as he calls his daughter, celebrate her 37th birthday on June 15 and stayed through Father's Day with Courteney and her husband, David Arquette, at their new home in Malibu Beach.
Newlyweds Jason Sehorn and Law & Order alum Angie Harmon, who postponed their two-week tropical honeymoon so the cornerback could attend a four-day New York Giants training program, finally left on June 14, but not before attending a roast for Giants coach Jim Fassel. The couple wed June 9 in the actress's hometown of Dallas and are due back before Sehorn's preseason training camp in late July.
Black Hawk Down, starring Pearl Harbor's Josh Hartnett and directed by Gladiator's Ridley Scott, is currently wrapping up production in Morocco. The film is about the fierce opposition U.S. forces encountered in Somalia in 1993. Because the movie positively portrays the valor and commitment of the U.S. military, the Department of Defense loaned the production eight Black Hawk combat helicopters and approximately 30 Rangers, an elite fighting force. First, however, Secretary of Defense Donald H, Rumsfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to sign off on the project. It's the first time the military deployed an actual task force from the U.S. to a foreign country to make a movie.
Angelina Jolie got in such tip-top shape while on location in London for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider that her father, Jon Voight, who plays Lord Croft in the film, sent her trainer Josh Salzmann (Fergie's longtime fitness coach) one of his favorite books, Elie Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, as a gift. Included was a note that read, "Thanks for looking after my daughter."
After a concert one night in Foxboro, Mass., the members of 'N Sync wanted to see a movie. The problem? Not many films start after midnight. But when you're the hottest boy band around, all it takes is a phone call to the Loews Cineplex at Copley Place in nearby Boston to get a special late-night screening of not one, but two films. With about 20 crew members in tow, three 'N Syncers opted for Shrek while the other two saw Moulin Rouge.
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