“Behind Bars” shelved from sweeps
Scratch that tell-all made-for-TV movie about Martha Stewart’s stay in a West Virginia prison.
CBS announced “Martha: Behind Bars,’ starring Cybill Shepherd, would not air May 25 as planned, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Instead, the network will broadcast “Amber Frey: Witness for the Prosecution,’ based on the book by the girlfriend of convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson.
A women’s periodical claims it has the rights to Sly magazine and is suing Sylvester Stallone, the New York Daily News reported. Sly Magazine LLC filed a $1 million lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court accusing Stallone’s publisher, American Media, of copyright infringement. Stallone’s Sly magazine features lifestyle and fashion advice for men.
If his new film “A Lot Like Love,’ opening today in Denver, tops the weekend box office, Ashton Kutcher claims he will drop his drawers.
“If we are the No. 1 movie in America, I will do a Calvin Klein underwear campaign,’ Kutcher told the syndicated entertainment show “Access Hollywood.’
An entourage is supposed to lighten the load for the celebrity it accompanies, but this is ridiculous.
Recently a man identifying himself as part of singer Usher’s entourage absconded with a bag full of almost $100,000 in valuables from the Trump International Hotel in New York, Hello! magazine’s website reported.
Brittany Murphy does not have a driver’s license, but now the actress has a reason to get one.
Maxim magazine reported Murphy purchased a $325,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom after seeing the same car in a Snoop Dogg video. Murphy said, “I found a car I really like, and it makes me want to learn … It’s the car in the ‘Drop It Like It’s Hot’ video. I was obsessed with it before that.’
Natasha Lyonne, a former co-star of two “American Pie’ films, faces charges of harassment, criminal mischief and trespassing in New York City.
An arrest warrant is out for Lyonne, who trashed the apartment of friend and fellow actor Michael Rapaport.
The actor told Jane magazine Lyonne’s downward spiral began in 2003, eventually leading him to evict her. The apartment on East 18th Street “looked like a grenade had gone off,’ Rapaport said. “There was garbage everywhere. There were glasses smashed in the kitchen and standing water in the clogged tub with flies hovering over it. That girl needs help.”
Paris Hilton finally confirmed that her friendship with “Simple Life’ co-star Nicole Richie, left, is over. In a statement, Hilton, 23, said: “It’s no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. All I will say is that Nicole knows what she did, and that’s all I am ever going to say about it.’ The New York Daily News reported that friends gathered to watch a tape of Hilton hosting “Saturday Night Live’ at her sister Nicky’s apartment. Instead of the “SNL’ tape, Paris Hilton’s infamous sex video came on. Richie was blamed for the tape switch, the News wrote.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
