Jack Black has signed on to star in a new film co-written with longtime collaborator Mike White and Jared Hess, the latter of whom wrote and directed the 2004 hit comedy “Napoleon Dynamite,” reports Billboard Online.
Inspired by a true story, the as-yet-untitled film will star Black as a Mexican priest who lives a double life as a masked wrestler to raise funds for an orphanage.
“I can’t think of two people I’d rather party with than Mike White and Jared Hess,” Black says. “I can’t wait to get down to Mexico.” Black and White previously have teamed behind the scenes and on-camera for “School of Rock” and “Orange County.” Black recently wrapped work on the Peter Jackson-directed remake of “King Kong,” and is expected to begin shooting the film “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” the first feature for musical act Tenacious D, Black’s spoof-metal project with Kyle Gass.
John Entwistle’s skeleton has sold at auction.
Actually, both of them.
A pair of skeletons said to have been used by The Who bassist to play pranks on houseguests sold for $840 at an auction near his home in England, the BBC reported.
On sale were more than 700 items that belonged to Entwistle, who died at 57 after a heart attack in June 2002.
A pinball machine fetched $2,800, no doubt thanks to The Who’s classic song “Pinball Wizard.”
Roger Ebert has thumbed his way to a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“I just read that when Saul Bellow won the Nobel Prize, he said, ‘The child in me is delighted. The adult in me is skeptical.’ I feel the same way, except that the adult in me is delighted too,” Ebert said in a statement.
The movie critic will receive the honor on Hollywood Boulevard on June 23.
Donatella Versace has designs on staying sober after a trip to rehab last year.
The fashion guru tells the May issue of Vogue that her 18-year addiction to cocaine began at 32, when she mostly used the drug at parties in New York and Los Angeles.
“I had so much fun,” Versace, now 50, told the magazine. “I had the best time of my life.” The murder of her brother Gianni Versace in 1997 prompted Donatella to abandon cocaine, but the sobriety didn’t last.
“I stopped using cocaine because of what happened,” Versace said. “I couldn’t go late to work, because Gianni wasn’t there. I had to organize my company, my family. My whole life changed completely. I didn’t even think about doing it.”
The band of “American Idol” finalist Constantine Maroulis on May 10 will release its first CD, recorded before the singer’s fame skyrocketed on the TV talent show.
Koch Records, the label that also signed “Idol” failure William Hung, has announced a deal with Pray for the Soul of Betty, the New York band Maroulis fronted before auditioning for the Fox reality show.
Maroulis signed over the rights to his bandmates before joining “Idol,” so the self-titled album isn’t owned by the show, a publicist for “American Idol” confirmed Friday.
