W magazine paints a chilling picture of the future Mrs. Tom Cruise in its August issue, portraying Katie Holmes, 26, “her beautiful green eyes focused on nothing in particular,” gushing incessantly about her fiancé.
In an excerpt at www.style.com, writer Robert Haskell describes Holmes as answering all questions with hosannas to Cruise, 42 – “man of my dreams … most incredible man … so generous and kind.” “Hovering nearby,” he writes, is the “tall, cold-eyed Jessica Rodriguez,” Holmes’ “Scientologist chaperone.”
When Holmes is asked about rumors that Cruise made a financial arrangement with her after also auditioning Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba and Kate Bosworth, Rodriguez jumps in, “The truth is, we don’t read that stuff because it’s just rude.”
Cruise and Holmes were engaged April 29, six weeks after they met and just in time to publicize his movie (“War of the Worlds”) and hers (“Batman Begins”). No wedding date has been set; the magazine will be out July 22.
Paula Jones plans to make her first visit to the Bill Clinton presidential library a profitable one – she plans to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with a sponsor’s name.
“I’m going to make a big show out of it,” said her publicist, David Hans Schmidt. “Paula is basically going to go to the Clinton Library and go on a tour like the faithful taxpayer that she is.”
The visit is expected to take place sometime this month, and Schmidt said it would be followed by a news conference.
Jones accused Clinton of sexual harassment, saying he made an unwelcome sexual advance in 1991 in a Little Rock hotel room while he was Arkansas governor and she was a state employee. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit against Clinton.
Jackie Chan says the third installment of the “Rush Hour” movies is stuck in neutral because co-star Chris Tucker is making too many demands.
“He wants too much power. The movie company hasn’t obliged. He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on,” Chan said.
Chan called Tucker a “good friend” but questioned whether he had the stature to be so demanding.
“He’s still a new actor,” Chan, 51, said. “How many movies has he made? Two movies have already made him very famous and made him a lot of money. He needs to learn slowly.”
A call to Tucker’s publicist wasn’t returned Friday.
Breckin Meyer felt it was his responsibility to drive co-star Lindsay Lohan nuts on the set of “Herbie: Fully Loaded.”
“To me, it was getting into character,” Meyer told reporters recently, according to AP Radio. Meyer plays Lohan’s brother in the movie.
Meyer says he had help from co-star Justin Long.
“Honestly, it was like suddenly Justin and I were 14 again,” Meyer said. “So we’d sneak under her trailer and just bang on it. She was with her friends at like nine (o’clock) at night and it’s all dark and we’d cut the power to her trailer. It was really funny to hear Lindsay scream.”
Motor City Madman Ted Nugent continues to stoke speculation that he will attempt to unseat Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm next year.
“(I am) getting real close to deciding to run,” the rocker and hunting advocate told the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times. The guitarist and author of “Kill It and Grill It” said he will make his decision “in the next few weeks.”
“That will blow some minds,” he said.
Meanwhile, Nugent, who moved from Detroit to Crawford, Texas, last year, hit the road Friday with his “Uncle Ted Remember the Alamo” tour.
-From wire reports
