Cameron Diaz will soon have a starring role in a steamy courtroom drama – her own.
E! Online says the actress is set to testify in Los Angeles in the criminal trial of a photographer who shot topless pictures of her before she was famous.
The shutterbug, John Rutter, is charged with one count each of attempted grand theft, forgery and perjury.
On Tuesday, a jury evenly divided among men and women was chosen to hear the case. When the judge asked possible panelists if there was anyone “who has not heard of the actress Cameron Diaz,” just two raised their hands.
Some Parisians think Tom Cruise is a sect symbol.
MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls writes that even though the “War of the Worlds” star got engaged to Katie Holmes in the French capital, the city’s leaders have voted not to make Cruise an honorary citizen because of his membership in the controversial Church of Scientology.
In a debate this week, Paris’ City Hall pledged “never to welcome the actor Tom Cruise, spokesman for Scientology and self-declared militant for this organization,” according to Agence France Presse.
Rock group Queen said it is inviting thousands of emergency-services workers to an open-air concert in Hyde Park that was postponed for a week because of the London terrorist attacks.
The Associated Press reports Queen’s Paul Rodgers said the group wants today’s concert to be a tribute to the “extraordinary response” of the police officers, firefighters and paramedics who helped the victims of July 7’s subway and bus bombings.
About 85,000 people are expected at the concert, the first Queen has played in Hyde Park in 29 years.
Owen Wilson, who co-stars in “Wedding Crashers,” is in final negotiations to play the title character in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a comedy that has been in the works for a decade.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Paramount Pictures project will hew closer to the spirit and content of the original source material, the 1939 James Thurber story, than to the 1947 film starring Danny Kaye.
The title character is a quintessential daydreamer whose vivid imagination allows him to escape from his ordinary life.
Mariah Carey has finally given a reason that “Glitter” flopped: Sept. 11.
“I released it around Sept. 11, 2001,” the singer told Swiss newspaper Sonntags Zeitung as translated on fan site MariahDaily.com. “The talk shows needed something to distract from 9/11. I became a punching bag. I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at No.2 instead of No.1.”
The crooner also said the flop was “ahead of its time. Today it’s ‘in’ to make ’80s music.”
