Lopez: Diva image just PR
Robert Luketic, director of “Monster-in-Law,” wanted to know if Jennifer Lopez really was a diva. So he asked her.
“I said, ‘I know about you, I heard what you were doing in Telluride,”‘ said Luketic, quoted by contactmusic.com. “And she said, ‘No, that was my publicity people making those demands. I didn’t even know they were asking for those things. I didn’t know they were asking for candles and lilies in my rooms. These things just appeared, and these demands became as if they came straight from my mouth.”‘
Luketic conceded working with Lopez was not stress-free. “No doubt she can be a piece of work, but she’s not the monster that people think. I’m a bigger diva than her.”
Pythons plan six-part series
The five surviving members of Monty Python are putting together a six-part series filled with new material and clips from the popular British TV comedy, the Sun in London reported.
John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones plan to film new material in London and the Hollywood Bowl in California. The sixth episode will be made to honor the late Graham Chapman. “Monty Python’s Personal Best” will be screened in the U.S. next year.
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Terry Semel, chairman of Yahoo, is “furious” at his daughter Courtenay for her participation in the E! Entertainment reality series “Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive,” the New York Post reported.
The series, scheduled to debut Aug. 7 on the cable channel, features children of rich and famous parents herding cattle 100 miles on a ranch near Steamboat Springs. Besides Semel, the series features Robert Blake’s son Noah, Anthony Quinn’s son Alex and Brittny Gastineau, who teamed with mom Lisa in the E! reality series “Gastineau Girls.” Brittny’s father is former New York Jets defensive lineman Mark Gastineau.
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Britney Spears apparently has not received enough attention lately, so the pregnant pop star and her husband Kevin Federline posed for a sexy Interview magazine photo shoot.
Several celebrity websites report Spears dressed up as a French maid, served Jack Daniel’s whiskey to Federline and then sat on his lap.
“I wanted me and Kevin to do some kind of character pieces, with a fun essence that didn’t really take things too seriously,” Spears was quoted by ananova.com.
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Hugh Grant has proposed to girlfriend Jemima Khan, but she turned the actor down last month, the Daily Mail in London reported. The heiress and mother of two ended her nine-year marriage to Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan last year.
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On his website, Michael Jackson says he will not attend a party for his father’s 76th birthday after all. Joe Jackson, whose celebration was scheduled for Friday in Berlin, told Germany’s Bild newspaper his family is looking for a house and added Michael wants to move there also.
Berlin is where the pop star dangled his baby off a fourth-floor hotel balcony in 2002. Another German newspaper, Die Welt, quoted an adviser named Shawn Andrews as saying, “Michael wants to move to Europe. He feels at home in Berlin.”
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And you thought Tom Cruise was too old for Katie Holmes? Al Pacino, 65, is dating 31-year-old Rose McGowan, Sandro Monetti of skynews.com reported.
What’s with these actresses on WB series? Holmes starred on “Dawson’s Creek” and McGowan joined the cast of the witchy “Charmed” in 2001.
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Roselyn Sanchez, recently featured on the USA Network remake of “Kojak,” will join the cast of the CBS hit “Without a Trace,” USA Today reported. Sanchez will portray a former cop who joins the FBI missing-persons squad led by Anthony LaPaglia.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
