Lohan’s drama, set to music
Lindsay Lohan has enough fodder from her family’s psychodrama to fill several songbooks. Now the 19-year-old actress-singer has finished writing a confessional song about the violent habits of her father and her parents’ nasty divorce, the New York Daily News’ Lloyd Grove reports.
The title will be either “Daughter to Father” or “Confessions of a Broken Heart,” Grove writes. Lohan’s rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, confirmed, “She’s written every word, and she’s directing the video. It will chronicle the last year and a half of her life.”
Knoxville was faithful, lie detector indicates
On Howard Stern’s radio show recently, Johnny Knoxville took and passed a lie detector test to prove he has not had an affair with his “Dukes of Hazzard” co-star Jessica Simpson.
Knoxville explained to Stern why he could not cheat on his wife Melanie: “My wife knows I’m a flirt. But I know she has a frying pan.”
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For the first time in 13 years, Sarah Ferguson has been invited on the annual royal holiday in Balmoral, the Sun in London reported.
The Duchess of York has been banned from the royal outings since photos of her lover John Bryan sucking her toes were published in 1992. Prince Andrew and Ferguson divorced four years later.
Ferguson was spotted en route to Balmoral at Aberdeen Airport in Scotland with Andrew and their daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, on Tuesday.
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HBO announced it will add eight episodes to the sixth season of “The Sopranos.” In a press release, the cable network said the mob drama’s final season of 10 episodes will air in March 2006. The final eight episodes will be broadcast in January 2007. The scheduling is similar to the HBO comedy “Sex and the City,” which ran 12 episodes from June-September 2003 and the final eight in January-February 2004.
Production on the sixth season, starring James Gandolfini as mafia boss Tony Soprano, began recently on the East Coast.
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Paris Hilton and fiancé Paris Latsis may postpone their wedding until next year, Life & Style Weekly magazine reported. The couple became engaged in May and planned a wedding later this year, but the media frenzy apparently has overwhelmed them.
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Nick Lachey, is mulling a three-year offer to join the cast of a daytime drama, In Touch Weekly reported. We have a dandy role for Jessica Simpson’s husband: a comatose patient on “General Hospital.”
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Onscreen, Liam Neeson saved Jews from the Nazi gas chambers. Now the “Schindler’s List” actor could be portraying another champion of the oppressed next spring. Steven Spielberg first considered Tom Hanks to play Abraham Lincoln, but Neeson admitted to the New York Daily News he has been “working on it since November.”
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King Norodom Sihamoni signed a special decree giving Angelina Jolie Cambodian citizenship, a senior official told Reuters. Jolie, who adopted a Cambodian son, Maddox, has agreed to spend $5 million over the next 15 years to set up a wildlife sanctuary there.
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Andre 3000, a member of the rap group OutKast, is serious about this acting biz. For his part in the Mark Wahlberg film “Four Brothers,” which opened Friday, Andre had to learn to play hockey.
“I figured they’d use a stunt double, but we were all given daily hockey lessons,” Andre told Liz Smith of the New York Post. “At first I hated it, but by the third day I’m sliding and shaving ice. I’m no Wayne Gretzky, but I will skate again.”
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Christy Turlington and Ed Burns may be expecting a second child, Us Weekly reports. The supermodel told friends she was pregnant, the magazine says. Turlington, 36, and Burns, 37, have a 22-month-old daughter, Grace.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
