Bushnell eyes new TV series
Candace Bushnell is downsizing for her next possible television foray.
Bushnell told Reuters she is negotiating to turn her new book, “Lipstick Jungle,” the story of three successful career women in New York, into a television series. The novel, to be released Sept. 6, is the story of a film producer, a fashion designer and a magazine executive. The Emmy-winning “Sex and the City,” based on Bushnell’s columns for the New York Observer, was about the love lives of four single women in New York.
Seinfeld and wife welcome third child
Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, gave birth to the couple’s third child Monday, the New York Post reported. Shepherd Kellen Seinfeld joins his brother Julian, 2, and sister Sascha, 4, in the Seinfeld clan.
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That’s one expensive phone bill, Russell.
Russell Crowe is close to reaching a settlement with Nestor “Josh” Estrada, the Mercer Hotel clerk he allegedly conked with a telephone June 6, sources told the New York Daily News. Estrada’s payoff will be in the low six figures, a source said, far from the $11 million a British tabloid reported weeks ago.
Crowe faces criminal charges of felony assault and possession of a weapon, but a source said he likely would plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge. That would allow Crowe to work and travel in the United States.
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Kevin Federline is gainfully employed.
Ireland Online reports Mr. Britney Spears is working as an instructor at Darrin Henson’s dance school in Los Angeles. Henson choreographed routines for Spears, ‘N Sync and Jennifer Lopez.
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Snoop Dogg is rad, dude!
The rapper is launching a line of skateboarding products. The Snoop Dogg Board Co., out in September, will include long and short skateboards, backpacks and accessories, MTV.com reported.
A full line of high-end Snoop Dogg luggage and travel bags will launch in January.
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While girlfriend Angelina Jolie films “The Good Shepherd” in New York, Brad Pitt is renting a gated, high-hedged estate in the Hamptons for two months.
A source told The New York Post’s Braden Keilon that Pitt will cool his heels in Southampton while Jolie works on the film on the East Side.
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Matt Damon admits he was not the first choice for director Terry Gilliam’s “The Brothers Grimm.”
Damon told the Chicago Sun-Times, “The first time I went to meet Terry, I said: ‘Why isn’t Johnny Depp doing this movie?’ Terry looked at me and said: ‘We don’t want Johnny Depp. We want you.’ I kept staring at Terry, who finally said, ‘Miramax Films wouldn’t make it with Johnny.’ I stared at him harder, and Terry finally admitted: ‘Matt, you’re my second choice.”‘
“Grimm” opened in theaters on Friday.
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Deborah Norville twice nearly had her own Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction on a recent trip to Europe, the New York Daily News’ Lloyd Grove reported.
The strap on the “Inside Edition” anchor’s favorite beaded halter broke at a party at Buckingham Palace several weeks ago, sending beads flying across the room.
At a private dinner last weekend with Swedish King Gustaf, the strap broke again as Norville danced with the king. Norville grabbed the garment before exposing herself. King Gustaf, laughing, led her away to mend her blouse.
Norville, who interviewed the Swedish monarch for the “Today Show” years ago, mused: “I don’t think he remembered me from that, but he’ll never forget me now.”
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
