Steven Spielberg’s film about the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics has not been released, but he’s getting detractors already.
In a phone call to Reuters, terrorist Mohammed Daoud, who has been on the run for decades, said of the film, “If someone really wanted to tell the truth about what happened, he should talk to the people involved, people who know the truth. Were I contacted, I would tell the truth.” Daoud, the only surviving member from the Black September terrorist group involved in the attack, is in his 70s and living somewhere in the Middle East. He was shot five times in a Warsaw, Poland, coffee shop in 1981 but survived.
Tara Reid had her handbag stolen Sunday at the airport on the island of Ibiza, off the coast of Spain. The Daily Mirror reported the “American Pie” actress was in Europe filming her reality series “Wild On Tara” when a thief nabbed her black Balenciaga handbag, which contained $183,000 worth of jewelry.
Monica Lewinsky is bagging her handbag biz to enroll in the London School of Economics. Lewinsky was accepted in the prestigious school’s one-year master’s program in social psychology, a school spokeswoman confirmed to the New York Daily News.
That fall from a horse may have made Madonna millions. Motorola execs, apparently concerned the singer would not appear in a commercial for its new ROKR phones, offered Madonna nearly $8 million for 10 hours of work.
Christina Aguilera made some quick cash last weekend. The 24-year-old pop star performed at the wedding of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko and former Miss Yugoslavia Alexandra Kokotovic in France, earning $2 million, Us Weekly reported. The guests included Whitney Houston and Enrique Iglesias, who also performed for a crowd that included Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Alfre Woodard is getting a taste of how popular “Desperate Housewives” is. The actress, who joined the cast at the end of the ABC series’ first season, told Entertainment Weekly magazine: “Recently I got poked a dozen times by people saying, ‘You’re now a Housewife!’ It’s all fabulous, but I bruise easily. This poking has got to stop.”
If you have tickets to any of those Jerry Seinfeld Denver concerts in October, you may want to bypass this note.
Seinfeld, performing in Atlantic City recently, had this comic tidbit about marriage: “One of the fights that my wife and I have is that she likes to save things. I like to throw things out … All of our personal possessions are in different stages of becoming garbage … The key to marriage, of course, is to make the other person happy. That’s what I tell the guys, make your woman happy. Now, you’re not gonna be happy, so don’t even worry about it.”
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
Chachi in charge: Baio joins “Arrested”
Chachi loves Richie.
The “Happy Days” connection continues on the Fox comedy “Arrested Development.” Producer Ron Howard, a.k.a. Richie Cunningham, has hired Scott Baio to take over as the Bluth family lawyer this season, replacing Henry Winkler, E! Online reported. Winkler, who played the Fonz on “Happy Days,” is co-starring on the new CBS series “Out of Practice.”
