Dan Rather and Mike Wallace got into a shouting match in a men’s room at CBS, network insiders told Radar Online.
Wallace confided to his “60 Minutes” colleague that he had told NBC’s Katie Couric in a “Today Show” interview that aired Monday he thought Rather should have resigned over the “Memogate” scandal. Producers for Rather were fired when it was discovered a National Guard story about President Bush was based on phony documents.
A source told Radar, “They were both standing at the urinals when Wallace casually mentioned what he had told Katie. There proceeded a 20-minute shouting match in the bathroom.”
Gerard Depardieu is bidding adieu to his acting career.
The Academy Award-nominated actor told the weekly French newspaper Le Parisien Dimanche, “I’m a guy who’s leaving. A guy who’s not drunk. For once.” Depardieu is completing a French film and is scheduled to appear in the “Asterix” series next year. “I have done 170 films. I have nothing left to prove. I am not going to hang on like a jerk,” said Depardieu.
Prince Felipe of Spain and his wife, Letizia, welcomed their first child, a girl, early Monday morning. Leonor was born at 1:25 a.m. Madrid time, Hello! magazine’s website reported.
Martha Stewart is selling Turkey Hill, the Westport, Conn., home she has owned for more than 30 years, the domestic diva told Fortune magazine. Stewart is living at her Bedford, N.Y., estate, where she was mostly confined for six months after her five-
month stay at a West Virginia prison.
Finally, some good news: Paris Hilton may be moving to London. The Daily Telegraph reports Hilton has recruited Welsh clothing designer Julian Macdonald to help her find a new home in the city. “She’s had enough of New York and L.A.,” Macdonald told the paper. “She’s moved around too much lately and feels that she could really settle in London.”
The Brits will need those stiff upper lips.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
Studio pulls 50 Cent posters
Controversial billboards for 50 Cent’s debut film, “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” have been removed. Paramount Pictures agreed to stop displaying posters of the rapper with his bullet-scarred back and arms stretched out, holding a microphone and a gun.
The posters served their purpose, the rapper admitted. “They are talking about it on media outlets I didn’t have plans to market the movie to. They are helping me out,” 50 Cent told Reuters.
He also told Maxim magazine he “took a huge pay cut to do the film to be released Nov. 9. Let’s say I have an album that sold 6.5 million units. If I had been touring for three months, I probably would’ve made maybe $15 million. That’s likely more than I’ll make for this.”
