Matthew Fox grew up in the shadow of the lonely Wind River Range in Crowheart, Wyo., and the “Lost” actor remembers his father, Francis, raising longhorn cattle and horses and growing barley he sold to the Coors brewing company. Most of all, Fox, the middle of three brothers, remembers the intense fear of rain and hail killing the barley crop before it had properly dried. “They could destroy everything my old man had worked for and was into the bank for,” Fox told Men’s Journal in its February issue. “I mean, he was bleeding this life and bleeding this crop. He was putting everything he had into it to try to provide for his family.”
Will Smith unknowingly made a huge faux pas when he presented Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with two bottles of wine on Jan. 18. It seems Abe does not drink alcohol. Smith met the Japanese leader while promoting his film “The Pursuit of Happyiness.” Quoted by contact music.com, Smith said, “It was the first time I met a prime minister, so I was a little nervous. He seems smart and warm and caring, (and) it seems like Japan is in good hands.”
Ryan Seacrest idolizes beef, apparently. The “American Idol” host recently ordered two special salt-roasted porterhouse steaks at Miami’s Table 8 restaurant in South Beach, though there was no beef on the menu. Chef Govind Armstrong gladly filled Seacrest’s request. His tab came to $2,000, the New York Daily News reported.
Bill Nighy has a different food love – New York’s Jewish delis. But the British actor told the Times of London he just discovered how to order matzo ball soup. Nighy said he always ordered the dish “without the balls. The balls are insane. And once you take the balls out, there’s no soup.” A Times reporter asked why he doesn’t order plain chicken broth. Nighy replied: “Oh, I didn’t know you could do that!”
