Katie Holmes is making sure the cast and crew members on her film, “Mad Money,” being shot in Shreveport, La., are well-fed – on Fridays. Holmes served 300 ice cream cones on April 27. Holmes, whose co-stars include Queen Latifah, Diane Keaton and Ted Danson, followed with more than 80 pizzas flown in from Chicago and baked locally. A source told People magazine, “We had veggie, sausage, pepperoni.” The third week she brought in cupcakes.
Eva Longoria and Tony Parker are marrying in France on July 7, but their wedding cake will be made by northern California bakery Perfect Endings. E Online’s Marc Malkin reports the couple are paying for a Perfect Endings staff member to accompany the cake to Paris. Perfect Endings baker-owner Sam Godfrey has done a few celebrity weddings, including Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman; Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey; and Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. Let’s hope his track record improves: Aguilera and Bratman are the only couple of that bunch still married. Godfrey also created a banana cake for Oprah Winfrey’s 50th-birthday celebration in Chicago.
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.com found a contract rider Woods had for a NetJets flight in late 2004. Besides a request for chilled Evian water, a “critical note” for flight attendants said Woods was allergic to garlic. He requested bagels with peanut butter and sliced banana, but no Count Chocula cereal.
Former “Top Chef” contestant Sam Talbot has decided not to cook at the lower East Side restaurant Spitzer’s, the New York Post reported. Talbot originally signed on to chef the “New American Gastropub,” as eater.com called it. An insider said, “Sam was lured by big-name restaurateurs at the 11th hour. Sam has something coming up … a lot bigger than a restaurant.”
