As if a Super Bowl commercial for Snickers, a role in a Sandra Bullock romantic comedy and being recognized for lifetime achievement by the Screen Actors Guild weren’t enough, Betty White now finds herself the subject of an online movement to host Saturday Night Live.
“I don’t even know where that came from,” the 88-year-old “Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Golden Girls” Emmy winner told People magazine about the burgeoning movement. “That just came out of left field. It’s ridiculous. I don’t think (SNL creator and producer) Lorne Michaels even knows about it, so we won’t worry about it.”
But she said, if she could work it in, she’d accept an invitation to host, if Michaels does call.
The Betty White-SNL movement, now some 331,000-strong on Facebook, is but part of the current Betty White renaissance – a glory period that the actress herself predicts will soon come to an end.
“It will go away, I promise,” she says humorously. “Don’t get discouraged.”
Liam Neeson, who starred in the Oscar-winning World War II drama “Schindler’s List,” visited a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust while on a visit to Berlin this week.
Neeson took his teenage sons Michael and Daniel to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe near the city’s famous Brandenburg Gate.
The 57-year-old was on a break from filming his new thriller “Unknown White Male,” which also stars “Mad Men” actress January Jones.
He was seen walking solemnly around the site, which is made up of 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern.
The memorial, designed by U.S. architect Peter Eisenman, was unveiled in 2005 and has since divided opinion, with some critics branding it too abstract.
The Irish actor famously played Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved around 1,700 Polish Jewish refugees by employing them in his factories during the Holocaust, in the acclaimed 1993 film.
He has previously said it was one of his most important films, adding: ‘I want my kids to see it.’
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are relocating to Venice.
The couple were seen in the canal city Tuesday treating their children to gelato.
They jetted into Venice in preparation for a three-month stint while Jolie films her new movie “The Tourist,” according to London’s Daily Mail.
And after spending the night at their new digs — the 15th-century Palazzo Mocenigo — Jolie and Pitt gave their four oldest children a taste of the local ice cream.
The couple are renting out the canal-side Palazzo Mocenigo, which is located between the Rialto and Accademia parts of the city and faces San Toma.
After arriving in a private plane at Marco Polo Airport on Monday afternoon, the family took two speedboats – one for their huge amount of luggage an another for the children – to their new home.
Jolie, 34, is expected to begin filming March 15 .
Tim Burton says he had a strong idea about the Cheshire Cat he’d want in his new “Alice in Wonderland” movie — because he doesn’t like cats.
“The Cheshire Cat was a character I had a very specific image of and it’s because I just have this thing about cats,” Burton told the L.A. Times. “The Cheshire Cat taps into what you might call my hatred of cats.”
He praised actor Stephen Fry for his handling of the character in the film.
“Stephen Fry did a great job of getting that creepy quality. You know, this weird kind of floaty, too-focused, creepy — he did it great. He has this thing of getting up close and just sitting there and staring at you, you know, like a cat. It just kind of sits there.”
“I have this thing with cats. And with Cheshire Cat it’s a love-hate relationship.”
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
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