Former gold-medal figure skater Brian Boitano says winning the Olympics in 1988 was like a “fairy tale.”
My memories are ingrained in my memory forever,” he told In Touch Weekly magazine.
“In Calgary, right after my skate, that’s really fresh, that whole day. I remember that vividly, like it was yesterday. Sometimes you can’t believe it was so long ago. Calgary was like a fairy tale.”
When Evan Lysacek won the gold medal for men’s figure skating in the Winter Olympics recently, he became the first American man to do so since Boitano 22 years ago.
“He’s a really good competitor,” Boitano said of Lysacek.
But he hasn’t even looked at his medal in years, he said.
“My parents have it in the safety deposit box. The last time I saw I think was 15, 17 years ago. I’d be scared of someone stealing it. It’s special to know that it’s there.”
Simon Cowell says neither Howard Stern nor Madonna would be a good replacement for him when he leaves the “American Idol.”
The caustic British judge, who’s leaving the Fox show to launch a U.S. version of “The X Factor,” told reporters maybe there is no replacement for him.
“You’re never going to pick anyone as good as you are, are you?” Cowell joked. “That’s why I don’t think anybody (at Fox) really asks me that question.”
He said gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who has his own music label under Warner Music Group, might be a good fit.
“Perez would be funny,” Cowell said. “He’s got good taste in music, he’s got a personality, that could work.”
“Wedding Crashers” actor Owen Wilson will star in a new Woody Allen set to begin filming this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Risky Business” blog.
Details about the movie are scant, though he may have a co-star in France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Allen said last fall that he wanted to make a movie with Bruni-Sarkozy and she later said she’d agreed to the proposal.
In addition to “Crashers,” Wilson has appeared in “Zoolander,” “Starsky & Hutch” and “Night At The Museum,” among many other roles.
Most recently, he voiced the role of Coach Skip in Wes Anderson’s animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” and he voices the title character in the upcoming “Marmaduke,” due in theaters in June.
Allen’s next film “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” starring Naomi Watts, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Brolin and Antonio Banderas, is due to hit cinemas later this year.
Colin Farrell says getting sober was what he needed to do to concentrate on his career.
The former hard partier turned devoted dad reveals that he gave up drinking so that he could focus on his acting career.
“I just wanted to stop. I was done with it, I was tired of it, I wanted to get off the treadmill,” Colin tells Total Film magazine.
“Giving up alcohol has put more focus on my career. I’m a lot more appreciative over what I have,” he admits.
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