Bruce Willis says he threatened to walk out of his latest film, “RED,” if producers cut ‘sexy’ scenes of Dame Helen Mirren with a gun.
Willis felt so strongly about the inclusion of the scenes in the forthcoming action movie that he demanded that film makers remove every shot of him from the production if they didn’t leave Mirren where she was.
‘I said if that scene is not in the film I want them to take every shot of me out of the movie,’ the “Die Hard” star told Fox News.
‘But it’s in. It’s so… it’s just sexy. Who knew?’
‘I think Helen would’ve been doing action films a while ago – with that .50 calibre machine gun in a ball gown. Wow!’
The scene in question shows 65-year-old Mirren in a ball gown shooting an automatic weapon, and looking very comfortable doing it.
But 55-year-old Bruce isn’t the only one on Team Mirren.
Co-star John Malkovich backed up Bruce’s opinion, saying: ‘What more could you want than Helen Mirren with a firearm? One can pass over to the other side and be happy.’
“RED,” which stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous, follows a group of ex CIA operatives who have to come out of retirement after leaked government secrets makes them all targets for assassins.
Rapper T.I. will have to serve another 11 months in prison.
A federal judge in Atlanta revoked the rap superstar’s probation in reaction to his arrest last month in Los Angeles on suspicion of drug possession, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office told the Associated Press.
T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, Jr., had been on probation after serving 10 months in prison on weapons charges.
Before the judge’s ruling, the Grammy winner had pleaded for mercy, telling the court that he needs help for drug addiction.
T.I. is expected to appeal the case and remain free on bond until he is either sentenced or the charges overturned through the appeal process.
The sentence caps an emotional week for the 30-year-old Harris, who talked a suicidal man off the ledge of an Atlanta skyscraper Wednesday.
“I told him it ain’t that bad. It’ll get better, to put the time and effort into making it better,” T.I. said told the AP Wednesday. “I just reminded him know that I know. It looks bad right now, but it can turn around.”
The rapper and record producer documented his drug addictions and legal problems on the MTV reality series, “T.I.’s Road to Redemption.”
Christina Hendricks’ of “Mad Men” fame says she was a “misfit” in high school.
The Emmy-nominated actress took a stroll down memory lane on a recent’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” where she showed off the goth-like style she sported as a teen.
Hendricks, now 35, provided the show with a picture from more than 10 years ago, where she looks contemplative while dressed in black leather with jet black hair.
“If I went to my high-school reunion nobody would recognize me,” she said. “I was a bit of a misfit in high school.”
Hendricks also revealed that she had a reverse mullet of sorts, adding “What you can’t see in this picture is that the back of my head is shaved,” she recalled.
Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards describes how he once set fire to the Chicago Playboy Mansion while on drugs.
In his memoir, “Life,” excerpted in Rolling Stone, he relates: “(Saxophonist) Bobby (Keys)and I played it a little far when we set fire to the bathroom. Well, we didn’t, the dope did. Not our fault. Bobby and I were just sitting in the john, comfortable, nice john, sitting on the floor, and we’ve got the doc’s bag and we’re just smorgasbording. ‘I wonder what these do?’ Bong. And at a certain point . . . talk about hazy, or foggy, Bobby says, ‘It’s smoky in here.’
“And I’m looking at Bobby and can’t see him. And the drapes are smoldering away; everything was just about to go off big-time . . There was a thumping on the door, waiters and guys in black suits bringing buckets of water. They get the door open and we’re sitting on the floor, our pupils very pinned. I said, ‘We could have done that ourselves. How dare you burst in on our private affair?’ “
A rare sheet of 10 stamps showing film star Audrey Hepburn smoking is expected to fetch at least $564,000 at an upcoming charity auction in Berlin.
The German postal service printed 14 million of the stamps in 2001. They show Hepburn as Holly Golightly from the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s with a cigarette holder between her lips.
Hepburn’s son Sean Ferrer initially refused to grant copyright for the stamps and suggested using another photo. The German government ordered the stamps destroyed, but a few sheets survived. The sheet being sold for charity is the one originally sent to Ferrer in 2001 for approval.
Five of the stamps, presumed stolen from the postal service, have been sold previously, with one fetching 173,000.
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
lsmith@denverpost.com
