November 02, 2009
New York, NY
The abrupt closing Sunday of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” after only nine performances has cast a brief, uneasy shadow over Broadway’s fall season, ironically one of the busiest in years.
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September 29, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Lee Daniels had so much faith in Mariah Carey’s acting that when the director’s first choice to play a dowdy, no-nonsense social worker — Oscar-winner Helen Mirren — backed out, he quickly asked Carey to step in.
But Daniels was well aware that in hiring Mariah Carey, the actress, he was also likely to get Mariah Carey, the diva — a high-maintenance sideshow that would include an entourage of makeup artists, assistants, publicists and other hangers-on, running counter to the energy he wanted the superstar to exude in his searing drama “Precious.”
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September 29, 2009
ZURICH, Switzerland
Lawyers for Roman Polanski filed a motion in court Tuesday asking that the director be released from Swiss custody — the first step in his legal battle to avoid extradition to the United States for a 1977 statutory rape case.
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court announced the filing and said “the decision will be made within the next weeks.” That statement meant the 76-year-old filmmaker is not expected to be freed anytime soon from prison, as he would stay incarcerated through the verdict and through any appeal from either side.
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September 15, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Despite Patrick Swayze’s death on Monday at the age of 57 to pancreatic cancer, the superstar’s book, written with his beloved wife, will still be released later this month.
And Access Hollywood has your first look at the book’s cover, which features Patrick and his beloved wife, Lisa Niemi, high school sweethearts, who married in 1975.
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August 26, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine articles and best-selling novels such as “The Two Mrs. Grenvilles,” died Wednesday in his home at age 83.
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July 24, 2009
NEW YORK, New York
A mystery celebrity will provide an introduction to the reissue of Michael Jackson’s memoir.
Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House Inc., will publish the new edition of “Moonwalk” in October with an announced first printing of 100,000. The original text, released in 1988 by Doubleday, sold about 500,000 copies.
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March 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
Cloris Leachman stunned the judges of “Dancing With the Stars” last season with her raunchy antics in and out of the ballroom, and now she’s set to go one further with a tell-all autobiography.
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March 09, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Calif.
British actor/comedian Russell Brand has lent some weight to the rumor he’ll be joining Johnny Depp in the next “Pirates of the Caribbean” installment… maybe.
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February 09, 2009
NEW YORK, NY
Diane Keaton is telling all — about her bond with her mother.
The Academy Award-winning actress, whose films include “Annie Hall” and the three “Godfather” movies, is working on a memoir — currently untitled — that the Random House Publishing Group plans on releasing in 2012.
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