Forget the rumors – that’s still Lindsay, fully loaded
“HERBIE: FULLY LOADED” director Angela Robinson denies rumors that in order to secure a “G” rating for the new Disney film, star Lindsay Lohan‘s breasts had to be digitally covered and reduced. “That, I think, was largely propagated on the Internet,” Robinson says. “It wasn’t really a concern.”
“Herbie: Fully Loaded,” which opens in theaters today, scored its family-friendly rating despite a number of scenes implying that the 42-year-old Volkswagen might be inclined to sex up a younger Bug, and moments of euphemistic dialogue that would make small children blush if they could possibly understand.
However, the 18-year-old Lohan spends much of the film conservatively clad in a racing suit.
Robinson’s only ratings-based concerns surrounded some of the scarier moments in “Herbie,” including a Demolition Derby scene in which the VW is menaced by a huge monster truck.
“It was very important to me that it actually be a little scary,” she says. “I call it the ‘Pinocchio’ scene. I think the best Disney can really be scary and then triumphant afterwards.”
He’s sure sensitive for a little squirt
Tom Cruise is considering suing a prankster who squirted him with a water pistol at the London premiere of “War of the Worlds” on Sunday.
The man and three associates who filmed the incident were working on a new British television comedy show. They were released on bail Monday.
A Cruise representative said the actor “is not just going to forget about it.”
Who tried to decapitate DiCaprio?
Leonardo DiCaprio was hit with a bottle while attending a party given by Paris Hilton‘s ex-boyfriend and needed about a dozen stitches to close a wound near his ear, People magazine reported on its Web site.
The magazine said DiCaprio was at a party at about 4 a.m. Friday at the home of Rick Salomon when a woman struck him with what appeared to be a beer bottle. Friends took the actor to a hospital where he received about a dozen stitches, People said.
The attack was not expected to affect DiCaprio’s work on a Martin Scorsese movie, “The Departed,” which is shooting in Boston and New York.
Roy’s recovery continues
Illusionist Roy Horn has checked into a German rehabilitation facility, 18 months after a near-fatal tiger mauling left him partially paralyzed.
”Siegfried and I are thrilled to return to our home country and excited with the programs set forth by the great doctors and staff at the world-class Leonardis Clinic,” Horn said in a statement.
No details of the 60-year-old Horn’s condition or treatment were released.
Eluding the jaws of death
Veteran actor Roy Scheider (“Jaws,” “The French Connection”) has undergone a bone-marrow transplant in his battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells in bone marrow.
“It went well,” said Scheider, 72. “They harvested my stem cells. I was my own donor.”
The birthday bunch
Actor Ralph Waite (“The Waltons”) is 77. Singer-actor Kris Kristofferson is 69. Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer is 61. Actor David L. Lander (Squiggy on “Laverne and Shirley”) is 58. Singer Todd Rundgren is 57. Singer Alan Osmond (The Osmonds) is 56. Actress Meryl Streep is 56. Actress Lindsay Wagner is 56. Actor Graham Greene (“Dances With Wolves”) is 53. Actress Tracy Pollan is 45. Actress Amy Brenneman (“Judging Amy”) is 41. MTV host Carson Daly is 32. Actor Donald Faison (“Scrubs”) is 31. TV personality Jai Rodriguez (“Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”) is 26. Actress Lindsay Ridgeway (“Boy Meets World”) is 20.