Whatever Happened, The Taping Was Terminated
A Puerto Rican television cameraman is suing Sylvester Stallone for $550,000, claiming he was assaulted after filming Sly on the set of his new movie, “Assassins.”
Cesar Santos says he was roughed up by Stallone and four bodyguards and his videotape was seized. It was later returned to the San Juan station where he works.
“(Stallone) started insulting me and telling me that I couldn’t take video there,” Santos said. “A bodyguard told me that if I didn’t give him the video he would bust my face.”
Stallone, saying Santos was trespassing and no one touched or harassed him, called him a “dirt bag trying to extort money.” Replied Santos’ attorney: “I am glad (Stallone’s) vocabulary is improving. The word ‘dirt bag’ is certainly an improvement from the words he used against my client.”
Loose talk
Pregnant Irish rocker Sinead O’Connor, on why she decided to drop out of the Lollapalooza ‘95 tour: “It’s hard to sing when you want to throw up all the time.”
It’s looking like he’ll last until at least 2001
Stanley Kubrick turns 67 today.
He’s starting to learn that nothing is forever
Joanne Whalley Kilmer, wife of “Batman Forever” star Val Kilmer, has filed for divorce just two months after the birth of their second child. Which explains why he told a recent interviewer: “It’s a darn shame that as a species we’ve convinced ourselves love should be fun. Love is hard.”
We always thought Randy was the heavy one
On the other hand, things are peachy keen between acting couple Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. Said she in W Magazine: “He’s so well-read and so interested. He’s never the person with the answers. He’s the person with the questions. And he deals in pretty heavy questions these days.”
The honor was almost more than she could bear
In a touching tribute, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas named the central character in the steamy “Showgirls,” a stripper known as Nomi, after his artist wife, Naomi. Said Eszterhas: “When we were negotiating the deal there was actually a clause saying the only thing that could not be changed in the script was the name of the character.”
Which is how you tell her apart from Roseanne
Bill Murray has his hands full with the leading lady in his next, yet-unnamed movie: an 8,000-pound elephant named Tai. “She is not only big,” Murray said, “she is an extraordinary entertainer.”
Like he really needs another Hurley woman
Just when we thought the Hugh Grant furor had died down comes a new controversy: The Ark Trust, an animal protection group, is criticizing his new film “Nine Months” for “falsely implying that a life-threatening disease is routinely transmitted by cats to pregnant women” and for a scene in which Grant’s cat is picked up by a woman and hurled out of camera range.
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