All You Have To Do Is Show Him The Proof
Sure, Kevin Sorbo, TV’s hunky “Hercules,” gets to show his stuff on the big screen in his upcoming feature film, “Kull the Conqueror.”
But Sorbo got his start with some of the smallest parts of all - in commercials.
“I have a Jim Beam commercial that runs worldwide,” Sorbo says. “You can’t do hard liquor in America. But I shot this Jim Beam in New Zealand six years ago.
“We shot it in five or six days and it ran all over the world. There was a tagline. I walk into a bar and ask for Jim Beam. He hands it to me, and I say, ‘This ain’t Jim Beam.’
“This line is a line everybody uses in bars around the world. The people in America haven’t a clue. I had three Russians come up to me at the Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica and they said, ‘Zis ain’t Jim Beam.”’
Loose talk
Denis Leary, on “if I ran Hollywood” (in Entertainment Weekly): “Jean-Claude Van Damme would be somebody’s driver … he could do splits between the front and back seat, he could wear underwear or not, I don’t care, but he’d be driving somebody.”
It’s about time he got out in the real world
Jason Priestley turns 28 today.
Or maybe they were, um, busy themselves
“90210” co-star Tori Spelling tells Movieline magazine she recently joined the “mile high club” by having sex in an airplane lavatory. “I had two glasses of wine, so I got less self-conscious, I guess,” Spelling said. “The weird thing was that nobody even turned their head when we went into the bathroom. Maybe they were all drunk or something.”
Next time, he’ll leave all his kids home
Michael Nader, who plays aristocratic hothead Dimitri Marick on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” scuffled with police officers following a traffic stop in Long Island last weekend. Nader, whose 13-year-old daughter was in the car, was charged with resisting arrest, drunk driving and child endangerment.
In a parka, Gena Lee just isn’t the same
Meanwhile, David Hasselhoff and the the rest of the “Baywatch” cast are keeping cool this week, filming in Alaska for a special two-hour episode that will air in May.
Or maybe they’ll go straight to reruns
The new fall television season doesn’t start for another month, but Fox has already yanked “Rewind” from its schedule. The series, starring Scott Baio as a marketing executive who has frequent flashbacks to his childhood, may still show up as a mid-season replacement.
Kind of a cross between teddies and Danskins
Victoria’s Secret is none too thrilled with NBC’s new “Veronica’s Closet” series, featuring former “Cheers” star Kirstie Allie as a lingerie catalog company owner. Victoria’s calls it “an obvious use of our name that we never authorized,” but a “Veronica’s” spokeswoman says: “As soon as people see this show, the (association) will go away. Veronica’s designs will be eclectic and sophisticated. She’d relate to Donna Karan.”
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