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Guess She Went From A Whimper To A ‘Scream’

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

When Sarah Michelle Gellar heard there was going to be a sequel to the smash slasher hit “Scream,” she knew she had to be in it.

“I called my agent and I was like, ‘Please, please, please, please get me in this movie.’ I just had a cool feeling about it,” Gellar, TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” tells Entertainment Weekly.

The begging worked, and Gellar got a part - along with a new appreciation for screaming.

“I’ve learned so much about screaming from this movie. You have to do it over and over again. There’s the I’m-being-chased scream, the oh-my-God-I’m-about-to-be-killed scream, the I’m-five-minutes-from-freedom scream. I screamed my head off.”

If she’s still got some sound left in her lungs, the filmmakers have already acknowledged there’s going to be a “Scream 3.”

Loose talk

An MGM executive, on avoiding burger-chain marketing gimmicks for Pierce Brosnan’s new James Bond film, “Tomorrow Never Dies”: “Bond is about romance, sex and vodka. How does that work with fast food?”

Suddenly, he was on the small screen

Judd Nelson turns 38 today.

He was the master of the insubordinate clause

Kevin Williamson, screenwriter of both “Scream” flicks, tells Spin magazine his twisted talents surfaced at an early age: “Like, in school, when we had to write sentences on the blackboard and then diagram them, I would write stuff like, ‘The baby on the meat hook jerked.”’

In space, no one can hear you scream for help

Sigourney Weaver, who returns as monster-slaying space traveler Ellen Ripley in “Alien Resurrection,” doesn’t see the character as a comic-book superhero, just an “ordinary person who is in extraordinary circumstances, and doesn’t give up. I’m not playing a strong feminist statement; I’m playing this woman who has no one else to rely on.”

So, he’s not homophobic, he’s just homicidal

In his new movie “Jackal,” villainous Bruce Willis makes a point to kiss a homosexual character before later shooting him dead. According to USA Today, Willis wanted to be sure viewers didn’t think he killed the guy just because he was gay.

Problems with editors can always be hashed out

Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson showed up at Time magazine the other day to check on the editing of his story about the making of the “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” movie, starring Johnny Depp - and graciously offered the magazine’s editors a few hits off his hash pipe. There were no takers, reports The New York Observer.

Such feverish fiction caught her off guard

John Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston, won a court order against a would-be comedy writer who sent her a lewd letter laced with odd references to Travolta roles: “I admit that I sometimes get the characters confused. For example, I’ll say ‘Git atta hea!’ or ‘Wha?’ while wearing the white suit, or I’ll throw people down stairs when I’m ‘Michael.”’

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