Will Smith Must Know Things Denzel Doesn’t
If you wonder what Denzel Washington has been doing lately, he’s ready to tell you.
“I haven’t turned one love story down,” he told USA Today. “I just haven’t been offered anything. I’m waiting for the script.”
Washington won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for the 1989 film “Glory.” But despite starring in such films as “Malcolm X,” “Philadelphia,” “Courage Under Fire” and “The Preacher’s Wife,” he says he hasn’t been a hot Hollywood commodity.
“A whole lot of people in this country won’t go to a movie I’m in because I’m black. Period,” he said. “I understand what country I live in and economics. If the tables were turned and there were 200 million black people and 25 million whites, they’d be saying the same thing about Tom Cruise they’re saying about me.”
Loose talk
Woody Allen on the character he plays in the film “Deconstructing Harry”: “Harry’s philosophy speaks to me. I feel the same way he feels about women, about science, about philosophy, religion and art. But he’s got such a chaotic life. He’s got 600 crises coming in on him from all sides. I don’t.”
Dr. Minghella’s out tipping a few with his English patient
Anthony Minghella turns 44 today.
His kids look around and ask, ‘Where’s Poppa?’
Star of the sitcom “Just Shoot Me,” George Segal is enjoying another of his many career resurgences. “I’m like a cork in the water, aren’t I?” the star of several 1970s movies said. “I keep bobbing up in all sorts of places, although I never know in advance where or when.”
One question: Will he carry a magnum?
Speaking of career resurgences, Tom Selleck is trying to do exactly that. He’s even agreed to star in a new television sitcom, “The Closer” for CBS. Selleck recently appeared in several episodes of the NBC series “Friends.”
And he can - for just $19.95 (fries are extra)
The top cook at one of New York’s ritziest restaurants confesses that on occasion the fancy menu is too rich even for him. “Sometimes I feel like a model who wants to wear jeans instead of a dress,” Sottha Khunn told Newsweek International. “I enjoy going to nice restaurants, but sometimes, I just like to eat a hamburger.”
We’re pretty sure that Kramer is looking for work
In the wake of Jerry Seinfeld’s announcement that this season will be his hit sitcom’s last, little attention was paid to the news that Garry Shandling is thinking of quitting his HBO show. Some reports have the show continuing with Jon Stewart taking Shandling’s place as the host of “The Larry Sanders Show.”
And that’s all we have to say about #!&!@!*! that
Of the celebrities who pledged new year’s resolutions to Entertainment Weekly magazine, we can most relate to Peter Fonda. The actor said he will try to “cut my swearing down by 50 percent.”
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