She’D Rather Fall Into A More Apparent Trap
Playing a perky single mother in the new remake of the old Hayley Mills classic “The Parent Trap” didn’t exactly come naturally for Natasha Richardson.
“It’s the light, bright parts I have to work at,” the 35-year-old stage and screen actress, who recently won a Tony Award for “Cabaret,” tells Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s weird, but where I’m comfortable going is where the emotionally painful stuff is. That’s where I feel a connection I can channel into.”
But one element of the plot, in which twins try to reunite their divorced parents, did bother her: the fact that the parents split the two girls up when they went their separate ways.
Says Richardson: “What kind of mother FedExes one of the twins off to Napa and says, ‘It’s OK, I’ll never see you again?”’
Loose talk
Chris Rock, on fellow comedian Jim Carrey (in Time magazine): “It’s society’s ignorance about how hard comedy is that people go, now he’s really doing something in ‘The Truman Show.’ There are 30 guys in Hollywood who could do ‘Truman.’ There’s only one guy who could do ‘Dumb & Dumber.”’
Suppose that ‘Wong Foo’ dress still fits?
Wesley Snipes turns 36 today.
Maybe he’s trying to win a Tony award, too
Jim Carrey’s new project is “Man on the Moon,” a film biography of the late comedian Andy Kaufman, and he’s working hard to get into character. Carrey reportedly has two trailers on the set - one for “Andy Kaufman” and the other for “Tony Clifton,” Kaufman’s notorious alter ego - and asks crew members to call him Tony between takes.
Winnie wasn’t that much of a stuffed shirt
Marlon Brando hopes to get involved in an upcoming British movie about Winston Churchill, but the corpulent screen legend may not be quite what the filmmakers are looking for. As a production company source told The Times of London: “We want a heavyweight actor but Brando might be too much.”
There are no small parts, only small paychecks
Paul Giamatti has made a career of smaller roles, most recently the control-booth jockey in “The Truman Show.” Says Giamatti: “I find these plain little characters fascinating. Elisha Cook Jr., the weaselly guy who gets killed in ‘The Maltese Falcon’? I love him. Or Peter Lorre? Man, he was awesome.”
Another guy who’s used to those bit parts
According to The New York Daily News, ear-chewing boxer Mike Tyson has agreed to play himself in a film titled “Black and White,” about racial tensions in a Big Apple prep school.
Maybe someday he’ll be ‘Lord of the Ring’
Michael “Lord of the Dance” Flatley, a former amateur boxer who gave what was billed as his final performance in the Irish footwork extravaganza last Saturday, said he may trying acting next or return to his roots in the ring. “Boxing is a possibility and I have been offered a lot of money,” the 40-year-old Flatley said.