Star’s ordeal a bit exaggerated
As if we ever had to worry, Star Jones Reynolds is happy to tell us that her plastic surgery ordeal wasn’t all that bad.
“Well, can we first start with … I did not almost die,” Jones Reynolds told television viewers by telephone on Monday. “(T)here is nothing worse than sitting in a bed watching a scroll across the TV that says ‘Star Jones faces death.’ I went, ‘Oh, my God, I did?’ “
Jones Reynolds, co-host of the daily television talk show “The View,” was speaking to co-host Meredith Vieira. Jones Reynolds, who had undergone a blood transfusion following her March 17 breast-lift surgery, joked that she wanted to keep fans of the show “abreast” of her situation.
Asked by guest host Tisha Campbell-Martin if her bosom now was “perky,” Jones Reynolds replied, “Friday was my 44th birthday, but my (breasts) think they’re still 20.”
Movies still give Chan a kick
Even Jackie Chan is human. During a scene being shot last week in Hong Kong for the forthcoming film “Rob-B-Hood,” the action star was kicked in the chest by a stuntman wearing the wrong shoes. The result: Chan was sent to the hospital for a checkup.
“These things just happen,” Chan, 51, said Tuesday on his Web site. “I always put safety first when filming, but still, sometimes things just go wrong.”
Next up: ‘Wildfire’ CD remix
Remember Michael Martin Murphey? The guy who wrote that song about a pony named “Wildfire”? Seems he’s going to hold a benefit concert on April 15 in Waco, Texas, and change the focus of the song that made him famous.
Murphey says he wants to draw attention to the people whose lives were devastated by recent fires across the Texas Panhandle.
“Hearing about the devastation and how these fires swept through to change the lives of numerous families in the Panhandle area really touched my heart,” Murphey said.
Issues aside, paychecks rule
Fresh off winning an Oscar for his supporting role in the film “Syriana,” George Clooney is returning to pure entertainment. He and co-stars Brad Pitt, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould are working on “Ocean’s 13,” a third installment of the heist series directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Because of script limitations, Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones won’t join in.
Some bend easier than others
John Hurt, star of the film “Shooting Dogs,” which is based on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, says the film is “a wake-up call … to the fact that the world is not made up of goodies and baddies but of people who can be twisted and bent in all kinds of shapes.”
Many of the film’s scenes were shot in Kigali, the Rwandan capital where many of the half-million or more ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were slaughtered by extremist Hutu militia in just 100 days.
The birthday bunch
John McLaughlin (“The McLaughlin Group”) is 79. Comic Eric Idle is 63. Singer Perry Farrell (Porno for Pyros, Jane’s Addiction) is 47. Model Elle Macpherson is 43. Singer-harmonica player John Popper of Blues Traveler is 39. Actress Lucy Lawless (“Xena: Warrior Princess”) is 38.