People : He’s only that way at the office
Steve Carell isn’t quite sure what to say about his new movie, “Dan in Real Life.”
“I find myself trying to explain what this movie isn’t, more than what it actually is,” says the star of TV’s “The Office.”
“It’s funny, yeah, but it’s sad, and sort of uncomfortable and truthful. I was interested in it the same way I was interested in ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ It doesn’t come with some kind of implied laugh track: you know, here’s where you laugh, here’s when you laugh harder.”
Carell plays a widowed advice columnist who ignores his own advice after falling for his brother’s girlfriend (Juliette Binoche).
He did have some concerns about the role.
“My first thought is, who would believe that Juliette Binoche would ever be attracted to me unless she had been infected with some mind-altering drug?” he says. “But you know, that wasn’t enough for me to raise the question.
“I also figured it might give me some leverage at home,” adds Carell, who is married to comedienne Nancy Walls. “I could always say, ‘Well, Juliette Binoche is attracted to me.’
“And my wife would say, ‘Uh, Steve, the “Real Life” part is just the title of the movie.’ “
Britney? No cameras? No way!
Britney Spears no longer faces hit-and-run charges after paying off the driver of a car she struck while trying to park in a Studio City lot.
But she still has to deal with one count of driving without a license from the August incident, a court commissioner ruled Thursday.
Spears’ lawyer pointed out that she recently received her California license, and said she would have had one before the accident but no cameras were available when she first applied at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Another lost lamb
Yet another “Lost” cast member has been arrested for drunk driving in Hawaii.
Daniel Dae Kim, who stars as Jin-Soo Kwon in the hit ABC series filmed there, was booked on DUI charges early Thursday morning.
Former cast members Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros were arrested for drunk driving in separate incidents on Dec. 1, 2005. Both pleaded guilty, and both were gone from the show by season’s end.
Not so Berry funny
Halle Berry has apologized for making an inappropriate joke during last Friday’s taping of “The Tonight Show” – though it never aired.
Berry, who showed host Jay Leno photos of herself that were distorted with computer software, remarked that one with a large nose made her “look like my Jewish cousin.”
“After the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did,” Berry says.
Hasta la vista, TV
Maria Shriver says she won’t resume her TV news career, citing the media circus surrounding the late Anna Nicole Smith.
“It was then that I knew that the TV news business had changed and so had I,” says Shriver, who left NBC News in 2004 after husband Arnold Schwarzenegger won the California governor’s race.
The birthday bunch
Actress Jaclyn Smith is 62. “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak is 61. Actor Dylan McDermott is 46. Singer Keith Urban is 40. Actor Jon Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) is 30.