To her, it’s black and white
Katherine Heigl won’t be chewing her manicure at this year’s Emmy ceremony.
Heigl, who was honored as best supporting actress in a drama last year for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens in ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” declined to put her name in consideration for a bid this year.
She says she didn’t seek a nomination because “Grey’s” failed to deliver the goods for an award-worthy performance.
“I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination,” she said through her publicist.
“In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials,”
Heigl, who shot to box-office success last summer with “Knocked Up,” is one of Hollywood’s rare voices of candor.
In a Vanity Fair interview, she called the film “a little sexist” and said that it painted women as “shrews, as humorless and uptight.”
Heigl also was outspoken when “Grey’s” castmates Isaiah Washington and T.R. Knight clashed last year over Washington’s alleged use of a homophobic slur.
007 almost lost a digit
Daniel Craig was sent to the hospital after suffering a minor hand injury while filming the latest James Bond movie, “Quantum of Solace,” near London.
It’s not the first accident that’s occurred during the shoot. Stuntmen were injured while filming an action sequence on winding lakeside roads in Northern Italy in April.
“Quantum of Solace,” the 22nd Bond film, is scheduled for release later this year.
Not so slap-happy
Up-and-coming “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” co-star Shia LaBeouf is “very embarrassed” over a video clip made several years ago that shows him in a spirited slapping contest with a buddy.
The video, which finally was taken down by YouTube, also shows LaBeouf uttering a particularly nasty epithet to his friend.
Pitted against each other
Brad Pitt‘s current partner, Angelina Jolie, and his ex, Jennifer Aniston, are headed for a catfight – at the box office, that is.
Each has a movie coming out Oct. 24. Jolie stars in Clint Eastwood‘s missing-child drama “Changeling,” while Aniston is part of the ensemble cast in the romantic comedy “He’s Just Not That Into You.”
Pitt and Jolie – expecting twins, their fifth and sixth children – hooked up after co-starring in 2005’s “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” as his marriage to Aniston was unraveling.
Quoteworthy
Angelina Jolie, on the perks of pregnancy (in Entertainment Weekly): “It’s great for the sex life. It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you’re just so round and full.”
The birthday bunch
Magician Siegfried Fischbacher (Siegfried and Roy) is 69. Actor Malcolm McDowell is 65. Actor Richard Thomas is 57. Actor/comedian Tim Allen is 55. Actress Ally Sheedy is 46. Newswoman Hannah Storm is 46. Singer-guitarist Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) is 38. Actor Steve-O (“Jackass”) is 34. Actresses Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are 22.