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| Cable channel F/X, home of a variety of syndicated reruns as well as highly-acclaimed-and-offbeat first-run shows, has announced another entry for its growing original series slate. Lowlife, produced by the creators of the high-buzz drama Nip/Tuck, will star Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard as a husband-and-wife team of con artists who swindle their way through America. F/X network prez John Landgraf was quoted as describing the two leads, Dahlia and Wayne, as “really strong characters” in a “very complicated marriage”, and proclaims that the network searched for “two actors who are perfectly matched up and can hold their own." All righty, then. No word yet on who will play Dahlia and who will play Wayne. |
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Director Lee Tamahori, the man behind the camera for Bond outing Die Another Day and xXx sequel State of the Union, makes the news for being arrested recently on a prostitution charge after soliciting an undercover LA cop. This story doesn’t seem too unusual on the surface, until one gets to the part of the report that reveals Tamahori was dressed in a black wig, an off-the-shoulder black dress, and CFM pumps, and approached a male officer. Tamahori is being represented by that paragon of celebrity defense lawyers, Mark Geragos, whose other clients have included Winona Ryder, Scott Peterson, and yet another gender-confused individual, Michael Jackson. One bright note for Tamahori came with the news that his mug shot had had gotten him a spot on Mr Blackwell’s Best-Dressed List/Celebrity Crime Edition. |
| Perhaps getting himself into shape for the supposedly-upcoming fourth Indiana Jones installment, Harrison Ford struck a blow to the manhood of his Firewall costar Paul Bettany during their fight scenes, according to Bettany himself. The script called for Bettany’s character to beat up Ford’s character, but according to the young Brit, the 63-year-old star turned out to be a whole lot tougher than Bettany had imagined. The young man was quoted as saying Ford was a “tough son of a bitch” and that he “wouldn’t want to tumble” with Ford off-screen. Bettany describes throwing Ford through a stunt window seven times, and that, despite landing on his head each time, Ford got up and helped the crew rebuild the window before being thrown through it again. Bettany also reports that during a scene where he had to punch Ford in the stomach, the actor continually exhorted him to hit harder so he “could feel it”, and that the entire experience was “the most humiliating” day of his life. Maybe Ford can stop worrying now about making sure Indy IV starts shooting in the next two years. Although he might want to take it easy on hugging his literal stick-figure girlfriend, as the results could be disastrous. |
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Paul Bettany wasn’t the only one impressed by a costar’s abilities during the Firewall shoot. Reports have surfaced that Harrison Ford was so impressed with on-screen wife Virginia Madsen that he’s lobbying for her to play his love interest in the aforementioned Indy IV. Ford was quoted as finding Madsen “professional, very talented and simply very sweet” and that he was quite taken with her ability to turn a “fairly one-dimensional damsel-in-distress” part into something much more layered, a feat Ford proclaims not many actresses could do. Ford said he’d work with Madsen again “in a heartbeat” and admitted he and Madsen had “talked about” her playing Indy’s love interest in the upcoming flick. This news came as something of a surprise to Ford watchers, given the fact that Madsen’s figure doesn’t allow her to disappear upon turning sideways. Then again, Ford didn’t make any comment on the lady’s looks, so perhaps his tastes in female figures - or lack thereof - haven’t changed all that much. |
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