`PAYBACK' SHOOT TAKES BACK SEAT TO MEL WATCH.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Crowd control has hardly been a snap on the Chicago location of Mel Gibson's ``Payback.'' David Paymer, who co-stars in the Paramount gangster film, reports from the shooting site, ``There's mayhem here It's like Mel Watch. People go nuts about him. ... They're all over the streets, like, six deep. We were doing a scene in a cab and we had to stop because people were crowding around and ruining the shot. We had to spray paint the windows so people couldn't see through them!'' Paymer says some people ``have come up to me with their autograph books and I say `Here, let me sign it' and they say `No, can you get Mel to sign it?' '' Paymer has been going back and forth from shooting ``Payback'' to the remake of the ``King Kong'' knockoff knock·off n. Informal An unauthorized copy or imitation, as of designer clothing: "the place to go for quality knockoffs" Women's Wear Daily. Noun 1. , ``Mighty Joe Young.'' He says, ``If I'm not getting shot by Mel, I'm getting stepped on by a gorilla.'' Too little of a good thing Gerald McRaney and his wife, Delta Burke, haven't had much time for togetherness in months. He's been working 12- and 14-hour days on his CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ``Promised Land'' series, with weeks that sometimes stretch to six days. And Delta's schedule, he lets us know, has been tough as well. McRaney has managed to get home to the family digs in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded and Mississippi from his Utah-based production only four times since July, and so far Delta hasn't come to Utah to visit him. He notes that his wife has been busy with her business, a clothing line for larger-size women, plus, ``She just finished her book.'' Sounds like Delta's St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
McRaney, meanwhile, admits his series work has left him ``exhausted.'' However, he wants it known he's not complaining. With the homespun ``Promised Land,'' he says, ``It's worth it.'' Gerald and Delta do have a good shot at spending some solid time together. The couple are in talks to co-star in a TV movie during his hiatus. Another Hollywood phony There had to be some classic double takes from passengers boarding Continental Flight 23 the other day. There was Cybill Shepherd Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born 18 February, 1950) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting - at least half of Cybill Shepherd - buckled up in a tourist seat, making the flight from London to L.A. What it was, actually, was a waxen wax·en adj. 1. Made of or covered with wax. 2. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin. 3. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds. likeness of the actress that will be unveiled at Madame Tussaud's wax exhibition in London Nov. 10 - and on the same date will ``guest'' on the segment of ``Cybill'' that is shooting now. What happened to the sculpture's bottom? It wasn't needed for the bit on the sitcom, and is being shipped directly to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to be ``reunited'' with its upper bod for a Nov. 3 appearance on the David Letterman David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. show with the real Cybill Shepherd. She's a comer Jurnee Smollett  This article or section resembles a .Please help [ improve this article] by removing excessive trivia, irrelevant praise and criticism, lists and collections of links that are of . , Samuel L. Jackson's young co-star in Trimark's upcoming ``Eve's Bayou,'' brought down the house at the film's post-premiere bash at the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically . The 11-year-old Smollett, who plays Eve in the drama co-produced by Jackson, sang a rousing a cappella rendition of Lena Horne's ``Yesterday,'' matching the great songstress's moves and phrasing in a manner far beyond her years. A radiant and very pregnant Erykah Badu followed with a mini-concert for the crowd, which included Lauren Holly, Blair Underwood, ``Vibe'' host Chris Spencer and basketball star John Salley. The evening served as a benefit for the International House of Blues Foundation. From the inside looking out ``Brooklyn South'' series lead Dylan Walsh, who's racked up numerous big-screen credits, notes that ``the danger with TV is that you don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where your character will go or what will work with him. I've made one other series, `Gabriel's Fire' with James Earl Jones, and that didn't work out for my character. Jones is obviously a very forceful personality, and they were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. me - I played a yuppie character - to be lighthearted and shallow. And that was a mistake. All characters should have some depth.'' He stresses that he has no concern about the path on which producer David Milch will take his ``Brooklyn'' character, police officer Jimmy Boyce. ``David is a brilliant writer,'' he says. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Mel Gibson ``People go nuts about him'' (2) Gerald McRaney ``Land'' worth the exhaustion |
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