ATTENTION, KMART SHOPPERS: `PREACHER'S' ON HOLD.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Penny Marshall is hard at work on post-production of ``The Preacher's Wife,'' paring ``fat'' out of the Whitney Houston-Denzel Washington starrer. In her first go-around in the editing room with the remake of the Loretta Young/David Niven/Cary Grant ``The Bishop's Wife,'' the movie came in at three hours and 24 minutes. ``Now I've got it down to three hours and two minutes and I'm taking more out,'' she says. Marshall is taking time out from film editing to make her latest batch of Kmart commercials with Rosie O'Donnell. Marshall says her main motivation in doing the on-air ads is her grandson. She explains that, with the blessings of the company, ``I get him all these free toys - terrific stuff. And when Christmas comes I get all the stuff I need for the 5,000 kids or so on my gift list. I also tell my daughter to go in and get what she wants. I just love it. When I say, `I got it at Kmart,' I'm not kidding.'' We have news for you: ``Roseanne's'' not going to have to get along without John Goodman Not to be confused with Johnny Goodman (TV producer), Johnny Goodman, or John C. Goodman. John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actor, perhaps best known for his roles on the television series Roseanne after all - at least not for a while. With the collapse of ``The Double'' picture he was supposed to be making now with John Travolta, Goodman suddenly has free time on his hands - and has agreed to resume his series role of Dan Connor Dan Connor may refer to:
All about Ashley: The Chieftains' Celtic Celebration tour isn't the first place most people would look for backstage nastiness and ego clashes - or even the second or third place - but, goodness! Those Irish musicians extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra have had more than their share of the non-Fourth of July type of fireworks fireworks: see pyrotechnics. fireworks Explosives or combustibles used for display. Of ancient Chinese origin, fireworks evidently developed out of military rockets and explosive missiles and accompanied the spread of military explosives westward to lately - with folk singer Nanci Griffith storming off the tour in a pique toward 21-year-old Nova Scotian No·va Sco·tia Abbr. NS or N.S. A province of eastern Canada comprising a mainland peninsula and the adjacent Cape Breton Island. It joined the confederation in 1867. punk fiddler Ashley MacIsaac. MacIsaac, brought in to open the show with his wild mix of Celtic and hip-hop violin and bagpipe bagpipe, musical instrument whose ancient origin was probably in Mesopotamia from which it was carried east and west by Celtic migrations. It was used in ancient Greece and Rome and has been long known in India. playing - and the kid dances while he plays - has turned out to be the surprise of the tour. He literally has fans dancing in the aisles. With it all, he became, well, a tough act to follow, which Griffith did. But she doesn't anymore. As she announced from the stage on her final tour appearance last week, she quit ``thanks to the efforts of Ashley MacIsaac.'' She then went on the Internet, instructing her fans holding tickets to the tour to demand their money back. Texas neo-folk stylist Michelle Shocked Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston, 24 February, 1962, in Dallas, Texas) is a U.S. singer-songwriter whose music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style that her first major-label producer likened to has agreed to come aboard the Chieftains' forthcoming shows in Denver and at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre (July 29). Ultravox lead singer Midge midge, name for any of numerous minute, fragile flies in several families. The family Chironomidae consists of about 2,000 species, most of which are widely distributed. The herbivorous larvae are found in all freshwaters; the larvae of some species live in saltwater. Ure also will make special appearances on the final six dates of the tour. Oh, and Ashley's staying on, of course. Feudin' 'n' fussin: Randy Quaid's wife, Evi - who seems determined to find fame as a far-out character - continues to take potshots at her sister-in-law, Meg Ryan. In the issue of W magazine that hits the stands today, she charges that Meg actually was borrowing from Evi's life when she announced last year that she had been abandoned by her mother. She also says, ``It's the whole German doppelganger doppelgänger Psychiatry A delusion that a double of a person or place exists elsewhere; it is related to other defects in recognition and suggests organic disease in the nondominant parietal lobe. See Depersonalization disorder, Schizophrenia. , evil twin thing. I think it's wild the two Quaid boys have married the exact same woman.'' |
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