CELEBRITIES : WILL SMITH TO BECOME `ENEMY OF THE STATE'.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith It's finally all set for Will Smith to star in Jerry Bruckheimer's ``Enemy of the State.'' The super-hot actor heads to Washington, D.C., in mid-October to star in the $80 million spy thriller for Touchstone Pictures. Asked about reports that Will also will headline ``Apaches'' - the adaptation of the very dark, gritty Lorenzo Carcaterra crime novel - Bruckheimer says, ``We'd love to have Will in `Apaches,' but we aren't negotiating with anyone yet. The script has to be written first.'' On another front, Bruckheimer has signed former ``Melrose Place'' hunk Antonio Sabato Jr. on the line for a series development deal with Disney. Says Jerry, ``We hope this will turn into features. It'll take awhile to develop him into the area of big-screen action stars - but he is certainly enormously talented, and if I do my job well ...'' The industry eye Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks has been talking for a long time about making a screen biography of the late, feared columnist Walter Winchell Walter Winchell (April 7 1897 – February 20, 1972), an American newspaper and radio commentator, invented the gossip column at the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the with Martin Scorsese Noun 1. Martin Scorsese - United States filmmaker (born in 1942) Scorsese directing. Now we can tell you HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy and filmmaker Paul Mazursky are beating them to the punch. The cable network's ``Winchell'' biopic bi·o·pic n. A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes. biopic Noun Informal a film based on the life of a famous person [bio(graphical) + pic(ture)] is in preproduction pre·pro·duc·tion adj. 1. Taking place or existing before production: preproduction planning. 2. . Casting is going on now for actors to portray William Randolph William Randolph (1650 - April 11, 1711) was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and politics of what became the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Warwickshire, England, to Richard Randolph (1627-1671) and Elizabeth Ryland (1625-1670). Hearst, Ed Sullivan, Joseph McCarthy, Franklin D.Roosevelt and Josephine Baker in the saga. A Sept. 1 start date in New England has been set for Neil Jordan's ``In Dreams'' (formerly ``Blue Vision''), starring Annette Bening. We told you a few weeks back that Annette, who gave birth to her and Warren Beatty's third child in January, would be going the dramatic route in the DreamWorks/Universal project. And how! It's a white-knuckle thriller, according to sources familiar with the script. Bening plays a woman haunted by horrific nightmares about a child killer on a rampage in a small New England town The New England town is the basic unit of local government in each of the six New England states. An institution that does not have a direct counterpart in most other U.S. states, New England towns are conceptually similar to civil townships in that they were originally set up so - only to eventually realize that she is somehow mentally tapping into the real thoughts of the killer as he contemplates and commits his crimes. Her own daughter is then missing, and she has to convince others she's not crazy and ... there's an awful lot of acting to do. On the personal side Madonna was locking lips - a lot - the other night at Dan Tana's West Hollywood restaurant with, as a fellow patron puts it, a ``guy in a baseball hat.'' Our source-on-the-scene adds, ``No one had any idea who he was, but, whoever, he and Madonna were very amorous am·o·rous adj. 1. Strongly attracted or disposed to love, especially sexual love. 2. Indicative of love or sexual desire: an amorous glance. 3. - very.'' Ladies' day Promoters in the U.K. and Europe are studying the Lilith Fair tour closely, with the all-female pop/rock songfest song·fest n. A casual gathering for group singing. featuring Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Joan Osborne, Paula Cole, Sheryl Crow and others turning out to be the favorite success story of the summer tour season in the U.S. You can be sure there'll be more all-women tours upcoming. Meanwhile, the driving force behind Lilith, songstress song·stress n. 1. A woman who performs songs, especially ballads or popular songs. 2. A woman who writes songs. See Usage Note at -ess. McLachlan, must find it ironic that only last year she was told ``a woman can't open for a woman'' when she wanted to put Cole on her bill. Sarah bucked that then-industry gospel to remarkable effect. ``What could be next?'' asks an industry wag. ``Women promoters?'' Now there's a boys' club. An offer she couldn't refuse Supermodel Carol Alt has an Aug. 4 start on South African locations of ``About Africa'' - a $40 million European co-production of 12 two-hour miniseries. She confesses she almost turned down the drama, in which she plays a modern day Dr. Quinn, because it necessitated uprooting her life for eight months. ``What really got me involved was the prestige of the project,'' says Alt, who's been seriously pursuing an acting career and recently co-starred in ``Anna Karenina'' and Howard Stern's ``Private Parts private parts n. men or women's genitalia, excluding a woman's breasts, usually referred to in prosecutions for "indecent exposure" or production and/or sale of pornography. .'' ``The scripts I've been getting have sex and violence and things that go against what I'm all about.'' She has been guaranteed ``two weeks off at Christmas and a month off in February. And they've given me a villa with a staff and quite a number of (plane) tickets to bring my husband and anybody else I want to bring down.'' How surprised Hillary would be Ron Reagan Jr. is back at the White House this week - in a way. The former first son is playing - of all things - the main guard at the White House front gate, the guy who decides who gets in and who doesn't, in ``My Date With the President's Daughter.'' The Disney telepic, starring Dabney Coleman, Jay Thomas, ``Boy Meets World'' heartthrob Will Friedle and ``Adventures in Wonderland's'' Elisabeth Harnois, will air this fall. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Will Smith Set for spy thriller (2) Madonna In a kissing mood (3) Annette Bening Nightmarish movie |
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