CELEBRITIES : WITH PALTROW, SANS PITT, `DUETS' FILM TO GO FORWARD.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith It looks like Gwyneth Paltrow will be starting ``Duets'' Sept. 15 after all. Remember, this was the project on which the actress was to team with Brad Pitt, with her father Bruce Paltrow directing. The elder Paltrow pulled the plug on the picture last week, allowing Columbia and Pitt out of their commitments to make the film, in the interests of his daughter and her former fiance. But now we hear he's already managed to set up ``Duets'' at a different studio, with a different actor - ``Frasier's'' David Hyde Pierce David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer. - joining the movie, along with the very hot Ving Rhames. ``Duets,'' by the way, is not a romance. It's been described as a funny-sad ensemble musical road picture set in the world of karaoke bars. Remembering Twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. after his death, Elvis Presley might just be the hottest celebrity this summer, with all the hoopla hoop·la n. Informal 1. a. Boisterous, jovial commotion or excitement. b. Extravagant publicity: The new sedan was introduced to the public with much hoopla. 2. attached to next month's anniversary of his passing. Maybe you've bumped into one of those 5-foot cardboard likenesses of him at your local video store, where they're selling a whole lotta Elvis merchandise. It's heartening heart·en tr.v. heart·ened, heart·en·ing, heart·ens To give strength, courage, or hope to; encourage. See Synonyms at encourage. Adj. 1. to know that beyond the kitsch and caboodle ca·boo·dle n. Informal 1. The lot, group, or bunch: donated the whole caboodle. 2. A crowd or collection of people. , the hard realities of the performer's life are not being forgotten - particularly not by authors Pat H. Broeske and Peter H. Brown, who have the exhaustively researched biography ``Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death of Elvis Presley'' about to come out. The Elvis story has been told and retold re·told v. Past tense and past participle of retell. , but never has the wide gap between the truth and what the public was being fed about ``The King'' been so clearly defined - for instance, how many times announcements that he was suffering from ``exhaustion'' were issued, when he was really in detox de·tox v. To subject to detoxification. n. A section of a hospital or clinic in which patients are detoxified. , again and again (a story so often repeated by later stars). Broeske and Brown interviewed more than 300 ex-girlfriends, colleagues, Hollywood figures and others, including some of the girls who clustered nightly at Presley's Bel Air house during the '60s, when he was playing the clean-cut hero in a series of vapid movies by day - and bad-boy party animal by night. The women told vivid tales of sex shenanigans shenanigans Noun, pl Informal 1. mischief or nonsense 2. trickery or deception [origin unknown] involving the use of two-way mirrors, foot fetishes - and how Elvis' chimpanzee would drink bourbon and then ``attack'' the girls. And, oh yes, after having sex, Elvis liked to talk about the Bible. Another era heard from Historically speaking, Tom Berenger has gone from the Civil War (``Gettysburg'') to the early Mormon church The Mormon Church is a religious body founded in 1830 in Fayette, New York, by Joseph Smith. It is also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or LDS Church. There are 7.7 million Mormons worldwide. (``Avenging Angel'') to the Spanish-American War Spanish-American War, 1898, brief conflict between Spain and the United States arising out of Spanish policies in Cuba. It was, to a large degree, brought about by the efforts of U.S. expansionists. (this month's TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. ``Rough Riders''). So where can he go from here? How about the U.S. war with Mexico? Berenger will be saddling up for a feature called ``One Man's Hero'' in September in Mexico. It's based on the true story of John Riley and the San Patricios - Irish American soldiers who were persecuted, forbidden to attend Catholic mass and imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- by their own commanding officer. They wound up being freed by the enemy during a skirmish, and given a choice: remain in jail or join up with the Mexican army. They chose the latter and wound up heroes in Mexico, where even today, according to this account, they're remembered on St. Patrick's Day. Hear ye Sarah Bettens, of the hot Belgian rock band K's Choice, has been getting lots of attention for her ``I'm Not an Addict'' song - some of it negative. ``When I wrote it, it never really crossed my mind that some people would interpret the song the wrong way,'' she shrugs. ``Addict'' is sung from the vantage point of a substance abuser in denial, and it's not pro-drug. Adds Bettens, ``Over the last couple of years I've realized that the percentage of people who really listen to lyrics and care about what I'm saying is about one in 100. And I've realized there are a lot of people who listen to my music I probably wouldn't get along with,'' she says. K's Choice is currently touring with Verve Pipe and Tonic, the members of which ``are very nice,'' Bettens says. ``We get together at the end of some of the shows and play, like maybe a Beatles song. We're lucky because we didn't really know the group going in, and if we hadn't gotten along, it could have been a disaster tour.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1 and 2) Gwyneth Paltrow and David Hyde Pierce are now slated to star in ``Duets,'' which explores the world of karaoke singing. (3) Tom Berenger stars in the feature ``One Man's Hero.'' |
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