CHEAPER BY THE JUNKET TAKE 4 MOVIE STARS, 1 CLASSIC REMAKE, ADD REPORTERS - AND MAYHEM ENSUES.Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer ``Cheaper by the Dozen.'' Catchy title, no? Maybe you read the book as a child, the true-life story of Ernestine Gilbreth Carey's family of 14: efficiency expert dad, mom and brood of 12. Or perhaps there's a sentimental fondness for the 1950 movie of the same title with Clifton Webb Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer and singer. Biography Early life Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck , Myrna Loy Myrna Loy (August 2 1905 – December 14 1993) was an American motion picture actress. Perhaps her most famous role was as Nora Charles, wife of detective Nick Charles (William Powell), in The Thin Man series. and clan. Now there's a new movie that has zilch to do with Carey's book other than its celebration of all things big and familial. Steve Martin Noun 1. Steve Martin - United States actor and comedian (born in 1945) Martin and Bonnie bon·ny also bon·nie adj. bon·ni·er, bon·ni·est Scots 1. Physically attractive or appealing; pretty. 2. Excellent. Hunt star as ambitious football coach Tom Baker and his author wife, Kate. Tom Welling (``Smallville'') Piper Perabo (``Coyote Ugly'') and Hilary Duff (``The Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire is a Disney Channel Original Series that aired on the Disney Channel from 2001 to 2004. Its target demographic was preteens and adolescents. Movie'') are among the Bakers' dozen. Today being the day after Christmas and the subject being Mom, Pop and an egg carton An egg carton is a container designed for carrying and transporting eggs. These cartons have a dimpled form in which each dimple accommodates an individual egg and isolates that egg from eggs in adjacent dimples. full of offspring, we offer you our rendition of ``The Press Day of 'Cheaper.' '' If you know the tune, feel free to sing along. (We got Martin, Hunt, Welling and Perabo to chime in chime 1 n. 1. An apparatus for striking a bell or set of bells to produce a musical sound. 2. Music A set of tuned bells used as an orchestral instrument. Often used in the plural. 3. ). On the Press Day of ``Cheaper,'' the studio gave to me ... 12 happy actors ... HUNT: ``They say don't work with kids or animals, but let's leave Steve and the director out of this. I love working with the kids because on a daily basis you're reminded of the joy of doing what we do for a living. Through their eyes, life is such an adventure and they're pretending. PERABO: ``When we would be out by the trailer at lunch, it would be like a playground. There was one trailer just with toys for the kids to have things to do when they weren't shooting: hula hoops hula hoops large plastic hoops revolved around body by hip action (1950s). [Am. Hist.: Sann, 145–149] See : Fads , remote control cars, kites. Lot of us would be out there hanging out.'' Mass fear of Punk-ing ... HUNT: ``I have to admit when ('Punk'd' host) Ashton (Kutcher) was on the movie, I'd walk into my trailer and go 'Aha!' waiting for something to happen.'' PERABO: ``By the time we got to the house, the kids were very excited and hoping to get punk'd. So they were on the lookout if anything seemed strange, any passing car.'' WELLING: ``Who wants to get punk'd? I could be getting punk'd right now.'' 19 years between 'em ... MARTIN: (age 58) ``I'm surprised I'm still able to play a father. I'm a little older than an actual father would be. So I'm happy I can still play it.'' HUNT: (age 39) ``(The older male/younger female couple) is the way it is out here, and it's bizarre. We're surrounded by it in Hollywood. You go to a restaurant and I always think it's Bring Your Daughter to Work Day.'' 9 tykes a-playing ... MARTIN: ``Delicious. (The kids are) fun and you get the best of them, too. You're not dealing with their down time as parents have to when they're grumpy grump·y adj. grump·i·er, grump·i·est Surly and peevish; cranky. grump  i·ly adv. or upset. And what can be cuter than an 8- or 9-year-old? If they are cute.'' PERABO: ``They're always hungry. On the set of the house, there are a lot of false doors and back staircases for the lighting guys. Often you're opening a door and you find two little kids eating peanut butter and jelly, which they're not supposed to do because they're in wardrobe and it's already over half their clothes.'' HUNT: ``Steve did kick the kids ... but not very hard.'' Assorted tabloid rumors ... HUNT: ``The young guy who played Mark (Forrest Landis Forrest Landis (born August 9, 1994) is an American child actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles of Mark Baker in Cheaper By The Dozen and Rhett Loud in Flightplan. ), the one with the frog. He and I are dating now, just based on the example of Demi (Moore) and Ashton on the set. It's very sweet. I'll never forget the day Ashton had a lemonade stand
1 Piper piping ... PERABO: ``I keep saying, 'Pair a bow,' like if you look at your shoes or your sneakers sneakers Noun, pl US, Canad, Austral & NZ canvas shoes with rubber soles sneakers npl (US) → zapatos mpl de lona; zapatillas fpl , you see a pair of bows. Even my dad said to me when I first got representation, 'You know I understand if you're going to have to change your name.' He was a poetry professor so he was very attached to words and he said, 'I understand if you have to change it and I really want you to succeed and do what you have to do.' So I went to my manager and said, 'If I have to change my name, that's OK, I understand because it's a little strange.' And she was like, 'Your name is one of the biggest things you have going for you. You don't have a job. Your hair looks like crap, you're keeping the name.' '' 6 raucous siblings ... HUNT: ``This is nothing compared to the chaos that happens in a real big family. I'm one of seven children, and in our house, we cleaned up the house every time the doorbell rang. Everything went into the closet. My father walked in the room, we were well-behaved. When my mother was away, that's when we really had to behave. My family was different in that sense. If we were left alone with my father for a week, it was like boot camp Software from Apple that enables an Intel x86-based Macintosh to host the Windows XP operating system. Boot Camp is used to divide the hard disk into Windows and Mac partitions, to install the necessary drivers and to create a dual boot environment. . I was No. 6, which was my name for the first few years.'' 65 lden Globes ... OK, make that zero, but it fits the song. 1 blond teen franchise ... HUNT: I can't imagine having the poise that (Hilary Duff) has with everything she's doing. I look at this young girl with everything she's done and she is a fine young lady and I think her parents have a lot to do with that. She took the time to speak to every child that came out into the neighborhood that just wanted to meet Lizzie McGuire. She would kneel down and speak to them, and I told her how important it was for the child's experience that she would show that kindness. She just did it naturally. That's who she is. WELLING: The other kids probably knew things about Hilary that she didn't know about herself, and they would kid her, give her a hard time. 'C'mon Hilary, sing! Dance for us! Were you really in that country when you shot that movie or did you do that on a sound stage?' Only kids in the business would know to ask those questions.'' 3 'Smallville' seasons ... WELLING: I've got super hearing, that's a new one this year. But I don't get to fly. Why not? This is the thing: 'Smallville' is about Clark Kent This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. trying to be a normal kid. He's got all these abilities he doesn't know what to do with. I think that once Clark Kent puts on a suit and starts flying around, it's not what we're doing anymore. I think it changes direction of a show. I think by putting on the suit, he's accepting the identity and going out into the world. 2 cutesy cute·sy adj. cute·si·er, cute·si·est Informal Deliberately or affectedly cute; precious: a cutesy boutique for children's fashions. twins ... PERABO: ``The twin 5-year-old boys (Brent and Shane Kinsman kins·man n. 1. A male relative. 2. A man sharing the same racial, cultural, or national background as another. kinsman Noun pl -men ) didn't want to listen. Ever. But if Tom (Welling) was doing something, they really wanted to do it. If Tom was sitting down eating a sandwich, they wanted to sit on Tom, hang on Tom. If someone had to hold them, it could only be Tom.'' HUNT: ``Those two boys would do one take and of course they didn't know what a take was. They were there mimicking what they were told to do. They would do one take and they would be, 'That's it. We have to go now. We want to go play. We want to go play right now. Right now! Got to play now!' '' And a wild and crazy guysub2MARTIN: ``My acting doesn't stray too far - except in 'Looney Tunes' - from my personality.'' HUNT: ``What's unique about Steve? Absolutely nothing. He's pretty average, actually.'' PERABO: ``I was sort of expecting that wokka wokka wokka, arrow through the head guy to come walking in. God, (Martin) was just so ... he's just so calm, so comfortable with himself and so smart.'' WELLING: ``Why did I do this movie? The anecdote that I've been saying is 'Steve Martin, Steve Martin, Steve, 1945–, American comedian, actor, and writer, b. Waco, Tex. An Emmy-winning television comedy writer in the late 1960s, he began performing stand-up in the early 70s, achieving acclaim as a regular on Saturday Night Live in the late 70s. Martin, Steve Martin.' In the package of scripts I got, when they said Steve Martin was in it, that was the one I read first out of that group.'' Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651 evan.henerson(at)dailynews.com Martin takes on Clouseau Talk about some awfully formidable bumbling bum·ble 1 v. bum·bled, bum·bling, bum·bles v.intr. 1. To speak in a faltering manner. 2. To move, act, or proceed clumsily. See Synonyms at blunder. v.tr. shoes to fill. ``I understand they're firing Peter Sellers Noun 1. Peter Sellers - English comic actor (1925-1980) Sellers ,'' says Steve Martin, his wit as dry as bleached sandpaper sandpaper, abrasive originally made by gluing grains of sand to heavy paper sheets. Today sandpaper is made primarily with quartz, aluminum oxide, or silicon carbide grains, and is graded according to the size of the grains. . ``He wasn't doing the publicity.'' Martin claims he turned down the role of ``Pink Panther'' Inspector Jacques Clouseau twice before ``Cheaper by the Dozen'' director Shawn Levy Shawn Adam Levy (born 1967) is a Canadian American director and actor. He was born in Montreal, Quebec. Levy is the director of Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther, and Night at the Museum. came to him to spitball spit·ball n. 1. A piece of paper chewed and shaped into a lump for use as a projectile. 2. Baseball An illegal pitch in which a foreign substance, such as saliva, is applied to the ball before it is thrown. a few ideas. ``He was interested in directing it,'' says Martin, who enjoyed his work with Levy on ``Cheaper.'' ``I said, 'Well, I do have this one idea,' and we passed it around and he said, 'That sounds sort of funny.' So I said, 'Let me play around with the script a little bit.' And I went home and started writing the script without anybody really knowing it. I liked what I came up with, and so here I am.'' Currently titled ``The Birth of the Pink Panther,'' the film - due out in 2005 - is Martin's next project after the film adaptation of his novel ``Shopgirl.'' Many of his ideas for Clouseau remain ``unformed'' says Martin, who was reluctant to give away too many details about the story on which he could get a screenwriting credit. The Internet Movie Database describes ``Birth'' as a ``prequel'' that finds Clouseau trying to solve the murder of a famed soccer coach and determine - what else? - the whereabouts of the missing Pink Panther diamond. ``The question was whether this could be sort of revitalized and updated with another actor,'' says Martin. ``The thing about Peter Sellers is that he was the absolute perfect person for that character he created. So my task is to, within the context of the 'Pink Panther,' create a character that I feel that comfortable in.'' - E.H. CAPTION(S): 5 photos, box Photo: (1 -- cover -- color) Wild & Crazy x 12 = Steve Martin's family in `Cheaper by the Dozen' (2 -- 3) Steve Martin, left, plays a football coach who could field an entire squad with his own family (pictured) in ``Cheaper by the Dozen,'' a remake of the 1950 film. The roster includes Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Bonnie Hunt and Piper Perabo. (4) Steve Martin, right, endures a school conference thanks to twin sons Shane, left, and Brent Kinsman, in ``Cheaper by the Dozen.'' (5) ``He's just so calm, so comfortable with himself and so smart,'' says Piper Perabo, left, of co-star co·star also co-star n. A starring actor or actress given equal status with another or others in a play or film. tr. & intr.v. co·starred, co·star·ring, co·stars To act or present as a costar. Steve Martin, center, with Bonnie Hunt. 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