MOORE'S PASSION FOR FITNESS NO TEASE.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith Sure, everyone knows how spectacular Demi Moore Demi Kutcher (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962) is an American actress. For most of her career, she has been known as Demi Moore, using the surname of her first husband, singer-songwriter Freddy Moore. looks, with all those advance peeks at her ``Striptease'' bump 'n' grind form. Now the troops on her film about a female Navy SEAL are testifying that Demi's hard body is not just for show. ``The two-week training we put the actors through was extreme - very, very close to the actual `hell week' harassment and physical exposure that the SEALs get,'' reports Harry Humphries, the ex-SEAL who's serving as technical consultant on Demi's ``G.I. Jane'' (a title change is expected). The veteran of counter-terrorism missions - who was also enlisted by Hollywood to train extras on the forthcoming Sean Connery-Nicolas Cage ``The Rock'' - wound up ``very impressed'' by Demi. ``She was so driven,'' he says. He also says, ``She didn't want any special recognition. She did everything that everyone else did, and did it well.'' But her performance in training is just one factor in Demi's ``G.I. Jane'' popularity. She has also thrown parties as production has proceeded. There was a beer and pizza fest for cast and extras. Another time, she threw a sit-down breakfast for 100 members of the company, ``catered by one of the finest hotels in town'' (Richmond, Va.), says Humphries. The celebrity circuit: 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 ; her fiance, musical conductor Robert Martin; and her 8-year-old daughter, Ariel; have returned from London, where the actress wowed 'em during a five-night singing engagement at the Green Room of the Cafe Royale. She and Robert do one number together in her act, incidentally, and it's a real crowd pleaser. Cybill will soon be starting the TV movie ``Journey of the Heart.'' And when will she start planning her wedding? It seems she's in no hurry to do that. She enjoys being engaged, but when the the subject of a wedding date comes along she makes it sound like holding off the hitchin' until the year 2015 or so would be just fine with her. The big-screen scenes: Sandra Bullock and Chris O'Donnell are settling down in Italy for shooting of ``Love and War'' - based on the diary and love letters of Agnes Von Kurowsky Agnes von Kurowsky Stanfield (b. January 5 1892, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - d. September 25 1984), an American nurse, was reportedly the basis for the character of "Catherine Barkley" in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. , the Red Cross nurse with whom a 20-year-old virginal virginal, musical instrument: see spinet. virginal or virginals Small rectangular harpsichord with a single set of strings and a single manual. The derivation of its name is uncertain. Ernest Hemingway fell in love. The movie, which will also include locations in England, doesn't wrap until August, but director Richard Attenborough is expected to give Sandra leave to attend press sessions in 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 the third week in June for her picture, ``A Time to Kill.'' From the inside looking out: Richard Chamberlain is expected to return to the small screen as the star of a mini-series based on the Michael Palmer medical thriller, ``Silent Treatment.'' It's been 35 years since Chamberlain emerged as a star of the small screen - in the medical series ``Dr. Kildare.'' A devil of a time: ``NYPD NYPD New York City Police Department (since 1845; New York City, NY, USA) NYPD New York Play Development Blue's'' Sharon Lawrence, recently fraught with trouble in her series role - what with video spouse Dennis Franz's Detective Sipowicz falling off the wagon - is in for more problems. In the TV movie ``The Haunting of Sharon Johnson,'' which starts shooting June 20, she plays a woman who suffers a nervous breakdown nervous breakdown n. A severe or incapacitating emotional disorder, especially when occurring suddenly and marked by depression. nervous breakdown after having a stillborn stillborn /still·born/ (-born) born dead. still·born adj. Dead at birth. stillborn, n an infant who is born dead. stillborn born dead. child. And that's not all. Her husband is ready to have her committed after she keeps reporting peculiar occurrences around the house - until he, too, finally realizes something paranormal paranormal, adj 1. outside the realm of normal experience or scientific explanation. n 2. collective term for anomalous phenomena. is going on. Hope Sharon is having a nice life off camera. Getting on track: 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. Oleta Adams has just begun rehearsals for her first U.S. headlining tour beginning July 17 at Seattle's King's Theatre. Popular Jazz guitarist Norman Brown will be her opening act on the 22-city tour. Adams' latest ``Moving On'' CD has already produced two hit singles for the former lounge singer who was discovered by former Tears for Fears Tears for Fears are an English pop band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, which emerged after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate. member Roland Orzabel. One-on-one: Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Dennis Rodman and Grant Hill are just a few of the sports superstars going one-on-one - in interviews - with host Byron Allen in ``The American Athlete.'' The hour-long special is scheduled to air in syndication June 3-July 7 nationwide. MEMO: The Celebrities column appears Monday through Friday. |
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