ROBERTS GETS $12.5 MILLION TO PLAY THE OLDER WOMAN.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith How's this for a twist? Julia Roberts - all wizened wiz·ened adj. Withered; wizen. wizened Adjective shrivelled, wrinkled, or dried up with age Adj. 1. 28 years of her - is playing the older woman in a love triangle A love triangle is a romantic relationship involving three people (known as a triad). While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two. , with sexy Cameron Diaz as her coed competition. That's the scenario of ``My Best Friend's Wedding,'' which has Dermot Mulroney Dermot Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor. Biography Early life Mulroney was born in Alexandria, Virginia to Ellen, a housewife and amateur actress originally from Manchester, Iowa, and Michael Mulroney, a law professor at Villanova (NOT Roberts' one-time love, Dylan McDermott) as the ``best friend.'' Julia ``suddenly realizes he's the love of her life, when he phones and says he's marrying a younger girl. She must win him back,'' reports screenwriter Ron Bass. The feature is a month into production and ``the chemistry between Dermot and Julia is obvious. It's clear they dig each other,'' notes Bass. ``Best Friend's Wedding,'' for which Julia is reportedly getting a queen-size $12.5 million paycheck, has her back ``as we love to see her,'' according to Bass. (That's complete with long, lush brunet hair after her questionable go-round with ginger coloring.) It's good news for Roberts' fans who stayed away in droves from her Jekyll & Hyde flop, ``Mary Reilly.'' ``I understand and applaud Julia for doing different types of stories. It's wonderful she doesn't go with the easy identification, and personally, I love to see her in anything,'' comments the Oscar-winning (``Rain Man'') Bass, whose last collaboration with Roberts was 1991's ``Sleeping With the Enemy.'' ``It's just that this role is very much in her wheelhouse wheel·house n. See pilothouse. wheelhouse Noun an enclosed structure on the bridge of a ship from which it is steered Noun 1. . It's sheer delight to see the dailies.'' In the groove: Bass reports he's had his first meetings with author Terry McMillan - they collaborated on ``Waiting to Exhale'' - to plan the big-screen adaptation of McMillan's ``How Stella Got Her Groove Back.'' ``We both had the same ideas of how to structure the film, which is kind of amazing,'' he says. ``You never know how long it'll take before you can hit a common vision - and we seem to have come in with one.'' Too hot to handle: It's interesting that Showtime has picked up ``Bastard Out of Carolina,'' the film that marks Anjelica Huston's directorial debut. Ted Turner - the man behind the project in which Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a '50s mother whose daughter is abused by her poor white-trash stepfather - reportedly decided it was too raw for his TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. network. The Showtime pickup also comes after a slew of studios turned thumbs-down on distributing the drama, which, we're told, has turned out to be very dark and searing sear 1 v. seared, sear·ing, sears v.tr. 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. . For Leigh, ``Carolina'' turned out to be just her latest offbeat off·beat n. Music An unaccented beat in a measure. adj. Slang Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; unconventional: offbeat humor. role. Another, as the sweetie of a small-time small·time or small-time adj. Informal Insignificant or unimportant; minor: a smalltime actor. small hood in Robert Altman's ``Kansas City,'' will be on view in theaters next month. The inside track: The very hot jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson's second Blue Note CD, ``Reach,'' has been receiving very high praise from jazz critics nationwide. No small feat, considering it was recorded under special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. - in his engineer's living room. ``It was kind of adventurous to record that way,'' notes the Paris-raised pianist. ``I wanted to try something new that would really capture my music. We recorded the whole album with two microphones, and with the engineer in the same room.'' Terrasson is currently on tour overseas and is laying plans to tour the States in the fall. Doing the hustle: Get ready for a passel of hustler pics ... starting this month with MGM's ``Kingpin,'' which has Bill Murray playing a bowling hustler. The upcoming ``Tin Cup'' features Kevin Costner as a golf hustler. ``Yanqui Dollar,'' a thriller starring Maria Conchita Alonso, is the tale of a child street hustler and of a jaded U.S. gangster on the run. Then there's ``Changing Habits,'' in which you'll see Moira Kelly playing a hustler who falls for the art shop owner she's robbed. And if all that isn't enough, there will be ``Rhythm Thief,'' about a hustler peddling bootleg music on the streets of 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 . ... Plus there's talk of the definitive hustler classic, 1961's ``The Hustler,'' being remade re·made v. Past tense and past participle of remake. with a female taking on the Paul Newman role. MEMO: The Celebrities column appears Monday through Friday. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion