TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.KATE'S NEW MATE: British beauty Kate Beckinsale, star of the stylishly sexy new gothic horror flick ``Underworld,'' has a little tangled web tale of her own. It seems Beckinsale dumped her longtime love, Welsh actor Michael Sheen (and father of their daughter, Lily, age 4), in March. Then the ``Cold Comfort Farm'' star got engaged in June to Len Wiseman, who directed the former couple in ``Underworld,'' the film he also wrote. But the ``Pearl Harbor'' pretty didn't look one bit guilty at the premiere Tuesday night in Hollywood as she and Wiseman paraded down the Mann Chinese Theatre red carpet, locking lips for the lensmen. Big surprise, Sheen was a total no-show. Can you blame him? Called on the carpet: Beckinsale's sexy co-star Scott Speedman (``Felicity'') and Irish hottie Shane Brolly. Beckinsale plays an elegant vampire warrior engaged in a tribal war between the vampire race and werewolf forces. Her main goal is to kill all werewolves, but she ends up falling in love with one (Speedman). Still, she manages to look quite the hot female action hero in a skin-tight black leather cat suit cinched at the waist with, gulp, a corset corset, article of dress designed to support or modify the figure. Greek and Roman women sometimes wrapped broad bands about the body. In the Middle Ages a short, close-fitting, laced outer bodice or waist was worn. By the 16th cent. . ``Wearing the suit could be so brutal because we were filming in Budapest and they go from insanely hot summers to fierce winters overnight,'' said Beckinsale, pouting prettily. ``It took me forever to peel the suit off and no one would offer me any water for fear I might have to go to the toilet.'' And you thought actors were pampered pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. pets. A TYPICAL NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD: The circus is definitely back in Tinseltown. And the internationally renowned Cirque du Soleil's latest production, ``Varekai,'' drew more stars opening night than a Bruckheimer blockbuster premiere. Eager for Cirque founder Guy Laliberte's mix of world culture, art and acrobatics: Jim Carrey, Samuel L. Jackson “Samuel Jackson” redirects here. For the senator from Indiana, see Samuel D. Jackson. Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor. , director Renny Harlin, a bespectacled Megan Mullally (``Will & Grace''), Carrie Fisher, Tori Spelling, Selma Blair, Sly Stallone and wife Jennifer Flavin, James Lipton (``Inside the Actors Studio''), Nastassja Kinski and her daughter, Forest Whitaker and his brood, Robert Wagner with the ageless Jill St. John, Darryl Hannah (in a cargo mini and silk cami), Alec Baldwin with a sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. young brunette, and ``Gilmore Girl'' Lauren Graham with Hollywood's nicest manager, Scott Fedrow. The stars gathered before the show in the Tapis Rouge tent for bubbly, Mideastern noshes and warm-up weirdness from fine-feathered bird-girls. One fluffy big-beaked chick cornered Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. (``Doogie Howser, M.D.'') and startled star·tle v. star·tled, star·tling, star·tles v.tr. 1. To cause to make a quick involuntary movement or start. 2. To alarm, frighten, or surprise suddenly. See Synonyms at frighten. him with a quick peck. During the show, famed music producer Quincy Jones led the applause and standing ovations for the astonishingly a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. agile acrobats, aerialists, clowns, contortionists and human jugglers who catapult and catch each other with their feet. Afterward, everyone hoofed it to the Hotel Figueroa, the Moorish-decor downtown hotel; its outdoor pool, gardens (and parking lot) were transformed into a colorful psychedelic Moroccan market. The surreal scene felt just like ``Varekai'' with wiggling belly dancers, snarling sword-fighters, whirling-dervish dancers, exotic soothsayers, turbaned fortune tellers, crawling beggars, smokin' fire-eaters, half-naked mythical creatures and ghostly apparitions gyrating to pounding drums, tingling tambourines and Pan-like flutes. ``I want some of those bouncy stilts This article is about the poles. For the type of bird, see stilt. For other uses, see Stilts (disambiguation). Stilts are poles, posts or pillars used to allow a person or structure to stand at a certain distance above the ground. ! Man, those are cool!'' Carrey exclaimed, watching a 10-foot-tall Priapus Priapus (prīā`pəs), in Greek religion, fertility god of gardens and herds; son of Aphrodite and Dionysus. He was represented as a grotesque little man with an enormous phallus. Priapus was important in fertility rites. , the mythical god of procreation PROCREATION. The generation of children; it is an act authorized by the law of nature: one of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children. Inst. tit. 2, in pr. , teetering above him, wearing only a leather thong and ram's horns sprouting from his forehead, chasing a squealing, thinly veiled sorceress. Hey, maybe the Cirque has an opening for a rubber-faced comedian. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) WISEMAN, BECKINSALE: Kiss him, Kate. Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com (2) CARREY: Stilted behavior. Steve Granitz/WireImage.com |
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