TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Elizabeth Snead and Joel Stratte-McClure COVERING ALL BASES: Forget the end-of-the-season rivalry between the Dodgers and the Giants. The real baseball record-breaking buzz was at the premiere of ``Mr. 3000'' at the El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Theatre in Hollywood Wednesday. It took Angela Bassett the equivalent of three innings to round the red carpet and find her seat in the theater dugout. That was a full hour after Bernie Mac <noinclude> Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (born October 5, 1957[1]), better known as Bernie Mac, is a two time Emmy Award-nominated American actor and comedian. , the lead-off hitter of the baseball comedy about a 47-year-old ball player making a comeback to swing for his 3,000th hit, ran all the press bases and hit the bench inside the theater. ``It's the longest I've ever spent on a carpet!'' Bassett admitted as she fielded foul questions about how her ``Mr. 3000'' warm-up differed from her Oscar-nominated role in ``What's Love Got to Do With It'' more than 12 seasons ago. Bassett definitely sacrificed herself for the love of the game. But others on deck - including retired baseball greats Jose Canseco, Dave Winfield ``Don't any of these journalists know the difference between a balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. and a 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. ?'' asked someone in a crowd that included Mac's ``Ocean's Eleven'' teammate Elliott Gould and Dwayne ``The Rock'' Johnson. Veterans admitted they might not see another spring training. ``When I listen to the rap music today, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what they're saying, and I don't get it!'' said Sherri Shepherd, whose game is ``Less Than Perfect.'' ``Maybe it's time to retire.'' But younger players are still swinging for the fences. Dayanara Torres Delgado, Marc Anthony's ex, who's not quite 30, is getting back on the field with a utility position on ``The Young and the Restless.'' ``I love acting - I did it before I was married, so I'm definitely going back to it,'' she said during the seventh-inning stretch. And although Mac steals the show, no one rose to bet whether ``Mr. 3000'' would be a box-office home run. WARDROBE!: Movie trivia questions: What's the clue to Johnny Depp's astonishing 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. off-kilter portrayal of the over-the-top swaggering pirate in ``Pirates of the Caribbean''? What's the secret to Tom Hanks' aching portrayal of the trapped-by-fate gangster in ``Road to Perdition''? The answers? A hat and a coat. ``People don't realize how essential costumes are to character and how, so often, the costumes are the way actors discover and develop their characters,'' says the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Ellen Harrington, who helped pull together the new exhibit, ``50 Designers/50 Costumes: Concept to Character.'' ``For Hanks, it was the overcoat,'' Harrington revealed at the exhibit's Thursday-night opening, which was attended by the industry's award-winning costume designers and filmmakers. ``The wardrobe department could not find a coat in period '30s woolen wool·en also wool·len adj. 1. Made or consisting of wool. 2. Of or relating to the production or marketing of woolen goods. n. Fabric or clothing made from wool. Often used in the plural. fabrics to fit Tom. Fabrics in that day were much heavier, denser and stiffer than they are now. Costume designer Albert Wolsky sent a vintage coat to a weaver so they could re-create/weave a coarse authentic fabric for an overcoat to fit Tom. That heavy coat helped give Hanks the proper slump and lumbering gait for his character.'' For Depp, it was simply a matter of the perfect mad hatter Mad Hatter crazy gentleman who co-hosts mad tea party. [Br. Lit.: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] See : Madness . ``Costume designer Penny Rose gave Johnny a wide selection of pirate hats. He went through them carefully and picked out the only one that he felt gave him just the right rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. pirate attitude. Rose had a dozen made up just like it.'' To see (and touch) more fascinating fashions from films such as ``Harry Potter,'' ``Spider-Man,'' ``Terminator 3,'' ``Fight Club,'' ``Gangs 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 ,'' ``Austin Powers,'' ``Legally Blonde 2,'' ``Almost Famous,'' ``101 Dalmatians,'' ``Elf,'' ``Gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. ,'' ``The Matrix,'' ``Cold Mountain'' and ``The Mask of Zorro zorro: see fox. Zorro masked swordsman, defender of weak and oppressed. [Am. Lit.: comic strip (1919); Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 794; TV: Terrace, II, 461–462] See : Disguise ,'' visit the academy at 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. The exhibit (on the first and fourth floors) is free and open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, noon to 6 p.m. weekends through Dec. 5. Be warned: You'll want to cough up $20 for the amazing 125-page catalog with history, character development details, inside actor tidbits TidBITS is an award-winning electronic newsletter and web site dealing primarily with Apple Computer and Macintosh-related topics. Internet publication TidBITS has been published weekly since April 16, 1990, which makes it one of the longest running Internet publications. , color photos and sketches of each costume. It's also available at www.oscars.org. ``Catwoman'' star Halle Berry, strolling down Robertson Boulevard outside a Japanese home decor shop called the Red Door with a verrry handsome man. Star of the new TV show ``Sunset Division'' Jerry O'Connell, cooling his heels at the Genius Bar at the Apple Store in the Grove. He was chatting on his cell phone but with his hand over his mouth so no one could hear the very private conversation. Darn it. A sweaty Jason Biggs, running up dusty trails near the Hollywood sign and waving to the horseback riders who passed him. Was he running off all that ``American Pie''? ``Six Feet Under'' star Freddy Rodriguez, with his wife and two sons, eating at Mel's Diner on Ventura Boulevard. Shawn King, wife of talk-show host Larry King, getting her hair blown out and styled at the Sally Hershberger for John Frieda Salon on Melrose Place. She was talking about how she's eating raisins and nuts in an effort to gain weight without feeling full. That's just not fair, is it? CAPTION(S): 5 photos Photo: (1) BASSETT: Bobbles and baubles. (2) MAC: Can he hit a home run? Steve Granitz/WireImage.com (3) O'CONNELL (4) BIGGS (5) RODRIGUEZ |
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