TINSELTOWN SPYWITNESS.Byline: Elizabeth Snead READY, AIM, PUTT: Director Bill Paxton was overwhelmed with hugs and handshakes at the premiere party for his new film, ``The Greatest Game Ever Played,'' the inspiring, edge-of-your-seat true tale of a 20-year-old upstart (and his 10-year-old caddy A plastic container that holds a CD or DVD disc for added protection. The bare disc is placed in the caddy, and the caddy is inserted into the drive. A caddy is not a jewel case. A jewel case protects the disc for transportation. A caddy protects the disc while reading and writing. ) who beat Britain's champ to win the 1913 U.S. Open. ``Game'' is no pastoral period piece. Think ``Seabiscuit'' meets ``Wyatt Earp.'' Paxton, who stood near Tiger Woods during the 2004 L.A. Open, says, ``I looked in some of the top players eyes, and I realized these guys are gunfighters. It's kill or be killed.'' Added producer Larry Brezner, ``We knew Bill was our man when he said, 'I'm not making a golf film. I'm making ``Shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. at the O.K. Corral.'' ' '' ``Game'' is based on Mark Frost's book of the same title. Frost got the book idea watching Justin Leonard sink his winning Ryder Cup putt at the Brookline Country Club in '99. ``The announcer said, 'That's the same green where Francis Ouimet, a kid literally from the wrong side of the street, won the U.S. Open. His house is still right across the street.' And I realized Francis could see that green from his window. As a storyteller, a light went off.'' ``Game'' may enlighten younger audiences. Shia LaBeouf, who plays Ouimet, used to think golf was lame. ``Then I took golf lessons for six months, seven hours a day, seven days a week, trained with the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX golf team, did yoga, Pilates, stretching, back exercises, lost 10 pounds and learned about mental discipline.'' The Hollywood Highlands Annex bash, decorated like a 1900 small town (complete with a driving range), was no place to be on a diet. Guests chowed down on Boston brown bread Noun 1. Boston brown bread - dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water brown bread bread, breadstuff, staff of life - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and and New England clam chowder New England clam chowder n. A thick soup made with clams, onions, salt pork, potatoes, and milk. Noun 1. New England clam chowder - a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk . SPIRIT OF LIFE: Melissa Etheridge can't figure out what all the fuss is about. ``It feels strange to be getting an award just for being myself,'' the singer confessed at Ford's 2005 Get Tied to the Cause Breast Cancer Awareness luncheon at the Hotel Bel-Air. Yeah, right. She was just being herself at the recent Grammy Awards when she bravely took the stage, totally bald, to belt out a Janis Joplin tune with Joss Stone. Her baldness was due to chemotherapy for the cancer she was diagnosed with a year ago to the day of the luncheon. And that honest bravery is what earned her the Linda Mancuso Spirit of Life Award, given to her Monday by ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson's wife, Jennifer LaCorte McPherson. Steve, credited with reviving ABC's programming, was to present the award. But for undisclosed reasons, he was admitted to the hospital over the weekend and was still there Monday, according to his wife. ``It's ironic,'' Etheridge told the lovely lunch bunch, nibbling nibbling Nutrition The consumption of multiple–up to 17–'mini-meals' per day, as opposed to the usual 3 meals/day. Cf Bingeing, Gorging. on creme brulee desserts. ``I came to Hollywood, a young girl from Kansas with dreams of becoming a big rock star, and I've found out that being true to myself and being honest is the most important thing in life.'' Also at the lunch: Melissa's significant other, Tammy Lynn Michaels Tammy Lynn Michaels (born Tammy Lynn Doring November 26, 1974, in Lafayette, Indiana), also known by the surname Etheridge after exchanging vows with Melissa Etheridge,[1] is an American actress. , along with Lisa Kudrow, Jessica Capshaw and Decades owner Cameron Silver, whose vintage designer duds were auctioned off for the cause. ``Access Hollywood's'' Billy Bush was so good at auctioning that he sold an on-set lunch with ``Desperate Housewives'' hunks hunks pl.n. (used with a sing. verb) A disagreeable and often miserly person. [Origin unknown.] James Denton and Ricardo Chavira to Cristan Reilly, the wife of NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. Entertainment president Kevin Reilly, for $7,000. Somebody alert ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. security that an NBC spy is on her way. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) LaBEOUF, left, and BREZNER: They've got 'Game' Kevin Winter/Getty Images (2) ETHERIDGE: The whole truth. Getty Images |
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