Celeb News Aggregate
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This year's Democratic National Convention (DNC) is becoming a haven for Hollywood A-listers: Ben Affleck, Quentin Tarantino and Spike Lee have reportedly booked their appearances at the event.
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Jessica Biel has stepped into troubled Lindsay Lohan's shoes on the set of period movie A Woman of No Importance after the 20 year-old quit the production citing her need to take a break.
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Lindsay Lohan has pulled out of a new movie she was scheduled to shoot with Annette Bening, so she can take some time to relax after her current rehab stint.
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Former lovers Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are reuniting on the big screen for a feature film about former President Richard Nixon.
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Talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey is poised to take over the world of radio after launching her own satellite radio channel this morning.
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Jamie Foxx Robin Williams Denis Leary Mariska Hargitay Halle Berry Mick Jagger Clint Eastwood Emily Watson Emmy Rossum Geoffrey Rush Natasha Richardson Kevin Spacey Johnny Depp Mike Nichols Natalie Portman Annette Bening give quotes at the 62nd Annual Golden Globes
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The video of the tiger attacking Roy Horn won't be released, comedian Rodney Dangerfield is hospitalized, Dave Matthews Band sued for dumping human waste, more…
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Actor John Stamos, whose five-year marriage to actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos ended in April, told the syndicated TV entertainment show Access Hollywood in excerpts released Monday the breakup has been difficult for the both of them. Also in the news: Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Paris Hilton, Jay-Z, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lindsay Lohan, Being Julia, Al Sharpton and Nielsen primetime ratings for June 21-27.
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Freddy vs. Jason wins the top spot in this weekend's box office race. Others as follows: S.W.A.T. Open Range Freaky Friday Uptown Girls Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl American Wedding Seabiscuit Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Bad Boys II Grind American Splendor
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The legendary Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward have recruited an all-star cast-including Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, Danny DeVito, Morgan Freeman, Brian Dennehy, Edward James Olmos and more-to join them in a staged reading of 'The World of Nick Adams' on Monday, November 4, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
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On the heels of the Toronto and Venice film festivals comes the 46th annual London Film Festival, which runs Nov. 6 through Nov. 21. Also: Rosie O'Donnell Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Steven Soderbergh Ocean's 11 sequel Freaky Friday Annette Bening Mark S Waters Robert L Ripley Ripley's Believe It or NotMarilyn Manson James Brown
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News roundup for Sept. 12 - Nick Nolte arrested for driving while under the influence. Other celebrities include Roger Ebert Kim Stanley McG Kelly Osbourne Roger Corman Joel Silver Russell Crowe
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Kelly Osbourne is in negotiations to co-star in Disney remake Freaky Friday
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News Roundup for May 22 - NBC wins the top spot for the 2001-02 season. Other celebrities Jerry Lewis Jenny McCarthy Will Ferrell Annette Bening Michael Jackson Ice Cube Jerry Bruckheimer
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts hands out their top honors to Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly from A Beautiful Mind Judi Dench from Iris and Jim Broadbent from Moulin Rouge
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Jessica Alba Annette Bening Michael Caine Hugh Jackman and Damon Wayons have been added to the list of presenters for the 59th Golden Globe Awards
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 10, 2000 -- It's official: The whole world loves stories about lecherous, unpleasant people! "American Beauty" Yes, "American Beauty" picked up where it left off at last month's Oscars, taking a field-best six awards at the British equivalent of the Academy Awards (officially known as the British Academy Film Awards). Kevin Spacey repeated as best actor with leading lady Annette Bening avenging her Oscar loss with a best actress win. The film was also named best picture at Sunday's ceremony.
The only major "Beauty" player to be denied another chance to issue really sincere thank-yous was Oscar-approved director Sam Mendes, who lost out to Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar for "All About My Mother."
British stars Jude Law ("The Talented Mr. Ripley") and Maggie Smith ("Tea with Mussolini") were honored in the supporting-acting categories on
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Acting ability aside, you have to admire Madonna's tenacity when it comes to putting herself time and again in front of the lens, raw and intrepid -- as if she's never heard of seriously bad flicks such as "Body of Evidence," "Who's That Girl" and "Shanghai Express." The list goes on and on.
"Next Best Thing" So this Friday finds the M One going at it all over again with "The Next Best Thing" (opening nationwide). In her continual quest to prove that she's a legit screen actress, Madonna tackles the role of a straight woman who forms an alternative household with her gay pal (played by her real-life gay pal Rupert Everett) and their son, whom they conceived on a night of drunken stupor.
The idea of a gay man living with a straight woman living with their kid may have been intriguing (or even provocative) a couple years back. But
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NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 22, 2000 -- Who needs rehearsals? Apparently not Diane Keaton, director and star of "Hanging Up."
In the comedy hit, Keaton, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow play three ambitious sisters who are drawn closer together when their womanizing screenwriter father (Walter Matthau) becomes hospitalized. The spunky on-screen spontaneity suggests Keaton's loose-leash approach.
Indeed, according to Bill Robinson, the film's producer and Keaton's longtime partner in her Blue Relief production company: "Diane doesn't believe in a formal rehearsal process. She feels that you can kill whatever spontaneity and freshness the actors bring to the role if you keep putting them through their paces. The rehearsal process for her was having a read-through or going out to dinner and talking about the character."
Compare that rehearsal-lite approach with that adopted by the
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 21, 1999 — A day after the Golden Globe nominations, the race continued to widen as the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced its picks for the best of the year. Most of them anyway.
While the group named its picks for the Top 10 movies of 1999, it won't reveal the No. 1 film until its awards luncheon Jan. 24 in Beverly Hills. Competing for the title of best film (in alphabetical order): "American Beauty," "Being John Malkovich," "The Cider House Rules," "The Green Mile," "The Insider," "Magnolia," "Man on the Moon," "The Sixth Sense," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Three Kings."
All but "The Cider House Rules," "The Green Mile," "The Sixth Sense" and "Three Kings" were nominated for best film (either as a drama or comedy) by Golden Globe voters.
In the other categories, meanwhile, the broadcast critics were more forthcoming with
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 24, 2000 -- Well, they did it. The newspaper folks who threatened to scoop the Oscars have scooped the Oscars. Or have they?
"American Beauty" Today's Wall Street Journal published the results of an "informal" survey of Academy voters -- a survey that purports to show that most Hollywood insiders are leaning toward "American Beauty" as Best Picture.
Did we really need the Journal to tell us that? Maybe not. But some of the other results of the article were surprising. Like the item about how many voters think Annette Bening is going to win Best Actress for "American Beauty," but they say they're going to vote for Hilary Swank from "Boys Don't Cry."
The poll has the Best Actor race as a tossup between Kevin Spacey ("American Beauty") and Denzel Washington ("The Hurricane").
The supporting acting categories are said to be no
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 10, 2000 -- The ambulance that stood by for Annette Bening at the Oscars can go home. She's done. The "American Beauty" star, who was very much with child when she attended the March 26 ceremony, has given birth to child No. 4, the publicist for husband Warren Beatty announced today.
Details were beyond sketchy -- no word on when, where and how (although we can pretty much figure that one out on our own). Also no word on a name. All we know is that it was a girl.
Bening, 41, and Beatty, 62, have three other children -- daughter Kathlyn, born in 1992, son Benjamin, born in 1994 and daughter Isabel, born in 1997.
While Bening braved the Oscar ceremony (only to watch herself lose the Best Actress trophy to Hilary Swank), she was an in-abstentia winner at Sunday's British Academy Film Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Academy Awards.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 23, 2000 -- Never mind the exposed flesh, revealed cleavages and hanging buttocks -- the most scrutinized body part at this year's Oscars is going to be the precariously bulging (and well-covered) belly of Annette Bening. Annette Bening Yes, the Best Actress nominee is very, very pregnant. And, yes, she is going to Sunday's awards.
"[Bening] will attend the Oscar ceremony," a rep at Bening's publicist office tells Hollywood.com.
And even though Mrs. Warren Beatty has done the whole birth thing before (three times, actually), we inquired if the "American Beauty" and her hubby were taking any special medical precautions to gear up for Sunday's whiteknuckler.
"Not really," another worker at the office says. "[Bening] is due in early April. They're just carrying on about their business day by day."
Of course, a quick look at t
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LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2000 -- It wasn't exactly like the nosy newspaper said it was going to be, but as expected, "American Beauty" was the big winner, nabbing a field-best five Oscars, including Best Picture, at tonight's 72nd Annual Academy Awards.
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"Beauty" star Kevin Spacey was named Best Actor. The relatively no-name Hilary Swank ("Boys Don't Cry") bested Spacey's big-name co-star Annette Bening in the Best Actress race. The Wall Street Journal may have spoiled some of the surprises (including the Swank victory) with its controversial scoop-the-Oscars story Friday, but nobody here seemed to care.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was looking at the night's scorecard and realizing that, after "American Beauty" (which also claimed wins for Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Original Screenplay), the other big film was "The
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards" easily held on to first place despite tracking studies that had projected Dimension Films' opening of "Reindeer Games" would be the weekend's big winner.
"Reindeer Games " Although the tracking data had pointed to an opening of $10 million to $12 million for "Reindeer," no film managed to crack double digits last weekend. "Reindeer" wound up an embarrassed No. 3 for the weekend with a red face and nose. The weekend's only other wide opening, Paramount's "Wonder Boys," lived up to tracking expectations, finishing out of the Top Five, in seventh place, with a grim estimated $5.85 million.
The best-performing film of the bunch continued to be "Yards," Morgan Creek and Franchise Pictures' R-rated comedy. "Yards" continued laughing atop the chart in its second weekend with an estimated $9.61 million
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 1, 2000 -- "American Beauty," the dark existential comedy set in Anywhere, Suburbia, led the pack as nominations were announced today for the 6th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring performances in both film and TV acting.
The film picked up four nominations, including a best actor nod for Kevin Spacey, a best actress one for Annette Bening and a best supporting actor one for Chris Cooper. The "Beauty" cast also was singled out for an ensemble acting nomination.
Trailing "American Beauty" in the movie division with a total of three nods is Spike Jonze's head-scratching absurdist offering "Being John Malkovich". That flick also earned a best ensemble acting nomination, as well as best supporting actress nods for Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener.
Along with "American Beauty" and "Being John Malkovich," Paul Thomas Anderson's spra
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 25, 2000 -- Call it an act of justice or just plain old good taste.
"Election" finally got the kind of props it deserved.
After getting all but snubbed by Oscar voters, the critically acclaimed high school satire, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, was vindicated at today's IFP/West's 15th Annual Independent Spirit Awards, taking a field-best three mentions for best indie feature, best screenplay and best director.
The indie-minded types, who gathered here in a tent for the afternoon beachfront ceremony, also assured Oscar nominees Hilary Swank, Charlie Kaufman, Richard Farnsworth and Chloë Sevginy of glory -- regardless of whether Academy voters deign them worthy of gold statuettes Sunday.
Swank, who faces the daunting task of trying to defeat Mrs. Warren Beatty (aka Annette Bening) in the Oscar race, was tapped
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2000 -- Filmmaker Roger Vadim, best known for discovering Brigitte Bardot and keeping company with the likes of Jane Fonda and Catherine Deneuve, died today of cancer. He was 72.
The Paris-born Vadim was married to the then-teenage Bardot when he made his directorial debut in 1956 with "And God Created Woman." The film launched Bardot's career as a sex symbol and stirred much talk for its outrageous (at the time) unveiling of her skin. In the short run, "And God ..." was banned in several countries. In the long run, it helped launch France's New Wave film movement of the 1950s.
In 1965, Vadim wed a 27-year-old, pre-controversial Jane Fonda (his third wife). Two years later, the couple teamed to reveal Fonda's own assets on screen with the Vadim-directed sci-fi cult hit "Barbarella". The couple had one daughter, Vanessa, before splitt
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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 25, 2000 -- Never underestimate the seriousness of a dumbbell injury.
According to Reuters, the arm injury sustained by Anna Nicole Smith two weeks ago from a slipped barbell could force a mistrial in the 32-year-old blonde bombshell's fortune-seeking lawsuit for a piece of her late husband J. Howard Marshall's estate.
Doctors from both sides in the case examined Smith on Tuesday and will testify today in a hearing to determine if the trail, now in its fourth week, should go forward or be reset for a later date.
Smith had been out of court to better nurse her ailing arm in a local hospital. According to the report, Smith's attorney is asking the presiding judge to consider a mistrial because of his client's prolonged absence.
If a mistrial is granted, a new trial with a new jury would be set.
FRANKIE, ANNETTE & MACY'S: The Associate
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Annette Bening, Warren Beatty SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 26, 2000 - Ella Corinne. According to the Washington Post, that's the moniker Warren Beatty and Annette Bening have settled on for their newborn daughter, born earlier this month. The couple was tight-lipped about the child -- their fourth -- declining to give details as to where, when or how.
They did not (natch) divulge their baby-name pick. And they have not (natch) confirmed that Ella is it.
It sounds nice, though. At least the Travoltas think so. John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston named their new babe, born April 4, Ella, too.
GOODBYE, "DOLLY": The Broadway producer who empirically "presented" such Great White Way musicals such as "Hello, Dolly!," "42nd Street," "Oliver!" and dozens of others died Tuesday in London. David Merrick was 88.
BUDDY, BUDDY: Actor Walter Matthau, 79, and his
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 1, 2000 -- Remember "Gorilla World," the would-be UPN series conceived by "Spawn" architect Todd McFarlane? The one that sounded suspiciously like a certain film predecessor called "Planets of the Apes"?
Well, apparently the folks at 20th Century Fox (the studio that owns the right to the "Apes" franchise) also noticed the marked similarity between the two projects. And they are not buying any of that homage crap.
Today's Daily Variety says UPN has scrapped the project after Fox's legal wing fired off a letter. For its part, UPN insists that the series' cancellation had nothing whatsoever to do with Fox's legal meddling.
McFarlane, on the other hand, is not as silent in the matter. In a "they-should-talk" rebuttal to the trade paper, McFarlane cited Fox's television division's "Millionaire" rip-off "Greed" as an example of rampant plagiari
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 29, 2000 -- It's true Celine Dion took an extended break at the end of 1999, in part, to start a family, but for crying out loud, she's not there yet.
Celine Dion That's why the pop chanteuse is suing the National Enquirer for $20 million over a report saying she was pregnant with twins. The tabloid reported the "pregnancy" in its Feb. 1 issue, with a picture of Dion under the headline "Celine - I'm Pregnant With Twins."
"This thing has really upset me," said Dion in a statement read by her lawyer as the suit was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. "Since that story came out, everyone has been congratulating me and I have to keep telling them that it's not true. I only wish it was true and I hope and pray that some day it will be."
Added her attorney Martin Singer: "Not only is the news false, but the weekly gave the impression
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2000 -- Where were you at 5:30 a.m. PST on Tuesday? If you're an Academy Award nominee, you were hounded by media anxious to get a first-hand reaction.
Michael Clarke Duncan and Haley Joel Osment had camera crews sitting with them to watch the nominations. While the 11-year-old "Sixth Sense" star, the third youngest Best Supporting Actor nominee ever, gave his gentlemanly "it's an honor to be nominated" sound bite, "The Green Mile's" Duncan, 42, whooped, hollered and sobbed in one breath, so excited that he couldn't remember his mother's phone number and had to get his Rolodex.
"Yesss! I am in there!" the 6-foot-5, 325-pound Duncan yelled.
Other nominees were just as excited for their collaborators. Best Actor nominee Russell Crowe was first to call his "The Insider" director Michael Mann, congratulating him on his three nominations
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2000 -- Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston can relax; they are now surpassed in the couples rumor mill by the betrothed Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. So we're here to quash some buzzings and entertain you with others.
The latest rumor is that Zeta-Jones wants to take Douglas' name after they wed, according to the New York Daily News. Does this make her Catherine Douglas or Catherine Zeta-Douglas? We're not sure. But while we find out, we can tell you that she's not converting to Judaism, according to Douglas.
"I have had no formal religious training myself, and there has never been any debate with Catherine about it. Religion has not entered into the equation. Our child will be raised the same way I was," Douglas, 55, told London's Mirror.
He also admits that he misplaced her engagement ring before he proposed New Year's Eve.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 10, 2000 -- Robert De Niro is bleepin' funny.
At least according to comedy performers, who picked Mr. "GoodFellas" as a nominee for the 14th Annual American Comedy Awards, to be presented Feb. 6 in Los Angeles.
De Niro is up for funniest lead actor in a film for his turn as a crying mob boss in "Analyze This." He's up against Jim Carrey ("Man on the Moon"), Mike Myers ("Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me") and Kevin Spacey ("American Beauty").
"Analyze This" is also nominated for funniest motion picture, along with the supposedly side-splitting "American Beauty" and the decidedly off-beat "Being John Malkovich."
Lisa Kudrow picked up a funniest supporting-actress nomination for "Analyze This." The "Friends" star will compete against Joan Cusack ("Runaway Bride") and Cameron Diaz ("Being John Malkovich.")
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 4, 2000 -- The most handsome candidate for the U.S. presidency has officially dropped out of the race.
"I'm not running now," actor Warren Beatty says in the new Vanity Fair, effectively ending the is-he-or-isn't-he? game surrounding his possible candidacy.
The celeb's spouse, meanwhile, potential Oscar nominee Annette Bening is also getting out the race -- the Hollywood rat race, that is. The "American Beauty" star -- pregnant with her fourth child by Beatty -- tells More magazine that she plans to take at least 18 months off from acting. She says the decision made her feel "kind of liberated."
No word if Beatty feels the same about his nonpresidential run. Even though he was never really in the race, Beatty created a stir late last summer when he hinted to The New York Times that he may be ready for a new (presidential) role.
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The awards season has officially kicked off, and "American Beauty" has its first trophy on the mantle.
The dark satire was named Best Film of the year Dec. 8 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Directed by first-timer Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening, "Beauty" was released in September to widespread acclaim and solid box office.
Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director of "The English Patient," was named Best Director for "The Talented Mr. Ripley," starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow, which was reportedly shown to the board in an unfinished print.
Best Actor honors went to Russell Crowe for his portrayal of tobacco industry whistle-blower Dr. Jeffrey Wigand in "The Insider," co-starring Al Pacino, and British actress Janet McTeer was named Best Actress for the mother-daughter film "Tumbleweeds."
After "Americ
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 7, 2000 -- At long last, an awards show that's dedicated solely to the people who are truly indispensable to Hollywood: makeup artists and hairstylists.
Yes, you heard right -- one entire awards ceremony, with all the necessary trimmings and accoutrements, has sprung up to give special notice to industry makeup artists and hairstylists ... and no one else. (Don't worry, plastic surgeons of America, you'll probably get your nods soon enough).
Nominations for the 1st Annual Hollywood Makeup Artists and Hair Stylist Guild Awards, honoring outstanding makeup and hair achievements in film and TV, were announced today. The nominees in the 17 categories were chosen by 1,100 active members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 706. Guild members will vote for the winners. Balloting begins Tuesday, with awards
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Annette Bening SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 26, 2000 -- Ding, ding, ding went Annette? Annette Bening might follow up her self-absorbed "American Beauty" housewife by playing an even more self-absorbed, complex and pathos-ridden woman.
Word comes today, via Variety's Army Archerd, that Bening is the No. 1 candidate to play Judy Garland in "Rainbow's End," a biopic in development at Fox Searchlight.
The movie, to be based on a new book by another Variety scribe, will be no "Wizard of Oz." It's about Garland's over-the-hill days in the early 1960s, when she hosted "The Judy Garland Show," a weekly primetime series. The movie will be executive produced by (get this) Oliver Stone and Garland's ex, Sid Luft.
One question, though: Who's gonna play Liza?
DON'T DO IT! How do you follow up an Oscar for Best Actor? You make an Inspector Clouseau movie, dummy.