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Forget about ‘N Sync boy Lance Bass going into space–let’s send supermodel Cindy Crawford! She confessed Thursday at a jewelry show in Moscow that she’d be interested in taking a space trip on a Russian spaceship, The Associated Press reports. But she’d have to be back in a week to take care of her two young children.
Celebs
U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie joined Secretary of State Colin Powell at a celebration of World Refugee Day on Thursday in Washington, D.C. AP reports Powell quipped, “Ms. Jolie is the only ambassador I deal with who has her own fan club.” The event paid tribute to the women and children who make up most of the world’s 22 million refugees. Jolie has been tirelessly visiting refugee camps in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador.
Newlyweds Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards exchanged more than just rings. In People‘s latest cover story, Richards, 31, told the magazine that Sheen, 36, had her name tattooed on his left wrist. “I love that!” said Richards, who now plans to tattoo his name on her ankle. “I’ve never had anyone tattoo anything for me!”
Movies
The hardest-working performer in the business is at it again. Jackie Chan will star in a remake of the Jules Verne classic Around the World in 80 Days. The original 1956 movie starring David Niven followed the adventures of inventor Phileas Fogg and his hapless companion Passepartout around the globe on a bet they could do it in 80 days. In the remake, the focus will be on Passepartout (Chan) who guides and defends Fogg on the journey (emphasis on defends, we’re sure).
Oscar-winning Halle Berry is in negotiations to star in Need, a psychological thriller in which she would play a psychiatrist who victimizes a suicidal female patient after she discovers the young woman is having an affair with her husband. Berry as a bad girl–interesting.
Tube News
At last! TBS is producing a biopic on John F. Kennedy Jr., the handsome and famous son of the late president whose own fairy-tale life ended in tragedy. America’s Prince: The JFK Jr. Story will focus on the women in his life–his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (played by Jacqueline Bisset), and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (played by Ally McBeal‘s Portia de Rossi). No one has yet been cast to play John-John. TBS plans to air the movie in late December 2002-early January 2003.
Music News
Sean “P.Diddy” Combs’ Bad Boy Records and parent company Arista Records have ended their decade-long joint venture. AP reports Combs announced Wednesday that he now owns 100 percent of Bad Boy, including its catalogs and all its current artists, including R&B singers Faith Evans and Carl Thomas, group 112 and teen pop quartet Dream. The split was described as amicable.
Hip-hop artist R. Kelly is already singing a song about his recent criminal charges of child pornography. The song “Heaven, I Need a Hug” debuted this week on a Chicago radio station. In the song, Kelly says he hopes to regain his fans’ support.
