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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Entertainment News 825

Survivor: Apartheid:

The hit CBS reality television program will divide its teams or tribes, as they are known on the show along racial lines. For the first half of the series this fall, four teams of five members will be made up of blacks, Asian-Americans, Hispanics and whites. SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS, premieres Thursday, September 14 at 8 pm on CBS. Yes...this is a new low for reality TV...but you have to admit, it will get people talking about Survivor again before the premiere, for the first time since the first season.

No Love For Narnia? SNL Job Cuts To Include Parnell, Sanz

An informed tipster reports that Saturday Night Live's Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz are included among the four job cuts expected as the show enters its 32nd season. Update: Will Forte, too?

Snakes in a theatre

PHOENIX -- The excitement at the AMC Desert Ridge movie theater in Phoenix Friday had to do with snakes, but it wasn't over Samuel L. Jackson's new movie. Two rattlesnakes were found at the theater -- one in the parking lot and the other in a hallway. A theater spokesman said the snakes were released as a prank in response to the movie "Snakes on a Plane," but police said they slithered in on their own. Both snakes were removed from the property and no one was hurt.

In theatres this weekend:
Mel Update
Mel Gibson is apologizing to the Jews of Hollywood one Jew at a time. According to T-M-Z-dot-com, Jesus's favorite drunk driver has been phoning Jewish entertainment bigwigs he's worked with to apologize for that anti-Semitic tirade last month. Two recipients of the phone calls -- who wanted to remain anonymous -- tell the gossip site that "Mad Max" said he was really sorry for the outburst and was working on his anti-Semitic "problem." One recipient said he was polite to Gibson but unconvinced that "Braveheart" is really coming to grips with the cause of his distaste for Jews.