Entertainment News 906
In London, a British television network is planning to broadcast a dramatic, documentary-style film about a fictional assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, the network's head said Thursday. It's set in Chicago, next year. The program uses actors and digital manipulation of real footage to show a fictional account of Bush being gunned down after delivering a speech in Chicago, Peter Dale, the head of More4, told a news conference. "Death of a President," also scheduled to be shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September, focuses on all those linked to the pretend crime -- including nearby anti-war protesters, suspects, Secret Service guards and investigators, Dale said. More4, which is the digital offshoot of Britain's Channel 4 network, plans to show the program on Oct. 9. The White House declined to comment on the network's announcement, saying it would not dignify the program with a response.
In Cairns, Australia, a videotape of Steve Irwin's last moments shows him pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest but no evidence that he had provoked the fish, officials said yesterday, as tributes poured in for TV's beloved "Crocodile Hunter." John Stainton, Irwin's manager who was among the crew on the reef, said the fatal blow was caught on videotape, and described viewing the footage as having the "terrible" experience of watching a friend die. "It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him in the chest, and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," Stainton told reporters in the Queensland state city of Cairns, where Irwin's body was taken for an autopsy. Police were holding the tape as evidence for a coroner's inquiry -- a standard procedure in high-profile deaths or those caused by other than natural causes. Experts agree human deaths caused by stingrays are extremely rare and speculate the stingray may have felt trapped between the cameraman and the TV star. But Queensland Police Superintendent Michael Keating said there was no evidence Irwin threatened or intimidated the stingray, a normally placid species that only deploys its poisonous tail spines as a defense.
It was a record year for the Jerry Lewis annual Labor Day telethon. It took in in $61 million for muscular dystrophy. Telethon officials credit a $23.5 million donation from the International Association of Fire Fighters. And there was no major hurricane before the show to knock television stations off the air. As the final figure was flashed, Lewis choked back tears and said, "We did good." The previous record for the telecast, which has raised $1.4 billion since 1966, was set in 2003. That year, supporters gave $60.5 million.
Sharon Stone may want to stay away from bookstores for the next couple of months, to avoid a couple of memoirs by former associates. In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas writes, "Sharon's 'prima donna' behavior so annoyed the crew on one of her movies that they relieved themselves into a bathtub before Sharon got into it for her scene." And in his Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, Rupert Everett calls his A Different Loyalty co-star "totally unhinged." Among the examples -- shaking a breast at him in a restaurant and saying her character, a real deceased person, "came into me last night. She's right there." And during the filming of a love scene -- after having her hairdresser ice and blow-dry her nipples -- she allegedly told the openly gay actor, "I can turn a gay man straight in five minutes." Rupert writes, "The girl was stark raving mad. I was scared of her."
In Cairns, Australia, a videotape of Steve Irwin's last moments shows him pulling a poisonous stingray barb from his chest but no evidence that he had provoked the fish, officials said yesterday, as tributes poured in for TV's beloved "Crocodile Hunter." John Stainton, Irwin's manager who was among the crew on the reef, said the fatal blow was caught on videotape, and described viewing the footage as having the "terrible" experience of watching a friend die. "It shows that Steve came over the top of the ray and the tail came up, and spiked him in the chest, and he pulled it out and the next minute he's gone," Stainton told reporters in the Queensland state city of Cairns, where Irwin's body was taken for an autopsy. Police were holding the tape as evidence for a coroner's inquiry -- a standard procedure in high-profile deaths or those caused by other than natural causes. Experts agree human deaths caused by stingrays are extremely rare and speculate the stingray may have felt trapped between the cameraman and the TV star. But Queensland Police Superintendent Michael Keating said there was no evidence Irwin threatened or intimidated the stingray, a normally placid species that only deploys its poisonous tail spines as a defense.
It was a record year for the Jerry Lewis annual Labor Day telethon. It took in in $61 million for muscular dystrophy. Telethon officials credit a $23.5 million donation from the International Association of Fire Fighters. And there was no major hurricane before the show to knock television stations off the air. As the final figure was flashed, Lewis choked back tears and said, "We did good." The previous record for the telecast, which has raised $1.4 billion since 1966, was set in 2003. That year, supporters gave $60.5 million.
Sharon Stone may want to stay away from bookstores for the next couple of months, to avoid a couple of memoirs by former associates. In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas writes, "Sharon's 'prima donna' behavior so annoyed the crew on one of her movies that they relieved themselves into a bathtub before Sharon got into it for her scene." And in his Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, Rupert Everett calls his A Different Loyalty co-star "totally unhinged." Among the examples -- shaking a breast at him in a restaurant and saying her character, a real deceased person, "came into me last night. She's right there." And during the filming of a love scene -- after having her hairdresser ice and blow-dry her nipples -- she allegedly told the openly gay actor, "I can turn a gay man straight in five minutes." Rupert writes, "The girl was stark raving mad. I was scared of her."
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