Cate Blanchett ready for her position in "The Present" by visiting an precise psychic.
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It’s time for house oddities
I spent CV’s shut-in days gathering reported oddities about our reported biggies. Like:
To play a psychic in “The Present,” Cate Blanchett prepped by “visiting a seer who stated electrical issues received’t work round me.” Cate plugged in her personal tape recorder. Wouldn’t function. A second recorder wouldn’t work. Satisfied one thing’s flawed with the room’s wiring, she waited. The seer exited. Cate tried once more. Identical socket. All home equipment labored.
Lara Flynn Boyle to TV Information: “My mother has this image of me as a child subsequent to Bozo the Clown. I’m holding my skirt up as a result of I received so terrified when Bozo put his arm round me that I moist myself.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt: “I’ve all the time needed an workplace. My dream rising up was to be a secretary. I nonetheless deliver Publish-its with me to work. And I simply write individuals messages like So-and-So referred to as. I do know it sounds dorky.”
Shaquille O’Neal’s identified to stroll round with blue toenails. The colour being Platinum Sky Blue. As a result of he stubbed his toe one evening and his mom utilized a bit nail hardener to ease the ache. Turned blue-ish. That very same evening Shaq scored 46 factors and makes use of that coloration nail polish for good luck.
Pierce Brosnan needed to reshoot a 007 intercourse scene 18 occasions as a result of Sophie Marceau’s nipples popped into view. “The World Is Not Sufficient”” producers needed a PG ranking. “This was excruciatingly technical,” he stated. “Eighteen takes and nonetheless making an attempt to make a love scene look spontaneous. It infuriated me.”
David Mamet’s recommendation to a newcomer playwright: “Powerful half isn’t the writing. The powerful half is placing the concepts in a drawer and ready three months earlier than giving it to a producer or studio — so that they then suppose they’ve gotten one thing for his or her cash.”
After “Mission to Mars” starring Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle received awful evaluations, Brian De Palma informed Selection: “So what? In outer house no person can hear anyone scream of boredom.”
Bits & bobs of city speak
Angela Lansbury’s thriller sequence “Homicide, She Wrote” was initially written for Jean Stapleton not Angela . . . Scottish Day by day File reported Madonna discovered to play chess. Took classes from Scottish champ Alan Norris . . . Per the San Francisco Chronicle: Common buyer Ashley Judd, visiting her godmother in Pacific Heights, referred to as the native Spa Radiance to order a three-hour therapeutic massage . . . Jane Krakowski to Health journal: “My favourite physique half’s my butt. Want I might stroll backward right into a room.” . . . Vera Wang to InStyle about weddings: “Tighten tummy with a cincher made from nylon, Lycra and spandex. Hold ceremony on quick aspect. Don't put older relations on the dance ground.” . . . Day by day Mail: Hugh Grant all the time needed to be a rock star who is shipped girls’s lingerie. He confessed he’d been despatched underwear by a person and desires the person would cease however Hugh stated he’s too well mannered to say something.
Feeding frenzy
As recorded within the Mirror, Schwarzenegger visiting the Oliver Messel suite in London’s Dorchester required a selected model of scorching cereal made with water not milk, wholesome aspect collection of walnuts and raisins, low-fat treats, biscuits, sliced watermelon, room-temperature Evian, vegetable crudités, sugar-free Corridor’s throat sweets, king-size mattress, two health machines, 14-hour entry to the health club, Cohiba cigars and within the fridge Cristal Champagne plus apple and pear brandy. Additionally, 13 completely different meals together with grilled hen, salmon, swordfish out there 24 hours a day, Beluga caviar, strawberries — with out stems — and sushi. Plus, a chess board on the sitting room espresso desk.
In the meantime, simply after I compiled all this, exterior the Second Avenue Deli, the place the meals’s scrumptious even when the dialog wasn’t, two clients discussing bigg pigg Bragg stated he by no means noticed a thugg he didn’t like.
So, let’s all eat, drink and be merry as a result of by tomorrow this may occasionally not be deductible.
And never solely in New York, youngsters, not solely in New York.
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