Look for Alec Baldwin’s “Up Late With Alec Baldwin’” on MSNBC beginning October 11th. “Dick Cavett had eclecticism to his guest list. And he tried to have a smart conversation, whether the person was the heavyweight champ of the world or one of The Beatles or Gore Vidal. He didn’t talk down to anyone. He is my hosting role model.”
Adam Sandler is getting serious. Well, in his next movie choice, anyway. He is in talks
to star in an indie drama “The Cobbler” as a man who can step into the lives of people whose shoes he repairs.
At 70 years of age, Mick Jagger still turns heads wherever he goes. Jagger was in Hollywood partying over the Emmy weekend. He started at a pre-Emmy party on Friday stopping into Bouchon in Beverly Hills. A favorite place of his when he’s in town, Jagger avoided the check-in line by popping into a side entrance and sat with pals Lorne Michaels and Jimmy Fallon. Many in the crowd, including Jennifer Lopez and Seth MacFarlane, couldn’t stop staring. The next night, Mick went to a pre-Emmy party at a private mansion where he met Oprah Winfrey for the 1st time and danced with Gayle King. He went to Club Giorgio afterwards with the next night showing up at HBO’s post-Emmy party where he enthralled “Game of Thrones” cast.
Leah Remini, competing on “Dancing With The Stars” said on her belief the Church of
Scientology hopes she does poorly in the contest in retaliation for having publicly left the church over the summer: “The church is looking for me to fail so they can say, “Look what happens when you leave’.
In London and at his old stomping ground of Abbey Road Studios, Sir Paul McCartney
is filming the video for his new track, “Queenie Eye”. A longtime vegetarian, he has banned staff from eating meat and also has decreed no social networking while working.Johnny Depp andSean Penn have already shot their cameo roles for the video.
Seems Sheryl Crow is Nashville’s new star. The 51 year-old rock vet has gone country
for her latest album, “Feels Like Home”. “Recording at home in Nashville was the bestpart of going country”, she laughs. “I drove my kids to school in the morning and did mommy things in between sessions.”
Pamela Anderson is enjoying a romantic vacation in Paris with ex-husband Rick Salomon. The on/off couple were spotted cuddling and kissing while shopping, visiting the Louvre museum and lunching at a trendy Parisian restaurant. Not going home empty-handed, the former Baywatch star picked up a few items in designer store, Celine.
Danny Aiello, Ashley Bell and The Oak Ridge Boys are using their celebrity and
representing the Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes in its latest PSA campaign “Bet on a Vet”. They deliver a timely appeal to businesses and employers to hire a vet. The Coalition has initiated several key programs to aid and assist wounded veterans and their families.
Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova sold their estate in Bay Point, Miami through
a private broker for around $10 million. The couple have a 12 year romance that has tabloids recently reporting is on the rocks. But the couple are also currently building their dream home on the waterfront in Miami.
Zac Efron just bought a Hollywood Hills home for $3.99 million. The “High School Musical” star just purchased the 1964 built home that comes with state-of-the-art electronic capabilities and it maintains a 1960′s vibe. It’s perched on .81 acres on the top of a hill, with city-to-ocean views. The home is down the road from the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie compound, and other celebrities in the area include Eva Mendes and Christina Ricci. Efron still owns his super modern home about six miles away, which he purchased in 2008 for $2.35 million. The 2,400 square foot home features entire walls of glass that open up for an indoor-outdoor flow.
Making the Scene: Octavia Spencer checking out Beverly Hills’ Comme Ca for lunch.Leonardo DiCaprio stepped in to Il Mulino in New York for dinner. Kristin Chenowethhurriedly ordered a frozen yogurt in West Hollywood. Harrison Ford, Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld in Paris’ Mandarin Hotel for “Enders Game” premiere.Tom Hanks, Kelly Lunch, John Krasinski, Emile Hirsch in Los Angeles for premiere of “Captain Phillips.”
Did You Know…Shonda Rhimes, creator of “Grey’s anatomy and “Scandal” adopted another child, her third. Susan Sarandon will guest star as Melissa McCarthy’s literary idol on “Mike & Molly.” One of the biggest paparazzi targets at a recent Hollywood party was Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland. Olivia Wilde is the new face of Avon’s Today Tomorrow Always fragrance collection.
Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on the dotted line to produce and star in “Wilson” a biography about Woodrow Wilson. At the recent book party, Sally Field showed up to support the book’s release.
House’s Lisa Edelstein, also a former VIVA cover gal, will star in Bravo’s Marti Noxondramedy pilot, “The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce”. The never been married Edelstein will do some research beforehand.
A lot of celebs were doing double and triple duty in Toronto recently during the Toronto Film Festival, promoting multiple projects. Colin Firth (“The Railway Man” and “Devil’s Knot”) saw doing double duty as validation of his career. “If you have two, something may be going right.” And Daniel Radcliffe (“Kill Your Darlings”, “Horns”, “The F Word”) not only was proud of this triple header “I want to show the range of what I can do”, he brought his mom and dad along for the ride. But Dane DeHaan who was in town promoting three projects, said “I’m stretched pretty thin here. There’s a lot of switching gears.”
Who are the three most wanted in Hollywood? Kerry Washington, Claire Danes andMichelle Dockery are the stars designers want to dress this awards season. Runners-up areSofia Vergara, Robin Wright and Emilia Clarke.
We all are forewarned of Saturday Night Live’s new look this Fall with many of the regular players now gone. Lorne Michaels surprised everyone by upping Cecily Strong to “Weekend Update” co-anchor in only her second season, with the potential to take over whenSeth Meyers leaves for ‘Late Night” in 2014. She’s got some very big shoes to fill.
Want to live in the home where Glenn Close and Kevin Kline entertained their college roomies in “The Big Chill”? The Beaufort, South Carolina 7,381 square foot estate that sits on 1.38 acres is on the market for $3.5 million.
As we know, celebrities set trends and one of the latest accessory must-have is an electronic cigarette, aka “e-cigs”. The electronic device has fans such as Kate Moss, Katherine Heigl, Bruno Mars, Britney Spears, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp and Jenny McCarthy to name a few. The vapor created from inhaling has no tobacco and comes in different flavors.
Victoria Beckham has a true bff in Tana Ramsay. And she won’t let the continuing rift between the respective husbands, Gordon Ramsay and David Beckham come in her way. David pulled out of a joint restaurant venture with Gordon but won’t let that discord affect her friendship with Tana. The two ladies have agreed not to talk about their husbands during their weekly luncheons.
One used to having her photo taken is Katie Holmes who has paparazzi following her and daughter Suri everywhere. But Katie is passionate about taking her own photos – of food, that is. Holmes is determined to become a better cook and when trying out different recipes, when one is cooked to perfection, she takes a photo and sends it to her family. “I send them to my older siblings. It’s like, ‘See, I can do it, too’.” But despite her culinary love, Holmes also loves take out. “You can always order in. It’s a mixture of doing a cooked meal or ordering in.”
Making the Scene: Drew Barrymore took a seat at Fred’s at Barney’s New York one afternoon for lunch, only to have Julia Louis-Dreyfus take the same seat the next day.Daniel Craig sneaked into the Greenwich Hotel courtyard for a snack and went unnoticed. Quite a trio: Steve Martin, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams eating at Spago in Beverly Hills.
Did You Know…Seth MacFarlane just bought a 20,000 square foot Beverly Hills office building for $11 million to house his “Fuzzy Door” banner. Robert Pattinson is dating Sean Penn’s daughter, Dylan. USA Network paid about $1.8 million an episode for “Modern Family” in the hopes to bring in younger viewers. Naomi Watts was whisked off for a romantic 45th birthday adventure by her companion of 8 years, actor Liev Schreiber.
What would the Grammys be without the Distinctive Assets gifting suite? Now in its tenth year, the stellar event hosted tons of brands and exclusive names. Solstice unveiled its newly sunglasses line; Polaroid Plus was featured, as was New Era’s signature headgear. Simone I. Smith Jewelry to Chakalates by Chaka Kahn. Everyone walking through stopped by to autograph a Gibson Guitar, and a group gathered at the ReFa Carat Pro area to see how they could get instant skin tightening and wrinkle reduction through their new solar-powered device. Among those getting a treatment were: Chaka Kahn, Ashanti, Travis Barker, Mumford & Sons, and Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban. Former VIVA cover gal, Pauly Perretteloved Luden’s throat drops as well as the Jager iOsonic Toothbrush.
It’s February! Valentine’s Day and Oscars have come and gone, so it must mean Doris Bergman’s Annual Romance Oscar Style Lounge presented by Qmadix. Stopping by the Qmadix area was Modern Family‘s Rico Rodriguez who loved the Red Cube cover for iPhone 5 along withLincoln start Alex Lombard. Cutey was there gifting some of their athletic pants which are a big celeb fave. Jennifer Lopez loves the magenta while Madonna and Kim Kardashian favor black. Twisted Silver revealed their new designs and actress/model strong>Estella Warren loved them. Django Unchained‘s Dennis Christopher perused Dial-A-Smile’s Whitening Lightning all-natural botanical products. Nature’s Flavors showed how to bring life to culinary creations with their pure essence seasonings.
Katie Couric was reliving an awkward date with Larry King on her talk show saying the date ended when “he lunged” at her. “The whole situation was out of a bad Lifetime movie,” she said.
Keri Russell stars in her first series since Felicity. The Americans debuted to over 3 million viewers on the FX network.
Cher has listed her 4,000 square-foot West Hollywood condo for $5.5 million. She is hoping to sell the luxury apartment for $1 million more than she paid for just six years ago. Also, just in time for Mother’s Day, Cher is the executive producer of the new Lifetime documentary, Dear Mom, Love Cher. She stars with her mother, Georgia Holt, in this hour-long special, which chronicles her mother’s life while raising Cher and her sister Georganne. The special will also feature in-depth interviews with her mom, sister and sons Chaz and Elijah Blue Allman. Cher and mom also are seen recording a never heard before duet.
When Ben Affleck humbly took the stage at the Directors Guild Awards to accept the DGA Award for feature film for Argo, he said, “I don’t think that this makes me a real director, but I think it means I’m on my way.” Also present were Steven Spielberg and wifeKate Capshaw, Hugh Jackman, Affleck’s wife Jennifer Garner. Also present wereAnne Hathaway, Zero Dark Thirty nominee Kathryn Bigelow and Life of Pi director nominee Ang Lee.
Sharon Osbourne has banned candles from her home since last month when she and Ozzywent to sleep with candles still lit. Her dogs’ incessant barking woke the couple who tried in vain to put out the fire that, “exploded when I opened the door,” she said. Firefighters successfully extinguished the flames but not before some of Ozzy’s hair got burned in the fire.
Making the Scene: Alec Baldwin eating at Italian eatery Ancora in the San Fernando Valley the day before the 30 Rock finale aired. Carl Reiner stopped at Austrian spot BierBeisl in Hollywood with Mel Brooks. Naomi Watts, Sally Field, Ben Affleck, Steven Spielberg, Jessica Chastain and a host of others kicking off awards season in high gear at The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Oscar Nominees Night at Spago in Beverly Hills. Marcia Crossand daughter shopping at Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Santa Monica, California picking up several hula hoops. Michael J. Fox filming his new sitcom on the streets of New York.
Did You Know…Penelope Cruz and husband Javier Bardem are expecting a second child. Kim Kardashian has hired two personal trainers to help her keep fit and healthy during her pregnancy. Bruce Willis received France’s highest award – the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in Paris – at a ceremony held in Paris last week. George Clooney picked up the tab for $134.66 of a neighboring table at a Berlin restaurant because he thought his group was too loud.
