Starstruck - News From The Movies
The Sunday Age
Sunday July 20, 2003
*It's good to know she's just as annoying off-screen. Minnie Driver has incurred the wrath of fellow tennis spectators at Wimbledon for having a monster chin-wag on her mobile phone during a match. Driver drove them nuts, despite being there to see her boyfriend, Robby Ginepri, play. E-online reports that Minnie was "shielded behind huge Studio 54 shades" and chewed the fat non-stop on her cell phone during matches. She was probably just talking about herself. Not far away, her co-star from Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Matthew Perry, also failed to maintain a cool exterior while being harassed by fans. When a woman asked him to sign an autograph, he responded "Yeah, for you and the rest of the world." Petulant. As for Minnie, we're sure the fans weren't pestering for her signature.
*A little more graceful is smartypants Quentin Tarantino, who's decided that rather make us sit through three hours or more of his next action film, Kill Bill, we'll be allowed to go twice for 90-minute instalments. The distributor, Miramax, is splitting Kill Bill into the two parts but the second episode will not appear for between two to six months later - presumably so that we forget we're paying twice for one film. But Miramax says the move is to allow writer-director Tarantino to screen the full story and not have to endure any cuts which, for an auteur of his status, would be a bit rich. It stars the wonderful Uma Thurman as an assassin out for revenge against a hit man who tried to kill her. Miramax has feuded with directors in the past on film edits, including Martin Scorsese on Gangs of New York and Billy Bob Thornton on All the Pretty Horses.
*Cheek awards this week go to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Lopez. Arnie, 56 and free of flab, has told the German paper Express that he is still confident he has a nice bottie. He was in Berlin for the premiere of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, which includes some scenes revealing of the actor's rump, but he admitted he found the scenes embarrassing. "It was funny that just on the days when we were shooting the (nude) scenes everyone would suddenly have something to do on set." Schwarzenegger also admitted he was scared of getting older but he was sure that he would never look like Marlon Brando. Thank God. As for J-Lo, the New York Post reckons her bummie-cheeks have been made smaller in publicity photos for her new film, the romantic comedy Gigli. "Columbia's marketing division airbrushed her butt to make it smaller and pumped up her chest," a source, who claimed to have seen before and after shots, told the Post. J-Lo was said to be unhappy with the way her curvature was diminished in the photos. A spokesman for the star joked: "I'm absolutely shocked. Who would ever think this could possibly happen in Hollywood?" Bottoms up, we say.
-- Andrew Stephens
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