Issue Date: December 10, 2006
I'm sure I read that George Clooney may record a CD of his aunt Rosemary Clooney's famous songs. Also, did he do his own singing in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Ellen Tanges, Ormond Beach, Fla.
"People's" Sexiest Man Alive (again) did practice and record songs for "O Brother," but what you hear and see on screen is him lip-syncing to Dan Tyminski's vocals. And we're told he isn't planning a CD of Aunt Rosemary's songs either.
When will Gwen Stefani be in another movie? And where is her next album?
Ashley Hicks, Cosby, Tenn.
Her latest CD, "The Sweet Escape," was released last week. Stefani collaborated with No Doubt bandmate Tony Kanal and the Neptunes, which produced the first single, "Wind It Up." "This album is surprisingly different than the last one," says the Grammy winner on her website. "I started recording it last year, before Kingston was born, and it's definitely evolved." Since her minimal role as Jean Harlow in 2004's "The Aviator," Stefani, 37, has been rumored to have plans for a remake of the 1956 drama "Baby Doll," but at press time there was nothing definite. In the meantime, she's busy being a new mother.
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Delta Burke is a Florida native who lives in L.A., so she's used to a sunny Christmas. She hangs ornaments she had when she was a kid ("that really takes me back"), decorates the house and gets her stocking ready. "The stockings are it for us ... Everybody knows the stocking better be good," she says. This year, Burke, 50, who has been busy with recent appearances on Boston Legal and theater work almost year-round, got in the spirit early. She plays Mrs. Claus to John Goodman's Santa in Monday's NBC movie "The Year Without a Santa Claus." There's a bigger event on Burke's 2007 calendar, however. She and husband Gerald McRaney (Jericho) expect to renew their wedding vows this spring on "the 20th anniversary of laying eyes on each other." They met on the set of "Designing Women," when he arrived to guest star.
Matthew McConaughey reminds me of a young Paul Newman. Have they ever been in a movie together?
Vicki Currie, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
No, but they should be. McConaughey, 37, who has Newman's Butch Cassidy swagger and charm, could play the 81-year-old actor's son or grandson. Besides, McConaughey's favorite film is Newman's 1963 "Hud." In fact, McConaughey's beloved Lab-chow mix, who died last year, was named Miss Hud.
My daughter loved the Broadway show "Wicked." I read the book and saw the show. When will the story be made into a movie?
Waldo Landis, Chambersburg, Pa.
There could be two movies, but not anytime soon. Universal, which produces the musical, also own rights to adapt a musical for the screen. ABC owns the rights to adapt the book into a non-musical film. Author Gregory Maguire tells us, "The play continues to be thrilling enough, so I am willing to wait."
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On Sept. 11, 2001, as airliners blasted gaping holes in the World Trade Center towers, filmmaker Oliver Stone was in bed asleep. It was just before 6 a.m. in L.A. His wife woke him with the news after she heard it on TV. That memory is mundane, but the movie he made "as a memorial to those who died" is not. "World Trade Center" is out on DVD Tuesday, and the producer-director hopes it will get a wider audience. "The film was never about politics," Stone, 60, says to those who say it is exploitative. And to those who say it was made too soon after the real event? "There's no reason to wait if you have the facts," he says. His film centers on two Port Authority policemen, Nos. 18 and 19 of the 20 pulled from the rubble who survived the implosion. "If I were to make another 9/11 film," he tells me, "I'd make it about 9/12, the day after."
Tell me more about the actor who plays hunky Jack on ABC's Thursday series "Men in Trees."
Jean Gobel, Tacoma, Wash.
He's James Tupper, a Halifax, Nova Scotia, native who hopped the border about 10 years ago and "did about 30 to 40 theater productions." To survive, he also made commercials and worked as a carpenter. "When I moved to Hollywood, the first job I got was as a cop [in "Joe Dirt"]," Tupper, 36, tells us. "My family joked that there needed to be an Academy Award for three lines or less." In his free time, he plays in a soccer league and spends time with his wife, who is a playwright in Los Angeles. "She has never written me a part. Should I bring it up with her?"
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BIRTHDAYS
December 10: Raven Symone, 21
December 11: Gary Dourdan, 40; Teri Garr, 57
December 12: Mekhi Phifer, 32; Jennifer Connelly, 36; Madchen Amick, 36
December 13: Jamie Foxx, 39; Steve Buscemi, 49
December 14: Patty Duke, 60
December 15: Adam Brody, 27; Don Johnson, 57
December 16: Benjamin Bratt, 43
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Jon Tollestrup
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