Issue Date: April 27, 2008
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The CIA leak scandal involving Valerie Plame would make a great movie. I think Sharon Stone should play Plame.
Janet Woods, Chandler, Ariz.
Two films about the outed CIA spy are in the works, but neither stars Stone. "Nothing but the Truth," a fictionalized version, is due later this year. It centers on a journalist (played by Kate Beckinsale) who goes to jail rather than disclose who told her the spy's identity. The other film, still in the script stage, will tell the story of Plame and her husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson.
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Lots of stars have charitable causes, such as saving whales (Hayden Panettiere) and the planet (Leo DiCaprio). For Kevin Sorbo, a lifelong athlete who starred in TV's "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda," it's A World Fit for Kids!, a program that uses sports to keep youths in school. It teaches responsibility and teamwork to teens, who, it is hoped, will become teachers to peers. World Fit began in violent L.A.-area neighborhoods. Chair and spokesman Sorbo, 49, says 700-plus participants have graduated from high school and become mentors. He's working to make it a national program. To that end, the avid golfer will host a charity tournament Oct. 10-11 in Las Vegas.
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Where can I see Hannah Storm, former co-anchor of CBS' "The Early Show?"
A. Matthieu, Fairfield, Maine
Nowhere, at the moment. CBS tells us that Storm, who left "The Early Show" at the end of last year, is still under contract, but at press time, a new role had not been announced for her. Some people speculate that Storm, 45 and a mother of three, will return to sports broadcasting, where she first made her journalistic name. And in a year with the Summer Olympics, that seems highly plausible.
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Gene Wilder, the star of "Blazing Saddles," "Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers," has become an author of historical romances. It sounds as crazy as the characters in his movies, but it's true. His second novel, "The Woman Who Wouldn't," in stores now, is a "whimsically romantic poke at turn-of-the-last-century Europe's privileged gentry," according to "Publishers Weekly." Writing romances happened by accident, Wilder, 74, tells us. He wrote a memoir to keep busy while he spent two months with his mother-in-law after an operation. "I wanted to go on writing, so I got out this screenplay I'd done 28 years earlier and turned it into 'My French Whore,'" his first novel. For his latest, Wilder says he just sat down and started writing. "Out it came. I don't know why, but my books always come out as romantic."
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Who plays the forensic anthropologist "Bones" in the Fox series by that name? She is fabulous and doesn't get enough publicity.
Wendy Kelman, Phoenix
She's the lovely Emily Deschanel, 31, and I couldn't agree more, Wendy. We caught up with her at the end of the writers' strike; she tells us she used her downtime to attend a friend's wedding in Nashville and to visit her grandparents, who watch her show but don't make a big deal of it: "They're sweet, supportive. They don't get into many details." Her dad, Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, does, however. At press time, he was set to direct a second episode of "Bones."
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You'll be glad to know Renée Zellweger considers herself normal and wishes she could be treated as such: "I love it when a stewardess is nasty, and I shrink when she apologizes because someone told her I was famous. As an actress ... I want to be a fly on the wall. I want to people-watch." Somehow, she manages. She works almost non-stop: She's onscreen now in "Leatherheads" as a fast-talking reporter à la Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday." And she has completed three more films, including "Appaloosa" (a western directed by Ed Harris), "Case 39" (a thriller with Ian McShane) and "Chilled in Miami" (a romantic comedy with Harry Connick Jr.). She'll soon be in Baltimore filming "My One and Only," set in the '50s. She plays "a woman who's tired of her philandering husband, so she leaves, even though all she's been groomed for is to play the role of wife and charming hostess."
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BIRTHDAYS
April 27: Sheena Easton, 49
April 28:Jessica Alba, 27; Jorge Garcia, 35; Jay Leno, 58
April 29:Uma Thurman, 38; Master P, 39; Daniel Day-Lewis, 51; Jerry Seinfeld, 54
April 30:Kirsten Dunst, 26; Michael Waltrip, 45; Willie Nelson, 75
May 1:Tim McGraw, 41
May 2:David Beckham, 33; Christine Baranski, 56
May 3:Damon Dash, 37; Greg Gumbel, 62
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Bart Mills, Nancy Mills
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