Issue Date: April 12, 2009
Will Madonna release a DVD of her fabulous "Sticky & Sweet" tour? Is her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour out on video?
Martha McManus, Macomb, Mich.
"Blond Ambition" VHS tapes are for sale on Amazon.com (at least they were at press time). "The Sticky & Sweet" tour DVD is in the works. Madonna also added another leg to that tour, which will kick off in Britain and continue throughout Europe this summer.
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Bobby Cannavale is back on TV as Cupid in a remake of ABC's similarly named 1998 dramedy, and he doesn't want to know if his character truly is sent by the god of love or just thinks he is. "The greatest gift an actor can give himself is a secret," says Cannavale, 37. He was inspired to act by a love of movies and tells us he spent Sundays after church watching films like "Rebel Without a Cause." "I would scream lines of that to the TV. As a kid, I was overly dramatic."
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Ben Bailey, driver and host of "Cash Cab" on the Discovery Channel, looks enough like Robert De Niro to be his son. Are they related?
Dave McClaine, Clarion, Pa.
No, but Bailey, back with a new season April 20, gets that a lot. "People also liken me to Travis Bickle [De Niro's character] from 'Taxi Driver,'" he says. Bailey, 38, believes hosting the game show, where cab passengers earn money answering questions, was meant to be: He drove limos to support his stand-up career. "I always had it in my head to write a sitcom I could star in about limo drivers; it's great material."
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I have been watching TLC's "What Not to Wear" for about a year, and I am hooked. Tell me about co-hosts Stacy and Clinton, who have great chemistry.
Joan Altorfer, Pensacola, Fla.
When Clinton Kelly put his hand on Stacy London's knee at his audition for WNTW, the two knew it was a match made in a fashion heaven. "I'm not touchy! I barely touch my friends. We hit it off immediately," says Kelly, 40. London, 39, says: "We come from similar families. We're both the oldest child. My dad's a Pisces; Clinton is a Pisces. I know his kind." But they part ways when the camera stops. "We don't hang out. We're not married. We're not dating," London says. Adds Kelly: "We're an old couple in a sexless marriage.
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Tracey Ullman returns Sunday for a second season of her "State of the Union" comedy show on Showtime, but she tells us, "I'm a character actress; comedians are the ones who tell the jokes." She continues to take on the personalities of the ordinary and the famous and credits this season's "bigger budget" for things like Arianna Huffington's larger wig. "She'll be thrilled with that," chuckles Ullman, 49. She has played a lot of characters, but Ullman says one thing is constant: "If I get too mean, I don't feel good about it. Being mean is too easy."
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In his touching film "Is Anybody There?," opening next weekend, Michael Caine plays a man with Alzheimer's. In real life he's as vibrant as an English spring. On the phone from his country home near London, Caine makes me envy the year off he just took. "I had the best time," he says. Beyond doting on a new grandson, "I'm a gardener, I'm a cook, I'm very family-oriented. I travel. "My life is full." Caine, 76, has no retirement thoughts. He took "Is Anybody There?" because he looks for films that test him. I wonder if another Batman movie will do that; he says he wants to play Alfred again because "he tells Batman what you want to say. He's the voice of reason."
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What ever happened to Burt Reynolds?
Angelo Ciavarella, DeLand, Fla.
Short answer: He lost his hair. Hollywood moved on, but Reynolds never quit, despite divorce, bankruptcy and bad reviews. He's most visible now as a pitchman, notably for the Xbox 360 game "You're in the Movies." He teaches acting in Jupiter, Fla., where he lives. But, far under the radar, Reynolds, 73, has been busy making (little-seen) movies. "A Bunch of Amateurs" is his most recent film among a slew of independent and foreign credits he has picked up.
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BIRTHDAYS
April 12: Claire Danes, 30; David Letterman, 62
April 13: Rick Schroder, 39
April 14: Sarah Michelle Gellar, 32; Adrien Brody, 36
April 15: Emma Thompson, 50
April 16: Martin Lawrence, 44
April 17: Victoria Beckham, 35, Jennifer Garner, 37
April 18: Conan O'Brien, 46
Contributing: Gayle Jo Carter, Reyhaneh Fathieh, Bart Mills, Kathy Rowings
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