Sarah Jessica Parker @ MindSay 
Seeing all of one episode, I said, "Oh yeah, sure."
She then proceeded to tell me that the guy at the counter who came after me was Mr. Big from Sex & the City. Chris, I don't remember his last name. And maybe it's spell Krys. I dunno. Phonetically, it's "Chris."
Anyway, I didn't even look at him. I noticed the bimbo girl with him who was pointing to the BMWs which you could rent for $150-300 / day. Oh yeah, the low end of that is how much I spend on food per month.
At least it wasn't John Corbett. I would have freaked. And knocked the bimbo girl (wife, girlfriend, hooker??) out the door.
Hopefully, tonight is as exciting.
Daniel Craig (Layer Cake, Road to Perdition) has been selected to take over the legendary role of Agent 007, James Bond, in three movies, starting with fall 2006's Casino Royale. While Craig wouldn't have been my first choice, I'm just glad that a decision has (FINALLY) officially been made. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has inked a deal to bring the life of James Bond creator-author Ian Fleming to the big screen. The film tells the story of how the author's personal experiences as a spy shaped the creation of Agent 007.
Sylvester Stallone will direct and reprise his role as Rocky Balboa in the sixth installment of the boxing franchise. In Rocky 6, Balboa comes out of retirement to fight a few low-profile local fights, until he's approached to fight a match with the reigning heavyweight champ.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) have signed on for the comedy The Good Night, which will be directed by Paltrow's brother, Jake Paltrow. Night is about a man's search for perfection in the world.
Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski and Neal McDonough have signed on to star in the crime drama 88 Minutes. Pacino plays a college professor who moonlights as an FBI forensic psychologist. Witt plays the professor's teaching assistant and romantic interest, while Sobieski portrays a student. McDonough is a death row inmate whom Pacino's character suspects is trying to kill him, which he has been told will happen in 88 minutes.
George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton and Sydney Pollack are joining forces for the independent legal thriller Michael Clayton. Clooney plays an elite New York attorney known among his colleagues as "The Janitor" due to his working behind-the-scenes to clean up his clients' messy personal problems.
Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou (In America, Beauty Shop) are in talks to star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Warner Bros. Pictures' dramatic thriller The Blood Diamond, under the direction of Edward Zwick. The adventure tale is set in Sierra Leone circa 1999, when the nation was in the midst of a civil war. DiCaprio plays a smuggler who specializes in "blood diamonds," diamonds used to finace rebellions and terrorists.
Mike Myers told Entertainment Weekly that there is hope for a fourth installment of the spy spoof Austin Powers franchise.
Beau Bridges, Miranda Richardson and Mykelti Williamson are joining Sarah Jessica Parker for the film adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's play Spinning Into Butter. In the story, anonymous, racist letters appear on the door of one of a college's few African-American students, and the dean of students (Parker) is forced to question and explore modern feelings about racism.
Andy Garcia, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys and Ben Affleck are teaming up for Universal and Working Title's action comedy Smokin' Aces. The movie follows an illusionist who snitches on the mob and has hitmen after him. Garcia plays the FBI director who tries to keep the illusionist around long enough to testify.
Real-life husband and wife Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez have signed on for El Cantante, the story of salsa singer Hector Lavoe. Lopez plays Lavoe's wife, Puchi.
Jason Biggs (American Pie) and Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers) are teaming up for the indie romantic comedy The Pleasure of Your Company. Biggs plays an unlucky-in-love guy who's forced into proposing to his waitress (Fisher) on a dare. Actor Michael Ian Black (TV's Ed) will make his directorial debut with Company.
Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen, Shawn Hatosy, Eliza Dushku, Bill Pullman and Bryan Greenberg have signed on for Randall Miller's independent family drama Nobel Son. The film follows a son struggling to finish his thesis when his father wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Marcia Gay Harden, Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva and Chris Marquette have signed on for Touchtone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment's supernatural drama Invisible. Based on a Swedish thriller, Invisible follows a young man (Chatwin) who is attacked and left for dead.
Movie stars Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are among the entertainers that Variety has selected as the "Icons of the Century." The list was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the entertainment industry newspaper.
Actor-writer-director Jon Favreau (Swingers, Elf) will be honored with the Director of the Year Award later this month at the 2005 ShowEast Convention in Orlando.
Angelina Jolie accepted the Global Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association of the U.S.A. October 11 for her work as a goodwill ambassador for the UN's refugee agency.
A Midsummer Night's Dream co-star Calista Flockhart will be honored with a humanitarian award by the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women on October 21.
Peter Mayhew, the British actor who played Chewbacca in Star Wars, became an American citizen October 10.
Peter Jackson will release his production diaries for King Kong in the form of a full-color book, four art prints and two DVDs on December 13, the day before the movie hits theaters.
Warner Independent Pictures is refusing to release the feature film Strangers With Candy, due to concerns that the producers didn't secure the necessary rights.
An Italian photographer has filed charges against Gerard Depardieu, after the French actor allegedly headbutted him.
A fire broke out at a warehouse in Bristol, England, reportedly destroying all the props, models, memorabilia and awards from the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit short films.
Italian writer-director Sergio Citti, best known for his work with filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, died in a hospital near Rome October 11. He was 72.
Devery Freeman, a screenwriter who helped create the Writers Guild of America, has died. He was 92.
Fox's Fantastic Four, which has been given mixed reviews, drew in the American public enough for the weekend of July 8 through 10 to end the 19-week slump in the box office. The Associated Press reports that the top 12 films took in an estimated $139.5 million, up 1.2 percent from the same weekend in 2004. Now that's some truly fantastic news. I hope it will be for more than one week.
Jack Black is reteaming with School of Rock writer Mike White for Paramount's Nacho Libre, directed by Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess. Black will play a Mexican priest who secretly moonlights as a masked wrestler in order to save an orphanage from closure. Paramount and DreamWorks also made a joint announcement July 13 that the live-action Transformers movie will hit the big screen on July 4, 2007.
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson are teaming up for Universal's comedy You, Me and Dupree. Wilson plays best man Randy Dupree, who stays on as a houseguest with newlyweds Carl and Molly, eventually wearing out his welcome. Wilson will also star in Paramount's remake of the 1947 classic film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty for director Mark Waters. The story follows the title character, a dreamer whose vivid imagination allows him to escape from his ordinary life. The story of the remake will be closer to the 1939 James Thurber story than the 1947 movie. Kill Bill's Uma Thurman and The Royal Tenenbaums' Luke Wilson (Owen's brother) are teaming up for director Ivan Reitman's romantic comedy Super Ex. Thurman will play a superhero who falls for a regular guy (Wilson). When he dumps her, she uses her powers to turn his life into a nightmare.
Henry Winkler will play Adam Sandler's father in Sony and Revolution's comedy Click, about a remote that enables Sandler to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Winkler previously appeared as the coach in the Sandler hit The Waterboy. Sandler's Punch-Drunk Love co-star Emily Watson has signed on for the family adventure film Crusade for director Ben Sombogaart. Crusade is based on Thea Beckman's bestselling novel Crusade in Jeans.
Lions Gate Films has signed a multipicture deal with S.W.A.T. co-star LL Cool J. One of the films is an urban retelling of Fatal Attraction. Ewan McGregor and original Fatal Attraction star Glenn Close are teaming up for a musical remake of the Hollywood classic Sunset Blvd. McGregor plays an out-of-work screenwriter whose path crosses with fading silent film star Norma Desmond (Close).
Sarah Jessica Parker will star in and produce a big-screen adaptation of Rebecca Gilman's play Spinning Into Butter. Parker plays a college dean who's forced to face her feelings about race when a hate crime shakes things up on campus.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' Blake Lively and Herbie: Fully Loaded's Justin Long will co-star in Universal's comedy Accepted, which centers on a high school senior (Long) who finds a way to avoid the pressure to attend college. Lively plays Long's friend, whom he has a secret crush on.
American Beauty co-star Chris Cooper has signed on to star in Fortress Entertainment's drama The Road Back. The film follows a man dealing with the breakdown of his marriage and an increasingly icy family relationship in the wake of the suicide of his daughter, an Iraq war veteran. Sounds good and powerful.
In America filmmaker Jim Sheridan's next project will be the Irish mafia film Emerald City, a Radar Pictures and Relevant Entertainment co-production. City, based on a true story, is a look into the world of Irish organized crime in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City.
Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant has announced that his next project will be an adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler's Wife. Wife is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey and centers on a woman and a man with a time-traveling gene that enables him to jump to different times in her life.
The three Lord of the Rings movies topped Amazon.com's list of their all-time bestselling DVDs. In honor of the company's 10th anniversary, never-before-seen footage from the trilogy was screened in a webcast July 16. Gwyneth Paltrow and Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom will make cameo appearances and Brittany Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Catherine Tate and Santiago Cabrera will star in the romantic comedy Love and Other Disasters. The story revolves around a group of friends in London who discover sometimes love isn't like the movies. Proof (which stars Paltrow), In Her Shoes and the new Pride and Prejudice are among the films on the slate of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, which runs September 8-17. The Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, which stars The Village's Joaquin Phoenix as the legendary "Man in Black," will also have its world premiere at the festival. Line hits theaters on November 18.
Opening arguments began July 13 in the criminal trial of a photographer who allegedly tried to sell topless photos of Cameron Diaz taken before she was famous.
A federal judge dismissed a $20 million libel and defamation lawsuit July 14 filed against filmmaker Michael Moore by the brother of Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.
An L.A. judge threatened to have actor Tom Sizemore arrested if he fails to show up for his next hearing on July 22, which addresses whether or not he violated his probation in his drug case.
Sandra Bullock and TV's Monster Garage mastermind Jesse James were married in a sunset ceremony July 16 near Santa Barbara.
The Perfect Man's Hilary Duff and Deuce Bigalo: European Gigolo's Rob Schneider will co-host the Teen Choice Awards on Fox August 16. This is perhaps the strangest duo I've ever heard of. Duff's Agent Cody Banks co-star Frankie Muniz has become engaged to his girlfriend, Jamie, whom he has been dating since the spring.
Brad Pitt checked out of Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Medical Center July 13, two days after being admitted for "flu-like symptoms" that turned out to be viral meningitis. His publicist says the Mr. & Mrs. Smith star is "doing well" and resting at home.
The Manchurian Candidate co-star Angela Lansbury underwent knee-replacement surgery July 14.
Actress Frances Langford, who appeared in dozens of movies including Broadway Melody, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Glenn Miller Story and Every Night at Eight, passed away July 11. She was 92.
Another profile posted on one of the aforementioned roommate-finder websites:
"40's straight male looking to live with a friendly female or females. I am easy going, friendly,can cook,quiet and in good shape for my age. Could live alone but prefer some company. Grey and brown hair,(have all my hair)5.9 feet tall, slim and love pets (although I dont own any)"
Is it just me or is this guy in the market for more than a roommate? I don't know about anyone else out there, but I could care less about the abundance of my cohabitants' hair. But that's just me.
That tremendously annoying Old Navy bermuda shorts commercial just aired. I'm constantly amazed that a company with such good taste in clothes is capable of producing such crappy promotional material. On a similar note, isn't it about time 40-year-old Sarah Jessica Parker, star of Gap's "I like being a girl" dancestravaganza, passed the debutante mantle to somebody else?
Pop culture invective aside, YAY! I'm officially on my way to becoming a personal trainer. My bosses most generously offered to pay for half of the training expenses, since my certification will be mutually beneficial. I'll start the foundation course in May. Hurrah! My monthly measurements (weight/proportions/body fat) last week indicated that I'm succeeding in reaching my own fitness goals -- my dietary tweakage of the last 6 weeks or so resulted in a few dropped pounds, inches and body fat percentage points. A few gym members have commented on my new-found trimness so I must be doing something right. Double hurrah! Abs and buns of steel are but a few thwarted cravings and deep squats away.
