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Hollywood hues
GODFATHER Robert De Niro had an unusual brush with the law when his son Raphael was caught spray-painting graffiti inside an underground rail compartment and sentenced to do community service at a juvenile detention centre. De Niro, who knows a lot about criminals and had studied dozens of video tapes of prisoners for his role in the nineties blockbuster Cape Fear, has now to contend with a delinquent in his own home. The worried dad fears his celebrity status might be the cause of Raphael’s problems. The boy and his three friends were arrested when they were found defacing a subway rail car Though two of them got away. Raphael and his friend Hector were booked for criminal mischief. "They have their own problems as kids, " says De Niro, "and especially being children of someone in my situation." But Dad isn’t the only one whose reputation Raphael has to live up to. His grandparents, Robert De Niro Sr. and Virginia Admiral are two of America’s most celebrated artists. Still a siren
Now a stunning 56, she says she still has the looks to compete with Hollywood actresses half her age. "I want to do steamy roles which have shock value," says Priscilla, exuding confidence. "I’d like to throw people off
their seats. I’m open to all kind of dynamic roles. It’s fun to
change your image, your looks and your style. "Change in style includes
movies with bold themes. " Themes like Sex, Lies & Videotape or
Sharon Stone’s character in The Basic Instinct. I want to be seen in a
new light." But considering that she is a grandmother and has a
grown up daughter to contend with, one wonders if the cinema-going
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What happens when your engine stalls in the middle of nowhere? Nothing really, you just call for help. But if you happen to be Eddie Murphy then there could be problems. That’s exactly what happened when the superstar of films like Coming to America and The Nutty Professor was driving back alone late one night. in his BMW from Atlantic City to Maryland after a shoot. Apprehensive of attracting attention by tinkering with the engine himself, he called for help. The engineer fixed up the car in half an hour and shoved him a charge of $ 700. "Hey!" protested Murphy, "For that kind of money I could’ve bought a new car. In any case you haven’t done a great job there’s a strange noise still in the engine." The young engineer shot back. "You charge $8 million a movie but you don’t do a great job either!" Sheepishly, the superstar handed his saviour seven crisp 100-dollar bills and sped off! New material girl
Madonna look-alike Sherilyn Fenn is going places. The new actress who created a sensation by stripping in her first film Two Moon Junction gained further notoriety by baring again in her next movie, Meridian. Now the voluptuous star says, "Appearing nude in front of the camera has been the most difficult decision. I cried at the end of all my love scenes." But the two experiences apparently have not stopped the 25-year-old Sherilyn from letting Playboy into her bedroom for eye popping shots for its year-end issue. Though sessions for girlie magazines
spell disaster for new stars, Sherilyn’s career has got off to a
zooming start with producers falling over each other to get her to sign
the dotted line for B-grade potboilers. After all, it’s not always
that you get a cut between Madonna and Marilyn Monroe. |
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The truth is finally out. The richest celebrity in America is neither Steven Spielberg nor Jack Nicholson but the unassuming TV dad, Bill Cosby. The men whose 2001 earnings skyrocketed to 115 million from royalties and appearances recently had a strange request from Philadelphia where he was born and spent his childhood. The mayor appealed to Cosby to save his city from bankruptcy. "If you could only give us your salary for the next two years our problems would be solved," The mayor wrote in a letter to Cosby whom Forbes magazine had listed as the world’s highest paid entertainer followed by Michael Jackson ($ 98 million), Rolling Stones ($88 million) and Steven Spielberg ($ 87 million) Philadelphia has run into a deficit of $ 206 million and so precarious is its position that many banks have refused to guarantee loans for the city. Will the small screen’s big star come to its rescue? His fans doubt it. Most of them are wondering how the tight-fisted Cosby will squeeze out of the situation. — Newsmen Features
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Priscilla Presley,
once-known only as Elvis Presley’s wife and later as the comic star of
The Naked Gun and its sequel is now looking for more meaningful roles.
