No more Mr Nice Guy
Funnyman ROBIN WILLIAMS is shedding his family image to play a bitter children’s show host in a new comedy Death To Smoochy.
His disgruntled character schemes to get rid of his replacement, played by ED NORTON and Williams describes the tone of film as a cross between Pulp Fiction and Barney, a 1970s adventure in which a criminal befriends a boy.
In another soon-to-be-released movie, One Hour Photo, Williams portrays a deranged stalker. And in the upcoming Insomnia with AL PACINO, he plays a guy who beats a woman to death.
Actress CAMERON DIAZ will be a presenter at the 74th Academy Awards on March 24 - the third time the Charlie’s Angels star has been an Oscar host.
And in April, Diaz will be seen in romantic comedy The Sweetest Thing, which also stars CHRISTINA APPLEGATE and SELMA BLAIR.
She also plays a major role in MARTIN SCORSESE’s epic period drama, Gangs Of New York, which will be released in July. Her co-stars include LEONARDO DiCAPRIO, DANIEL DAY-LEWIS and JIM BROADBENT.
CHRISTINA RICCI is to star in director WOODY ALLEN’s new film, with shooting for the untitled project due to start in the spring in New York.
The Hollywood Reporter says the movie will revolve around three young adults, one of whom is 19-year-old Ricci - star of Mermaids, Sleepy Hollow and The Opposite Of Sex.
American Pie star JASON BIGGS will also star in the film, while Allen himself will also make an appearance.
The Lone Ranger is set to ride again as the classic TV series is made into a movie with a revamp in the style of the Mask Of Zorro.
Columbia Pictures has acquired the film rights to the Western show which chronicled the adventures of the masked hero, his horse Silver and trusty companion Tonto.
Now, with Gladiator producers DOUG WICK and LUCY FISHER working on the remake, it looks like Tonto may now be transformed into a sexy woman.
The Lone Ranger began as a radio show during the 1930s and 1940s before becoming a TV series in 1949.
Actor and rapper SEAN ‘‘P DIDDY’’ COMBS and model KIM PORTER, the mother of his youngest child, have reached a child support settlement.
The move ends a year of litigation in Manhattan Family Court in New York. Details of the support agreement for three-year-old Christian Casey Combs are being kept under raps but Combs’ lawyer says it runs until the child turns 21 and provides for his education, medical care and other needs.
Combs, 32, runs the Bad Boy Entertainment music publishing and recording company and has his own fashion line, Sean John, plus several restaurants.
He recently starred as a death row inmate in Monster’s Ball with HALLE BERRY and BILLY BOB THORNTON.
Model CINDY CRAWFORD and animal rights group Peta are at loggerheads after the supermodel wore a fur coat on the catwalk.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals accuses Crawford of deserting their cause after she had appeared in its famous ‘‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur’’ campaign.
But Crawford’s publicist says the supermodel mother-of-two was only being ‘‘really nice’’ to Peta and had never endorsed its anti-fur message.
The supermodel is the latest to part company with Peta. Models NAOMI CAMPBELL and KATE MOSS both backed its message only to be later spotted modelling fur.
Crawford wore a fur coat as she appeared on the catwalk at designer ROBERTO CAVELLI’s Milan show on Monday.
She had been featured in Peta advertisements wearing nothing but a fake fur hat in 1994.
