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May 10, 2000 | Over the past few months, the gossip mill has spewed out famous names like Leonardo DiCaprio and Colin Hanks (Tom's son). But it looks like Lucas has tapped an actor you've probably never heard of before: Hayden Christensen. Variety reports that, although Lucasfilm has not yet made an official casting announcement, the fresh-faced 19-year-old Canadian with just a few credits to his name snagged the plum part thanks to his socko on-screen chemistry with Natalie Portman, who will reprise her role as Queen Amidala. In "Episode II," Anakin and Queen Amidala fall in love and spawn Luke and Leia. Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Christensen's connections may have helped, too. The actor played a small role in Sofia Coppola's "The Virgin Suicides." Not only is Sofia's father, Francis Ford Coppola, tight with Lucas, Sofia and her husband, director Spike Jonze, made cameo appearances in "Episode I." Then again, maybe the Force was with him ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Spacey'd out "If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel. So I think I'll probably sit it out next year. I mean, by the law of averages, I'm due to get hit by a bus any day now." -- Kevin Spacey, getting cosmically humble in the Los Angeles Daily News. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Liz Hurley: Sucker Could Elizabeth Hurley have been purposely toying with the prurient press by letting the paparazzi snap a picture of her sucking on a pacifier as she sunbathed topless on a Caribbean island? Perhaps. The U.K. tabloids have stumbled all over themselves trying to come up with some sort of explanation for the actress's odd accessory, which the British term a "baby's dummy." "Dummies are quite often, er, sucked upon by models in hot countries," explains the U.K. Mirror, "because it appears there are few better ways to protect luscious lips from cracking or burning in harsh summer sun." The paper concludes that such a precaution "makes perfect sense." The U.K. Sun, however, offers another explanation. "She wants to stop smoking," Hurley's spokeswoman told the paper, and she read that sucking a pacifier can help. Hasn't she ever heard of the patch? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The stalk market gets bearish Last week was a bad week for stalkers. On Saturday, police in Arizona arrested Bernard A. Ortiz, who has allegedly been stalking Linda Ronstadt for the past three years. In one of Ortiz's numerous letters to his perky-nosed prey, he claimed he would "take her as his own even if he had to hurt people." And Gary Benson, who served time for stalking Jerry Lewis, was arrested again on Friday in Wyoming. Lewis received a letter on April 5 that read, "Dear Jerry. Your dead. Your friend, Gary Benson." With friends like that, who needs proper spelling? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Love, Angelina-style If you're Laura Dern or James Haven, stop reading now. It seems that Angelina Jolie loves Billy Bob Thornton more than life itself -- and maybe even more than she loves her brother. "I'm madly in love with this man and will be till the day I die," she says of her brand-new hubby in an upcoming Talk magazine interview. "No other men are like him. He is the most amazing person I've ever met in my life ... He's the kind of person I would like to be like. And, you know, just the sexiest [bleeping] creature that ever lived." Judging from the advance buzz about her upcoming role in "Dancing in the Dark," in which she gets downright steamy with Antonio Banderas, Mrs. Thornton No. 5 appears to have little to learn in the "sexiest [bleeping] creature" department. "There is some serious erotic stuff in this movie ... Nobody's ever seen me really ... above the sheets," she says. "I'm going to fight for them not to cut any of it." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy Bits Kate Winslet is obsessed with her "bump." "I'm quite small for five months," the pregnant actress opined in Scotland's Daily Record. "I know people who are absolutely huge." Poor dear's dying to be a tad more ... titanic. Being Pamela Anderson Lee's double is back-breaking work -- and not just for the obvious reasons. Julie Michaels injured her spine in 1998 while doubling for the bombshell on Lee's syndicated show "V.I.P." -- and now that the producers have replaced Michaels with someone else, she's suing them for wrongful termination. If you ask me, they oughta at least reimburse her for the implants and the peroxide. Dr. Melfi would have a field day with this one: James Gandolfini (of "The Sopranos" fame) has signed on to star alongside Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt in Gore Verbinski's "The Mexican." He'll play a gay mafioso who has an affair with a postman. Just don't tell Uncle Junior.
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