Faith Hill and Tim McCraw announced plans to resume their joint 2006 mega tour— which, at $89 million, was one of the highest-grossing of the year—this summer, launching the Soul2Soul 2007 tour in June. Dates and cities have yet to be announced.
Shakira and Wyclef Jean are teaming up to perform together at the Grammys this Sunday, as are Chris Brown, and Smokey Robinson who have also been tapped to present during the CBS-aired ceremony. And the award for the most hip artist goes to...?
Josh Whedon pulled out of directing the upcoming big screen Wonder Woman remake, telling the fan site Whedonesque.com Friday that the ever-popular creative differences precluded him from moving forward on the Warner Bros. project, adding he “had a take on the film that nobody liked.” Yeah, he wanted more cleavage than can be practically achieved with Wonder Woman’s physical role. Talk about wardrobe malfunction!
T.R Knight and Cynthia Nixon are set to co-host the 52nd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards May 21, honoring the best in Off-Broadway. No chance of Knight being the victim of racial slurs. The only “F” word uttered would be “fabulous.”
Phil Spector settled a 2005 embezzlement suit with a former personal assistant, whom he claimed had removed hundreds of thousands of dollars from his bank account and failed to pay back a loan. The P.A. has agreed to drop her counter-claim of sexual harassment and pay the music producer $900,000. If only that was the extent of Phil’s problems, like an upcoming trial for murder one.
Kiefer Sutherland has signed on to star in Mirrors, a supernatural thriller in which he fights the origin of evil, during his 24 hiatus this summer, per Variety. Nothing like taking a break from saving the world to, you know, save the world.
Anna Nicole Smith and TrimSpa are in a class action lawsuit alleging the diet pill purveyor falsely claimed that their product would result in “rapid and substantial weight loss.”
The Sarah SIlverman Program averaged 1.8 million viewers for its premiere last Thursday, making it the most-watched Comedy Central debut since 2002’s Drawn Together. Can she keep her potty mouth under control?
Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard teaming with Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and every other movie studio you can think of, to sell digital movies and TV shows on the store’s Website, per the New York Times, making them the first retailer to do so. Netflix and Blockbuster are shaking in their boots.
Former Oz actor Granville Adams was arrested in New York Saturday and charged with criminally negligent homicide after getting into a scuffle with a 35-year-old man who, mid-skirmish, fell down an elevator shaft to his death.
Actor Ryan O’Neal was arrested at his Malibu home early Saturday on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm after a dispute with his 42-year-old son, Griffin. No word on the cause of the dispute, though the elder O’Neal’s manager told the Insider that he was simply defending himself after Griffin started “wildly swinging a fireplace poker.”
Martin Scorsese picked up the top nod at the Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday for his stellar work on The Departed, bringing him one step closer to the career-eluding Best Director Oscar later this month. If only he’d catered to Hollywood’s love of epic crime dramas earlier in his career, the prize could already have been his.
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