REPORT: NBC NEWS PRODUCER AIMS TO LAND CASEY ANTHONY INTERVIEW

An NBC News producer has approached literary agents, advising them that if he could land a book deal for Casey Anthony, she would agree to give the network a one-hour interview that would run during primetime on NBC and be excerpted for the network’s Today show, according to gossip website TMZ, which cited no sources. [...]

STUNTMAN INJURED DURING FEAR FACTOR TEST

Dire predictions that a contestant will inevitably be seriously hurt on one of the reality shows that require physical skill gained new attention Monday when a stuntman testing a new setup for the Fear Factor broke both ankles when a safety mechanism failed. According to gossip website TMZ, which first reported the accident, the stuntman [...]

75 EX-NFL PLAYERS CHARGE LEAGUE MISLED THEM ABOUT BRAIN INJURIES

As expected, some 75 former professional football players have filed a class-action lawsuit against the NFL, claiming that the league intentionally concealed evidence that repeated concussions could lead to permanent brain damage. In fact, the lawsuit maintains, a study commissioned by the NFL in 1994 and another report published in 2004 concluded that multiple concussions [...]

TBS SHOOTS DOWN RUMORS OF NEW CHARLIE SHEEN SHOW

A spokesman for TBS has denied rumors, first reported by Radar Online, that spread online Monday that Charlie Sheen was close to signing a deal with Lionsgate to star in a new sitcom that would be carried by the Time Warner-owned cable network. The Hollywood Reporter quoted a TBS spokesperson as saying, “TBS is not [...]

WILL HBO FILM WHITEWASH PHIL SPECTOR?

Recent comments by writer-director David Mamet that he believes onetime record producer Phil Spector is not guilty of the murder of actress Lana Clarkson have infuriated Clarkson’s friends. Interviewed by the London Financial Times about his upcoming HBO film about Spector, which stars Al Pacino as Spector, Mamet said, “I don’t think he’s guilty. I [...]

HORROR MOVIE STAR FIRED; TIME FOR A REWRITE?

The producers of an independent horror movie are facing the question of what to do when your star reportedly becomes so erratic that you are forced to fire him half way through the filming. According to the gossip website TMZ that’s the issue that production companies Elusive Entertainment, Welcome Home Productions and Dream Cinema Productions [...]

X FACTOR PRODUCER: COWELL DID NOT FIRE CHERYL COLE

The firing of British singer Cheryl Cole as a judge on the upcoming U.S. version of Simon Cowell’s The X Factor had still not been acknowledged officially on Wednesday, a week after it had been leaked to the gossip website TMZ. None of those directly involved has commented — not Fox TV, which plans to [...]

WARNERS TELLS WHY IT FIRED SHEEN

The gossip website TMZ has become the semi-official repository for interviews and legal documents concerning the Charlie Sheen/Two and a Half Men fiasco. (Ironically, the site is owned by Warner Bros., whose TV division produces the show and which on Monday fired Sheen.) Following receipt of his termination notice, Sheen sent TMZ a marginally coherent [...]

E! SHINES LIGHT ON SHEEN

E! Entertainment Channel is planning to broadcast a documentary tonight about the frenetic life of Two and a Half Men co-star Charlie Sheen. Production of the television show, television’s most lucrative sitcom, has been suspended while Sheen undergoes intensive rehab. On Wednesday the gossip website TMZ reported that Sheen had offered to cover 1/3 of [...]

WAS COURT SPOKESMAN FIRED FOR LEAKING TO TMZ?

Allan Parachini, the spokesman for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, has been fired amid rumors that he hired a former reporter for the gossip website and TV show TMZ as his deputy, who leaked information about important celebrity cases to her former employer. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Parachini denied the [...]

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