Cross-dressing shock rocker Marilyn Manson and actress Rose McGowan have broken off their engagement. "There is great love, but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater," McGowan said in a statement. The duo became engaged two years ago.
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Despite being banned from promoting her new CD on Live with Regis, Kathie Lee Gifford says she's game to return to her old stomping ground to talk about her upcoming E! Entertainment Television film, Spinning Out of Control.
"I'd like to," she told TV Guide Online at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "I had dinner with [Regis Philbin] Saturday night... we had a great time. You know, that's up to them. I'd love to go if they want me to. I'd be happy to."
In Pasadena to plug Spinning Out of Control — a dark comedy in which the former talk show host plays against-type as a booze-guzzling, cocaine-sniffing, power-hungry sitcom star — Gifford maintained her composure (and a hearty sense of humor) as reporters grilled her about Live's ratings rise in the wake of her exit, her reported rift with producer Michael Gelman and whether the bad blood has created tension between her and Reege.
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Emmy-winning West Wing actress Allison Janney has been cast as Meryl Streep's lesbian lover in the ensemble drama The Hours, to be directed by Billy Elliot helmer Stephen Daldry, Variety reports. The cast also includes Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Claire Danes and Ed Harris. The film is based on Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
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Last May, ER offered its viewers their last look at Dr. Doug Ross, when fan favorite George Clooney made a top-secret, single-episode return to the program he called home for five years. ("It was good and sneaky!" the actor boasts with a sly smile.) That was not, however, Clooney's last look at the ratings hit that paved his way to film stardom.
"It looks classy," the star of this past summer's The Perfect Storm tells TV Guide Online, referring to ER's shift to a film-like widescreen format and high-definition broadcast signal. Clooney then notes that the CBS TV-movie, Fail Safe, which he produced, also was shown in letterbox.
Discussing his past and present association with NBC's six-year-old hospital drama, Clooney shares this: "I'm sort of sentimental about ER, although this season I have watched a couple of episodes."
Most impressing him about the show's current incarnation is it
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The fate of MTV's fictional boy-band series, 2gether, remains up in the air in the wake of Michael Cuccione's death over the weekend. The 16-year-old cancer survivor — who played Jason "QT" McKnight on the series — died following a bout with pneumonia. "We had shot six more [episodes] and... we were going to launch them in February," Brian Graden, MTV's president of programming, told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "Right now, we're just going to put that on hold and wait and see what the family feels and what the producers feel." Meanwhile, Graden confirmed that the network's low-rated youth drama, Live Through This, is all but cancelled. "We have seven episodes we haven't aired yet," he said. "We'll probably air them at some point, but it's unlikely the show will come back."
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Beyonce Knowles — the Destiny's Child singer who is up for five Grammy Awards — will make her acting debut in the MTV original film, Carmen: A Hip Hopera, described as an urban retelling of the classic opera. The movie — which will be directed by Robert Townsend — co-stars Mekhi Phifer (Clockers) and will also feature appearances by rappers Lil Bow Wow and Mos Def. Townsend told reporters at the Television Critics Association that he's not ruling out cameos by Knowles's Destiny's Child singing mates.
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Aaron Spelling shouldn't break out the champagne just yet. In a bid to boost ratings and avoid cancellation, the WB's soap-within-a-soap satire, Grosse Pointe, during February sweeps will feature a parade of celebrity guest stars, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Priestley and Sex and the City vamp Kristin Davis. But series creator Darren Star is working on what would be the casting coup to end all casting coups.
"Shannen [Doherty] wants to come on the show," Star tells TV Guide Online of the former Beverly Hills, 90210 and current Charmed star, whose bad-girl rep inspired Grosse Pointe's resident diva Hunter (Irene Molloy). "We've spoken, and she'd like to do something and we'd like to find something for her, but she's been pretty booked
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MTV has ordered six episodes of The Andy Dick Show, a 30-minute variety series that will feature a mix of comedy sketches, short films and music video parodies. Promoting the show to the media at the Television Critics Association press tour, the former Newsradio actor jumped out of a birthday cake the network had wheeled out in honor of its 20th anniversary. Wearing nothing but a thong, he proceeded to prance around the ballroom squirting whip cream on his body and massaging his nipples. Ironically, Dick then took to the stage and told the roomful of journalists: "You guys creep me out." The Andy Dick Show premieres Feb. 27 at 10:30 p.m.
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Cindy Crawford is praying she never gets trapped in an elevator with Madonna. The supermodel/entrepreneur told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., that while she reveres the recently wed pop diva's ability to constantly reinvent herself — and set fashion trends in the process — personally, she quipped, she "scares the s--- out of me."
Later, Crawford — who was promoting Fashion Flashback, her upcoming four-part series on the new Women's Entertainment (WE) network — clarified her remarks to TV Guide Online. "You just get the sense that Madonna is going to tell you what's on her mind, if it's bad or good," she says, adding that she "didn't mean [that comment] in a literal sense, but it's just her presence... she just seems like a no-nonsense type of person.
"If she didn't like what you were wearing, or if she didn't like something you said on Jay Leno the night before, she would tell
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Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe are no longer an item, USA Today columnist Jeannie Williams confirms. The Proof of Life stars reportedly ended their relationship in mid-December, according to sources close to the actress. Rumors of the couple's split started when Crowe and Ryan spent the holidays apart. This news comes just a week after Ryan's estranged husband, Dennis Quaid, was photographed dancing with several women on top of the bar at Manhattan's Hogs and Heifers.
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