Bob Saget by Ian White/Comedy Central
When Comedy Central roasts Bob Saget (and good!) on Aug. 17, overseeing the Bob-BQ is none other than his Full House kin, John Stamos. "Him being the roast master is kind of odd, but moving," Saget tells TV Guide. "It’s like an emotional thing." With the "roastee" being "Danny Tanner," you have to expect that a fair amount of digs will be made at the Olsen twins — especially the dirty kind. That's precisely what transpired, and Saget wasn't entirely OK with it all. "Anybody who talks about my TV kids — that upsets me the most," Saget tells New York Post. "I am very protective. I love them very much." The now-22-year-olds were in fact invoked by Stamos, who said during the taping, "The whole time Bob and I were doing Full House, he was also hosting America's Funniest Home Videos.... His entire job consisted of saying 'Take a look at this' — which is what he used to say to Mary-Kate in her dressing room."With comments like that, do you think Saget's roasters went ...
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen by Lorenzo Santini/ WireImage.com
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are writing a book about fashion called Influence. The coffee-table volume, in stores this fall, will include new photos of the pair by photographer Rankin and essays by the authors about the photographers, designers and artists who have inspired them. This list is said to include Bob Colacello, Terry Richardson, Jack Pierson and Christian Louboutin, but, before they go to press, I'd like to make a few other suggestions of people who, at least to me, appear to have influenced the pair's distinctive look:1) Bob Marley (le chapeau)2) the old-timey hobo who lives by the railroad yard3) my nana4) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial5) Elton John (eyewear only) Inspired yet? I can't wait for their joint book party with Eminem. I hope there's rumaki! — Mickey O'Connor
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The Game Plan courtesy Walt Disney Pictures
USA Network has grabbed basic-cable dibs on the big-screen hit The Game Plan, to air in October 2009.... Lifetime has picked up rerun rights to ABC's Wife Swap, to start unspooling October '08.... Aaron McGruder has inked a deal with the comedy site Super Deluxe to create The Super Rumble Mixshow, a live-action series chockablock with the Boondocks creator's racially charged humor.... WE TV on Jan. 4 premieres Ugliest House on the Block, a six-episode home makeover series... about my neighbor? Seriously, those blue shingles are ghastly.... PETA invites you to give the Olsen twins a shake. (Fun stuff, frankly.)
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen by Jamie McCarthy/WireImage.com
"Fur Is Worn by Beautiful Animals and Ugly People" — that's the message of a poster featuring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, to be unveiled by PETA Wednesday afternoon at the site of the sibs' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The "Trollsen Twins, Hairy Kate and Trashley" (as PETA dubs them, albeit in an eighth-grade manner) are being targeted by the org for their refusal to defer da fur, and as such are also "seen" learning about the evils of harming animals in a PETA-produced video parody of Full House. Hey, as long as it has Coulier doing that high-sterical Donald Duck voice....
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Miley Cyrus by Steve Granitz/ WireImage.com
It wasn't enough that they have enough money that they can use it to line their doggie beds, they also had to be under 25. This hurts. Among the top 20 are: bad girl Lindsay Lohan and good girl Miley Cyrus, with $3.5 million apiece; Mitovich's imaginary girlfriend, Scarlett Johansson, No. 12 with $5 million; popsters Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff, $12 million apiece; Daniel "Harry Potter" Radcliffe, No. 6 with $15 million; the Olsen twins, No. 5 with $17 million each; and in the top spot, the clearly overpaid LeBron James, with $27 million. In related news, Mitovich, I want a raise. And Botox. — Ben Katner
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Angelina Jolie by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
Katharine McPhee has gotten engaged to Nick Cokas, an actor neither you nor I have heard of and who is almost 20 years her senior, People reports.... Sex and the City's Mr. Big, Chris Noth, is expecting a baby with girlfriend Tara Wilson, the New York Post says.... Despite protests from a woman claiming to be the child's (supposedly dead) birth mother, Angelina Jolie can keep 2-year-old Zahara, says the adoption agency that handled the transfer of the Ethiopian infant to her celebufamily.... OMG, Lance Armstrong, like, so doesn't like Ashley Olsen, y'know, like that. (Snicker, snicker.) "[We] are strictly friends," the biker boy tells the New York Post. "We have hung out.... And she strikes me as a nice, smart lady." Did you hear that, Ash? Nice and smart! No wonder his ex Sheryl Crow felt it necessary to announce that "his personal life... is none of my business." Ohhh, there's so gonna be a catfight after gym class! — Ben Katner
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Jessica Simpson and Owen Wilson were spied on a date Sunday night at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica — before (ahem) "retiring" to his Malibu home, says The Star. And just like that, he gets a bedrock of stability in his life.... Ashley Olsen and Lance Armstrong were spotted together at the Rose Bar in New York City, say both Gotham dailies.... Catherine Keener's divorce from Dermot Mulroney was finalized on Tuesday.
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Nicole Richie and Ashley Olsen this year lay dubious claim to the No. 1 and 2 spots on PETA's "Worst-Dressed List" of fur-wearing celebs. Of Richie, the press release says, "This pelt-wearing party girl is all animal skin and bones," while Olsen, they advise, would be better to bulk up her frame "using a fork instead." Placing fourth (behind Christina Ricci, who recently donned reindeer fur for a magazine cover) is Eva Longoria. Quips PETA of the Desperate housewife, "You'd think she'd be more sympathetic to the plight of rabbits considering the way she screw around like one on Wisteria Lane." See, even activists can be funny!
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Question: I know this is a really, really stupid question, but some friends and I were talking about the Olsen twins and (not that either of them is ever going to be nominated for an Academy Award — sorry Mary-Kate! Sorry Ashley!), but we were wondering: Have twins ever shared an Oscar?
Answer: I'd go so far as to say it's a very silly question but I'd stop short of "stupid," perhaps because I was actually curious enough to look into it. And the answer is that two twins have been Oscar winners, though the twins in question weren't actors: They're Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, two of the three screenwriters who wrote Casablanca (1943). Oh, and they didn't have to share a single statuette — each got his own.
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Question: I know this is a really, really stupid question, but some friends and I were talking about the Olsen twins and (not that either of them is ever going to be nominated for an Academy Award — sorry Mary-Kate! Sorry Ashley!), but we were wondering: Have twins ever shared an Oscar?
Answer: I'd go so far as to say it's a very silly question but I'd stop short of stupid, perhaps because I was actually curious enough to look into it. And the answer is yes, though the twins in question aren't actors: They're Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, two of the three screenwriters who wrote Casablanca (1943).
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