Aging action star Sylvester Stallone has filed a $17.3 million lawsuit against celeb business manager Kenneth Starr, who he claims urged him to hold onto Planet Hollywood stock as the share price plummeted and the restaurant chain plunged into bankruptcy. Stallone says Starr cost him more than $10 million.
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If anyone can pull this off, it's these two: Tim Robbins is reportedly poised to direct his longtime companion, Susan Sarandon, in a film about the Sept. 11 attacks. The pic would be based on James Stewart's New Yorker article "The Real Heroes Are Dead." Meanwhile, ABC is developing a 9/11-themed docudrama focusing on the rescue and recovery effort.
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ABC has picked up NYPD Blue for a 10th season, a network rep confirms. Steven Bochco's resurgent cop drama has more than held its own this season in its new ultra-competitive 9 pm Tuesday timeslot.
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Last week on Will & Grace, sharp-tongued socialite Karen (Megan Mullally) passed off Will as her faux beau. Now that her filthy rich hubby Stan Walker — who's never been seen onscreen — has been imprisoned for tax evasion, can we expect Mrs. Walker to start dating for real?
Considering her sordid past — remember her "dirty piggy" porn movie? — just think of the sassy, brassy possibilities! "I don't know," Mullally tells TV Guide Online. "You're never going to see Stan anyway, so whether he's in prison or not, it doesn't make that much difference. I don't think my character is ever going to cheat on Stan, even though he's condoned it. I don't think the producers want me to be an adultress!
"It's not a moral thing," she adds. "I just think they decided that wasn't what they wanted. The weird thing is that, ultimately
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Well, we know he's not doing this for the extra cash: Friends millionaire Matthew Perry will appear in a special two-hour episode of Fox's Ally McBeal on April 15. Perry will play "a cocky, successful and opinionated attorney who wreaks havoc on Ally's personal and professional life," Fox says. That same episode, Christina Ricci will kick off a four-episode arc as a brilliant, young legal protégé.
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Sharon Stone, watch your back — big-screen sweetheart Meg Ryan is moving in on your territory. The romantic comedy goddess is in negotiations to star in the low-budget erotic thriller In the Cut, Variety reports. The pic — to be directed by The Piano's Jane Campion — revolves around a New York writing teacher (Ryan) who becomes sexually involved with a detective investigating a series of brutal murders in her neighborhood. Oscar nominee Nicole Kidman will serve as one of the executive producers.
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It was a slow week at the nation's record stores as Jennifer Lopez's remix collection J to Tha L-O! debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart after selling only 156,000 copies. Barry Manilow's new greatest hits disc, Ultimate Manilow, bowed at No. 3 — his highest chart debut ever. Back to J.Lo, the singer-actress has been named as a presenter at the 74th Academy Awards on March 24.
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If host Mark L. Walberg has told the combustible couples of Temptation Island 2 once, he's told them a thousand times: The show is all about questions — and man, do we ever have some doozies for Catherine Chiarelli, the 23-year-old dancer whose dangerous curves put her atop several of the Island himbos' Most Wanted lists. Do you have nightmares about showering with sleazy Tom A.? How on Earth could you cast off the adorably dorky Rossi for pretty-boy Brian? And what the heck were you doing dating a skirt-chasing dolt like Edmundo in the first place? As Fox's tawdry real-life soap opera rounds out its second season this evening (at 9 pm/ET), TV Guide Online presses the big-screen-bound drama queen for answers.
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Charlie's Angels helmer McG is jumpstarting Warner Bros.'s Superman franchise, signing on to direct the Man of Steel's next big-screen adventure. Acclaimed TV writer-producer J.J. Abrams (Felicity, Alias) will write the script.
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