On the heels of reviving his action-movie career with the grizzly box-office hit Exit Wounds, Steven Seagal is — even more frighteningly — recording a music album in Kingston, Jamaica. "Doing movies took up all of my time, but music has always been my first love," the actor told the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper. Among his as-yet-untitled debut album's highlights: Seagal, 50 — who sings vocals and plays guitar — will do a cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," while Haitian hip-hopper Wyclef Jean will produce one of the tracks.
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Forget those bickering whippersnappers on Survivor: The Australian Outback — original Survivor Rudy Boesch still has something to say. According to Inside.com, the curmudgeonly ex-Navy Seal has made a deal with publisher Adams Media to write a book about, well, whatever he darn well pleases. Boesch will apparently be airing his erudite opinions on sundry topics, including sex, religion, politics and TV. Brace yourselves...
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Some critics have slammed Making the Band as a Real World retread offering up little more than the half-baked adventures of a handful of pre-fabricated musical dilettantes. Nonetheless, millions flocked to watch the show's first season, which followed the creation of boy band O-Town. In breathless anticipation of the second season's intrigues — kicking off tomorrow night at 8 pm/ET on ABC — TV Guide Online corralled songbirds Ashley Parker Angel, Erik-Michael Estrada, Dan Miller, Trevor Penick and Jacob Underwood for a friendly little interrogation. Surprisingly candid, these gents weren't shy about discussing life in the reality series fishbowl, crossing controversial bandmaker Lou Pearlman and facing their moody black-sheep nemesis, Ikaika Kahoano.
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Still smarting from NBC's cancellation last fall of his Dynasty update, Titans, mega-producer Aaron Spelling reveals that he's turning his back on the suds genre. "Soaps are something you're going to find only in my bathroom," he deadpans.
Instead, Spelling is turning his attention to another seemingly done-to-death fad: horror. But he points out that All Souls — his new UPN supernatural drama set at a haunted hospital — is not your standard cookie-cutter frightfest. "It's sort of the dark side of Charmed," he says, referring to his hit WB spooker. "[It] will tap into the fascination viewers seem to have with horror and the occult.
"Instead of calling it ER, we're calling it 'ES' for 'Everything Scary,'" Spelling adds of All Souls, which debuts April 17 at 9 pm/ET. "It's being shot in an old gothic hospital in Montr
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Philip Baker Hall and Shirley Knight (As Good as It Gets) have been tapped to play SNL alum Cheri Oteri's parents in her upcoming CBS sitcom, Variety reports... Joining the list of casualties left in Judge Judy's wake, syndie courtroom series Judge Mills Lane has been axed. Judge Mills Lane, who bangs his cranky gavel for the last time this summer, will resume his old jobs as a lawyer and boxing promoter back home in Reno, Nevada... Actress Beatrice Straight — who won a best supporting actress Oscar for playing William Holden's wife in the 1976 TV satire Network — has died at 86... Lions Gate Prods. is developing a sequel to American Psycho, last year's dark comedy-thriller starring Christian Bale, Variety reports. This time around, Mila Kunis (Get Over It) will star... The Who's Roger Daltrey will play a Catholic priest in the upcoming TNT seri
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Dawson's Creek is featuring another boy-on-boy smooch — but this one apparently is the real deal. On the May 2 episode, the show's token gay hunk, Jack (Kerr Smith), shares a steamy kiss with b.f. Toby (David Monahan), TV Guide Online has learned. But unlike last year's much-ballyhooed season-ending buss between Jack and Ethan (Adam Kaufman) — which ended up being a big bust — a source insists that this latest pucker will sizzle, not fizzle.
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The CD compilation Now That's What I Call Music: Vol. 6 debuted at No. 1 on the album charts, selling over 525,000 copies last week, according to current SoundScan figures. This latest entry in the very popular Now series boasts recent hits from U2, Jennifer Lopez and Destiny's Child. Meanwhile, R&B crooner Ginuwine's Life bowed in the No. 3 spot after peddling 152,000 copies, and Live in New York City — a recording of last summer's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert — debuted at No. 5 with 114,000 copies sold.
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Acting legend Marlon Brando will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming sequel to Scary Movie in a deal that could pay him $1 million. In what is being touted as the 77-year-old Oscar winner's first "flat-out comic role," Brando will play a priest who performs a "supernatural exorcism." The film is slated to open July 4.
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Spring has sprung — and celebs are catching wedding fever! Former Suddenly Susan star Brooke Shields wed writer-producer Chris Henchy on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California last week. This marks the second marriage for Shields, who was previously hitched to tennis pro Andre Agassi. Meanwhile, Entertainment Tonight reports Minnie Driver and Josh Brolin have become engaged after a courtship of slightly more than two years. (Josh is the son of James Brolin, aka Mr. Barbra Streisand.) And a CBS rep confirms that Survivor: The Australian Outback's Elisabeth Filarski is engaged to Boston College football quarterback Tim Hasselbeck.
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Hollywood's modern-day remake of Shakespeare's Othello will finally see the light of day. O — which features several high-school murders — was delayed numerous times, in part due to the rash of school shootings. However, indie studio Lions Gate Films has acquired U.S. rights to the pic from Dimension Films, and plans to release it in August on 1,500 screens. The controversial update stars Julia Stiles, Mekhi Phifer, Martin Sheen and Josh Hartnett.
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