| Pop Diva Britney Spears to Star in Raunchy Movie |
THE 8-year-old daughter of Clint Eastwood and his former girlfriend escaped a Christmas morning house fire in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Francesca Eastwood, who crawled out her bedroom window onto the garage roof of the burning home and jumped into the arms of a neighbor, was not seriously injured. Her mother, the actress Frances Fisher, in Vancouver to film a television series, was treated at Vancouver General Hospital for burns on her hands. Fisher appeared in Eastwood's western "Unforgiven" and as Rose's mother in the movie "Titanic."
The New York Post thinks fans of Britney Spears are going to be shocked by her raunchy movie debut, which features sex, rape, underage drinking and teenage pregnancy. "Crossroads," the story of three girlfriends who travel across the United States after their high-school graduation, shows the pop tart dancing seductively in her underwear and getting drunk from a hotel mini-bar, among other things. It's a far cry from the squeaky-clean private life Spears claims to enjoy with her boyfriend, Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync. In the movie, due out in February, Britney's real-life closest pal, Taryn Manning, plays her best friend - an unwed teen who becomes pregnant after being raped. "The concept of the movie was my idea, I felt passionate about it," Britney said. "I couldn't just do any movie. I felt this one in my heart."
The Coast Guard captain whose search-and-rescue efforts were depicted in the book and movie "The Perfect Storm" has retired. Captain Larry Brudnicki, 51, had been in the Coast Guard for more than 30 years, and had been chief of operations for the 11th Coast Guard District in Alameda, California, since 1997. Brudnicki commanded the cutter Tamaroa, which tried to save the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gail during a violent storm off the Massachusetts coast in 1991. The loss of the Andrea Gail and its crew inspired the book and movie. Brudnicki supervised more than 15,000 search-and-rescue cases during his career.
The Australian actor George Lazenby, who stepped into Sean Connery's patent leather pumps to play James Bond in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969, has resurfaced on the arm of the former tennis star Pam Shriver, and they will be married soon. Shriver is now a commentator on ESPN. According to The Los Angeles Times, she's selling her Brentwood, California, home for about $900,000 and is looking for something more lavish in which to reside with Lazenby.
When Elisabeth Rohm set out to land the role as the new assistant district attorney on the television show "Law Order," she had an advantage that she didn't know about. "This sounds weird," said the series creator and executive producer, Dick Wolf, who chose Rohm for the role, "but it was time to include a blonde." Rohm, who owns a horse, told TV Guide that she plans to start jumping. "If this gets published, I'll probably be told I can't do that," she said. "But Arnold Schwarzenegger still skis even though his contract says he can't. They don't have to be worried. If I fall, I'm not going to fall that far." The president and first lady won't be joining the Bush family this year for their gathering in Boca Grande, Florida, but former President George Bush, his wife, Barbara, Governor Jeb Bush and other family members were due to begin arriving Wednesday for vacation in the community of about 3,000 on Gasparilla Island.
Five days after undergoing a liver transplant, the AIDS activist and author Larry Kramer was listed in serious condition but was expected to be moved out of intensive care. A nurse supervisor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said Kramer was to be moved to a private room.
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