The Pie Is Right for Drew Carey
Drew Carey’s favorite pizza joint is not only coming on down, it’s also flying on over.
The Price Is Right host is celebrating his first full year as emcee of the daytime staple by ordering a very specialnot to mention costlydelivery of pizza straight from Cleveland.
Carey, an Ohio native who is so fond of Antonio’s Pizza that he has even made mention of the parlor on his former sitcom, has ordered 45 cheese and pepperoni pizzas to be delivered to Los Angeles for Saturday’s wrap party marking the end of the show’s 36th season.
While the pizzas themselves ring up to roughly $450, it will cost Carey nearly three times that for their safe and uneaten deliveryUPS is taking on the task, providing overnight delivery of the frozen pies.
“He never forgot where he came from,” Grace Loschiavo, owner of Antonio’s, told Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper. “Thousands of pizza places from here to California and he picked us.”
Graciousness is clearly included in his order; gratuity is not.
Scorned Shutterbug Sues Woody Harrelson Again
This guy knows his name but doesn’t wish Woody Harrelson any good cheer.
Photographer Josh Levine sued the Oscar-nominated actor for $2.5 million Friday, claiming Harrelson injured him both physically and emotionally when he roughed him up two years ago outside a Hollywood club, per the Los Angeles Times.
According to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Levine was working for TMZ.com on June 29, 2006, when he approached Harrelson near the intersection of Las Palmas Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, only to tape the actor going medieval for the camera.
The video Levine shot at the time shows the paparazzo approaching Harrelson and calling out to get his attention.
The White Men Can’t Jump star broke Levine’s camera, choked him and shoved the camera into his ribs, the complaint alleges.
Levine is seeking $2.5 million in damages to compensate for mental, physical, nervous and emotional pain and suffering. He is also suing one of Harrelson’s bodyguards, who he claims was ordered to attack him.
Harrelson’s camp couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. The L.A. District Attorney’s Office investigated the incident at the time but no charges were ever filed.
Levine originally sued the former sitcom star for assault and battery last year but dropped his case in January. His attorney said at the time, however, that the photog was contemplating revisiting the matter in the future.
Seinfeld: Suit Doesn’t Have a Leg to Stand-Up On
Jerry Seinfeld is wondering how a show about nothing has turned him into an “actor.”
Lawyers for the former sitcom star have asked that a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a steamed cookbook author be tossed out on First Amendment grounds, arguing that any statements she perceived to be derogatory were made while he was in comedian mode.
Missy Chase Lapine, author of The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals, has accused Jessica Seinfeld of swiping her methods for getting kids to eat vegetables and her funny hubby of slandering her during an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman in October.
Noting that the plaintiff was accusing his wife of committing “vegetable plagiarism” in her book Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food, Seinfeld told Letterman that Lapine being a “three-name woman” worried him.
“If you read history, many of the three-name people do become assassins. Mark David Chapman and, you know, James Earl Ray. So, that’s my concern.”
None of which Lapine took lightly when she added a defamation charge to the copyright-and-trademark-infringement lawsuit she filed against the Seinfelds in January (after Jerry had made those comments).
But while she referred to Seinfeld as a comedian in her original complaint, in a revised suit filed several weeks Lapine stated: “Jerry Seinfeld is an enormously wealthy and well-known actor.”
Seinfeld’s lawyers beg to differ, considering he was expected to be funny when he was a guest on the Late Show.
“No reasonable viewer could have thought that Seinfeld really meant that Lapine…might become an ’assassin’ simply because she has three names,” state court documents filed Tuesday in response to Lapine’s suit.