Sightings: Hilton, Hines and Union
NOT SO SWEET: Nicky Hilton, enjoying an iced vanilla latte with no sugar at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in West Hollywood.
ROCK SOLID: Chris Rock and his wife, Malaak, along with their daughters, shopping at the Grove mall in L.A.
FLIGHT PATTERN: Gabrielle Union, lugging her luggage through LAX airport before finding the friend who was picking her up.
BIG HIT: Freddie Prinze Jr., sporting a black Kangol, sitting ringside at Izod Center for WWE's Monday Night Raw in New Jersey.
LUNCHABLES: Aisha Tyler, having lunch at the new Kokomo Cafe in L.A. the day after Jason Schwartzman was doing the same.
SHORT ORDER: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, enjoying appetizers at Dakota at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel before going upstairs to a private party in a penthouse suite.
FESTIVAL LIGHTS: Cheryl Hines and William H. Macy, toasting their new movie Bart Got a Room at the Cadillac Lounge at Tenjune nightclub after a screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
BANK HEIST: Wilmer Valderrama, partying with Criss Angel at the Bank Nightclub at Las Vegas’ Bellagio.
COMING UP BOYS ROOM: Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart, Justin Chambers, Jason Lewis and Brad Rowe are expected at the Saks Fifth Avenue men’s store tonight in Beverly Hills for Chrysalis’ Shop for a Cause benefit.
Bad Ideas: Disney’s Further Adventures in Babysitting
Last July we told you about Disney’s plans to ruin the 1980’s teen adventure comedy Adventures in Babysitting with a remake starring Raven Symone (That’s So Raven, The Cosby Show). We hoped the idea would die or fall into development hell. We prayed day and night, but it looks like the movie is going forward.
Nancy Drew screenwriter Tiffany Paulsen has been hired to scribble that thing they will eventually refer to as the story or script (While I’m still be calling it an abomination). Miley Cyrus (you know, the little girl in Big Fish? Don’t recognize her name? Yeah, same here) is also signed on to star. Disney will be calling the new movie “Further Adventures in Babysitting“. I say we rerelease the 1987 Chris Columbus film and call it a day.
The original film followed Chris (who was played by Elisabeth Shue) whose big night out is put to a stop when her boyfriend cancels on her. She agrees to babysit for a pre-teen girl and a pubescent boy. She’s settled in for a dull night when a girlfriend calls her to say she’s marooned at a downtown bus station with very seedy characters around. The three take the parents station wagon for a trip to the inner city.
What is Disney’s obsession with remaking and sequalizing classic films for the sake of a few bucks? Oh yeah, a few bucks. I can;t wait for Even More Adventures in Babysitting starring Freddie Prinze Jr., because we know that’s right around the corner.
Sarah Michelle Gellar Likes The Simple Life
Sarah Michelle Gellar Likes The Simple Life
Handling stardom at a young age can be a difficult task. Just ask Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar stands out as an example of a child star who has managed her success with grace and professionalism.
Gellar, who grew up with a role on the popular TV series All My Children, claims that her busy Hollywood schedule actually steered her away from the troubles that plague so many of Tinseltown’s youngsters. “You don’t party when you’re on a TV show. You got to bed for 10 hours and you learn your lines,” she said.
The Buffy Babe continued to say, “I never smoked and I didn’t drink alcohol until I was 21.” And Gellar, who’s married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr, doesn’t understand why anyone would want to have to deal with living their life in the public eye.
“I don’t understand the need to give in to excess and lead your life in public. It doesn’t make sense to me,” she said, adding, “I look at all these kids getting fame and attention now and they’re just not equipped to deal with success at such a young age.”
Amanda Detmer Biography
A petite blonde actress with pretty, pixiesh features and a high energy presence, California native Amanda Detmer made her debut in the TV-movie “Stolen Innocence” (CBS) in 1995. A local girl (the project was lensed in her native Chico), Detmer impressed with a featured role in the telepic, but resumed her education, earning her BA and later her MFA in theater. In 1998 she spent a summer on stage in Minneapolis and that same year lensed a starring role in the mystical independent drama “Last Seen”. Although she had by now completed her graduate degree at New York University and was in her late twenties, Detmer easily adapted to teen roles, possessing youthful looks and bubbly charm. 1999 saw the actress make her big screen debut playing Miss Minneapolis in the Minnesota beauty pageant-set comedy “Drop Dead Gorgeous”. Television work in the NBC miniseries “To Serve and Protect” (NBC) and the very short-lived series “Ryan Caulfield: Year One” (Fox) put her among fictional police that same year.
Detmer made greater strides in 2000, with a featured role in the ensemble of the teen thriller “Final Destination”. Playing Terry, the agreeable girlfriend of thickheaded jock Carter (Kerr Smith) offered her increased visibility and the chance to suffer what may be the most genuinely startling demise in the contemporary spate of teen scream films. While her character would no doubt stay down, Detmer saw her profile continue to rise that year, starring as an understanding and upbeat teacher with a regular role on Don Roos’ edgy comedy “M.Y.O.B.” (NBC) and taking on a co-starring role alongside hot tickets Claire Forlani, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jason Biggs in Robert Iscove’s college-set romantic comedy “Boys and Girls”. In 2001, she reteamed with Biggs, playing his love interest (and a would-be nun) in the daffy comedy “Saving Silverman”.
- Also Credited As:Amanda J. Detmer
- Born:on 09/27/71 in Chico, California
- Job Titles:Actor
Significant Others
- Companion: Benjamin King.
Milestones
- 1995 Featured as a runaway in the CBS TV-movie “Stolen Innocence”
- 1998 Spent the summer acting in productions at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater
- 1999 Acted in the NBC miniseries “To Serve and Protect”, chronicling a family of New York City police officers
- 1999 Played Miss Minneapolis in the beauty pageant-set comedy “Drop Dead Gorgeous”
- 1999 Starred in the mystical drama “Last Seen”; screened at the Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM)
- 1999 Was a regular on the short-lived Fox police drama series “Ryan Caulfield: Year One”
- 2000 Co-starred as one of a group of high school students spared from a plane crash death because of a peer’s preminatory vision in the supernatural thriller “Final Destination”
- 2000 Featured in the romantic comedy “Boys and Girls”
- 2000 Was a regular on the summer replacement sitcom “M.Y.O.B.” (NBC)
- 2001 Co-starred with Jim Carrey in “The Majestic”
- 2001 Had a supporting role in “Saving Silverman”, playing a young woman ready to take religious vows who is the dream girl of the Jason Biggs’ titular nice guy
- Acted the independent features “X-Girlfriends” and “Something Sweet” (both lensed 1999)