Kevin James Welcomes a Baby Daughter
King of Queens star Kevin James has welcomed a daughter, his rep confirms.
Shea Joelle was born on June 14, in Los Angeles and is the second child for James, 42, and his wife, model Steffiana De la Cruz, 32. Their first daughter, Sienna, was born in September 2005.
“I just love being a dad,” James told PEOPLE in March, “and spending time with my wife and child, and now we’re having another girl. It’s incredible.”
James, who stars in the upcoming film I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and De La Cruz were married in June 2004.
Queen for a Day is coming back
If you have a leisure suit in your closet and think it’ll never be in style again, you may be wrong. Everything has a way of coming back around, even game shows. With that in mind, Queen for a Day, a game show that ran in daytime for 20 years, is being resurrected for today. RDF USA has obtained format rights and plan to present their resurrected, revamped edition to cable and broadcast nets this week.
Queen for a Day was originally a radio show, but appeared on TV in 1947 and ran on and off until 1970. It was sort of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition of its day, albeit on a much more modest level. Female contestants would appear to tell her story of woe and misfortune in order to be eligible to become queen for a day, wherein she would win prizes, be feted with a crown and robe, offered roses and other gifts. “Make every woman a queen, for every single day,” was the host, Jack Bailey’s closing line each day. If it sounds hokey, it was. Comedy shows regularly satirized it.
No doubt the updated version will be more grandiose, the prizes a lot more substantial, and the reality elements of the show will be emphasized. You can imagine that the stories of woe will be depicted with video and testimonials from family and friends about why this woman needs to be a queen for a day.
RDF USA is seemingly a good choice for this project; they currently do ABC’s Wife Swap, which is rife with sentimentality and dripping in the kind of reality that makes one’s toes curl.
When I mentioned this Queen for a Day redux to my husband, he laughed and asked if it was going to be a gay game show? Hmm…perhaps. Or maybe they’ll make it Queens for a Day and set it in Astoria or Flushing with just borough residents eligible? What about King of Queens for a Day in which Kevin James grants a winner a day with a Hollywood star?
According to RDF CEO Chris Coelen, a format is still in the works, but they’re planning to inject more emotion into the new version. Considering the tears shed in the original (which I’ve only seen in kinescope clips), this thing might need to be sponsored by Kleenex. But in this era of product interference — oop, I mean, integration — that’s not out of the question. The original 1950’s edition had partnerships with such advertisers as Johnson & Johnson, Hoover and Westinghouse.
Seth Rogen to Star in Jody Hill’s Observe and Report
With his 2008 slate nicely stocked with cheeba and T&A (The Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno) gruffy, young superstar Seth Rogen looks to keep the debauchery rollin’ into ‘09. He’s set to star in the mall cop comedy Observe and Report, to be written and directed by Jody Hill, the latest to join Judd Apatow’s smoked out dugout and hot off the indie-com The Fist Foot Way. Apparently Apatow isn’t producing the film however.
Rogen will play Ronnie Barnhardt, an ego-maniacal head of mall security who tangos with with the local cops (you know, the real po-po). If you’re suddenly taking more of an interest in the oft-ignored, chubby rent-a-cops at your local superplex, that’s because actor Kevin James also has an ‘09 flick on deck called Mall Cop. Variety reports that Observe and Report will basically be awesomer because it will not deviate from Rogen’s grandma-scaring brand of hard comedy. Producer Donald De Line adds that the film will, “Definitely go to the edge.”
The pitch might as well be sprinkled with nuts like a cheeseball, sure, but the talent involved is quite ace. Malls haven’t been properly terrorized in a comedy in ages, so there’s definitely potential in watching Rogen wallop some Hot Topic punks with clever expletives and a wimpy baton.
Discuss: Anyone have a good mall cop story? Are you diggin’ this project? If Rogen had starred in Semi-Pro in place of Will Ferrell, would it have still bricked?
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry Movie Trailer
I never thought I’d be interested in seeing a comedy about Adam Sandler and Kevin James getting married, but this actually looks some-what promising. The movie trailer for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Poster) is now online. Check it out on Yahoo! Movies in High Definition. If my description thus far hasn’t interested you, let me just say there is a sequence in the trailer that involves Jessica Biel in underwear and a bra. Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd, and Ving Rhames also co-star.
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The movie hits theaters on July 20th 2007, head-to-head with Hairspray, a week after Harry Potter, and two weeks following Transformers (ie expect this film to probably get lost in the Summer shuffle).