Jude Law’s New Lady Friend
Jude Law’s New Lady Friend
Always one to have an appetite for the ladies, Jude Law has been enjoying the company of a few lady friends over the holiday weekend.
A few days back, a freshly showered mystery woman was spotted exiting Jude’s home, with the actor also reportedly engaged in a romance with 20-year-old British model Lily Cole .
According to British tabloid reports, Jude and Lily had “enjoyed a romantic candle-lit meal together in the U.K. capital’s Covent Garden on Friday night, where onlookers said they were holding hands.”
A source told the Sunday Mirror newspaper, “Jude was keeping low-key. They were deep in conversation and making each other laugh. There was no blatant kissing but it was obvious they were more than just friends. Jude was being very affectionate and gazing into her eyes.”
Ugly Betty: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
(S01E18) I would have written this review sooner, but I couldn’t stop crying like a big baby. Not every storyline was a home run this week, but the most important one was. It could have gotten all “Lifetime Original,” but it didn’t. This show is many things - funny, moving, campy - but it is never saccharine.
This week we got utterly hilarious Joan Crawford camp and utterly heartbreaking Tony Kushner pathos. We also got some superfluous storylines and directionless characters, but more on that later. It broke my heart to see Marc shut out by his mother, ironically played by the always excellent Patti LuPone, a woman whose entire career rests on the shoulders of theater queens everywhere.
The “Betty posing as Marc’s girlfriend” storyline gave us so many great moments - an Amanda/Marc cat fight (”Laugh, clown, laugh.”); Marc back at the Suarez’s (”So, this is where the tragic happens.”); Justin and Marc bonding (”Dreamgirls was a cinematic achievement.”); Miss Lady Buttons of Camelot; a Henry mooning over Betty aside; a Patti LuPone guest turn; and, of course, a genuinely touching performance from the uber-talented Michael Urie. I have a feeling that he’ll be receiving fan mail from more than one young gay man or woman coming out to less than accepting parents. And, through it all, he remains “fabulous.” God bless us, every swishy one.
I was far less impressed with the direction of two other characters this week - Ignacio and Alexis. Thank you, Ugly Betty, for dramatizing the immigration process. It’s been real, but let’s ditch the ankle bracelet. It’s worth a couple of jokes, but that’s it. Give Ignacio a real love interest, some buddies, a freaking hobby. Stop saddling him with heart medication and case workers.
And, what is the deal with Alexis? When she was the “mystery woman,” we were set up to think she was the big bad. Then, she was softened - a misunderstood transsexual who never felt at home in her own body and was alienated from her family. Last week, she seemed like she was on the same page with Daniel. This week, she was competitive and strange all over again. Maybe, if I were a guy with a really competitive brother, I would get this. As it is, I don’t understand Alexis’ motivations. Yes, she wants to humiliate her dad, but when it comes to Daniel, her competitiveness reads as juvenile sibling rivalry. Is she supposed to be bad? Misunderstood? Are we supposed to sympathetize with her? She shows up on the scene, and suddenly Daniel’s a victim who needs Betty to stroke his tender ego? What the heck is going on? I know that plenty of people have the tendency to regress when they get around their parents, but this is getting a tiny bit ridiculous. Doesn’t Alexis have any other kind of goal in life? With all her wealth, she has nothing better to do than torture her father and redecorate the Mode offices? Take a lesson from Betty and Marc. Sometimes the people in your family aren’t the ones who love you the most, and if they don’t, that’s their loss.
Other things going on this week: Wilhelmina got badder; Claire dried out; and the pilgrim buckle came back in.
Jane Seymour, TV detective
She’s been a vamp, a vixen, a medicine woman, royalty and she’s even tried Dancing with the Stars. Now she will solve crimes. The Hallmark Channel has greenlit Dear Prudence, a Jane Seymour crime-solving Martha Stewart-type celebrity. They’re calling this a backdoor pilot because Hallmark doesn’t do series TV; however, if the movie were to be successful, it could become one of a rotation of star-driven mystery movies that Hallmark currently presents.
Dear Prudence will be co-authored by Les Alexander, who will also executive produce the picture. The story revolves around Prudence, star of a house and garden TV show, who has an eagle eye for detail. While vacationing in Santa Fe, she “stumbles on a murder mystery” — just like Jessica Fletcher did on Murder She Wrote. Using her skills at observation, she sees things that even forensic experts miss an helps catch the killer. It’s Martha Stewart meets Monk without the neuroses!
If the first film scores, Hallmark would be likely to put the group into production for a few more after that. This is especially true because Hallmark’s executive vice president is behind the project and is talking about a major marketing push for an August premiere. The late summer date is intentional; to take advantage of the plethora of reruns the networks will be broadcasting then.
Dear Prudence could be slotted in the Hallmark mystery movie wheel which now includes Dick Van Dyke in Murder 101, John Larroquette in McBride, Kellie Martin in Mystery Woman and Lea Thompson in Jane Doe.
Considering Jane Seymour’s TV popularity — she single-handedly kept the western alive in the 90’s with Dr. Quinn — Dear Prudence has a great chance of making it. I know that that I’ll be curious to see her and watch, and so will my husband who’s followed her career faithfully since she played Solitaire in the James Bond flick, Live and Let Die.
Owen Wilson’s Mystery Woman Revealed
The mystery woman seen around New York with Owen Wilson has now been identified: She is model Le Call.
“She is dating him,” an insider tells Friends.
Though there had been speculation – after the two were spotted together on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in Texas – that Wilson and Jessica Simpson were an item, the New York Post’s Page Six reports that on Saturday Le Call and the Wedding Crashers star attended a private dinner for English artist Damien Hirst and, early in the week, also practiced yoga together in a downtown studio.
When asked about a possible relationship between Wilson and Le Call (who, despite the name, is American born), a rep for One Model Management told Friends, “Le Call has no comment.”
But, a source close to the couple said on Monday, “Le Call is totally overwhelmed by all of this attention. She isn’t used to it. So they will be leaving town tomorrow to escape – and traveling a great distance.”
• By JEFFREY SLONIM, STEPHEN M. SILVERMAN and CHARLOTTE TRIGGS