Cinematical's SmartGossip: The Circle of Life
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Did the title manage to invoke an earworm from The Lion King in your head? Sorry about that. But it seems like this is a record week for celebrity milestone events: birth, death, birth and death at the same time, divorce, and even strange addictions. Here are some of the highlights from this week's film-related celebrity gossip. I made sure all the celebrities mentioned had something to do with film, and noted their big movie achievements when it seemed doubtful.- Birth: Britney Spears (Crossroads) had another baby, a boy with nearly the same birthday as his brother. In an unbelievably tragic event, Anna Nicole Smith (The Hudsucker Proxy) had a baby daughter and lost her son at nearly the same time.
- Divorce: Whitney Houston (The Bodyguard) announced that she's filed for divorce from Bobby Brown (Ghostbusters II) after 14 years of marriage. I'm a little slow on the gossip uptake sometimes but even I knew that the couple had a somewhat turbulent relationship.
- Addiction: Apparently Penelope Cruz developed an unnatural attachment to ... her unnatural derriere that she wore during the filming of Volver, Pedro Almodovar's latest film. I have encountered so many articles about Ms. Cruz and her fake butt that I imagined her wandering around Toronto last week talking about it to anyone who would listen. I hope that this isn't the focus of the film itself, although with Almodovar, you never know. In other addiction news, Canadians were shocked that Sean Penn smoked during a public press conference in Toronto.
- Oversized posteriors, again: The granny panties that Renee Zellweger wore in Bridget Jones's Diary are being auctioned for charity. What I find weird is that the undergarment isn't autographed by Zellweger or even author Helen Fielding, but by Hugh Grant. Yes, Grant was in the scene involving said panties, but somehow it seems a bit creepy for him to have signed them.
- Death: Cinematical usually covers these in a weekly roundup, but living in Austin, I have to mention Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas who died of cancer this week. In her post-gubernatorial days, Richards was involved in local film events -- she annually emceed the Texas Film Hall of Fame awards, narrated Barbecue: A Texas Love Story, and appeared at any number of movie premieres and fundraisers.
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