Hollywood HotDish Mornings @ 5:50, 7:30 & 8:50
Jake & Reese
Putting the more in Morocco, Jake Gyllenhaal gets all bulked up and "bear" chested for his role in the fantasy flick Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Maybe the fantasy appeals to his girlfriend as well, since Reese Witherspoon flew to North Africa to spend some quality time with Jake's pec-a-dillies.
Not everyone is hot for Tropic Thunder.
A coalition of prominent groups that advocate for the disabled are calling for a nationwide boycott of Ben Stiller's Tinseltown spoof, saying a subplot unfairly takes potshots at the mentally impaired.
Donna Martin has left the ZIP code.
Sources confirm Tori Spelling has pulled out of the CW's 90210 spinoff because she is not receiving equal pay to her former costars Jennie Garth and Shannen Doherty. I'm told by insiders that Tori asked for a rate hike after discovering that Jennie and Shannen were signed for between $40,000 and $50,000 per episode, while Tori was getting less than $20,000 per episode. Her request was denied, so Tori backed out of the deal altogether.
The Curse of Billy Bob Thornton??
Bernie Mac's tragic death sparked a surge of postmortems around the Web over the weekend, with many invoking his role as the bad**** mall gumshoe opposite Billy Bob Thornton in Bad Santa. But one perceptive observer commenting at Hollywood Elsewhere noted that the late comedian's passing is the latest in a string of similarly untimely demises for other Thornton co-stars as well:
"Strange how many Billy Bob Thornton co-stars have died prematurely (Ritter, Bernie Mac, J.T. Walsh, Heath Ledger). Thank goodness Morgan Freeman (Levity) and Shia (Eagle Eye) survived their crashes and Patrick Swayze (Waking Up in Reno) is coming back from cancer or we'd be talking about the Billy Bob Curse. Not trying to make light, just think it's eerie."
And don't forget Jim Varney, whose final role before dying at 50 was Thornton's film Daddy and Them. Eerie, indeed - and we're not afraid to call it the curse that it is. So please see above for Defamer's unsettling reference to doomed and/or endangered Thornton castmates. And be careful, Hollywood!