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Updated 03/02/02
POOR TOOTIE??
Fact of Life star Kim Fields is in more financial trouble.
The actress who has had her car repossessed and was hit by
the IRS for $220,000 is being sued by a collection agency
that represents Wells fargo bank. They claim Field's has
failed to pay back two loans they gave her...
No Bosley?
Bill Murray turned down big bucks to reprise his role as
Bosley in the Charlie Angels sequel because he was told
Lucy Liu would be returning also and the two of them did
NOT get along the first time around.
Nicolas Cage, 38, and Lisa Marie Presley, 34, ended their 10-month relationship two weeks ago, their reps said Tuesday. The statement said the two "hope to remain friendly." Nice Guys!
Richard Gere was having dinner and having a hard time getting his meal done right because of a forgetful waiter. He kept sending the meal back and apologized for being so picky. The waiter insited it wasn't his fault, but his own fault. He explained he had just taken the job as a second one to help his cousins pay for college after they had lost their father in the World Trade Center tragedy. Gere told the waiter he wasn't giving him a tip...Instead, he handed the guy a check for $1,000 to help his cousins out.
Arnold Schwarzeneggar was having lunch with some friends when an elderly lady approached him and asked for an autograph for her grandson who was in the hospital with leukemia. She told Arnie what a Terminator fan the was. Arnold not only gave her an autograph, he asked for the room number and name of the hospital and paid the boy an hour long visit. 
KING RETIRING?
The success of this week's miniseries ''Rose Red'' proves there's still plenty of audience appetite for Stephen King, but the horror honcho tells the Los Angeles Times he plans to quit while he's ahead. ''That's it. I'm done,'' King says. ''Done writing books.'' Of course, he still has five books still in the works: a short story collection coming out in March called ''Everything's Eventual,'' the long-delayed novel ''From a Buick Eight'' coming out in the fall, and the last three novels in the ''Dark Tower'' series, due out over the next year. Not to mention his fall ABC series ''The Kingdom,'' based on Lars von Trier's two miniseries about a haunted hospital. Still, King says he feels like he's repeating himself. ''You get to a point where you get to the edges of a room, and you can go back where you've been, and basically recycle stuff,'' says the 54-year-old author. ''I've seen it in my own work. People when they read 'Buick Eight' are going to think 'Christine.' It's about a car that's not normal, okay? You say, 'I've said the things that I have to say, that are new and fresh and interesting to people.' Then you have a choice. You can either continue to go on, or say, 'I left when I was still on top of my game. I left when I was still holding the ball, instead of it holding me.'''
EW.com 
BRITNEY AND BEAU TO TIE THE KNOT
It would seem out of character for Britney Spears to get
married, but that's the word from People magazine. She
will tie the knot with long-time beau Justin Timberlake
at a time yet to be announced. Spears made the announce-
ment at an international music and film festival in
France to assembled media. Britney is 20-going-on-35.
Timberlake is 20. For months each has been adamant about
the fact that they were not engaged and had no plans of
marrying. Part of the subterfuge might have been an
attempt on the part of Spears to be able to retain her
sultry, bedroom-eyed, single status. Being single allows
her to move in ways that hubby Timberlake might not like
... a kind of modern-day version of husband and wife Jack
Benny and Mary Livingston just "being friends" so Jack
could flirt on their show, or Roy and Dale -- until late
in the run of their series -- living separate on-the-air
lives. Spears and Timberlake met on the set of the new
"Mickey Mouse Club" show when they were both 11. CASE CLOSED: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Rebecca Gayheart, 29, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a car accident last summer in which she struck and killed a nine-year-old boy. Details of the settlement were not disclosed. 
E! Has come up with their list of the 16 Sizzlin' Stars to watch out for. Watch for it on E! on February 2nd at 6pm.
E!online 
FRIENDS INDEED: More than 100 victims and heroes of the Sept. 11 tragedies including New York City fireman and rescue workers were treated to a special taping of NBC's Friends last month in Los Angeles, TV Guide Online has learned. The audience also included widows and fiances of late Cantor Fitzgerald employees (the company lost 657 staffers in the World Trade Center attack). Says a source: "The taping lasted seven hours and the cast was very friendly and took time to meet and greet the audience."
TVGuideOnline WELCOME to The USA:
Jim Carrey, a Canadian citizen, has decided to become an
American citizen. Carrey is thankful to a country he says
has defined him as a comic and an actor and has made all
of his dreams come true. Matt's ENGAGED?? 
Word is that Matt Damon has been secretly engaged since
September. Damon has had some very public romances with
Minnie Driver, Winona Ryder, and Penelope Cruz, which is
why he decided to quietly romance Odessa Whitmore, who is
not an actress, but pal Ben Affleck's personal assistant. What Happened to Tom and Drew? 
DREW BARRYMORE and TOM GREEN have split up. ET broke the news to the press and obtained the divorce petition that Tom had filed that same day. Tom had cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, but there were no other clues as to what had gone wrong in their five-month marriage.
Tom and Drew were engaged in July of 2000. They went through Tom's fight against testicular cancer and the loss of Drew's home to a fire. The couple enjoyed playing with the media, joking several times they were married or getting married well in advance of the actual ceremony. One of those times was a fake wedding on "Saturday Night Live" when Tom pretended to be left at the altar.
It was July 7 when they were apparently legally wed on a hilltop in Malibu. Just two months ago when we spoke with Drew about her movie, 'Riding in Cars with Boys,' she told us how much she enjoyed being married.
Last night, Drew was in New York for a fundraiser and though she had no comment on the divorce, she still wore her wedding ring. 12/19/01 
BABY NEWS:
This New Year will signal a Hollywood baby boom. Expectant patents are eagerly awaiting their bundles of joy and the moms-to-be are proud to show off their bellies. UMA THURMAN and ETHAN HAWKE are due to have their second in January while ANNE HECHE and her husband COLEY LAFFOON are expecting their first baby in February.
First time parents-to-be BEN STILLER and CHRISTINE TAYLOR are absolutely adorable. Their excitement about being pregnant is so high, they finish each other's sentences.
At 45, GEENA DAVIS is also ready to welcome baby number one in April. ELIZABETH HURLEY, "Xena" star LUCY LAWLESS, TA LEONI and DAVID DUCHOVNY and JULIANNE MOORE are also on the baby track.
Oscar-nominated actress Cate Blanchett and her husband,
filmmaker Andrew Upton, are the proud parents of a baby
boy, Dashiell John, born this week in London.
Country stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are the proud
parents of a new baby girl, Audrey Caroline McGraw, who
was born to the couple Thursday in Nashville. "Maggie,
Gracie, Tim and I couldn't be happier," said Hill.
ET.com 
DE NIRO FESTIVAL TO HELP NEW YORK RECOVER
Two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro and his movie
production company partners have announced plans for a
new film festival in the trendy Tribeca section of Lower
Manhattan, to help the region recover from the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. The festival will be open to the pub-
lic, showcasing around three dozen feature films and 20
short subjects from May 1-5, 2002. Plans call for the
pictures to be screened at locations chosen for their
ability to promote foot traffic in the area and provide
a boost to small businesses that have been hurting econ-
omically since the attacks. De Niro's relationship with
Tribeca goes back close to 20 years. He even named his
film company after it -- Tribeca Productions. "There are
businesses down here that need help, small businesses,
everything," said the 58-year-old star.
Police have finally arrested New York City firefighter
Joseph Manuella, 51 for continuously impersonating Robert
De Niro, including obtaining a credit card, trying to peddle
a film project, and getting freebies and perks while posing
as the actor. He looks so much like De Niro, he has worked
as his stunt double in two of De Niro's films. 
''Angel'' star David Boreanaz and Jaime Bergman (''Son of the Beach'') were married at the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs Nov. 24. It was a small, intimate ceremony before family and friends; the couple had scrapped plans for a more lavish September bash after the Sept. 11 attacks. It's the second marriage for 30-year-old Boreanaz (whose two-year marriage to social worker Ingrid Quinn ended in 1999) and the first for 26-year-old ex-Playboy Playmate Bergman. The busy couple, both in production on their respective series, have put off honeymoon plans until at least Christmas.
courtesy of EW.com 
George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy
Garcia, and Don Cheadle, the cast of the new movie, Ocean's
11 have gotten permission from President Bush to go to
Turkey after the film's premier on December 5. The group
wanted to go visit the men and women who are on duty overseas serving their country Sexiest Man 2001 
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