‘Breakfast Club’ stars reunite
Actress Molly Ringwald reunited with her former The Breakfast Club castmates on Monday night to pay tribute to late director John Hughes at a special event in New York.
The now-grown-up kids from the cult 1980s movie – Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy – gathered at the Film Society For Lincoln Center event, 25 years after shooting the iconic picture.
The four stars last appeared together at the 2010 Academy Awards, during a tribute to Hughes, who died last year. The fifth remaining Breakfast Club member, Emilio Estevez, was the only noticeable absentee from the anniversary event.
Praising the late filmmaker, Sheedy said, “(Hughes) put different parts of himself into all the different characters. He was just like that. He was brutally honest and open, so I think all those things are in the movie… Teenagers were treated with such respect in this movie. I think that’s why people remember it so well.”
And Sheedy was excited about the prospect of introducing the classic film to a whole new generation of film fans – taking her own daughter along to the event as her date.
Day: September 21, 2010
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A good friend can be hard to find!!
Jodie Foster: I won’t “abandon” Mel Gibson
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) ñ Jodie Foster has once again come to the defense of her close friend Mel Gibson.
Despite the release of angry voicemails Gibson allegedly left the mother of his 8-month-old daughter, Foster told More magazine that he’s the “easiest, nicest person I’ve ever worked with… The second I met him, I said, ‘I will love this man for the rest of my life.'”
Foster, co-starred with Gibson in the 1994 film “Maverick,” and recently reunited with him for “The Beaver,” which she also directed. The film does not have a release date.
“When you love a friend, you don’t abandon them when they are struggling,” Foster told the magazine. “Of course, Mel is an undeniably gifted actor and director, and ‘The Beaver’ is one of his most powerful and moving performances. But more importantly, he is and has been a true and loyal friend. I hope I can help him get through this dark moment.”
On Tuesday, new emails surfaced between Gibson and his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. The two are cordial and supportive in the notes, which allegedly were exchanged two months after a January blowout fight that resulted in a photo being released of Grigorieva without her two front teeth. But law enforcement sources told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month that officials doubt the photo’s authenticity.
In 2006, Foster stood up for Gibson after a police officer accused him of making anti-Semitic remarks while the actor was being arrested for driving under the influence.
“Mel is honest, loyal, kind, but alcoholism has been a lifelong struggle for him and his family,” she said at the time. “I just wish I had been there, that I had been able to say, ‘Don’t do it, don’t take that drink.'”
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Awesome!!!!
D’Onofrio back on `Criminal Intent’ for season 10
LOS ANGELES ñ “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” is coming back for its tenth ó and possibly last ó season with former star Vincent D’Onofrio on board.
USA Network said Tuesday that D’Onofrio, who left the series after season eight, will return as police Detective Robert Goren.
“Criminal Intent,” part of the “Law & Order” franchise created by Dick Wolf, started on NBC.
Eight new episodes will air in 2011 and are intended to wrap up the series, USA Network said. But a USA executive and Wolf indicated that might change.
An air date for “Criminal Intent” wasn’t announced.
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Rock on, Vince!! Rock on!!
Vince Neil Blasts Sharon Osbourne, Motley Crue Bandmates in Book
Mˆtley Cr¸e singer Vince Neil says he has “never really had a voice” in all the tales of his three decade career fronting the hard rock band.
But his attempts to finally set the record straight in an autobiography chronicling years of sex, drugs, plastic surgery and numerous arrests, have already landed him back in trouble.
Neil, 49, lashes out at bandmates and attempts to settle old scores with rock rivals in “Tattoos and Tequila”, to be published on Thursday.
He has also set off a new feud with music manager and “America’s Got Talent” and “X Factor” judge Sharon Osbourne, the wife of former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne.
“It really sickens me today to watch everybody fawning all over Sharon Osbourne,” Neil writes in the book, recalling a 1984 tour when Mˆtley Cr¸e opened for Ozzy and Sharon was running an especially tight ship.
“This is the most evil, shittiest woman I’ve ever met,” he added. Osbourne shot back with some choice words of her own.
“He (Neil) has murdered somebody in a car,” Sharon Osbourne told the New York Post last week. “He crippled two other people and he is still driving drunk. And that is why I used to keep my husband away from him.”
Hanoi Rocks member Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley was killed in Neil’s car when Neil was driving drunk in 1984, for which he served a jail term.
Neil was arrested again in June in Las Vegas on suspicion of drunk driving, a week after he released a solo album, also called “Tattoos and Tequila” — a set of classic rock covers.
HARSH WORDS FOR BANDMATES
Neil told Reuters he doesn’t like talking about himself. But he wanted to give his side of the storied history of the band, which has sold about 25 million albums in the United States alone.
Mˆtley Cr¸e released a best-selling band biography called “The Dirt” in 2001.
“There’s been so much written about Mˆtley Cr¸e. I’ve never really had a voice”, Neil said of his autobiography.
“This was my experience with Sharon 25 years ago. She was not very kind to Mˆtley Cr¸e,” he added in an interview.
Osbourne is not the only target.
Neil, who split from Mˆtley Cr¸e in 1992 and rejoined in 1997, keeps some of his harshest words for his bandmates, whom he has compared to siblings with whom he feuds.
He faulted bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars for not supporting him following the 1984 car accident, and disputed their account of the events that led to his 1992 departure.
The book also seeks to settle scores with old foes such as Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose. Neil reiterates a challenge to Rose to a boxing match that he issued in 1989 after an infamous backstage brawl at the MTV Video Music Awards.
On the sleeve of his book, Neil wrote, “Old rock stars fall hard.” But Neil said the hard living has been worth it — with the exception of the shame he feels about Dingley’s death
“I don’t have any regrets. Anything that I’ve done wrong, I’ve learned from,” Neil said.
Neil will spend the fall on tour in support of his solo album and the book. He said Mˆtley Cr¸e plans to start rehearsals early in 2011 for its Crue Fest 3 festival but has no immediate plans for a follow-up to its 2008 hit album “Saints of Los Angeles.”