BIG BUSTED
Actress/model/Former Whitesnake Video Vixen Tawny Kitaen was charged with domestic violence Wednesday after she allegedly kicked her husband, Cleveland Indians pitcher Chuck Finley, with her high heels while he was driving. She’s due back in court April 29.
THE PRODUCERS
Sarah Jessica Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick are expecting their first child, columnist Liz Smith reports in Friday’s New York Post. Broderick just wrapped up his Broadway run starring in The Producers, and the twosome will celebrate their five-year wedding anniversary in May.
Malkovich, Imbruglia to Co-Star in Spy Spoof
John Malkovich and Australian pop thrush Natalie Imbruglia will co-star in “Johnny English,” the latest Rowan Atkinson comedy vehicle, for Universal Pictures.
The film is a spy caper spoof, with Atkinson of the 1997 comedy smash “Bean” starring as an incompetent British secret agent and Malkovich playing the villain, a scheming French business magnate.
Imbruglia, who acted in the Australian soap “Neighbors” before embarking on her pop singing career, will make her feature debut as a female agent lusted after by the title character.
Ben Miller (“The Parole Officer”) will play Atkinson’s sidekick.
The film, which starts shooting April 15, is directed by Peter Howitt from an original screenplay by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who wrote the last two Bond movies) and William Davies.
“Johnny English,” produced by Working Title Films, will be financed and distributed by Universal.
‘Star Wars’ Faithful Camp Out for ‘Clones’
The waiting officially began Thursday with “Star Wars” devotees launching their line for the May 16 opening of “Episiode II — Attack of the Clones” outside the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
By late afternoon, half a dozen fans had joined the line at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Street. The group plans to pass the next six weeks by talking about “Star Wars” with passers-by, taking calls from the news media on a nearby pay phone and raising funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation.
“We never run out of things to do,” said a cheerful Rik Carter, who also stood in the same line for six weeks prior to the opening of “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” in 1999. “The phone never stops ringing.”
Celine Dion CD Causing Computer Woes
Celine Dion’s new album is causing some computer problems.
In America and much of Europe the case and the disc of “A New Day Has Come” carries warnings not to play it on a PC or a MAC because it is embedded with copy protection technology. This is to stop people from uploading sings onto the internet.
In Canada the CD is not so encoded.
If you play, the computer will likely crash, but some fans say that they’ve had other problems. The Hollywood Reporter reports that fans in Germany are complaining that their computers won’t eject the disc using normal methods. Others also complain that the CD may be affecting their hardware.
A Sony spokeswoman denies the CD will corrupt computers, although it will cause it to crash. She says it won’t eject properly as a result of the crash.
Elizabeth Hurley Has Baby Boy
Model and actress Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to a baby boy on Thursday, her spokeswoman said.
“Elizabeth Hurley is delighted to announce the birth of her son, Damian Charles,” the model’s spokeswoman said in a statement.
“Both mother and baby are happy and healthy. Damian was born at 12:22 p.m. (1122 GMT) on 4 April,” she said.
Hurley has said the child’s father was her former boyfriend, American film producer Stephen Bing.
The actress, who has appeared in movies including “Bedazzled” and “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” ended her 13-year relationship with actor Hugh Grant more than a year ago.
For several years she was the international face of Estee Lauder cosmetics.