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Like any other Thoroughbred, she can bite off-camera as well. "She needs you to focus on what she's doing, and if you neglect her, she gets really upset," says James Gray, the director of The Yards. He and the star quarreled often while making the movie, having one blowout over the way Theron was holding a glass of beer. "I thought, 'What the f___?'" recalls Theron. "'What about my acting...
Everybody complains that political conventions have declined into nothing more than predictable TV shows. Not so. The conventions have declined into predictable TV shows and shameless off-camera fund-raising orgies. So last week there was one Republican Convention on the big stage, where the newly domesticated party leaders felt your pain and the gospel choirs whooped. But the real sounds of Hallelujah! were going on at the other convention. That one took place all around town at the lobster-and-champagne galas corporate donors gave for their favorite members of Congress and the Republicans gave right back to thank...
Cooking as a giving, communal activity exists only in Olive Garden commercials and the segments of Martha Stewart Living in which Martha is off-camera. In actuality it has morphed into a brutal sport, with celebrity chefs jockeying for high Zagat ratings, cookware deals and TV contracts. Add to that the Japanese shame of losing face, and you've got a game show that makes Survivor seem like Hollywood Squares...
Next up is a cameo in Charlie's Angels, starring and produced by Green's real-life girlfriend Drew Barrymore. Deals are also set for him to remake Roberto Benigni's Italian comedy The Monster and to co-write an original script. Off-camera, Green is less frantic, more witty, but still weird. He expresses regret that doctors wouldn't allow him to take his excised testicle home. "I really did want to keep it," he says. "They told me they needed to do further testing, but I'm sure it will soon be a hot-ticket item on eBay...
Last week MICHAEL JORDAN--the Michael Jordan of product endorsements--announced he is phasing out his career as a pitchman to focus on off-camera business pursuits. "I don't want my name just used," he told the Chicago Sun Times. "I want to understand the business itself, see the value in something other than just endorsing." Jordan, who will honor all his outstanding contracts, earns roughly $35 million a year from hawking products, down about $15 million since he left basketball. Oddly, news of this retirement did not spark endless televised commentary on his greatest commercials or reruns...