"Rules Of Engagement" funnyman David Spade is apparently a new father.
A baby girl born last week to Playboy Playmate Jillian Grace tested positive in DNA analysis as the 45-year-old comedians biological daughter.
The baby was born Aug. 26 in Missouri.
"David and Jillian have been in close contact throughout her pregnancy and he plans to go see the baby during his first break from shooting Rules of Engagement," publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told reporters.
Spade admitted to a short relationship with Grace, who was Playboy's Miss March 2005, but has had no comment about whether or not he was the father of the child. David Spade told a reporter for E! News that, "If it is true that I am the father of her child, then I will accept responsibility."
Spade is currently wrapping up work on the comedy "Hollywood & Wine" due in theaters next year, and starring Pamela Anderson, Vivica A. Fox, David Spade, Norm MacDonald and Chris Kattan. The film tells the story of mistaken identity, deception and people in debt to the mob, where the only solution is to continue the ruse in an attempt to save the day. -
After starting his young career as T.J. in the award winning "The Champ", and then the popular television sitcom "Silver Spoons", actor turned producer and director Rick Schroder is again trying his hand behind the camera.
Schroder is taking his directing skills to the Sci-Fi Channel for the big budget "Hellhounds", scheduled to air sometime next year.
"Hellhounds", set in 500 B.C., stars Scott Elrod as Kleitos, a Greek warrior who, with his friends, fights against the hellhounds of Hades to rescue his bride from the Underworld and bring her back to life. The film, written by Paul A. Birkett, is said to be full of CGI and tremendous special effects.
In addition to Schroder's role as Detective Danny Sorenson on "NYPD Blue", and his character Dr. Dylan West on "Strong Medicine", the actor can be seen as Mike Doyle in the hit series "24".
Schroder is currently producing, directing and starring in the thriller "Locker 13", due next June, an anthology feature film comprised of seven separate small vignettes, where each story is connected by a mysterious locker 13.
Schroder is also currently filming "Blood Done Sign My Name", a drama based on the true story about a black Vietnam-era veteran who is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
On again, off again. Maybe she will, maybe she won't.
Even after her dreadful appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards last year, MTV has made it official - Britney Spears will headline the Award show again this year.
But there will be no singing and dancing for Britney. Instead, executives have confirmed Brit's performance will be something "fun and unexpected" - no more details were given.
Spears performance last year embarrassed the network, and herself, as the troubled singer tried to make a comeback with her "Gimme More" song and dance routine. The reviews and press were brutal, criticizing MTV for allowing the performance to go on at all.
But, over the last few months, Spears seems to have cleaned herself up and is back on her game. Her dad is still in control of her money and other personal affairs by playing the role of legal conservator, but the judge seems to be loosening the rope around the pop icon.
MTV also alluded to the possibility of another appearance by an aging and troubled singer - Michael Jackson. Now, we're no Hollywood writers, but if you combined Britney Spears and Michael Jackson in a humorous skit where they openly lampooned themselves, recognizing the media saturation of their lives, it could be pretty funny. _
Jones, the former wife of Al Reynolds, has been seen with a new boyfriend who knows how to cook up a good meal - Herb Wilson, the executive chef at Manhattan's Soho and Tribeca Grand hotels.
People magazine broke the story after one of their reporters spotted Star Jones and Herb Wilson kissing at the U.S. Open last week.
Jones, 46, divorced Al Reynolds earlier this year after being married for three years. Reynolds then went on to release numerous YouTube videos detailing the split, fame, scrutiny, and problems with the marriage. _
Harry Potter personality Daniel Radcliffe wants to expand his acting range in the movies - by portraying a drag queen.
Radcliffe, 19, said in an interview with Details magazine that he wanted to play a cross-dressing drag queen, just so he could wear woman's clothes and lots of make up.
But Radcliffe did admit it 'would freak some people out', and that a cross-dressing Harry Potter may not be a good role model for his millions of young Hogwarts fans.
He has already caused a stir with his role in "Equus", with scenes of the young actor totally nude.
Radcliffe, who has spent most of his Hollywood career playing Harry Potter, is soon to start a run of Equus on Broadway in New York. The actor will be seen in eight shows a week, with full frontal nudity, just as he did in the hit London production.
But Radcliffe can't shake the "Harry Potter" image for good just yet.
In fact, there are three Harry Potter movies already completed or in production, starting with "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", due next July. The film finds Harry Potter as he begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Then comes the two part "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", where author J.K. Rowling wraps up the Potter franchise where Harry continues his search for the horcruxes, but is sidetracked by the mysterious Deathly Hallows as the final confrontation between Harry and Voldemort draws closer. Rowling's has said that poor Harry dies in the final scenes bringing an end to the young wizard and his movies.
But Radcliffe is already trying to break free from the Harry Potter mold so the world can see him as someone other than Harry Potter.
"Equus" is part of that strategy, and so is "Journey" due in 2009, where Radcliffe stars as Dan Eldon, a British born photographer, who spent his childhood in Kenya. His photographs of refugees from the Somalian civil war led to his employment by Reuters, who sent him to Somalia in 1992. His pictures helped draw the world's attention to the crisis, but on 12 July 1993, while covering the story that UN forces had accidentally killed 74 civilians, he and three colleagues were stoned and beaten to death by a furious crowd.
Playing a drag queen may go a bit too far, as Radcliffe seems well on track to shake his child actor Harry Potter persona and break into a new era of adult movie roles.
Actress Tea Leoni has announced the cancellation of her appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival, her rep has reported.
Leoni, and wife of actor David Duchovny, was to attend the premiere of her film "Ghost Town."
The cancellation comes after her husband David Duchovny checked himself into rehab for sex addiction, which the "Californication" star made public last week.
The celebrity couple was married in 1997 and has two children, daughter Madelaine West, 9, and son Kyd, 6.
Leoni is set to release her new movie "Ghost Town", starring Leoni as Gwen, Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. The film is due in theaters September 19.
"Ghost Town" tells the story of Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When he dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.
Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear) who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
Jerry Lewis set a new record this year with his MDA telethon by raising over $65 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in his annual televised Labor Day telethon.
The 2008 telethon amount for the 43rd annual fund raising event was $1.2 million more than last year.
Lewis said he was prepared to not do as well as the 2007 amount due to the poor economy and high gas prices.
"Every year I tell myself, 'This has got to be it. There's no way we can do better.' Then, the following year, I'm astounded to see that generosity driven by love and compassion has a greater capacity than I thought possible," Lewis said. "I am awed and humbled by this response."
Jerry Lewis, 82, hosted the telethon at the South Point hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada alongside his old friend Ed McMahon, with performances by Tony Orlando, Celine Dion, Kid Rock and Reba McEntire.
MDA is a nonprofit organization working to fight muscular dystrophy and other related diseases through research, support services and public health education. -
"Rules Of Engagement" funnyman David Spade is apparently a new father.
