|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By Nick Lewis Calgary Herald, Calgary Herald
It’s true.
Actor Vince Vaughn is set to marry 29-year-old Calgary realtor Kyla Weber shortly, her father confirmed Thursday.
Ken Weber confirmed that his daughter is indeed engaged to the Wedding Crashers funnyman, but chose not to comment further. He says his daughter is presently in Los Angeles and no longer in Calgary.
Weber quickly became a hot topic on Wednesday when news broke that Vaughn had dropped to one knee and presented her a $125,000, four-carat ring on Valentine’s Day. There is no word on when or where the two will get married.
Internet sources claim Weber is originally from the town of Okotoks, just south of the city, and either met the Wedding Crashers star while vacationing in Venice Beach, California, or in Italy. The pair are rumoured to have met through a movie producer friend of Vaughn’s.
In Touch Magazine spoke with a friend of Vaughn’s in December who said that the 38-year-old actor is looking to settle down.
“Vince is ready to get married and has been for a while,” says the buddy. “He wants to start a family.”
Since his previous high-profile romance to Friends star Jennifer Aniston quickly became tabloid fodder, the Minnesota-born actor, has been reluctant to discuss the details of his new engagement.
“I don’t talk much about private matters,” Vaughn told USA Today last year. “But I am in a very happy, serious, committed relationship.”
Coincidently, Vaughn’s Canadian-born mother was also a real estate agent.
nlewis@theherald.canwest.com
© Copyright (c) The Calgary Herald
Actor to develop, exec produce half-hour pilot
By CYNTHIA LITTLETON
Variety
Vince Vaughn is bringing his guy’s guy sensibility to a laffer in the works for FoxBroadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV.
Vaughn is in final negotiations with the network and studio on a deal to develop and exec produce a single-camera half-hour pilot about a couple of young men who are just out of college and starting to experience the real world.
Sibling scribes Jim and Steve Armogida have been tapped to pen the pilot script for Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Prods. Victoria Vaughn, Vince’s sister, will also exec produce.
Vaughn is known to have made the rounds of TV shops in recent weeks to suss out the development marketplace. It’s understood that the pact Fox is offering would give him a wide berth to cast the show and assemble the other creative elements as he sees fit.
The Armogida brothers’ recent credits as writer-producers include CBS’ short-lived Jenna Elfman comedy "Courting Alex," the WB network’s "Grounded for Life" and the PBS drama "My Family."
Victoria Vaughn served as an associate producer on her brother’s 2006 hit "The Break-Up" and is an exec producer on his upcoming project, "Couples Retreat," for Universal, where Wild West Prods. has a feature deal.
Vince Vaughn will next be seen onscreen opposite Reese Witherspoon in New Line’s "Four Christmases," to be released next month.
Vaughn and the Armogidas are repped by CAA.
From "Shooting Blanks in Beijing"
"Club Bud has fired up in Beijing. Finally a star has turned up at these Olympics. Right at the end!!! Better late than never. Vince Vaughan came solo, no entourage and was more than happy to have a yarn about the Olympics. Please be warned that this is a Budweiser Party and this interview took place at 12.30 am. I got to the party at 9pm. So I am a little tired by this stage of the night. Maybe Vince was too. I wonder if he went in to the party and met Stephanie Rice - she rolled in with quite an entourage earlier in the night. Good on her."
The $20 million paycheck club in Hollywood is shrinking, and for good reason: When it comes to the highest-paid performers, the studios aren't getting good returns on their investment.
Just check out our Ultimate Star Payback list for proof. At the top of our list is comedy actor Vince Vaughn. His films earned $14.73 for every dollar he was paid. That's because until recently his salary was relatively low, and the films he was in, like Wedding Crashers and The Break-Up, had modest budgets yet did extremely well at the box office worldwide ($285 million and $205 million, respectively).
Low salaries rule the day on our list. Big stars Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and George Clooney all look good because of their work in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen. They all took pay cuts to appear in the ensemble heist movies, and their returns reflect that. Roberts paid back $32.50 for every dollar she made on Ocean's Twelve. Damon posted his best return for his work on Ocean's Thirteen, $20.80 for every dollar he made. (He fell to sixth from the top spot last year because he got a salary bump for the third installment of the Bourne films.)
To find each star's payback number, we looked at his or her last three films that opened wide--in at least 1,000 theaters--before Jan. 1, 2008. We eliminated animated movies, since star power isn't usually what draws their audiences, and any movie in which the actor had a small or cameo role. We included the Ocean's series, despite its huge casts, because its ensemble nature put its biggest stars on equal footing.
The three movies for each star had to have been made in the last five years. That's why you don't see Mike Myers on the list. He's been missing in action since The Cat in the Hat in 2003, unless you count his voice work in the Shrek movies. We also required that each actor earn at least $5 million for one of his or her three films, to eliminate lesser stars. So up-and-comers like Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen didn't make it.
To calculate our payback figures, we began by taking half of each film's worldwide box office (to roughly approximate the studio's cut of each ticket). Then we added the first three months of wholesale DVD revenues, all of which go to the studio, to derive the studio's total revenue for each film. We next subtracted the budget (including upfront compensation for all actors except the actor in question) to derive the film's gross income.
After that, the actor's total compensation was divided into that gross income, to get the actor's payback figure for the film. The payback for the last three movies for each actor was averaged to calculate his or her ultimate payback. We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis, because the latter figure is so easily manipulated by studio accountants, with marketing expenses treated differently for almost every film.
Stars like Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman (the worst earner for the second year in a row) landed at the bottom by demanding big pay for films that flopped. Ferrell's dud Stranger Than Fiction earned a mere $1.60 for every dollar he got. The Invasion lost $2.70 for every dollar Warner Bros. paid Kidman. Jennifer Garner got some of the smallest paychecks of anyone on our list, but films like Elektra and Catch and Release did so badly that they put her in the bottom five anyway. With Catch and Release, Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) earned a mere 35 cents for every dollar it paid her.
Denis Cambruzzi, of Adams Media Research, points out that studios often have to offer stars huge sums just to get films off the ground. When Cameron Diaz attaches herself to a script, suddenly the producers can hire the hottest director and supporting actors and secure a good date for the film's release. Without a star, the same script can sit in limbo for years.
"We all want to make sense of this, and it's nice to lay it all out on a spreadsheet and say that with these elements you're guaranteed this return," says Cambruzzi. "But you can't forget this is art."
Move attributed to 'Fred Claus' flopping
By Michael Fleming
Variety
Less than one day after parting company with UTA and manager Eric Gold, Vince Vaughn has signed with CAA. He'll be repped by the percentery's topper Richard Lovett.
The change was attributable to the thesp's dissatisfaction with his most recent release, "Fred Claus." The pic landed Vaughn his first $20 million paycheck, but the holiday flop displeased the star.
Vaughn signed with CAA after meeting with other agencies all day. Other spokes pulled loose from the UTA comedy wheel -- including Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell, plus directors like David Dobkin and Tom Shadyac -- have all landed at that percentery.
UTA repped Vaughn since his early days, and Gold became his manager right after Vaughn starred in the John Travolta pic "Domestic Disturbance." Vaughn became a comedy star off films like "Old School," "Dodgeball," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Wedding Crashers."
UTA and Gold set him into a Universal producing deal after Vaughn generated his own comic concepts in pics like "The Break-Up."
He gets a shot at holiday redemption later this year when he stars opposite Reese Witherspoon in the New Line/Warner Bros. comedy "Four Christmases." In addition, WB has identified a "Wedding Crashers" sequel as one of its prime goals for a reconstituted New Line Cinema.
Though Vaughn will no longer pay management commission to Gold, they are still producing partners on "Toy Men," a Sony-based comedy that Vaughn will star in, with a Steve Pink script rewritten by Allan Loeb, and they are producing with Neal Edelstein on "No Place Like Home," a comedy at New Line. Vaughn is also a participant in a production fund being put together by Gold, who continues to manage Ellen DeGeneres and co-manages Carrey with ex-partner Jimmy Miller.
Forbes
Dorothy Pomerantz, 08.06.07, 6:00 AM ET
Hollywood studios routinely shell out $20 million paychecks and serve up rich percentages of a film's revenue to A list stars like Will Smith, Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp on the premise that their famous faces ensure packed movie houses around the world on opening weekend.
But are these superstars worth it?
According to Forbes' first-ever list of Ultimate Star Payback, the movie stars who deliver the best bang for the buck aren't the industry's top earners. Matt Damon, the soft-spoken leading man in box office winner The Bourne Ultimatum, turns out to be Hollywood's best investment. For every dollar Damon got paid for his last three roles, his films returned $29 of gross income. And, surprisingly, former Friends star Jennifer Aniston is Hollywood's most profitable actress, despite duds like Rumor Has It. For ever dollar the former Mrs. Pitt was paid for her last three major roles, her films on average returned $17 of gross income.
The first step in calculating our payback figures required adding up the film's worldwide box office and U.S. DVD revenues. We then subtracted the budget (which includes the up-front compensation for actors) for each film to derive net revenue.
Next, to calculate gross income, the actor's total compensation was divided into net revenue. The gross income for the last three movies for each actor was averaged to calculate his or her ultimate payback. We deliberately used gross income rather than net income in our analysis because the former is a better measure of a movie star's ability to generate income for a film.
Movie studios are famous for their accounting creativity. The further down the profit and loss statement you travel, the more room for chicanery. While there is little debate over a film's budget, marketing expenses are treated differently for almost every movie.
In Tinseltown, a film must be able to recover its production budget to be considered a box office success. The only film on the list that didn't recover its costs at all was Gigli (2003) starring Jennifer Lopez, which reportedly cost $54 million to make but barely earned a fraction of that at the box office and on video.
Damon earned the top spot mainly through his work playing an amnesiac spy in the Bourne trilogy. In 2004 Universal Studios made The Bourne Supremacy for $75 million--downright cheap for a summer action flick--and grossed $290 million in worldwide box office, plus another $165 million in video sales and rentals. Damon's total compensation for that film was just $26 million, a bargain for Universal. The latest installment, The Bourne Ultimatum, opened in theaters this past weekend with $70.2 million in box office receipts in the U.S., the biggest August opening weekend ever.
Screen heartthrob Brad Pitt seized second place, thanks in good measure to his enormous appeal overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, for example, co-starring his current real-life love interest Angelina Jolie, grossed $186 million stateside. The 2004 Trojan War epic Troy made $133 million in U.S. box office receipts. It nearly tripled that abroad.
Tying for third place are Johnny Depp and Vince Vaughn. Depp, who earns $20 million per picture, has logged some $2.2 billion at the box office for his last three films. Vaughn's going rate has been roughly half that. But Vaughn's last trio of movies-- The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball--have been box office bonanzas relative to their low production costs. (At $52 million, The Break-Up's budget was roughly 20% of Dead Man's Chest.)
Aniston is the actress with the highest Star Payback. Despite swipes from the critics, her generally low-budget films grossed on average $17 for every $1 she was paid. Aniston's standing was buoyed by her role in The Break-Up, which banked an estimated $270 million in worldwide box office and video.
In terms of their returns to Hollywood studios, Vaughn and Aniston eclipse most of their $20 million per film colleagues in Hollywood. Movies starring Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Will Smith average roughly $12 in gross income per salary dollar.
The biggest disappointers are Hollywood's coterie of top-earning funnymen-- Adam Sandler (at $9) and Will Ferrell and Jim Carrey ($8 each)--who rank near the bottom of the list. One reason: American comedies don't translate as well as action flicks to foreign audiences. Ferrell's Talladega Nights, for example, did just $15 million overseas, versus $148 million at the domestic box office.
Their films are also increasingly pricey affairs--in part because they are so well compensated--setting the bar excruciatingly high for a bona fide hit. Last year, Sandler headlined Click, which cost $83 million, while Carrey's Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) had a reported budget of $100 million. Compare that with lower-budget blockbuster comedies like The Wedding Crashers ($40 million), The 40-Year-Old-Virgin ($26 million), and Borat ($18 million).
At the very bottom of our list is Russell Crowe, whose standing in Hollywood has shrunk since he scored back-to-back consecutive Oscar nods for The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe's last three films earned on average just $5 in gross income for every dollar spent on the star. His most recent, last year's A Good Year, was made for $35 million, almost one-third of which went to Crowe's salary. The film earned only $40 million in worldwide box office, making it a huge disappointment for Fox, which produced and distributed it.
List edited by Mike Ozanian and Lea Goldman. Additional reporting by Peter Hoy.
Vince Vaughn in producing pact
Actor signs two-year deal with Universal
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Universal Pictures has made a two-year, first-look producing deal with Vince Vaughn and his Wild West Picture Show Prods. Arrangement kicks off with three features, each of which could be a starring vehicle for Vaughn.
Vaughn has set in development "Male Doula," a high-concept comedy based on his idea, to be scripted by Dana Fox ("What Happens in Vegas ...").
He is partnered with "The Break-Up" producer Scott Stuber on two other projects. One is an untitled comedy Jon Favreau is scripting about couples that attend a retreat to reinvigorate their marriages. The other is "Realtors," a satire about the cutthroat chase for commissions by rival realtors in the residential housing market.
The deal given Wild West Pictures Show Prods. by U production prexy Donna Langley allows the shingle to acquire pitches and spec scripts and gives Vaughn a discretionary fund.
While Vaughn received his first producing credit with Favreau on their "Swingers" follow-up "Made," he made his mark as a producer with Universal on "The Break-Up." The comedy was based on Vaughn's idea, with Jeremy Garelick and Jay Lavender writing the script. After the pic grossed $205 million worldwide, U brass felt Vaughn was money and he didn't even know it.
"We came away feeling that he was one of the absolute smartest guys in the business, who attended to every part of the process with such focus and has a real touch for what is fresh and interesting for the culture," Universal Pictures chairman Marc Shmuger told Daily Variety. "We think Vince will find a long and comfortable place for himself here."
Vaughn was also a hands-on producer on the documentary "Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland." Pic, which features Vaughn as emcee of a comedy tour, sold in a bidding battle to the Weinstein Co. at last year's Toronto Film Festival.
Months later, when Vaughn was unconvinced about the release and marketing strategy, he appealed directly to Weinstein and was able to buy back the film and make a new deal with New Line and Picturehouse. The pic will be released next year, after Vaughn stars in the holiday comedy "Fred Claus" for Warner Bros., bowing Nov. 9.
"I'm looking forward to working again with Marc, David Linde, Donna Langley and their talented teams," Vaughn said in a statement. "I had a great experience on 'The Break-Up,' and the marketing team, led by Adam Fogelson, did a fantastic job with the film."
BMI.com
Country mega-star Dwight Yoakam kicked off his new partnership with The Bicycle Music Company with a special, impromptu performance at a reception in his honor. The event was held on June 28 at the Gibson Guitar Showroom on Civic Center Drive in Los Angeles. Bicycle recently acquired Yoakam’s seminal Coal Dust West Music catalogue, spanning nearly two decades of gold and platinum hits, including 11 BMI award-winning songs. Hosted by Bicycle, BMI and Gibson, the event drew a standing-room only, industry crowd. Yoakam performed for 40 minutes after being introduced by good friend and actor Vince Vaughn.
Above: BMI Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Nashville, Jody Williams; BMI Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Los Angeles, Barbara Cane; Bicycle Co-President Jonathan Rosner; Vince Vaughn; BMI’s Senior Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, Los Angeles, Tracie Verlinde; Dwight Yoakam; and Bicycle Co-President Jake Wisely.
BMI.com
From the June 29/July6 issue of Entertainment Weekly
Text reads: 15 'FRED CLAUS'
Salty Stocking Stuffer
WHY THIS The last time Vince Vaughn teamed with director David Dobkin, they unleashed Wedding Crashers. This time, the subject matter is less raunchy—Santa (Paul Giametti) dealing with his loser big brother joining the family business—but to listen to Vaughn, you'd never guess it was a kid-friendly comedy. "It deals with a lot of adult messages, like sibling rivalry, and how things from your childhood can mess you up," the actor says of the movie, which unwraps Nov. 9. "If you overheard us on the set, you'd think we were making The Godfather."
Two-Hour Event Hosted By Tracy Morgan Premieres Wednesday, June 13th at 10 PM, ET/PT
Presenters, Appearances and Honorees Include Chuck Liddell, Kevin James, Elisha Cuthbert, Mandy Moore, Masi Oka, Andy Samberg, Artie Lange, Brittany Snow, Chris Cornell, Disturbed, Donnie Wahlberg, James Gandolfini, Joe Rogan, Kelly Carlson, Rob Corddry, Seth Rogen, Sofia Vergara, Steve-O, Tricia Helfer, Will Ferrell, Will Forte and Many More
NEW YORK, June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- As chosen by voters at www.spiketv.com, Adam Sandler has been deemed as the ultimate "Guy's Guy" and will be honored as such at Spike TV's first annual "GUYS CHOICE." Expect to see Sandler toasted and roasted at the show by friends including Kevin James and his favorite band of all time STYX. In addition, Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn will be in attendance to accept the first-ever "Guy Movie Hall Of Fame Award" for their movie, "Swingers." This star-studded event is scheduled to tape on June 9 at Radford Studios in Los Angeles. Spike TV's "GUYS CHOICE" premieres Wednesday, June 13 at 10:00 PM, ET/PT, will feature everything guys want including comedy, the hottest women in the world, the best in music, sports the most viral videos and so much more.
Hosted by comedian/actor Tracy Morgan, Spike TV is giving the biggest shout-outs in television history to the things guys love most and is relying on its millions of viewers to decide who to bow down to from the worlds of sports, music, film, television and the internet. This preeminent night of the year for men will also feature unforgettable tributes to legendary entertainers, rockers and most viral videos, as well as edgy stand-up comedy and house-shaking musical performances. To view all categories and nominees log-on to http://www.spiketv.com.
Spike TV's GUYS CHOICE will also feature performances, presenters and honorees including: Chuck Liddell, Kevin James, Elisha Cuthbert, Mandy Moore, Andy Samberg, Artie Lange, Brittany Snow, Chris Cornell, Disturbed, Donnie Wahlberg, James Gandolfini, Joe Rogan, Jon Favreau, Kelly Carlson, Masi Oka, Rob Corddry, Seth Rogen, Sofia Vergara, Steve-O, Tricia Helfer, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Will Forte a tribute to Adam Sandler, performed by his favorite band of all-time: STYX, and a special performance by ZZ Top featuring Carmen Electra and the Bombshells.
After becoming one of the most popular cast members in the history of "Saturday Night Live," Adam Sandler took his talents to Hollywood, where he has gone on to star in comedic classics such as "Billy Madison," "Happy Gilmore," "The Waterboy," and "The Wedding Singer," among others. Sandler is also one of the most successful comedic recording artists of all time, as his blend of comedy and music has resulted in platinum sales for every album he has released.
The official sponsors of Spike TV's "GUYS CHOICE" are Cingular, now the new AT&T, Corona, Jeep® Patriot, Pizza Hut, SNICKERS®Brand, Southern Comfort® and U.S. Army.
Emmy Award-winning producer Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions and Casey Patterson, Senior Vice President, Event Production & Talent Development for Spike TV will serve as executive producers. Alicia Portugal is the executive in charge of production for Spike TV.
Spike TV is available in 91.6 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. A unit of VIACOM (NYSE: VIA - News, VIA.B - News), MTV Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms.
Yes, folks, it's time once again for the Annual Earmuff Awards Show podcast! Go here to listen: http://www.the-frat-pack.com/podcast/FPT-111.mp3
The full list of winners can be found on the official Earmuff Awards website
.
Don't forget that Vince is nominated for two categories in the People's Choice Awards: "Favorite Leading Male" and "Favorite On-Screen Match-Up" for his and Jen's roles in The Break-Up. The Awards will be broadcast tomorrow, January 9th on CBS at 9/8c.
(And there's a rumor that he might actually be attending! ;D)
Vincent Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston Finally Over for Good
Found Here
Representatives for Vincent Vaughn and his "The Break-Up" co-star Jennifer Aniston announced the couple split, officially confirming earlier gossip. The statement follows weeks of denials from the stars, who had insisted their relationship was still on. They were give the unwieldy appellation “Vaughniston.”
"After Jennifer's trip to London several weeks ago, Jennifer and Vince mutually agreed to end their relationship, but continue to be good friends today," spokesmen Stephen Huvane and John Pisani told People magazine in a story posted on its Web site.
The couple struck up a relationship while working on 'The Break Up' together in the summer of 2005 but refused to confirm that they were dating for several months. Now, they refused to confirm they broke up for more than a month. Aniston flew to London in late October to see Vaughn and apparently the couple hashed things out and decided to call it quits. "Break-Up" opened at No. 1 at the box office in June.
Vaughn, 36, was in England filming "Fred Claus" since September. Aniston, 37, has been working in L.A. and New York. The "Wedding Crashers" actor also recently threatened legal action against three newspapers for printing photos suggesting he had cheated on Aniston with a mystery blond. Eyebrows were raised when Vaughn was a no-show for Aniston's appearance in the "24 Hour Plays" benefit in New York in October.
Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning American actress Jennifer Aniston was born February 11, 1969. She grew up in Greece, California, and New York City, and began appearing in stage productions in the late 1980s. After several lesser known film and television roles during the early 1990s, Aniston came to fame playing Rachel Green on the highly popular television sitcom Friends. She has since established a film career, having starred in several Hollywood films, including Bruce Almighty and Rumor Has It. Aniston has also become known for her marriage to, and eventual divorce from, actor Brad Pitt.
American film actor Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before coming to wider renown with the 1996 movie, Swingers. Vaughn has since appeared in a number of high-grossing Hollywood comedies including "Wedding Crashers". Vaughn is now filming a holiday comedy called "Fred Claus." He's 6'5" (196cm) tall.
People’s rival, US Weekly, reported in August that they were planning a secret beach wedding, but it later quoted insiders as saying the relationship was done. "People are getting fed a lot of bull," the 36-year-old actress told People afterward, pointing out that she had received neither a ring nor a proposal from Vaughn and calling the hubbub "insane."
"Normally we don't even acknowledge these things, because they're endless," Aniston said, "but at this point, the thing that got me was that I was getting phone calls from Greece! My Aunt Mary in Greece is getting accused of lying! I mean, they're getting angry. My dad calls and he says, 'Honey, it's on the CNN crawl,' and I'm going, 'Wait a second!'"
Vince makes the list...
Fifty individuals, teams and companies who've moved the laughs forward this year
By VARIETY STAFF
Vaughn brought "The Break-Up" to Universal, nabbing producer credit. The film, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Aniston, grossed more than $118 million in domestic B.O., marking the third straight summer in which Vaughn has been a major player in the feature comedy arena -- this following the success of summer releases "Wedding Crashers" in 2005 and "DodgeBall" in '04.
Coming up, the multihyphenate has a documentary on the recent comedy tour he produced, "Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights -- Hollywood to the Heartland." The Weinstein Co. plans to release it in 2007. He also shooting the David Dobkin-helmed "Fred Claus" for Warner Bros.
POV: "Vaughn's verbal dexterity remains impressive, and he exhibits genuine pain, as well as flashes of the comedy chops that, arguably, were the strongest element in last summer's hit 'Wedding Crashers,' " noted Variety's review of "The Break-Up."
Vince picked up two nominations for the People's Choice Awards. One for Favorite Leading Male alongside Brad Pitt (such marketing geniuses, they are!) and Matt Damon. He shares the other nomination with Jen for the "Favorite On-Screen Match-Up" category for their roles in The Break-Up. The Awards will be broadcast January 9th on CBS at 9/8c.
Vince Vaughn, the US actor dating former Friends star Jennifer Aniston, is to sue two UK newspapers.
He is taking legal action against the Sun, Daily Mirror and New York Post after they said he kissed a "mystery woman" at a London charity event.
The papers reported that Mr Vaughn and Ms Aniston had broken up days before.
The couple say they remain together. Mr Vaughn is due to argue that the articles falsely suggested he had been unfaithful to Ms Aniston.
Misleading
The Sun and Daily Mirror articles were accompanied by a photograph, which Mr Vaughn will argue was seriously misleading.
He will argue that the suggestion he was involved in a passionate embrace and kiss was false, said a statement from the London lawyers Schillings, who are representing the actor.
The alleged incident took place at the Old Vic theatre earlier this month.
Mr Vaughn and Ms Aniston reportedly started dating during the filming of their recent romantic comedy, The Break-Up.
Anheuser-Busch plans to start Bud TV the day after Super Bowl XLI in February.
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: September 6, 2006
Found Here
IF Anheuser-Busch has its way, it may not be long before consumers start insisting “I want my BTV.”
That’s “BTV” as in Bud TV, an online entertainment network that Anheuser-Busch, the nation’s biggest brewer, is preparing to introduce the day after Super Bowl XLI is played in early February. The network, which will be on a Web site that will have the bud.tv address, accelerates a push by Anheuser-Busch into the business of providing program content.
Advertisers becoming content providers, a practice known as branded entertainment, is helping reshape how Madison Avenue peddles wares. It reflects an effort by marketers to regain some of the power they wielded from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, when they owned the radio and television shows they sponsored.
Anheuser-Busch is joining a lengthy list of marketers turning to branded entertainment. Others include American Honda Motor, Best Buy, Cadbury Schweppes, General Motors, Krups, Nestlé, Pepsi-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Stolichnaya and Washington Mutual.
Critics complain that branded entertainment is hastening the commercialization of American popular culture.
“It’s the advertisers swallowing the programming,” said Gary Ruskin, executive director at Commercial Alert in Portland, Ore., a nonprofit organization that fights what it considers to be creeping commercialism.
“We live in a time of great overreaching by the advertising and marketing industry,” Mr. Ruskin said. “This is one further step toward advertiser control of media.”
Marketers are embracing branded entertainment because it can serve as a counterweight to the growing ability of TV viewers to use devices like digital video recorders and remote controls to skip, flip past and otherwise avoid conventional interruptive 30-second commercials.
“We still have plenty of strong, traditional national TV venues for our messages such as live sports,” said Anthony T. Ponturo, vice president for global media and sports marketing at Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, part of the Anheuser-Busch Companies.
Going forward, “the Internet will be equal to or better than television,” Mr. Ponturo said, particularly in reaching the company’s target audience for beers like Budweiser and Bud Light, which is men ages 21 to 34.
“We’re trying to get out in front of consumers who are spending six hours a week online,” he added. “Marketers had better understand how to effectively reach them.”
Mr. Ponturo and James M. Schumacker, the new leader of the Anheuser-Busch digital marketing team, discussed the company’s plans yesterday with reporters. Anheuser-Busch is scheduled to announce today the intended start of Bud TV on Feb. 5.
Although it is too soon to discuss the specifics of spending on Bud TV and its complementary program offerings on cellphones, Mr. Ponturo said, Anheuser-Busch is expected to double the share of its marketing budget devoted to online advertising, to 10 percent.
That would include spending on Web sites that the company already operates, he added, like budweiser.com and budlight.com, as well as spending for ads on more than 40 third-party Web sites like espn.com and yahoo.com.
According to TNS Media Intelligence, Anheuser-Busch spent $919.4 million last year to advertise in all major media, ranking the company 40th among the largest American advertisers.
The plans call for Bud TV to offer computer users six channels of comedy, reality, sports and talk programming created for and by Anheuser-Busch. The tentative names for the channels include Comedy, Happy Hour and Reality.
Sources for the programs will include agencies that create advertising for Anheuser-Busch like @radical.media and DDB Worldwide, part of the Omnicom Group; companies owned by Hollywood stars like LivePlanet (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon), TriggerStreet.com (Kevin Spacey), and Wild West Picture Show Productions (Vince Vaughn); and production companies like Omelet and Seed.
Anheuser-Busch is in discussions with Joe Buck, the sportscaster, to develop a talk show, Mr. Schumacker said, and “we may add a fashion channel” at some point.
A seventh channel on Bud TV, tentatively named Bud Tube, will be styled after the popular Web site YouTube (youtube.com), Mr. Schumacker said, giving consumers a chance to “generate their own Anheuser-Busch ads, comedic in nature,” which can be shared with other computer users.
The idea for Bud Tube, Mr. Schumacker said, came from another agency that works for Anheuser-Busch, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, also part of Omnicom. The first assignment consumers can tackle, he added, is to make their own versions of a series of Bud Light commercials featuring a character called Ted Ferguson, billed as the “Bud Light daredevil.”
Anheuser-Busch will borrow another page from the YouTube playbook, Mr. Ponturo said, by setting up the programming on Bud TV so that computer users can repurpose it on other Web sites like YouTube and MySpace (myspace.com).
“We see this as a marketing tool to talk to consumers,” Mr. Ponturo said, “rather than as a production company or a network whose goal is to make money on programming.” His reference was to efforts by some networks and producers to have content they created removed from sharing sites like MySpace and YouTube.
There has been speculation that Anheuser-Busch wanted to expand its presence in the content arena beyond a unit, Bud Productions, that creates sports programs. That speculation reached a fever pitch before the Super Bowl in February, when trade publications reported that the company would offer computer users a desktop application so they could take another look at the Budweiser and Bud Light commercials that ran during the game.
Instead, Anheuser-Busch chose to offer downloads of the commercials on budweiser.com and budlight.com. After 700,000 downloads, Mr. Ponturo said, “we learned a little bit” about the preferences of computer users, adding that the commercials were watched by an additional 22 million visitors to other Web sites like video.google.com and video.yahoo.com.
The trade publication Advertising Age reported in its Aug. 21 issue that Anheuser-Busch would make entertainment programs available online. Mr. Schumacker said that Bud TV would also offer a desktop application that can be downloaded to deliver a program from the Happy Hour channel each day at 4:55 p.m..
Anheuser-Busch intends to monitor the use of Bud TV so that it is not watched by minors under 21, Mr. Schumacker and Mr. Ponturo said, adding that when computer users sign up and create profiles, they will be asked to provide identifying information beyond age and birth date.
To critics like Mr. Ruskin of Commercial Alert, there is one small silver lining in something like Bud TV.
“As advertising becomes more and more aggressive and intrusive, people will dislike it more than they do,” Mr. Ruskin said, “and we’ll do better at efforts to keep advertising in its proper place.”
E! Molding New Comedy Profile
By Anne Becker -- Broadcasting & Cable
Found here
E! is looking to boost its comedy profile with the launch of celebrity claymation series Starveillance, which will debut in January 2007.
The show, from Celebrity Deathmatch mastermind Eric Fogel, will offer up celebrities who have more than just feet of clay, including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, and Ashlee Simpson.
Adding more laughs to the lineup is a top priority at E! Networks President/CEO Ted Harbert said in announcing the show to critics at the Television Critics Association Tour in L.A..
He also pointed out that, although the network lost its video version of Howard Stern's radio show, it's still up 11% in prime time household ratings over last year. "Frankly, six months ago, I thought I'd be out here trying to spin a negative story," he said.
The ratings growth is thanks in part to strong ratings from The Simple Life's fourth season, which premiered on the network in June. E! has ordered a fifth season of the show.
Cruise Tops Premiere's Power List!
Found here
TOM CRUISE is more powerful than ever -- as Premiere magazine has unveiled the annual "2006 Power List" in its June issue, on stands May 16.
The annual list is a declaration of today's 50 most influential Hollywood players. Besides posing for the cover, Cruise is listed as the highest ranking actor at #13, while REESE WITHERSPOON takes the top actress ranking at #29.
The 'Legally Blonde' actress is also a newcomer to the list, as is Brit beauty KEIRA KNIGHTLEY (#45), '40-Year-Old Virgin' STEVE CARELL (#33), VINCE VAUGHN (#31), ANGELINA JOLIE (#38) and JAKE GYLLENHAAL (#48).
Director STEVEN SPIELBERG is a true Hollywood heavyweight at #4, joining fellow helmer PETER JACKSON (#11 -- who was last year's #1 power player) on the hot list.
Buck Owens, August 12, 1929–March 25, 2006
'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies
AP Story
(AP) Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday. He was 76.
Owens died at his home in Bakersfield, said family spokesman Jim Shaw. The cause of death was not immediately known. Owens had undergone throat cancer surgery in 1993 and was hospitalized with pneumonia in 1997.
His career was one of the most phenomenal in country music, with a string of more than 20 No. 1 records, most released from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
They were recorded with a honky-tonk twang that came to be known throughout California as the "Bakersfield Sound," named for the town 100 miles north of Los Angeles that Owens called home.
"I think the reason he was so well known and respected by a younger generation of country musicians was because he was an innovator and rebel," said Shaw, who played keyboards in Owens' band, the Buckaroos. "He did it out of the Nashville establishment. He had a raw edge."
Owens, elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, was modest when describing his aspirations.
"I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time," he said in 1992.
An indefatigable performer, Owens played a red, white and blue guitar with fireball fervor. He and the Buckaroos wore flashy rhinestone suits in an era when flash was as important to country music as fiddles.
Among his biggest hits were "Together Again" (also recorded by Emmylou Harris), "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," "Love's Gonna Live Here," "My Heart Skips a Beat" and "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line."
And he was the answer to this music trivia question: What country star had a hit record that was later done by the Beatles?
"Those guys were phenomenal," Owens once said.
Ringo Starr recorded "Act Naturally" twice, singing lead on the Beatles' 1965 version and recording it as a duet with Owens in 1989. The song, by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, tells of a poor soul who foresees a movie career playing "a man who's sad and lonely, and all I gotta do is act naturally. ... Might win an Oscar, you can never tell."
In addition to music, Owens had a highly visible TV career as co-host of "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1986. With guitarist Roy Clark, he led viewers through a potpourri of country music and hayseed humor.
"It's an honest show," Owens told The Associated Press in 1995. "There's no social message _ no crusade. It's fun and simple."
Owens himself could be rebellious, choosing among other things to label what he did "American music" rather than country.
"I took a little heat," he once said. "People asked me, `Isn't country music good enough for you?' "
He also criticized the syrupy arrangements of some country singers, saying "assembly-line, robot music turns me off."
After his string of hits, Owens stayed away from the recording scene for a decade, returning in 1988 to record another No. 1 record, "Streets of Bakersfield," with Dwight Yoakam.
He spent much of his time away concentrating on his business interests, which included a Bakersfield TV station and radio stations in Bakersfield and Phoenix.
"I never wanted to hang around like the punch-drunk fighter," he told The Associated Press in 1992.
He had moved to Bakersfield in 1951, hoping to find work in the thriving juke joints of what in the years before suburban sprawl was a truck-stop town on Highway 99, between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area.
"We played rhumbas and tangos and sambas, and we played Bob Wills music, lots of Bob Wills music," he said, referring to the bandleader who was the king of Western swing.
"And lots of rock 'n' roll," he added.
Owens started recording in the mid-1950s, but gained little success until 1963 with "Act Naturally," his first No. 1 single.
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. was born in 1929 outside Sherman, Texas, the son of a sharecropper. With opportunities scarce during the Depression, the family moved to Arizona when he was 8.
He dropped out of school at age 13 to haul produce and harvest crops, and by 16 he was playing music in taverns.
He once told an audience, "When I was a little bitty kid, I used to dream about playing the guitar and singing like some of those great people that we had the old, thick records of."
Owens' first wife, Bonnie Owens, sometimes performed with him and went on to become a leading backup singer after their divorce in 1955. She had occasional solo hits in the '60s, as well as successful duets with her second husband, Merle Haggard.
One of her two sons with Owens also became a singer, using the name Buddy Alan. He had a Top 10 hit in 1968, "Let the World Keep on a-Turnin'," and recorded a number of duets with his father.
In addition to Buddy, he is survived by two other sons, Michael and John.
Did you catch Vince on Extra and Access Hollywood tonight? You can view the clip Extra showed HERE.
From Extra's website:
The annual ShoWest convention, held on the glitzy Las Vegas strip, attracted Hollywood's hottest celebs and gave theater owners a preview of the summer box-office thrills.
Vince Vaughn, star of the smash hit "Wedding Crashers," arrived solo without his squeeze, Jennifer Aniston. The red-hot actor came to pick up an award for Comedy Star of the Year.
So can fans around the world expect a "Wedding Crashers Two? " "No, we haven't talked about that at all," Vaughn revealed.
A "Wedding Crashers" sequel may not be in the works, but Vince did tell us all about his upcoming romantic comedy, ""The Break-Up"," in which he stars with his real-life gal pal, Jennifer Aniston.
"It's funny, and I think people should know it's kind of an anti-romantic comedy in some ways because it is the breakup," he revealed. "And there is some stuff in the movie that is kind of real or universal with relationships."
(There's also a video clip of Vince accepting his award on Splash News. But it won't be there for long, so get it while you can.)
Vaughn laughs best at ShoWest
By Gregg Kilday
The Hollywood Reporter
Vince Vaughn will be hailed as the ShoWest Comedy Star of the Year at the annual exhibitors convention, which kicks off Monday in Las Vegas. The star of the summer hit "Wedding Crashers" will be presented with the award Thursday at the closing-night ceremony at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas hotels. "Vince Vaughn has been making audiences laugh since introducing the world to the unforgettable character Trent Walker in the comedy classic 'Swingers,' " said Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event. Vaughn next stars opposite Jennifer Aniston in Universal Pictures' romantic comedy ""The Break-Up"," directed by Peyton Reed and set for release June 2. Vaughn's credits range from "Swingers" to "Psycho," "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" and "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." ShoWest is managed by the VNU Expositions Film Group, a division of VNU Business Media, parent company of The Hollywood Reporter.
Ten years after a then little-known movie called "Swingers" was released, writer/actor Jon Favreau, actor Vince Vaughn and director Doug Liman reunited in the St. Regis Ballroom to celebrate what they refer to as the "slow-burning success" of a comedy about camaraderie, coolness and chasing girls.
The independent film -- shot in 20 days on a $250,000 budget -- achieved limited success at the box office after initial release. But, as months turned into years, the film gained a following. Eventually, a phrase from the film ("so money") became as common as the growing independent film culture.
During Saturday night's Comedy Fest panel discussion, the trio talked about the three-week journey it took to create the movie, and the roller coaster of events that ensued in producing a low-budget film.
"There were points when the cops were literally going to arrest us if we didn't shut down filming," said Liman. "There was a subtlety of emotion that was delivered under insane, insane conditions."
Filming in unapproved locations, the trio said they would set up shop in bars that were still open to the public and in diners that were serving breakfast, and drive down highways in which traffic was freely flowing.
A baby pulled from a car stopped at a red light was the only paid extra in the movie, replacing a 3-year-old hired through a casting service that turned out to be too old, as well as the "ugliest baby you've ever seen," said Favreau.
But producing the movie was not all theatrics.
Writer Favreau said he had been going through a difficult time in his life, after leaving love behind, and his character in the movie dealt with the self-esteem issues he was also experiencing.
"People get hooked onto the wrong message from the film, like how to get a girl in bed," said Favreau. "But really motivating the film is the characters' love for each other and they are longing for a companionship."
And for a film that focused largely on how to score dates and get over an ex, the panel said it really paid tribute to femininity and the way men deal with the opposite sex.
"We're dressed up, looked like the s-t, pretending we're in a Scorsese movie, but zoom in and we're really just scared," said Favreau.
Vaughn also agreed that a central theme was the nuances of masculinity.
"It's truthful and genuine because at that time these guys talked about girls a lot more than they got girls. They played video games, and they listened to that kind of music," said Vaughn. "By talking about women it was exposing male innocence for what it is."
Just as Favreau's character discovers that the path to finding love is to stop looking for it, Vaughn offered advice on relationships as well.
"Be yourself. If you have a connection with someone, great, but if you don't, move on," said Vaughn. "You are who you are, be yourself, that's the only way to go through stuff."
LAS VEGAS, March 12 (UPI) -- Actor Vince Vaughn has been named recipient of ShoWest's comedy star of the year.
The star of "Wedding Crashers" will be honored during the closing night awards banquet Thursday in Las Vegas, Daily Variety reported Sunday.
Vaughn will next been seen in the romantic comedy, ""The Break-Up"," scheduled to be released to theaters in June.
DENVER (AP) — It's still money, baby.
Swingers, which starred Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, can also be blamed for bringing back chain wallets and Sinatra-speak.
The U.S. Comedy Arts Festival announced Monday that its centerpiece showcase next month will be a 10th-anniversary celebration of the 1996 film Swingers, which made "money" the coinage of cool. The festival, set to run March 8th-12th in Aspen, Colo., will reunite the film's cast — Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau (who also wrote the movie) and Ron Livingston.
Favreau, who in Swingers plays a New Yorker transplanted to Los Angeles as he painfully tries to get over a broken relationship, feels it was the story's exploration of universal themes for young adults that struck a big chord.
"It had a lot of sort of heat associated with how timely it was to what was going on in pop culture," he said Monday in a phone conversation. "It was a very personal story ... and I wrote it at a moment when I was really wrestling with those dilemmas and the whole idea of friendship and what the future might hold overcoming the depression and in overcoming a relationship or being alone in a new town."
The film was ahead of its time, Favreau said, setting the stage for the type of comedy found in more recent box office hits Old School and Wedding Crashers.
"Now it seems all so familiar, but at the time it was cutting edge and we were grouped with all that independent film stuff," Favreau said. But, he continued, "Vince and I and (director) Doug Liman too, and Ron, we've hit the mainstream as we're closing in on 40 years old and now we're the system."
Besides honoring Swingers, the 12th annual festival, sponsored by HBO, will offer 23 feature films, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion,Dave Chappelle's Block Party and Damon Wayans' Behind the Smile, 23 shorts and live comedy.
The festival announced earlier this year that actress Goldie Hawn and director James Burrows would be honored during the event.
Last year's festival reunited Cheech Marin and former film partner Tommy Chong, who appeared together for the first time in 20 years. The 2005 event also saw Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau receive the festival's Freedom of Speech Award while prone on a stretcher after he broke his collarbone while skiing.
For more information on the festival, go to www.hbocomedyfestival.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Tom Cruise led a poll of movie exhibitors aimed at determining the top 10 moneymaking stars of 2005.
Cruise, who appeared in last year's "War of the Worlds," has won the annual survey by Quigley Publishing Co. seven times, Arnold Robinson, the actor's publicist, said Thursday.
Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds and Bing Crosby have all snatched the No. 1 spot five times.
The Quigley Poll, conducted every year since 1932, asks motion picture exhibitors to vote for the 10 stars who generated the most box-office revenue for their theaters.
Johnny Depp finished second in the 2005 poll. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt tied for third, followed by Vince Vaughn, George Clooney, Will Smith, Reese Witherspoon, Adam Sandler and last year's winner Tom Hanks.
LOS ANGELES - Patrick Cranshaw, who achieved cult-like status as fraternity brother "Blue" in the 2003 comedy "Old School," has died. He was 86.
The veteran character actor died of natural causes Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, his personal manager, Jeff Ross, told the Los Angeles Times.
During a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Cranshaw had dozens of roles, including a bank teller in "Bonnie and Clyde" and a demolition derby owner in "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005). Other credits included "Bandolero" (1968), "Best in Show" (2000) and "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), as well as television series "Mork & Mindy" and "The Dukes of Hazzard."
But he was probably best known for his role as elderly frat boy Joseph "Blue" Palasky in "Old School," starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn.
In the hit comedy, he was about to wrestle two topless girls but dies of an apparent heart attack from overexcitment. After singing "Dust in the Wind" at Blue's funeral, Ferrell's character calls out in agony: "You're my boy, Blue!"
Fans would yell the signature line whenever they saw the actor. He was even invited to meet with the Texas Rangers when they played the Angels in Anaheim.
"It was a great experience and an acknowledgment for him," Ross said. "He loved the recognition and would turn back and say, 'I'm your boy Blue.'"
Cranshaw was born in Bartlesville, Okla., in 1919 and became interested in acting while entertaining American troops before World War II.
He is survived by three children, Jan Ragland, Joe Cranshaw and Beverly Trautschold.
Hey, Vince...you made their top 10! You've had an amazing year and you certainly derserve it. Congratulations!
Found here.
Here is what they had to say about Vince:
Early in Wedding Crashers, the second-highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time ($209 million), Owen Wilson asks Vince Vaughn if the weddings they're crashing have cash bars.''Great question!'' Vaughn says. ''Love where your head's at!'' If the line sounded familiar, it might've been because Vaughn threw a variation on it — ''I like where your head's at!'' — at Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs. Smith earlier this summer. Both times, the catchphrase zings. Vaughn makes you want to use it as your own (''I like where your head's at, Mom!''), because from movie to movie, and with Crashers in particular, he's perfected ''Vince Vaughn,'' the charmingly coarse and always hilarious motormouth cutup he's excelled at playing since 2003's Old School.
The in-the-flesh Vince Vaughn insists his film work, which this year also included turns in Be Cool and Thumbsucker, is nothing but ''performance.'' ''The biggest compliment with acting — and I seem to get this a lot — is when people think you're being yourself,'' he says. ''That's the point of acting: to not be acting.'' And the off-screen Vaughn does sound like a calmer, more do-good kind of guy than his on-screen counterparts. This year he went to Iraq again to visit the troops, and he staged a 30-day comedy tour (Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show) because he wanted people who don't live on the coasts to have the chance to enjoy some big, live entertainment. (And he donated proceeds from a few shows to Hurricane Katrina victims.) The real Vince Vaughn even gives a pass to the annoying paparazzi trying to snap him and his girl Friend, Jennifer Aniston. ''You realize people are just doing their jobs,'' he says. ''And so you don't really take it to heart.'' What a softie.
Don't look for any big changes to the Vaughn persona in the near future. Right now he's finishing up producing duties on "The Break-Up", his June romantic comedy costarring Aniston. After that, he'll team up with I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell on a funny movie about a radio call-in host. ''Being goofy,'' he says, ''Öit's fun.'' We like where his head's at.
--by Gregory Kirschling
PHOENIX - Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston were pulled over by Scottsdale police earlier this week, and Vaughn was given a sobriety test, police said Thursday.
Vaughn wasn't cited for any violation after a preliminary breath test showed the actor's blood-alcohol level was below the legal impairment limit of 0.08, Scottsdale police Sgt. Mark Clark said.
"We determined he had something to drink but was not over the legal (impairment) limit," Clark said. "We suggested that he not continue to drive."
Vaughn parked the vehicle, described as a white van or truck, at a nearby resort, Clark said. He said Vaughn and Aniston then got into the car of a friend who had been following them.
Clark didn't have any details on why Vaughn was stopped early Tuesday. Police said the patrolman who pulled over the vehicle smelled alcohol on Vaughn's breath.
Messages left for publicists for Aniston and Vaughn, who co-star in the upcoming film ""The Break-Up"," weren't immediately returned Thursday.
For months, reports have swirled that Vaughn, 35, and Aniston, 36, are dating. Last month, People magazine published photos showing the couple kissing in Chicago, possibly confirming that their relationship has grown romantic.
Aniston was divorced from Brad Pitt last month after 4 1/2 years of marriage.
Vaughn, whose father lives in Phoenix, co-starred earlier this year with Pitt and Angelina Jolie in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." It was then that reports of a romance between Pitt and Jolie began, which were later corroborated by photographs and public spottings.
"The Break-Up" is scheduled for release next year.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Comic upstart John Caparulo is set to star in a semi-biographical sitcom that's being produced for NBC by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison company.
"The Simpsons" Brian Scully is on board to write and executive produce the show centering around Caparulo's post-college life in a small Ohio town, Daily Variety reported Monday.
Caparulo has graced the small screen on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn."
He's currently on a U.S. tour with Vince Vaughn's "Wild West Comedy Show."
He made the cut. Well, duh. Found here and here
At 35, Vaughn's magnetism is palpable. "His persona, when he goes into a room, is so much larger than life that he immediately fills the room," says his Mr. & Mrs. Smith director, Doug Liman. And the actor – Jennifer Aniston's new squeeze – has a way with words. "He's like a verbal stunt pilot," says pal Jeremy Piven. "He's got a lot of confidence."
The man of the year is a woman?
By Karen Thomas, USA TODAY
Found here
For the first time in 10 years, GQ magazine is featuring a woman on one of three covers of the annual Men of the Year issue. That woman: Jennifer Aniston. (Related story: Aniston remains our favorite Friend)
Actor Vince Vaughn and rapper 50 Cent also are sharing GQ's 2005 honor. The covers will be distributed to subscribers randomly, and all three will be sold on newsstands Nov. 22.
In 2003, GQ started featuring women in the issue, but "we wanted to choose the one woman who we find most compelling," says articles editor Mark Healy. The decision to run topless photos of her, he says, was between the photographer and Aniston.
In what GQ is billing as its first ever Woman of the Year, the nomination is "an honor" for Aniston, says her spokesman, Stephen Huvane. The actress was "inspired" by photographer Peggy Sirota, he says. "Jennifer has always been interested in creating images that are inspired and different from what you may have seen before."
Aniston, 36, earned the 2005 title, Healy says, because she "exhibited a lot of poise, unbelievable amount of grace and good humor this year."
She tells GQ, "Look, I'm not de{filig}ned by this relationship (with Brad Pitt). I wasn't when I was in it, and I don't want to be in the aftermath of it."
Ever since the former Friends star announced the end of her marriage in January and endured weekly tabloid attention, she "showed the best of herself," Healy says.
And Aniston is "ending 2005 really strongly with good performances" in films that make her a worthy man of the year. Derailed, which opened in third place last weekend, is a departure for the actress, who usually is cast in romantic comedies.
The appeal of the other men of the year, according to Healy:
•Vince Vaughn. With the summer's movie hit, Wedding Crashers, Vaughn, 35, nailed the honor. "Once again, he was hilarious, charming and smart." Editors do recognize that there are more well-known stars, "but there's not one who better represents who our (readers) think is cool than Vince," recently photographed enjoying a weekend in Chicago with Aniston.
•50 Cent. That the 30-year-old rapper has the year's top-selling album, a best-selling autobiography and a new video game is just the start of his appeal. Now, he is crossing over into movies with the just-opened Get Rich or Die Tryin'. "He's one of those public figures we're endlessly fascinated by."
Healy "can't say" whether a female MOTY will become a regular part of GQ's annual issue. "Sometimes, when you think someone is as deserving as (Aniston), then you make room."
Now let's find the cover with Vince on it! I can't wait until the 22nd! Thanks, Lindsay for finding all three covers! :)
Once again, I'd like to congratulate Vince for being honored by the Multicultural Motion Picture Association's Diversity Awards. Tonight at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Vince will receive the Innovator Award for his "witty, creative" style, said association President Jarvee Hutcherson. He truly deserves this honor.
The Diversity Awards are being taped to be broadcast later this Fall.
Among the nominations for this year's People's Choice Awards are Vince and Owen for 'Best on-screen matchup' (Wedding Crashers). Congrats, guys!
You can vote for them here
My thoughts are with all of you who are in Hurricane Wilma's path. Please stay safe and let's pray this one loses her strength and goes away. We've had enough already.
Remember the nightclub in Swingers? The Derby? Well, by know you've probably heard that it's in danger. The Bad News: The land was sold and the new landowners want to demolish the Derby to put up luxury condos in its place.
This building which dates from 1928 was once owned by the great Cecil B. DeMille. It is one of the original Brown Derby restuarants and the last one still intact. It is even more famous as "the nightclub in Swingers." Clearly, the Swingers team put themselves and the Derby on the "map." Like its counterpart, the "Dresden Room" - the Derby is a cherished piece of Los Feliz. Everyone loves it. Bet you do too.
The Good News: Save the Derby Coalition is fighting to save the Derby before we lose yet another reminder of old Hollywood glamour to the developers' wrecking ball. Our Coalition includes the LA Conservancy, Hollywood Heritage and numerous neighborhood groups in the Los Feliz area plus thousands of concerned citizens.
Thank you and long live the Derby!
(For details and to view lots of great historic photos and info visit their website: www.savethederby.com)
JOIN OUR COALITION!
Write to us: savethederby@yahoo.com
The Save the Derby Coalition is growing rapidly. We have almost 1000 individual members and numerous organizations that support our efforts including:
The Derby Nightclub
The Los Angeles Conservancy
The Modern Committee (“ModCom”)
Hollywood Heritage
The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles
The Lively Arts History Association
The Glendale Historical Society
The Franklin Hills Residents Association
The Los Feliz Estate Owners Association
Save what is unique and wonderful about Los Feliz.
Join our fight to Save the Derby! savethederby@yahoo.com
SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION TO SAVE THE DERBY
The Derby or the Wrecking Ball? Save the Derby!
The Save the Derby Coalition wishes to preserve, as a whole, the existing structure located at
4500 Los Feliz Boulevard (corner of Hillhurst and Los Feliz). We believe it to be a unique and valuable asset to the Los Feliz community and the surrounding neighborhoods.
As the last original Brown Derby restaurant still intact, it is an historical, architectural, and cultural icon. It is also an active venue representing living Hollywood history. It contributes to the character, attractiveness, and livability of Los Feliz and the City of Los Angeles. It should not be demolished.
Want to get this message through, loud and clear, to the developer and our elected officials?
Sign our Petition!
Save the Derby Online Petition
http://www.ethical-business.com/?sect=detail&pet=2096
(if link does not work, please cut-and-paste url into your web browser )
ATTEND “DERBY” TOWN HALL MEETING – NOV 10TH AT 7PM
The Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council (“GGPNC”) is the certified neighborhood council for the Los Feliz area. To get information from the developer and hear the views of local residents, they are having a town hall meeting to discuss the Derby and what should happen:
When: Thursday Nov. 10th at 7pm
Where: Multi-purpose Bldg. - Our Mother of Good Counsel Church
2071 Dracena St. (in Los Feliz)
(multi-purpose bldg. is just east of church on Vermont & Ambrose)
The Neighborhood Council, will ultimately make a recommendation to the City about what should happen to our Derby.
This is a critical chance to speak your mind! Even if you don’t say a word, just having your body in the room says a lot.
The Brown Derby needs you. We will be there. Be there with us!
NEIGHBORS OBJECT TO PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
The Franklin Hills Residents Association Board of Directors voted on 10/4/05 to oppose plans to replace The Derby/Louise's with the large scale mixed use development currently proposed for 4500 Los Feliz Blvd.
Los Feliz Estates Owners Association Board of Directors voted on 9/22/05 to oppose currently suggested development of The Derby/Louise's site at 4500 Los Feliz Blvd.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
We would love to hear from you: savethederby@yahoo.com
Thank you and long live the Derby!
Save the Derby Coalition
www.savethederby.com
Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by Katrina's devastation. The news just keeps getting worse and worse.
Here's a link to donate to the Red Cross - make sure you click on 'Hurricane 2005 Relief'.
BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter
Chicago Sun Times
Real cops mingled with TV cops Saturday night as thousands turned out to raise money for a tribute to officers killed in the line of duty.
"I think it's a long time coming," said actor Dennis Farina. "They've done it nationally, and it's time we do it here. I actually think this might be the start of something big, that other cities might follow suit after Chicago does it. And of course, as always, Chicago is a trendsetter."
Farina, a former Chicago Police officer and now star of TV's "Law & Order," was among several celebrities with Chicago ties who converged at the Arie Crown Theater to raise money for the Gold Star Families Memorial and Park for fallen police officers.
Gala-goers hobnobbed with such TV cops as Steppenwolf veteran Gary Sinise of "CSI: NY," Dennis Franz of "NYPD Blue," William Peterson of "CSI" and Larry Manetti of "Magnum P.I.," basking in the actors' support for those who protect and serve.
The Chicago Police Memorial Foundation has passed the halfway mark in its effort to raise $5 million, and officials hope the star-studded fund-raising efforts will bring them within reach of their goal.
The five-acre park, which will be between Soldier Field and Burnham Harbor, is scheduled to open next year.
Hosted by comedian Tom Dreesen, the event also included such celebrities as "Wedding Crashers" actor Vince Vaughn, Second City native and "Cheers" star George Wendt, former Bears coach Mike Ditka and members of his 1985 Super Bowl-winning team.
"I'm just proud to be a part of it," Vaughn said. "It's just a chance to say 'thank you' to the people that go the distance every day for you and me. Some of them, unfortunately, give the ultimate sacrifice, and this is a way to say 'we appreciate you.' "
An all-faith service at the existing Gold Star Memorial Park will be held at noon today to cap off the "Salute to Chicago's Finest" weekend.
With the support of the Chicago Sun-Times and other sponsors, the foundation hosted a candlelight vigil and 5K run earlier this year for the memorial.
"We all wanted to come home to do this. It's a chance for those of us who love this city to come back and say 'thank you' to the men and women who put their lives on the line for us every day," Dreesen said.
So much going on today! I've been trying to catch a minute here and there to check the board and keep up with all of the latest Vince news. A couple of interesting items...first Vince is no longer with his publicist, I/D PR. Don't know the story behind the departure, but it was brought to my attention very shortly after it hit NY Post Page Six:
BAD PUBLICITYFUNNYMAN Vince Vaughn may not be as nice as he seems. The frat-boy icon, who shot to A-list stardom this year with the success of "Wedding Crashers," and is now cuddling up to Jennifer Aniston during the filming of ""The Break-Up"," has been dropped by his longtime public relations firm, the powerful I/D PR. One insider said, "Vince was being abusive." A partner at I/D PR confirmed that Vaughn was dumped but added, "There is no truth to your negative portrayal of Vince. We continue to have an amicable relationship and wish him continued success." Vaughn's reps at United Talent Agency didn't return calls.
And I love what Defamer had to say about it...
More Hollywood Life Lessons: Be Nice To Your Publicist"While we can’t say for sure this is how it happened, isn’t it easy to picture the “insider” and the “partner” from the flackery sitting across the desk from each other, passing the phone back and forth, taking turns talking smack and issuing insincere-sounding denials? Nicely done. Fruit baskets for everyone!"
So there's that story.
I got this from Michelle who read it on a Dale Earnhardt Jr. group:
The No. 8 Bud car will carry a movie logo for the first time this weekend (last weekend) and at Pocono (July 24)"Wedding Crashers," starring several of our (and Dale Jr's) faves,
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn (plus what we can safely assume will
be multiple scenes of on-screen Budweiser drinking), will be
advertised on the deck lid at the next two races. Seems Owen and his
brother Luke are also Dale Jr. fans, as he was asked to appear with
them in a comedy segment for the ESPY Awards on ESPN this month,
but, with the crazed NASCAR schedule, Dale Jr's participation in the
shoot proved to be logistically impossible.One would hope the use of the term "crasher" is not an omen. heh...
heh... h...
The Pocono race will be broadcast on TNT at 1:00PM.
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of London right now. What horrific news.
Clear Channel Entertainment Properties Teams New Line's 'Wedding Crashers' With Las Vegas Centennial Celebration
LAS VEGAS, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Entertainment Properties proudly announces the marriage of New Line Cinema's upcoming movie, "Wedding Crashers" and the Las Vegas centennial celebration event, "Once Upon 100 Weddings" in a unique, custom-branded live entertainment program.
"Wedding Crashers" will become the official movie for the "Once Upon 100 Weddings" event, June 6-9, which will treat 100 couples from around the world to the wedding experience of a lifetime and commemorate the Las Vegas Centennial.
98 couples from outside Las Vegas and two lucky local couples will win a wedding package that includes nuptials and bachelor and bachelorette parties provided by MGM Grand's Studio 54 and New York - New York's Coyote Ugly respectively. Each couple will also receive a host of wedding gifts, including a gift certificate to David's Bridal, show tickets provided by La Femme at the MGM Grand, a bottle of fine wine from Beaulieu Vineyard and individual ice cream wedding cakes by Cold Stone Creamery. The twosomes will tie the knot in a joint ceremony under the canopy of the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas on June 9.
New Line Cinema will host a private screening of "Wedding Crashers" for all the couples on Tuesday, June 7 at 3 p.m. at the Crown Theater-Neonopolis. These couples will be among the first to see one of the most anticipated comedies of the summer. They will also be guests at The Great Centennial Poker Showdown, where they'll be outfitted in "Wedding Crashers" t-shirts and get the chance to win big. Also, "Wedding Crashers" movie posters and other signage will be prominently displayed at the wedding ceremony and reception on Thursday, June 9 at the Fremont Street Experience.
"This is more than just a wedding, it's an entire wedding extravaganza," said Mayor Oscar Goodman, Chairman of the Centennial Committee. "There's a reason Las Vegas is known as the 'Wedding Capital of the World.' These couples are going to have the time of their lives and they will never forget they said their 'I do's' in Las Vegas."
The winning couples will be chosen through a variety of exciting local market contests and promotions being held in Vegas, key Vegas feeder markets and internationally.
"'Wedding Crashers' is a perfect fit for this fabulous Vegas-style wedding event," said Gillian Brooks Fisher, VP, Field Publicity & Promotions, New Line Cinema. "Clear Channel Entertainment Properties was a great matchmaker for us, and we're sure it's going to be 'happily ever after.'"
It takes many partners to pull off an event of this magnitude. Clear Channel Entertainment Properties wants to say a special thank you to New Line Cinema's Wedding Crashers, Southwest Airlines, Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (LVCVA), Fremont Street Experience, Coldstone Creamery, David's Bridal, Beaulieu Vineyard, Celebrity Coaches and Costco.
Major sponsors of the Las Vegas Centennial include American Express, the official card sponsor of the Las Vegas Centennial; Beaulieu Vineyard, which is also celebrating 100 years of wine-making; and Albertsons, the official supermarket of the Las Vegas Centennial.
To learn more about the Las Vegas Centennial or to download an application and list of contest requirements, visit the Centennial Web site, http://www.lasvegas2005.org .
Vince was recently honored at Lake Forest High School's Alumni Hall of Fame. You can check out the photos here. Thanks, Brooks for passing along this great link!
Ķand contribute to a great cause. Vince Vaughn and MGM donated a costume from Be Cool to The Clothes Off Our Back auction. (That's awesome!)
His costume and other great items are up for bid at www.clothesoffourback.org.¬ÝProceeds from the auction will benefit the ChildrenÄôs Defense Fund, Smile Train, Cure Autism Now and the UNICEF Tsunami Relief Fund.
Description: Own the jacket, tank top and pants that Vince Vaughn wore as "Raj" in MGM's BE COOL movie. His costume is up for auction through Clothes Off Our Back. The proceeds from this auction benefit the Children's Defense Fund, Smile Train, Cure Autism Now and UNICEF's tsunami relief fund.
Costume pieces consisting of an elaborate black leather jacket, solidly embroidered with grey thread to resemble paper money (Pelle Moda- Size XL); a black cotton tank top (Calvin Klein- Size XL) and a pair of grey charcoal and blue herringbone and pinstripe wool pants with flat front and no cuff (Sean Jean- Size 34). Costumer tag attached. (Note: some damage to jacket zipper).
Memorabilia Value: $500.-$600.per).
Auction includes MGM Bonus pack with BE COOL soundtrack and coasters, the Collector's Edition GET SHORTY 2-Disc DVD Set and a special issue of Daily Variety provided by MGM.
Pelle Moda- Size XL
Calvin Klein- Size XL
Sean Jean- Size 34.
The Clothes Off Our Back is a 501 (c) 3 (pending) organization that hosts charity auctions and private events showcasing todayÄôs hottest celebrity attire. ¬ÝItems are put up for bid to the public with proceeds going to select childrenÄôs charities each year. ¬ÝProceeds from auctions in 2004 will benefit the ChildrenÄôs Defense Fund, Smile Train and the Cure Autism Now Foundation. Clothes Off Our Back was founded by actors and philanthropists Jane Kazcmarek (ÄúMalcolm In The MiddleÄù) and Bradley Whitford (ÄúThe West WingÄù) whose efforts, along with their celebrity friends and auction participants, have helped spread awareness and improve the lives of children across the globe.
VAUGHN CLARIFIES RELATIONSHIP WITH ANISTON
STARSKY + HUTCH star VINCE VAUGHN has spoken out to declare he and JENNIFER ANISTON are just friends, after a business meeting between them was portrayed as a romantic date.
Aniston, who split from husband BRAD PITT last month (JAN05), was pictured with Vaughn at the Posh Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel on 2 February (05).
And while rumours have circulated about a possible romance between the pair, Vaughn insists it was strictly business.
He says, "We had a meeting about one of the projects that I'm doing and discussing. People wanna try to sell magazines. You can't take it personal that's just their job."
Found here
Basically, this is what he said on Extra.
On the newsstands already. And it's not even true. This is why I just love the tabloids.
IT'S ANARCHY OVER ANISTON
By KEITH J. KELLY
New York Post
February 9, 2005 -- THOUGH Brad Pitt may not want her, celebrity magazines can't get enough of Jennifer Aniston.
Life & Style Weekly thought it had won a high stakes auction last week, agreeing to pay $15,000 for exclusive rights to the first photos of Jennifer with another man Äî "Swingers" star Vince Vaughn. The photos of the two hugging and kissing were the first of Aniston with another man since the bust-up of her marriage to Pitt exploded into the headlines.
Click here for the rest of the article
Aniston's Hot Date?
Feb. 7, 2005
Article found here
How eager is the press to link Jennifer Aniston to a new man? Chances are if she was seen chatting up little Frankie Muniz, she'd quickly be labeled a latter-day Mrs. Robinson. Our point? Just a month after the actress announced her separation from Brad Pitt, she's supposedly stepped out on her "first date."
The alleged amour? Vince Vaughn, who coincidentally has a role in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," the spy thriller on which Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly bonded.
Paparazzi snapped Vaughn giving Aniston a hug and a smooch goodbye outside the Peninsula Hotel in Los Angeles last week, prompting the British tabloids to speculate that they are seeing each other socially.
"Jennifer and Vince are very close," a snitch tattles to the London Mirror, which described the lip action as "a tender goodnight kiss." "They've been spending time together. They're taking things slowly and enjoying each other's company. But they've got a connection."
A source posits to the London Daily Mail that the tte-ﾝ-tte could be Jennifer's way of delivering "a subtle message to Brad," whom she shared a cozy dinner with just last week.
While the paper describes the buss as "a lingering kiss," you should keep in mind it also refers to Vaughn's "matinee-idol good looks," which, as much as we appreciate his comedy stylings and lanky-yet-puffy cuteness, seems a wee bit of a stretch, even on his best day.
So is Jen back on the dating scene? Not so much, says her rep, who insists the get-together was professional, not personal.
"The dinner with Vince Vaughn also included two studio execs from Warner Bros.," Aniston's mouthpiece, Stephen Huvane, tells MSN Entertainment. "[It] was a business dinner to discuss a future project."
This is the second time in as many weeks the media has tried to connect Aniston to an actor named "Vince." A British tabloid unsuccessfully floated the rumor that she was seeing her "Derailed" co-star Vincent Cassel, who welcomed a baby girl with his Italian bombshell wife Monica Bellucci last September.
In related news, Brad apparently put some of the reported $5 million he made to shill Heineken in a Super Bowl spot to good use. According to the AP, the megastar, in Jacksonville for the big game, coughed up cash for a damsel in distress when her debit card failed to work at a local gas station.
As for Angelina, she and son Maddox were spotted last week in Los Angeles, where the pillow-lipped beauty spent some time practicing her flying skills at a local airport.
Article found here
AmeriCares is mobilizing relief efforts to Asia in the wake of the earthquake and tsunamis that have killed at least 145,000 people. AmeriCares initial response includes a major airlift to Sri Lanka and additional relief shipments to other affected countries such as Indonesia, India, and Thailand, where more than a million people have been displaced from their homes.
Donations are urgently needed to provide the means to deliver medicines to combat malaria, cholera, respiratory infections, diarrhea and other water-borne illnesses to the people most at risk in this crisis.
This organization has very low overhead.
More relief agencies below.
The following aid agencies are accepting contributions for assistance that they or their affiliates will provide for those affected by the earthquake and tidal waves in Asia.
Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
http://www.aah-usa.org
American Jewish World Service
45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018
800-889-7146
http://www.ajws.org
ADRA International
9-11 Fund
12501 Old Columbus Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-2372
http://www.adra.org
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-241-7000
http://www.afsc.org
Catholic Relief Services
PO Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
800-736-3467
http://www.catholicrelief.org
Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
PO Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
International Medical Corps
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 300
Santa Monica CA 90404
800-481-4462
http://www.imcworldwide.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
41-22-730-4222
http://www.ifrc.org/
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Middle East Crisis Response
PO Box 630225
Baltimore, MD 21263-0225
877-803-4622
http://www.iocc.org
Lutheran World Relief
PO Box 17061
Baltimore MD 21298-9832
800-597-5972
http://www.lwr.org
MAP International
2200 Glynco Parkway
PO Box 215000
Brunswick, GA 3121-5000
800-225-8550
http://www.map.org
Mercy Corps
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org
Northwest Medical Teams
PO Box 10
Portland, OR 97207-0010
503-624-1000
http://www.nwmedicalteams.org
Operation USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Ste. 200
Los Angles, CA 90069
800-678-7255
http://www.opusa.org
Plan USA
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 02886
800-556-7918
http://www.planusa.org
Relief International
1575 Westwood Blvd.
Suite 201
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(800) 573-3332
http://www.ri.org
Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
800-728-3843
http://www.savethechildren.org
United Methodist Church Committee on Relief
475 Riverside Dr., Room 330
New York, NY 10115
(800) 554-8583
http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/
US Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-FOR-KIDS
http://www.unicefusa.or
World Concern
19303 Fremont Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98133
800-755-5022
http://www.worldconcern.org
World Emergency Relief
P.O. Box 131570
Carlsbad, CA 92013
(760) 930-8001
http://www.wer-us.org
World Relief
7 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
443-451-1900
http://www.wr.org
World Vision
PO Box 70288
Tacoma, Washington 98481-0288
888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org
Plan USA
155 Plan Way
Warwick, RI 02886
800-556-7918
http://www.planusa.org
Sri Lankan Disaster Relief Fund
Acct. # 002013396
Victory State Bank
755 Forest Ave.
Staten Island, NY 10310
http://sibv.org
This is in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly (November 19, 2004). Does anyone out there agree with EW on their comparison of Sideways and Swingers? I haven't seen it yet, but it's definitely on my list.
From E! Online:
"Fans of Vince Vaughn will be disappointed to know that despite Vaughn's friendship with Kilborn and his brilliant fill-in work for Letterman during Dave's medical hiatus last year, the actor will not be guest hosting for the Late Late Show. Vaughn's publicist confirmed to E! Wednesday that Vaughn is busy with feature-film projects and will not take on additional work."
I'm glad he's busy, though!
Wow! Thanks you guys for all of the info today! I was up in Hollywood all day and just now sat down to read all of my email, etc. I am so glad Vince is going to be on Craig Kilborn's last show. It just seemed like the right thing to do--having him on as one of the last guests. Thanks for the update, Robyn!
Here's an article in the New York Post about the final Kilborn show.
And thanks Tami for finding the info about when the Poker thing will air. You're right...it is a little unclear, but I will do my best to find out for sure before the broadcast.
I see he also played at the Bicycle Club a couple of days earlier this month. Scroll down and you will see this text:
Hollywood was again represented at the tournament tonight. Tobey Maguire was back, and this time ÄúSpidermanÄù crawled to heads-up in the first qualifying round. Actor Vince Vaughn also played yesterday and today.
Well, I am going to be away from a computer for a few days starting tomorrow afternoon, so I hope everyone has a great weekend and don't forget to watch tomorrow night! :D
Since I'm much too tired to write anything about this, I'm just going to cut and paste from this press release.
I put in a call to Bicycle Club to find out about audience tickets for the taping, but haven't heard anything yet. I wish I could be there myself (it's just up the freeway for me--but I have plans this weekend and I'm not much of a Poker watcher. Even for the chance to see Vince, I'm not sure I could endure it. Now if I was playing poker with Vince--that's another story!
................................................
"Highly anticipated, The Bicycle Casino's WPT Legends of Poker Championship anticipates 1000+ celebrity players and top poker pros in attendance, including defending WPT Legends of Poker Champion, Mel Judah. And don't leave out those "nerves of steel" newcomers who will descend upon the Bike to put up their $5,000 to "play that game on TV." The stars, poker and celeb, will all be out for this one! World Poker Tour's #1 West Coast Tour Stop Begins With the Bicycle Casino's 'Legends of Poker Championship' in Los Angeles!"
"WHO: Anyone and everyone that loves the sport of poker! The PROS: WPT Player of the Year, Eric Lindgren, Phil "the Unabomber" Laak, Gus Hansen, TJ Cloutier, Jennifer Harman, Barry Greenstein (world's most generous player, giving millions in winnings to charity), and Mel Judah, the 2003 winner of the WPT Legends of Poker Championship. Celebrities including James Woods, Vince Vaughn, and Tobey McGuire among others will be 'elbow to elbow' at the table, competing with the "best of the best" for MAJOR money."
I was just checking over at The Late Night TV Page and also Craig's CBS page to see who the guests will be on his "final" show this Friday. No one is listed, so I bet they are having a few "special" guests there to wish him well. And since Vince is kinda sorta Craig's pal...Do you think there's a chance he'll be there? Of course, all of this is only speculation and I could be totally wrong. But you can bet I'll be watching.
Here are a couple more articles that toss around the idea of Vince taking over Craig Kilborn's seat. Mostly, it's all just talk. Everyone knows that Vince would never give up his serious acting career to host a late-night talk show.
The Calgary Sun article says:
"VINCE VAUGHN: The Swingers actor is on a roll, thanks to comic turns in Old School, Starsky & Hutch and Dodgeball. Could he be swayed to take a late-night gig? Probably not, but he showed he could do it when he subbed for Letterman last year when the cranky, gap-toothed gabber was sick with shingles."
David Bianculli, from New York Daily News wrote another article about Craig leaving and says that although no one has been called yet, guest hosts may fill the slot until a permanent host is found. He says this about Vaughn:
"When Letterman fell sick last year, a phalanx of guest hosts stepped in - including actor Vaughn, who did unexpectedly well and is just the sort of "friend of Pants," according to more than one source, who would be a welcome and likely guest host on "Late Late Show."
Neal Justin gets into the naming game with his tongue-in-cheek article for the Star Tribune. But he concludes his hilarious ideas for the show by saying:
"We know Craiggers says he's history, but the reasons he's given so far are, well, lame. That's why we believe he's just milking the departure for a ratings boost and will make a triumphant return come sweeps. Adios, Craig! See you in November!"
So enough on this, already. Although it would be nice to be able tune into the Vince Show every night, it just ain't gonna happen.
Hmmm...another article, this time in Daily Variety, talks about Vince being considered as a replacement for Craig Kilborn. I honestly don't think it would become a permanent gig for him, but he could be a temporary replacement until they find a new host. The article says Kilborn is leaving in just two weeks!
Here's another photo of Vince in the Middle East. This was taken in Afghhanistan on the Fourth of July. I found this on Webshots.
The caption for the photo says, "Vince Vaughn visited our troops in Afghanistan for 4th of July and posed for this picture after a great game of Dodgeball with Craig and the S2 shop."
Here are a couple more photos from Afghanistan. More info can be found at this website.
Photo
Photo
And here's another one from Iraq. Found here
Newly uploaded photo Posted on webshots by user, rmc24.
Newly uploaded photo Posted on webshots by user, danafl78.
Ben Stiller and Vince are in a new 20-minute film to help educate kids about voting. Here is the link to a trailer for the film.
The goal of the Declare Yourself Youth Voter Initiative is to teach young people -- particularly those eligible to vote for the first time -- every piece of information they need to know about:
* How to register to vote
* Where and when to register
* How to get information about absentee ballots
* How to become and stay informed about campaign issues
* How to find their polling places
* How to VOTE on Election Day
Go visit the site and get ready to VOTE!
I've been reading some accounts of Vince visiting the troops in Iraq earlier this month and I finally found this photo of Vince with a SPC Rowell. Also found on the same site are words about Vince's visit by SSG Philip Jarvis. A very interesting blog.
