The Jane Report 11-25-08
Brooke Burke and Derek Hough scored a perfect 30 for their performance on last night’s “Dancing With The Stars”. The winner is announced tonight!
Clint Eastwood has just finished starring in and directing “Gran Torino”, a drama about a racist veteran of the Korean War, and he is hanging up his acting hat for good. He tells Britain’s Sunday Express, “That will probably do it for me as far as acting is concerned. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.” …
Alan Colmes has announced his plan to leave the FOX News show “Hannity & Colmes”. He’ll pick up various other duties at the network and eventually have his own weekend show.
It’s over between Amy Winehouse and jailbird hubby, Blake Fielder-Civil. Britain’s News of the World is reporting that Winehouse says her husband left her for a blond German model, Sophie Schandorff. According to the paper, the singer says the couple was only together for the sex. According to “a source,” the pair were into some real kinky stuff, not just the usual bondage and sex games but really gross stuff you couldn’t mention in a newspaper.”
ABC Family will air the first four movies of the Harry Potter franchise December 5-7.
Jessica Simpson says she put pen to paper to cure her of heartbreak following her split from husband Nick Lachey. She says, “It (writing in a diary) is very, very therapeutic. There is a lot about heartbreak, there is a lot about perseverance. I used it as inspiration for my album. I used certain journal excerpts from certain journal entries. It has been an awesome experience for me.”
Steven Seagal has been deputized by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana, and he’s preparing a Cops-like reality series for A&E that documents his efforts to clean up New Orleans. What is odd about his scenario is that New Orleans isn’t in Jefferson Parish, but next door in Orleans Parish. The show is set to premiere late next year.
Sunday night’s “24″ prequel special, “24: Redemption”, averaged 12.1 million viewers. That’s a bigger audience than where the series left off 18 long months ago.
Negotiations to put the Beatles catalog on iTunes have hit a snag. “The last word I got back was it’s stalled at the whole moment, the whole process,” Paul McCartney said yesterday. “I really hope it will happen because I think it should.”
Nielsen has released a new study finding that the average U.S. household watches TV for 8 hours and 18 minutes a day, a record high. In the third quarter of this year, Nielsen found that Americans watched more than 142 hours of TV a month, five hours more than last year.
BIRTHDAYS
Ben Stein: 64
Amy Grant: 48
Singer Stacy Lattisaw: 42
Actress Jill Hennessy: 39
Christina Applegate: 37
Actor John Laroquette: 61
Percy Sledge: 68
“If something goes wrong that’s not supposed to go wrong or you fall victim of it, I think you should be compensated.” — Travis Barker explaining why he has decided to sue the parties he believes are responsible for his recent plane crash.
Wyclef Jean has lost possession of his Miami Beach home. The joint will be sold at auction after going into foreclosure.
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way and wife Lindsey, bass player of the band Mindless Self Indulgence, are expecting their first child.
“Circus,” the new album from Britney Spears has been posted on the web at imeem.com where fans can listen to it for free. It will be officially released in a week.
UPDATE: The false imprisonment trial of Boy George is underway in London. Yesterday a male escort testified he was handcuffed to the wall of George’s London home and beaten with a metal chain.