ANGER MANAGEMENT
Burmese-Brit beauty Kate Beckinsdale won’t go as far trashing hotel vases, but the busty badass has admitted to taking a few anger lessons from Russell Crowe for her upcoming sequel, Underworld 2: Evolution.
She’s Selene again, a silicone-busting vampire in a catsuit, only this time she’ll be part warrior, part punch-drunk Crowe from Cinderella Man.
“I studied Russell [Crowe],” she confessed to FemaleFirst, “and it was immensely helpful.”
Hopefully, none of that rage will eke out into her private life. Says Kate, “I like the physical challenge of the part and, besides, my husband likes me in that tight leather outfit.”
A riddle for you
South Asian actor Deep Roy stands at 4 feet high, and plays every single lovable, manic Oompa Loompa in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That’s him in every costume, even when there seems to be scores of him. The wonders of computer art …
BARK WORSE THAN BITE
Chris Tucker is demanding a bigger cash down payment before signing on to Rush Hour 3. Jackie Chan is accusing Chris of pulling out of the third series installment, and is amazed that Chris would suddenly turn to egomaniacal demands: more money, more power, everything. Chan says of his co-star: “He wants too much power. The movie company hasn’t obliged. He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on. How many movies has he made? Two movies have already made him very famous and made him a lot of money. He needs to learn slowly.” Ouch.
A NEW BEGINNING
Two years after her emergency ovarian tumor operation, Hikaru Utada and husband, photographer Kazuaki Kina, 34, couldn’t be happier. The international pop star’s maxi CD, Exodus, a collaboration with The Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, and Foxy Brown, just debuted on American shelves. “I think there’s a bit of a sense of not knowing exactly what Japan is — even for Japanese people. Part of that scares me, but it also excites me,” she tells Interview Magazine. Utada and husband were recently spotted at the Japanese premiere of Tom Cruise’s War of the Worlds, looking very flushed and excited to be in the limelight after her academic hiatus.
“It isn’t black or white, gay or straight. A good person is just a good person.”
— Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, on his friendship with Pat Patterson, gay former senior vice president of the World Wrestling Federation.