Sideshow: 'Spidey' swinging in to B'way a little later
The Broadway debut of Spider-Man, already (at $65 mil) the priciest show ever, with music by Bono and The Edge of Irish rock deities U2, has been pushed back a month to Feb. 7. Why? Insiders say they're redoing the closing tune and adding more scenes.
The Broadway debut of Spider-Man, already (at $65 mil) the priciest show ever, with music by Bono and The Edge of Irish rock deities U2, has been pushed back a month to Feb. 7. Why? Insiders say they're redoing the closing tune and adding more scenes.
He's still not dead, yo
On Thursday, rumors ran wildfire that
Morgan Freeman
, 73, had died. A single lying Twitter tweet started it. Great investigative journalism: Slate's
Farhad Manjoo
revealed the hoaxster to be the tweeter
@originalcjizzle
. People just passed the rumor on as if it were true. It's garbaggio.
First
Mark Twain
, then
Sir Paul McCartney
, now Morgan.
Hank 4's head found!
Yes, that's right - the severed head of
Henri IV
of France was found in a public servant's attic (?) and positively identified, laying to rest a way-cool mystery. Hank was assassinated in 1610, then dug up and beheaded by random weird rebels in 1793. What to do with a 400-year-old head? They gifted it to a descendant!
Joyeux Noël
!
Small is dutiful
Shelley Malil
(
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
) got life in prison (with a shot at parole) for stabbing ex-gf
Kendra Beebe
, in 2008. She survived. . . .
Zac Hanson
, 25, babyface drummer for
Hanson
, and wife
Kate
said hi to new daughter
Junia Rosa Ruth
Wednesday.
. . .
Jessica Simpson
's ex, QB
Tony Romo
, is engaged to
Candice Crawford
, a Dallas TV reporter and sis of sweetie-pie
Chace Crawford
(
Gossip Girl
). Jess' ex-husband,
Nick Lachey
, is engaged to
Vanessa Minnillo
. So what? sings Jess. I'm engaged to ex-NFL guy
Eric Johnson
! . . .
Denise Richards
, who always looks different, says she's dating
Nikki Sixx
, founder of
Mötley Crüe
. Sixx used to date
Kat "Tat Girl" von D
.
. . . The New York Post says
Police Sources
say
Charlie Sheen
(Denise's ex-hub) won't be charged for his maniac October N.Y. hotel thing. . . . You go,
Kevin Spacey
! Folks are always on you to "admit" you're gay, and you stand up for privacy. This time it was a Daily Beast reporter.
Oprah Winfrey
,
Mariah Carey
, and
John Travolta
have lately had to handle garbaggio like this. . . . No,
you
go,
Gov. Bill Richardson
of New Mexico!!! Jealous of Florida pardoning
Jim Morrison
of the
Doors
, B-Rich is thinking of pardoning
Billy the Kid
! . . .
OK, so
Johnny Depp
has a celebrated long-term thang with
Vanessa Paradis
. And J-Depp's costar in the forthcoming
Pirates of the Caribbean 3,476
(actually, it's called
On Stranger Tides
) is
Kristen Stephenson-Pino
, whose bf is surfer
Torrey Meister
. But Kristen evidently put mouth on roam mode, saying J-Depp made advances on the set, invited her to his trailer (
Oh Emm Gee!
), and "I was in there for a few hours," and "he's just the whole package!" Down, Kris. . . .
John Lennon
's white suit from
Abbey Road
will be auctioned off by a Connecticut gallery.