Sideshow: The Eastwoods succumb to reality TV
No one, it seems, can escape the death of culture: Reality TV can't be stopped. No one. Not even Clint Eastwood. The film artist's wife, Dina, and two daughters, Morgan, 15, and Francesca, 18, will star in a new E! reality show called Mrs. Eastwood & Company.
No one, it seems, can escape the death of culture: Reality TV can't be stopped.
No one. Not even Clint Eastwood. The film artist's wife, Dina, and two daughters, Morgan, 15, and Francesca, 18, will star in a new E! reality show called Mrs. Eastwood & Company.
The show, set to premiere May 20, will feature Dina's labors to promote Overtone, a six-man a cappella group she plans to move from South Africa to the Eastwoods' California manse.
Clint, 81, will be a featured guest once in a while.
"I know my limitations with Clint so I don't push him too hard," Dina says.
Bruno Mars in Playboy
Bruno Mars, 26, appears on Playboy's April cover, becoming only the 10th man in all of history to make that sacred space. The 13-time Grammy-nominated "Runaway Baby" singer counts the classy classic warblers as his biggest influences.
"I looked up to those guys: Frank Sinatra and of course Elvis Presley," he says. "My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson . . . you'll see you had to be sharp onstage." Mars mines that vein in his album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans: "I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs."
Dionne talks Whitney
"It was a combination of things, stories, laughter, tears. All the emotions that you feel when somebody very near to you passes." So Dionne Warwick tells Entertainment Tonight of the mix of emotions she experienced when she accompanied Whitney Houston's body from Los Angeles to North Jersey.
Tidbits 'n' pieces
HBO's political drama Game Change, about Sarah Palin and John McCain's '08 campaign, was watched by 2.1 mil viewers Saturday, earning HBO its highest ratings since the '04 premiere of Something the Lord Made (2.6 mil). . . . Former Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan's battery charge against show creator Marc Cherry has been tossed out of Los Angeles Superior Court. The actor's $5.7 mil wrongful dismissal suit, however, will be heard. . . . Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Jennie Garth, 39, and hub Peter Facinelli, 38, who plays vampire dad Carlisle Cullen in Twilight, are splitting up after 11 years of marriage and three daughters, Luca, 14, Lola, 9, and Fiona, 5. . . . Jane Lynch, 51, says her Glee character is pregnant, but writers have yet to tell her the dad's identity.
Justin Bieber loves her
That'd be Carly Rae Jepsen, an obscure Canadian singer Bieber signed to his record label after hearing her tune "Call Me Maybe" during a December visit up north, reports Rolling Stone. Did we say obscure? Not anymore: A vid for Carly's tune has had more than 22.5 mil YouTube views since it was uploaded Feb. 18.