Tattle: Lindsay Lohan, Eddie Murphy . . . & all that Razz
GOOD NEWS for Lindsay Lohan! She's being recognized for something other than debauchery. The bad news is it's the Razzies.
GOOD NEWS for
Lindsay Lohan
! She's being recognized for something other than debauchery. The bad news is it's the Razzies.
Lindsay's dual-role thriller, "I Know Who Killed Me" (it was thrilling when it ended), received nine Razzie nominations, among them worst picture of 2007. That's one nomination for every dollar it took in at the box office.
Eddie Murphy's "Norbit" garnered eight Razzie nominations, a record five of them just for Murphy's performance.
Besides worst picture, "Norbit" had nominations for Murphy as worst actor in the title role, supporting actress as Norbit's beefy wife, supporting actor as an Asian man and worst screen couple for Norbit opposite either of Murphy's other characters.
"We decided that each of his characters was so offensive that he deserved individual nominations," said Razzies founder, John Wilson.
According to Wilson, Murphy's closest competition for worst screen couple is Lohan in "I Know Who Killed Me," in which she plays a small-town girl abducted by a psycho and a stripper who's missing body parts.
For worst actress, Lindsay polled more heavily than any actor since Sofia Coppola in "The Godfather: Part III," Wilson said.
" 'I Know Who Killed Me' is the most fabulously brainless movie since 'Showgirls,' " which Razzie voters picked as the worst movie of the 1990s, Wilson said.
Rounding out the worst-picture nominees are "Bratz," "Daddy Day Camp" and "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry."
Adam Sandler and Cuba Gooding Jr. joined Murphy as worst actors, along with Nicolas Cage ("Ghost Rider") and Jim Carrey ("The Number 23").
Lindsay was cited twice as worst actress, once for each personality, while the four "Bratz" stars shared a nomination. Also nominated were Jessica Alba for "Awake," "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" and "Good Luck Chuck"; Elisha Cuthbert for "Captivity," and Diane Keaton for "Because I Said So."
Diane Keaton? Say it ain't so. No matter how bad the movie, she should be Razzie-proof.
Along with Murphy, supporting actors include Orlando Bloom ("Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"), Kevin James and Rob Schneider (" . . . Chuck & Larry") and Jon Voight for "Bratz," "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "September Dawn" and "Transformers."
Supporting actresses are Murphy, Jessica Biel (" . . . Chuck & Larry," "Next"), Carmen Electra ("Epic Movie"), Julia Ormond ("I Know Who Killed Me") and Nicollette Sheridan ("Code Name: The Cleaner").
Razzie "winners" will be announced Feb. 23, a day before the Oscars, and the writers strike won't stop it.
Besides, only the worst writers are allowed to picket.
* In other awards news, the GLAAD nominations were announced Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival, and ABC landed nine nominations from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. CBS garnered three nods, NBC two and Fox two.
Nominees for mainstream feature film include "Across the Universe," "Stardust" and "The Jane Austen Book Club."
The 19th annual GLAAD Media Awards are split into four ceremonies, held in L.A., New York, San Francisco and southern Florida in March, April and May.
Sammy's widow tries on a suit
Altovise Davis, the widow of Sammy Davis Jr., is suing two former business partners over the rights to his life story and management of his legacy.
Altovise charges in her suit that the two men, Barrett LaRoda and Anthony Francis, exaggerated their show-business credentials and defrauded her into signing away some rights to her husband's estate.
Sammy, a Rat Pack fixture in Las Vegas, died of throat cancer in 1990 at age 64. At the time, he owed more than $5 million to the IRS, forcing Altovise to auction many of his personal belongings.
She says she gave her intellectual rights to Sammy Davis Jr. Enterprises, formed in 2004 by LaRoda and Francis, in return for a one-third share in the business, but she alleges the men hid the company's financial records from her.
Things came to a head, according to the suit, during negotiations with a studio that wanted to make a Davis biopic. LaRoda and Francis killed the talks by demanding a "substantial" fee and credit as executive producers.
In a court filing, LaRoda and Francis said that Altovise's royalties more than quadrupled after she signed up with them and that their efforts helped rebuild her husband's image. They accused her of having an alcohol problem that was getting in the way.
Tattbits
* Hong Kong Disneyland yesterday unveiled new Chinese New Year outfits for Mickey and Minnie Mouse created by designer Vivienne Tam as part of the park's efforts to boost its appeal to Chinese tourists after a dismal second year.
The two characters strutted down a red carpet, Mickey in a bright-red Mao suit and Minnie in a cherry-
blossom-red dress with a bouquet-like bottom.
Hong Kong Disneyland has also been decorated with red firecrackers, red Chinese-language scrolls bearing good-luck messages and orange tangerines, according to Chinese New Year custom.
It will stage a dragon dance on Feb. 7, the first day of the Chinese New Year, and will add Chinese food items like fried turnip cake and coconut red-bean pudding.
* Kiefer Sutherland was released from the Glendale jail early yesterday after serving 48 days for drunken driving, police said.
Sutherland spent most of his sentence by himself, interacting with prisoners only on the way to his job in the laundry room or protecting the warden from terrorists. *
Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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