ReelzChannel Celebrity Rundown
Charlie Sheen has fired literary agent Peter McGuigan after he could only get a $1M deal — offered by a single publisher — for Sheen's life story, Apocalypse Me. Sheen had wanted $10M for the project. Meanwhile, another "goddess" has been added to Sheen's warlock harum. The 26-year-old Megan Levant apparently has been dating the actor "for several months," and seems a perfect fit as it's reported she "loves porn and is a regular visitor to the Playboy mansion."
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While Lindsay Lohan is taking her chances with a trial by rejecting a plea deal in the jewelry theft case, her dad, Michael Lohan, is headed for the same courthouse and may even face the same judge as his daughter in his domestic violence case.
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Katherine Heigl is seen puffing away on an e-cigarette over a pasta and beer lunch in an apparent effort to beat her addiction to nicotine. Either that, or dealing with the stress of an acting career in jeopardy as her latest movie, the crime comedy One for the Money, has been pushed from this summer to the graveyard of January 2012.
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There is a mistress involved in the Bradley Cooper–Renee Zellweger split, and it's apparently Cooper's rising career and ascention to leading man status. "Renee had to take a backseat (to his career)," a source says. "It was just not working out."
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Two weeks after Julianee Moore was tapped to play Sarah Palin in HBO's upcoming film Game Change, Ed Harris has been cast as candidate John McCain.
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Are you old enough to remember watching the steamy sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now? Neither are we, but a new book by Variety editor Peter Bart claims the two actually had unsimulated sex in front of the camera.
Posted 03.24.11 by reelz