New series in the works for Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox, who withdrew from TV more than a decade ago because of his Parkinson’s disease, is preparing a new series for 2013, The Associated Press reports.
He’s developing a sitcom with Sony Pictures TV, and there is strong interest from major networks, the news service says. There’s no comment, neither confirmation nor denial, from anybody.
Fox quit the series Spin City in 2000, nine years after the diagnosis, and started a foundation to support research on Parkinson’s. He has since made only a few guest appearances, including gigs on Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Good Wife.
He’s 51. Thanks of a grateful world: Jeremy Renner, asked by The Guardian for his opinion of the Kardashian clan, says what so many people think:
“Oh, all those ridiculous people with zero talent who spend their lives making sure everyone knows their name. Those stupid, stupid people.”
We keep hearing about movie stars settling in England, but himbo-of-the-moment Benedict Cumberbatch is, confusingly, thinking about moving the other way.
It’s because of Britain’s class system and the roles he gets, he told Radio Times: “I wasn’t born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig,” but people think he was, because of his accent and roles. He says he has been “castigated as a moaning, rich, public-school bastard.
“It’s just so predictable … so do- mestic, and so dumb. … It makes me think I want to go to America.”
He’s 36.
Playboy mag asked Joseph Gordon-Levitt about Zooey Deschanel. You’ll recall that they were great together in the rom-com (500) Days of Summer, and that since then there have been recurrent rumours of couple-hood.
Not so much, Joe told the mag. “We’ve been friends for 10 years. She loves movies, music and art, and she’s incredibly knowledgeable about that stuff,” he says. “It’s fun just to have conversations, watch movies with her.” But that, he made clear, is where it stops.
He’s 31. She’s 32.
Spotlight couple: Us mag says Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, is dating Jayson Blair, not the plagiarist one but the TV himbo one. He has got a new sitcom, The New Normal, coming up on NBC.
Blair is 28. Rumer turned 24 Thursday.
CNN newsman Anderson Cooper has ditched his boyfriend, Ben Maisani, the National Enquirer reports, after the website of England’s Daily Mail ran a photo of Ben smooching with some other guy in a New York park.
Anderson confirmed that he is gay only last month. Bar owner Ben “runs with a really fast crowd in New York,” Nameless Insider told the Enquirer, “and Anderson always knew that his boyfriend was exposed to hot young gay men at his bar. But he also believed he could trust Ben to remain faithful. He’s absolutely devastated.”
Anderson and Ben — a couple since 2009, they had been talking about marrying — were about to go on vacation in Croatia. Instead, Cooper went with his friend Kelly Ripa, a friendly shoulder to cry on.
He’s 45.