50 CENT HOPING TO FINALLY CASH IN WITH VARIETY TALK SHOW
When all else fails, try a talk show. That’s 50 Cent’s plan, as the bankrupt rapper scrabbles around trying to pay his bills.
He’ll exec- produce and be the host of a new show, no title yet, for A& E cable TV.
He says his show will be “no holds barred.” ( I did the research, and this is by actual count the 11,564th time that promise has been made about a talk show.) His, he says, will have comedy sketches, standup comedy, “reality experiments,” dance, magic acts and of course, celebrity guests and music.
“I grew up watching variety shows and am excited to put my own spin on the format,” Variety quotes Curtis Jackson — as he was born — saying in a press release. Sad, isn’t it?
He’s 40.
Yet another horrible thing about Donald Trump: he eats his steak well done, his former butler tells the N. Y. Times: “It would rock on the plate, it was so well done.”
The thing about being a TV star, says Mayim Bialik, is that the money is good, really good — while it lasts.
She should know. Deadline. com reckons she’ll be paid almost US$ 100,000 per episode of The Big Bang Theory, by the time her current contract expires.
The N. Y. Daily News reports that Bialik told some L. A. panel discussion: “I don’t think about the money a lot. I am an employed actor and we are all overpaid. I am grateful to be employed.”
She also said she spends a lot of time thinking about her next career moves. The show, in its ninth season, is guaranteed two more, the Daily News notes.
She’s 40.
The conscious uncoupling caper of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin continues to tick along, slowly if not surely. The latest, Variety reports, is that they’ve listed their two apartments in the exclusive River Lofts complex in Manhattan’s Tribeca district.
The bigger flat could be yours for a mere US$ 14.25 million. The other, on a lower floor, is available for just $ 3.35 million. I suppose they used that one for storage, or as servants’ quarters.
They bought the big place for $ 5.1 big ones in March 2007, adding the other one for under $ 2 mil two years later.
Remember Fabio? Big blondish model from Italy? Had his 15 minutes of fame in the 1990s, after somebody noticed him on the covers of paperback romance novels, with his shirt off and his hair long ? Had an acting and singing career which both ended abruptly when it turned out he couldn’t act or sing ? Ended up doing TV endorsements and ads? That Fabio, real name Fabio Lanzoni.
Well, he just became a U. S. citizen, and says he may try a political career someday. And he’s quite interested in the current endless presidential campaign, the N. Y. Post reports: It’s “going to be the most incredible TV you’ve ever seen in your life — nobody is going to watch the reality shows any more,” he says.