Montreal Gazette

Snowed-in models fodder for movie

- DOUG CAMILLI tellcamill­i@gmail.com

Top models snowed in at a highend Chilean ski resort with photograph­ers, booze, cocaine, and assorted rich South Americans. If you can’t make a movie out of that, you’re just not trying. Now Paul Feig, who directed the new Ghostbuste­rs movie, will indeed give it a shot.

This actually happened, back in 1977, when the 21-year-old Jerry Hall and other models and US$2 million worth of fur coats were up in the Andes shooting a catalogue for Neiman Marcus. The tale was related in Elle mag last winter, under this headline: “This Drug-Fueled, Multimilli­on-Dollar Supermodel Snowpocaly­pse Has Been Fashion’s Best-Kept Secret Since ’77”.

Now the Hollywood Reporter says Feig will produce, but not direct, a movie about it, for Paramount. No casting news yet.

When Eva Longoria launches a clothing line, she doesn’t fool around: Eva Longoria For Women offers 250 different designs, Eonline.com reports: stretch denim, pencil skirts and blazers for the office, T-shirts, and “bodycon dresses,” whatever they are.

She has been working on this for two years. “The thing that people don’t know about me is that I sew,” she told E, “and so I am really involved in the constructi­on and the seams and the textiles and materials … I want this line to have my DNA.”

She’s selling it via The Limited, a U.S. retail chain. Prices reach US$159.

She’s 41.

Singer Ariana Grande decided it was time to break free from backup dancer Ricky Alvarez, Entertainm­ent Tonight reports, and told the world about it via Twitter:

Grande, who had a hit single called Break Free, posted these comments: “Life is wild … and change is ( bad word) fantastic … Change. Feeling free. Happy. Banginnnnn­nn”. She erased her Instagram posts that include Ricky, ET says. And she changed her hair style.

They were together for about a year. Just two months ago she was telling Billboard “we’re happy.”

She’s 23.

Mariah Carey and Aussie tycoon James Packer need a pre-nuptial agreement, she tells Complex mag.

“We would like for it not to be a big thing, but the reality is it has to be. Because there are things that are specifical­ly mine, and he’s got huge friggin’ conglomera­te stuff, and I’m not looking to take that from him. So it has to be dealt with anytime you get married to somebody — and I should know. This’ll be marriage number three.” Or will it? There’s still no wedding date. Second husband Nick Cannon denies he’s delaying the divorce, but nothing seems to be happening.

Mariah’s 46. James is 48.

Cannon, meanwhile, is saying he has “no right” to confirm he’s dating Rozonda Thomas, of the girl group TLC.

They’ve been widely reported to be a couple, but Cannon told Billboard ‘’I have no right to speak about (this) out of respect for her and everybody in the situation. You’ve got to ask her. It’s not my place as a man.’’

He’s 35. She’s 46.

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