Former co-stars to put love life into print
Would you and your former significant other write a book detailing your courtship and love life? No? What if somebody paid you $7.5 million U.S. for it?
That’s the deal Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak just signed with Random House, the New York Daily News reports. No title yet.
These two dated intermittently while starring in The Office from 2005 to 2013. Citing a “well-placed publishing industry source,” the paper says the book “is likely to include juicy information.”
Neither one has said much about their relationship until now, although last September, the Daily News reminds us, Kaling did say Novak broke her heart back then. They’re both 35.
Ashton Kutcher is mad because the New York Post printed a photo of him with seven-month-old Wyatt, his daughter with Mila Kunis.
Sure, the headline was nice (“Ashton Kutcher’s baby is cuter than yours”) but that’s not the point. “Why,” Kutcher tweeted, “is it so hard for publications to respect that I would like the identity of my child kept private for safety reasons?” Well, because money, dimwit.
Still, Kutcher’s complaint is part of a trend: celeb parents John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck and Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, among others, have asked all media to omit photos of their kids. Many outlets have agreed. This week, Us mag has a piece about the Garner-Affleck brood without any pix of them.
It’s bad enough, says Salma Hayek, there are so few women directors and producers. And it’s bad “the only kind of movie where women make more than men is the porno industry.”
But it’s also awfully insulting Hollywood studios don’t seek out scripts that appeal to women, she said the other day at some Cannes event sponsored by Variety. For many years, she added, studio execs “thought the only thing we were interested in seeing were romantic comedies … When women don’t direct and women don’t write and tell our own stories, we (stop) going to the movies …”
Variety says women directed 17 of the 250 top-grossing U.S. films of 2014.
Chelsea Clinton, former first daughter, has signed with Penguin Young Readers to pen a children’s book entitled It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! It’ll be out in September.
Hmmm. I’m afraid that title is even less inspiring than a campaign speech. I can envisage young Americans by the millions receiving copies from Grandma and dumping them in the recycling. Unopened.
Chelsea is 35. Her daughter Charlotte (with husband Mark Mezvinsky) was born last September.