‘Where is mine?’ Angie seeks sexy guy
Angelina Jolie is unhappy with her single status while her ex seems to be finally enjoying his best life, sources say. The screen idol cannot understand how she is not dating someone hot. She even said to her team, “Look at the sexy boyfriend Cher has. Where is mine?”
While in Rome filming upcoming “Without Blood” with Salma Hayek, Jolie asked several members of her Italian team if they could introduce her to Måneskin frontman Damiano David.
While Jolie is on the record saying she has a crush on him, she did not go backstage at a Måneskin concert in Rome, perhaps because her eldest daughter was with her.
Måneskin is the hottest rock band in the world right now. “Damiano’s a sizzler,” said one fan.
“Jackpot” — a limited Sony Pictures Television series — needs a leading man to play gambler-turned-FBI source R.J. Cipriani.
“It would be a dream move to have Bradley Cooper in the lead role,” a source close to the production says.
Cooper is a long shot because he’s much sought after in big-screen roles, but he could be a great fit because both he and Cipriani are from the hardscrabble streets of Philadelphia.
The series will tell the real-life story of how drug lord Owen Hanson, a former USC football player, gave Cipriani $2.5 million to launder by gambling in Las Vegas, and how Cipriani managed to lose the whole bundle ... on purpose.
Cipriani became aware the cash came from drug deals.
When Hanson threatened Cipriani and his family, the gambler went to the FBI, whose agents eventually busted Hanson and later 1,000 other gangsters.
Hanson was sentenced in 2017 to more than 21 years in federal prison. The drug lord was ordered to forfeit $5 million, including luxury cars, jewelry, vacation homes, a sailboat and interests in several businesses.
The series is being executive-produced by Nicholas Stoller, who directed “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The Five-Year Engagement” and most recently “Bros.”
A source close to the production said wish list casting would include Channing Tatum playing thick-necked Hanson, while Cipriani’s wife Greice Santo could be portrayed by Brazilian actress Bruna Marquezine.
Also on the dream list is Sofia Vergara as Crista Velarde, a former girlfriend of Cipriani who married Hanson and introduced the two men. “Crista and Sofia are friends in real life,” said the source.
“‘Jackpot’ is a story so unbelievable, it can only be true.”
Ice-T is busy filming “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and getting ready to perform with 26 other rap legends at the Grammy awards, but he took some time to promote visual artist Vincent Peters.
“That’s my man,” Ice-T told me. “He’s so super-talented.”
Peters, known as AEthelstan, opens a show Feb. 8 at Carlton Fine Arts on Madison Avenue to counter Decree 349 in Cuba, which forbids artists from creating any type of music or art without the government’s permission.
Ice-T bought the first work in this series entitled “Flames.”
“I went through a lot of censorship in my career,” Ice-T said. “I felt like this is something I should be involved in.”
Peters created this collection to help the families of the artists in prison, including Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in 2021, and Maykel Castillo, a Latin Grammy-winning rapper.
Ice-T, a star of “Law & Order: SVU” since 2000, laughingly complained, “They film every day. It’s a movie that never stops filming.”
But he’s taking some time off for the Grammy awards, where he’ll perform.
“It’s one of those offers you can’t turn down,” he said, “I didn’t want the word to get out. I only got two tickets.”
On Feb. 17, Ice-T will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “It’s something I never imagined,” said the self-admitted former bank robber and pimp.
“All my friends will be there. They are more excited than I am.”
The COVID pandemic lockdown wasn’t fun, but it could have been worse if all the liquor stores had been closed.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking with Arthur Aidala on his AM 970 radio show The Power Hour, said, “We actually argued about that. I was going down the list and they suggested liquor stores and I said, ‘In what theory are liquor stores an essential business compared to everything else?
“One of my colleagues said, ‘If everybody is going to have to stay home, you better make sure the liquor stores are open.’ ”
Cuomo also blamed extremists in the state legislature for many of the problems New York faces.
“It’s not that moderates are short people, it’s that they are all ducking because they don’t want to stand up and be seen.”
Director Eric Rivas channels Charles Bronson (“Death Wish”) and Bernie Goetz in his next low budget movie, “Enter Requiem.”
After his girlfriend is raped, Rivas’s character Sonny — instead of trying to heal her through love and support — decides to murder the rapist.
“Does a man have the right to kill a rapist that raped his girlfriend?” Rivas said.
“As Apache Ramos from ‘The Warriors’ explains, ‘We are not Hollywood, We are hollyhood.’ ” Michael Musto, who took Rivas to court on “Judge Jerry” after he failed to get paid on three previous films, plays the mayor.
“Enter Requiem” is set to premiere in June.
“We don’t have to be victims. The criminal can become the victim as well,” Ramos said. “Just got to become a beast to deal with a beast.”
Drew Barrymore had comedian D’yan Forest appear on her talk show ahead of Forest’s appearance at the Frigid New York Fringe Festival opening Feb. 15.
Forest, who once married a nun, is 88 and recently received the Guinness Book of World Records title for the Oldest Working Female Comedian in the World. She’s been hailed by critics as a naughty version of Betty White.
Jeffrey Beri, the founder of No Dogs Left Behind, will bring 50 dogs saved from East Asian slaughterhouses to JFK on Feb. 9.
Beri has been working for over a year to bring the dogs into the USA due to a federal ban on animals from 113 countries. The dogs will then become available for adoption.
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“Ray Donovan” star is a long-time supporter of
South Fork Natural History Museum.
On Feb. 11 Sabin will lead a walk to spot the largest native tiger salamander in the woods near the museum to teach nature lovers about protecting the environment.