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The Hollywood Minute
July 18, 1996
Web posted at: 3:20 p.m. EDTFrom Correspondent Dennis Michael
Dennis Rodman is taking his star appeal to the big screen. The basketball star will share the screen with Jean Claude Van Damme in "The Colony," a big budget action film. The Hollywood Reporter trade paper notes the film begins shooting in August throughout southern Europe. Rodman will get $2 million for his role.
Whoopi Goldberg is the hostess and Bill Clinton is the guest of honor at Radio City Music Hall on August 18. Columnist Army Archerd reports Goldberg will serve as mistress of ceremonies for Clinton's 50th birthday party. The celebration will serve as a democratic party fund-raiser.
The cast for the film "Liar, Liar" continues to grow. Daily Variety reports Amanda Donohoe has joined the cast of the universal comedy with topliner Jim Carrey. Earlier this week Jennifer Tilley was added to the cast. Shooting on the comedy is already under way in Los Angeles.
There's more cheesecake in the future for Burt Reynolds. New Line Cinema has added Reynolds to the cast of "Boogie Nights," a "Wiseguy" style ensemble production about the pornography industry in the disco '70s. Mark Wahlberg and Julianne Moore head up the cast. Shooting begins this week.
The "Medicine Woman" is turning "Media Woman." Jane Seymour has been spending time at the NBC newsroom preparing for her role in the CBS TV movie "Spin" which casts her as the producer of a "60 Minutes" type television show. Columnist Archerd reports the film hopes to show the good and the bad of both media and politics.
Daily Variety reports Hal Holbrook and Rue McLanahan have been cast in the film "Fun Animals" about a pair of orphans who go to live on their grandparents' farm. The film, created by the people behind "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," will feature talking animals.
Steven Spielberg and wife Kate Capshaw are expecting another baby. A publicist for Capshaw reported earlier this week that the actress is pregnant. Spielberg and Capshaw have one child each from previous marriages, two children so far together and two that they've adopted.
Michael Jackson has performed his first concert in more than two and a half years... for free. The concert was sponsored by the Sultan of Brunei on his 50th birthday. Some 30,000 people had been expected to show and twice that number arrived. One no-show was the Sultan himself. He was having dinner with Prince Charles.
Previous Hollywood Minutes:
- Denzel Washington a 'Fallen' star - July 17
- Czechs give Peck Lifetime Achievement Award - July 16
- AMC premiers "Bally-hoo" - July 15
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