T-shirts. Everyone’s got them, no one has enough.
Pop star Mandy Moore solved that problem by creating her own line and label, Mblem, so that she could have an unlimited supply of “functional, casual and sexy” T’s.
“It all evolved from the fact that I’m totally the jeans and T-shirt girl. If I can get away with wearing jeans and a T-shirt somewhere, I’ll do it,” Moore told The Associated Press.
“Getting dressed up is fun, but I’m really just a lazy bum, and that’s the extent of the wardrobe in my mind.”
TWISTED SISTER: Joey’s getting another sister.
Actress Christina Ricci will guest star on “Joey” as Joey (Matt LeBlanc) and Gina’s (Drea de Matteo) little sister in an episode scheduled to air in late February, tvguide.com reports.
Ricci also stars in the upcoming horror thriller “Cursed.”
MADE TO “ORDER”: “Sex and the City” regular Chris Noth is going back to being Mr. Big on “Law & Order.”
Noth, who left the original “Law & Order” 10 years ago, will become a regular on the spinoff “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” beginning next season, series spokeswoman Pam Ruben Golum said Tuesday.
He will split duties with current series lead Vincent D’Onofrio, who’s continuing as police Detective Robert Goren. Each actor will appear in 11 episodes for the fifth season. The new arrangement will ease the workload for D’Onofrio, who was hospitalized briefly last year for exhaustion.
IT’S A GO: Ready for another “Die Hard” movie? Bruce Willis is.
“‘Die Hard 4.0’ is being written as we speak, and if all goes well, we’ll be shooting it in autumn on the East Coast,” he told BBC Radio in Britain, according to Entertainment Weekly.
The long-developing project once again stars Willis as wisecracking cop John McClane. The final script will have to tread lightly–this is the first installment of the terrorism-fighting franchise to take place after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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THE WRITE STUFF: Actors have feelings, too, believe it or not. And a pair of comic actors have lashed out at their critics in print, eonline.com reports.
Owen Wilson wrote a letter to The New Yorker magazine to stick up for buddy and frequent co-star Ben Stiller, whose looks were called into question by writer David Denby.
“I’ve acted in two hundred and thirty-seven buddy movies, and, with that experience, I’ve developed an almost preternatural feel for the beats that any good buddy movie must have,” Wilson writes. “And maybe the most crucial audience-rewarding beat is where one buddy comes to the aid of other guy to help defeat a villain. Or bully. Or jerk.”
Going a step further, former “Saturday Night Live” star Rob Schneider took out an ad in movie industry trade magazines blasting a Los Angeles Times column by Patrick Goldstein. Whereas Goldstein facetiously wondered why “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” didn’t win an Oscar, Schneider wondered why Goldstein hadn’t won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
“Maybe, Mr. Goldstein, you didn’t win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven’t invented a category for ‘Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter, Who’s Never Been Acknowledged By His Peers!” Schneider wrote.
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Compiled from news services and edited by Leo Ebersole (lebersole@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com)
