WHAT A KNOCKOUT
It’s not a “Fight Club” sequel, but Brad Pitt may be throwing a few punches in a new role.
Pitt is in talks to star in “The Fighter” with Mark Wahlberg, Variety reports.
The Paramount Pictures movie is about Boston boxer “Irish” Mickey Ward and his journey to become the world lightweight champion.
Wahlberg, a Boston native, is on board to play Ward. Pitt would play Dicky Eklund, Mickey’s half-brother and fellow boxer who fought Sugar Ray Leonard.
The role was to be played by Pitt’s “Ocean’s Eleven” co-star Matt Damon, who had scheduling conflicts.
On with the show
50 Cent won’t go down that easily.
After pulling out of two awards shows in London and postponing his UK gigs earlier this week, the rapper has rescheduled the shows, the BBC reports.
According to BBC, Fitty has eight arena gigs in the UK scheduled for November. Tickets are set to go on sale Saturday.
So much for retiring.
THE DIGIT
165th
Oprah Winfrey’s rank on Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans, according to The Associated Press. Her net worth is listed as $2.5 billion.
SPOILER ALERT!
‘Sex’ revealed
Diapers are the new accessory for the ladies of “Sex and the City.”
Us Weekly posted a photo of Kristin Davis, who plays Charlotte York, sporting a fake pregnant belly on the set of the movie, which is filming in New York City.
Charlotte was in the midst of adopting a girl when the series ended in 2004.
Meanwhile, gawker.com is reporting that Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon, may have at least two kids in the movie. A source told Gawker that there was a casting call for two red-headed children, a boy and his younger sister. In the show, Miranda had a boy named Brady.
The movie is due in May 2008, according to Us Weekly.
Mariah diet
Meet the new Mariah.
The newly svelte singer, who has a new album in the works, told People magazine the secret to her look is “bleak diets.”
She eats “basically soups and fish prepared really blandly,” Carey told reporters Thursday night at VH1’s Save the Music gala, where she won an award for her work with the foundation, according to people.com.
Plus, the singer has a trainer who lives in St. Barts: “People say, ‘Only you would fly someone from St. Barts to New York to work out.’ “
AIRING IT OUT
It looks like an Air America radio personality is ready to channel O.J. Simpson in a fight against fellow funnyman, Stephen Colbert of “The Colbert Report.”
The Young Turks co-host Cenk Uygur unleashed some mock-outrage at Colbert in a press release posted on theyoungturks.com, E! Online reported. Uygur, who has accused Colbert of stealing one of his jokes comparing the Republican party to Klingons, warned that anyone involved in the alleged joke theft better “lawyer up,” the statement read.
“As O.J. would say, ‘Think you can steal my [bleep]? Up against the wall [bleep],” Uygur said through the statement. “I couldn’t have said it better myself, that’s why I didn’t; I just quoted him instead.”
