Following is a summary of current people news briefs.
Bieber spotlights his grown-up side in flashy new video
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has
pulled out the Hollywood stops in his latest video for the
single ”As Long As You Love Me,” making a sort of mini-film
showing his grown-up side. Bieber, 18, recruited gritty actor
Michael Madsen, best known for his roles in ”Pulp Fiction” and
”Reservoir Dogs,” to play the disapproving father of Bieber’s
love interest in the slick music video, which runs nearly six
minutes.
Kennedys open up for TV documentary on RFK’s widow
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Kennedys may be America’s most
famous political dynasty, but it took one of their own to get
them to open up about their private lives and their place in
U.S. history. Filmmaker Rory Kennedy, 43, the youngest of the
11 children of slain U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and his
wife, Ethel, persuaded her mother to give her first extended
interview in more than 20 years for an upcoming HBO documentary
that is also the first film about the Kennedys to come from
within the family.
Cuba Gooding Jr. reports to police after New Orleans bar
dispute
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An arrest warrant issued for Cuba
Gooding Jr. was lifted on Wednesday after the ”Jerry Maguire”
actor met with police in New Orleans regarding an incident in
which he allegedly pushed a female bartender. New Orleans
police spokeswoman Remi Braden told Reuters that Gooding and
his lawyer met with police on Wednesday and Gooding was
summoned to appear in court at a later date.
Colin Farrell totally recalls unease about ”Total Recall”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Twenty-two years after the
blockbuster success of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action film
”Total Recall,” actor Colin Farrell is stepping into the
muscleman’s big shoes in a reboot, but if it seems like a dream
job, Farrell initially was not so gung-ho. As flattered as the
36-year-old Irish actor was to be offered the part, he admits
”there was a part of me that was honestly afraid of judgment of
people” who held the original film so dear to their hearts.
Aerosmith’s Tyler: ”American Idol” job ”not my cup of tea”
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rock singer Steven Tyler said he
”loved and hated” his two-year stint as a judge on ”American
Idol” but admitted the TV singing contest was ”not my cup of
tea.” Tyler, who announced in July he was quitting America’s
most-watched entertainment show after two years as a judge,
told Rolling Stone magazine that he took the job partly to wait
out an internal feud in his band, Aerosmith.
Due diligence on Dylan: writer found fraud in first chapter
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Journalist Michael Moynihan did not
have to read past the first chapter of writer Jonah Lehrer’s
best-selling book ”Imagine: How Creativity Works” to realize
the high-profile writer had fabricated some of its material,
namely quotes from Bob Dylan. Yet even after Moynihan exposed
Lehrer’s misquotations, causing the 31-year-old Rhodes scholar,
neuroscientist, columnist, and nonfiction writer to resign from
a staff position at The New Yorker magazine and issue an
apology this week, he is still mystified by Lehrer’s reckless
behavior.
