He Likes A Garden State, But She Prefers Gardena
Movie director Kevin Smith is carrying on a real-life relationship with Joey Lauren Adams, the star of his film “Chasing Amy.”
But their bi-coastal relationship - he lives in New Jersey, she lives in Los Angeles - is killing him. And not altogether softly.
“My dislike for that city causes real problems in our relationship,” Smith told the Newark Star-Ledger. “She’s an actress, so I understand why she has to be out there, but sometimes when I’m with her, I’m seething, just hating being in Los Angeles and wondering how soon I can go back.”
Most of “Chasing Amy” was shot near Red Bank, N.J., where the 26-year-old Smith lives.
“My family is here. My friends are here,” he said. “The only way I can see myself moving out there is if I could somehow convince all of them to move out there with me at the same time.”
Loose talk
Movie director James Cameron, whose forthcoming “Titanic” is said to be running in the $200 million range, on his work ethic: “My manner on the set is intense, and I never give up until I know the scene is the best it can be. I ask people to rise to my level of commitment every single day.”
You’d get dizzy eating his sweet pea birthday cake
Tommy Roe turns 55 today.
Which, of course, is a very movie-starry thing to say
Movie director Clint Eastwood is impressed by the city of Savannah, Ga., where he is filming John Berendt’s best-selling book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” so much so that he apparently lost his ability to speak English. “This is a very charactery community,” Eastwood said.
Sans the freaks, Court, would you take $2 million?
In the market for a slightly used house in Seattle’s exclusive Denny Blaine district? Courtney Love is selling the house in which she lived with the late Kurt Cobain. Asking price? $3 million. The house, Love says, comes complete with a “noisy parade (of)… rock freaks.”
Think maybe he’ll be barred from being her prom date?
W. Speers, asp-tongued people columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, notes that movie actor Don Johnson is dating his “Nash Bridges” co-star Jodi O’Keefe. He is 47, she is 18. According to a publicist, however, Johnson is not considering marriage. Wrote Speers, “Adoption, then?”
Maybe he should walk on some St. John’s Wort instead
After being sentenced to probation plus 10 days of community service, Eric Douglas, 38 - bad-boy son of actor Kirk Douglas - complained. He said he would “spend years walking on eggshells - I can’t even jaywalk.” Douglas was convicted of receiving a FedEx package of more than 1,000 antidepressant pills last May from an undercover agent.
Sticks, stones break bones, but words bring the big bucks
Describing those involved in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, former prosecutor Marcia Clark - author of the forthcoming memoir “Without a Doubt” - offers the following: Judge Lance Ito (“dunderhead”), defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran (“hypocritical, two-faced”), the jury (“moon rocks”) and O.J. himself (“unregenerate low-life scum”).
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