C’mon, Keanu, did the devil make you do it?

Keanu Reeves says he trained with an exorcist for his new film, “Constantine,” in which he plays a man who battles to send demons back to hell. “I just want(ed) to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil,” Reeves said.
“There were no paranormal events that took place on the film that I know of. Thank God!” he added.
Adapted from a DC Comics series, the film had its world premiere in Hong Kong on Tuesday and will open Feb. 18 in the United States.
Meanwhile, co-star Rachel Weisz says she almost drowned during the filming when Reeves had to hold her down under bath water,
“The director said that he wanted Keanu not to go easy on me. He wanted it to look real,” she said. “So he was really holding me down.
“It was scary. I mean, there was a moment in which I was not acting any more.”
Insurers say nay to Britney’s knee
Britney Spears has sued eight insurance companies that rejected a $9.8 million claim she filed after she injured her knee during a video shoot and had to cancel her tour last summer.
Seven British companies that refused to pay said Spears failed to tell them about a pre-existing knee injury and surgery. The eighth company, a French firm, never responded.
Spears contends the “minor orthopedic surgery” on the other side of her left knee in March 1999 should not have affected the insurers’ decisions.
Detec’s and the suburbs
Former “Sex and the City” co-star Kristin Davis will star in a one-hour pilot for ABC tentatively titled “Soccer Moms,” about two suburban housewives who team up as private investigators.
If picked up, the show would be the network’s second foray into the secret lives of seemingly domestic women. Its “Desperate Housewives” has been one of the season’s biggest hits.
Davis, 39, played Charlotte York on “Sex and the City.” The HBO series ended last year.
Lovesick blues
It took two tries before the cast of “Everybody Loves Raymond” filmed its final episode.
“The cast got sick, Patty Heaton lost her voice,” said Peter Boyle, who plays grumpy patriarch Frank Barone. “We had a very tearful farewell. I feel sad. I’m going to miss it a lot.”
Television’s most popular sitcom will end its nine-year run on May 16 with a 30-minute episode on NBC.
Straight from the Winkler’s mouth
So what was really up with Fonzie and his signature catchphrase on “Happy Days”?
Henry Winkler played the supercool, leather-jacketed Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli on the ABC sitcom, which aired from 1974 to 1984.
“The creating of ‘The Fonz’ came slowly,” Winkler says. ” ‘Whoa!’ came from my favorite sport at the time, which was horseback riding.”
The birthday bunch
Actress Kathryn Grayson is 83. News correspondent Roger Mudd is 77. Singer Carole King is 63. Actor Joe Pesci is 62. Author Alice Walker is 61. Actress Mia Farrow is 60. Singer Joe Ely is 58. Actress Judith Light is 56. Actor Charles Shaughnessy (“The Nanny”) is 50. Country singer Travis Tritt is 42. Actress Julie Warner (“Family Law”) is 40. Actor David Gallagher (“Seventh Heaven”) is 20. Actress Camille Winbush (“The Bernie Mac Show”) is 15.