Archive for January 4th, 2007

Sacha Baron Cohen as BoratSacha Baron Cohen’s Borat movie has now made over $240m in the box office and is set to top the quarter of a billion mark within the coming weeks.

The film about a Kazakhstan TV reporter has been released around the world and has made Baron Cohen one of the most successful British comedy stars.

Michael WinnerDeath Wish director Michael Winner has been rushed to hospital while holidaying in Barbados after suffering an allergic reaction to medication.

The filmmaker, who is also the face of insurance giant eSure, was carried by ambulance to the island’s Bayview Hospital yesterday but is recovering well.

He reacted badly to medication prescribed by doctors earlier in the week to treat a slight fever.

Jeff Goldblum has become the latest movie star to lead a new TV drama - as a homicide detective who is visited by the dead.

The Fly star will play Michael Raines in new US drama Raines, which will debut in March.

“There’s nothing otherworldly about it… It’s just in my head and the hallucinations change as I get more information about the victim,” he says.

Jeff Goldblum

Tori SpellingTori Spelling is incredibly fussy when it comes to her canine companions and recently interviewed 20 people to be her dog walker.

The pregnant star and husband Dean McDermott have two dogs, Mimi La Rue and Ferris, and were searching for someone qualified to help take care of them.

A source tells American publication Star the couple were interviewing candidates “who liked dogs, had skill in handling small, high-strung dogs and had solid references” and eventually settled on “a woman who was nice and motherly enough”.

Tori Spelling