Archive for March 1st, 2007

James CaanJames Caan is leaving Las Vegas after announcing he won’t be a part of the fifth season of the hit US TV drama.

The movie legand will not feature in the upcoming season of Las Vegas when it starts later this year, according to trade magazine The Hollywood Reporter.

Caan, who played a surveillance boss in a Sin City casino, insists he wants to spend more time making movies.

TeapacksIsrael are set to stir up controversy at this year’s Eurovision, with a song about nuclear armageddon.

Push The Button, by the rap band Teapacks, is said to be a response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and its president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

It features lyrics sung in English, French and Hebrew, and makes reference to “crazy rulers” and the threat of “being blown to kingdom come.”

Shulamit IzenA Jewish documentary about a gay Jewish student’s fight for acceptance at her high school is to receive its UK premiere at London’s Gay And Lesbian Film Festival.

Hineini: Coming Out In A Jewish High School tells the story of Shulamit Izen, an openly gay student who campaigned to form a gay-straight alliance at her Jewish school in Massachusetts – and had a powerful impact on her community, as well as her teachers and her fellow pupils

Ruby WaxFlamboyant American comedienne Ruby Wax has been named as one of the hosts of the 2007 Chocolate Ball, which will be held at London’s swanky Dorchester Hotel on March 23.

The annual event – in aid of the children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent – is a celebration of chocolate, with guests encouraged to eat as much as they want.

Ruby will co-host with BBC Sport presenter Chris Hollins.

Daniel RadcliffeActor/writer Stephen Fry has urged London theatregoers to focus on Daniel Radcliffe’s  acting and not his naked body when they watch him onstage in Equus.

The 17-year-old Harry Potter star has attracted headlines for his controversial role at the Gielgud Theatre in the West End.

But Fry wishes audiences would concentrate on Radcliffe delivering an “amazing performance”.

Helena Bonham Carter in SixtySixThe son of director Tim Burton and actress Helena Bonham Carter will make his second cameo appearance in his father’s next movie - at the tender age of three.

Billy Ray Burton, who can briefly be glimpsed in a pram in Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, will crop up in Burton’s upcoming musical Sweeny Todd alongside other actors including Sacha Baron Cohen.

David Lee RothRocker David Lee Roth has snubbed fellow Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar’s suggestion the two singers should team up when the band is inducted into the Rock + Roll Hall Of Fame.

Hagar, who replaced Lee Roth in the band, has suggested the collaboration would be a fitting way to honour the group’s legacy, but the singer-turned-radio presenter insists it’s a terrible idea.

Jeff GoldblumJurassic Park star Jeff Goldblum has filed and won a restraining order against a 44-year-old woman, claiming she keeps showing up at his home uninvited.

In court papers, the actor claims Linda Ransom has appeared at his front door 20 times in the past month, and “over 50 times in the last three months”.

Goldblum also alleges Ransom has sent him “harassing and threatening letters,” and “physically attacked my employee and accosted me”.