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Deep
Inside Hollywood
by
Romeo San Vicente
Emma Feels
Witty Single mum and two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson
has signed on to star in an HBO original movie based
on lesbian playwright Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer
prize-winning work Wit. The play takes place during
the final weeks of spinster professor Vivian Bearing’s
life as she struggles with late-stage ovarian cancer.
We hear her reflections on work, chemo, body-image issues,
and mortality, as she comes to realize that stoicism
ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Actresses
Kathleen Chalfant and perpetual gay booster Judith Light
both won kudos from critics when they shaved their heads
to portray Bearing off-Broadway. Perhaps the role will
mean a second Emmy for Thompson, who picked one up for
guest starring on Ellen.
All
About... A Mexican Lesbian? Lovely Latina Salma Hayek
has been longing to show her butch side for a while.
The curvaceous actress has a long-in-the-works biopic
planned about the cross-dressing, mustached Mexican
painter Frida Kahlo and her quirky relationship with
artist-husband Diego Rivera. Unfortunately, Salma’s
pet project has been wallowing in “development
hell” for quite some time. But word is, fab queer
director Pedro Almodóvar, who is as caliente
as ever after winning an Oscar for his flick All About
My Mother, is thisclose to giving Ms. Hayek an opportunity
to bind her bosoms. The Spanish director apparently
stumbled on the project while he was in Tinseltown preparing
to give that hard-to-follow, long-winded Academy Award
acceptance speech, and now he’s thinking about
making the Miramax film his next feature. If Almodóvar
signs off on the script, the film may shoot as early
as this summer, when Alfred Molina, who will play Rivera,
is on hiatus from the CBS sitcom Ladies Man.
Rudin
Bets on Driving Mr. Albert Gay producer Scott Rudin,
who counts such high profile flicks as Wonder Boys and
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut among his credits,
has made another unconventional move. In a pre-emptive
bid, the Hollywood heavy-hitter has purchased the big-screen
rights to the upcoming nonfiction book Driving Mr. Albert
by Mike Paterniti. Albert tells the tale of Dr. Thomas
Harvey, the 84-year-old physician who performed an autopsy
on the body of Albert Einstein back in 1955, then kept
the genius’ brain for more than 40 years in a Tupperware
container filled with formaldehyde. The book is a true-life
account of the relationship between the author and Dr.
Harvey, who spent 10 days on a cross-country road trip
to show the brain to Einstein’s daughter. Rudin
read the book in manuscript, fell in love with the story
overnight, and made Paterniti an offer he couldn’t
refuse. No word yet on who will play Einstein’s
brain in the pic, but the book will hit shelves
in July.
Gere-ing
Up for Some Sapphic Action Believe it or not, there
will be something for dykes to look forward to in Dr.
T and the Women, the upcoming Richard Gere flick. In
the film, Gere plays a gynecologist having a mid-life
crisis (gee, that’s a stretch) who is thrown for
a loop due to the unusual events that surround many
of the female patients in his life. But get this—Gere
isn’t the one getting the most talked-about action
in film. It’s sweetie Kate Hudson, cute spawn of
Goldie Hawn, who shares a luscious liplock with doe-eyed
lovely Liv Tyler in the Robert Altman film.
When
Barbara Walters interviews Romeo San Vicente, he’ll
‘fess up to being gay. Barbara (or you) can reach
Romeo in care of this publication or via e-mail at RomeoDeep@aol.com.
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