How old is a movie legend? Definitely older than 37-year-old Nicole Kidman, according to screen veteran Lauren Bacall. Bacall became irritated during an interview with Britain’s GMTV Wednesday when the younger actress was described as “a legend,” reports ABC News.
“She’s not a legend,” Bacall said, cutting off interviewer Jenni Falconer in midsentence.
“She’s a beginner. What is this “legend’? She can’t be a legend at whatever age she is. She can’t be a legend – you have to be older.”
The two actresses were in Venice, Italy to promote their new film “Birth,” in which 79-year-old Bacall plays Kidman’s mother.
Kidman plays a woman who believes her dead husband has been reincarnated in the body of a 10-year-old boy.
The assembled stars and the film’s director and producer were asked who they would like to come back as if they could be reincarnated.
The others gamely tried to answer the question but Bacall snapped: “It’s not a fascinating question. No offense.”
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Back to school
It’s a new kind of fall season for the Olsen twins.
Multimedia titans Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen begin studies this week at New York University, where the fall semester opened Tuesday, reports E!Online.
The Olsens are two of 4,275 incoming members of NYU’s Class of 2008. Presumably, they’re the only two incoming members with their own brand of toothpaste. Not to mention their own $7.3 million dorm room.
Bret Nolan Collazzi, editor-in-chief of Washington Square News, the campus daily newspaper, said he’s heard of some twin spottings, but added that the former “Full House” stars are hardly causing a stir.
“I guess it’s all part of the New York attitude of not gawking,” Collazzi said.
Certainly, the Olsens aren’t the first students to enroll at NYU with preexisting fame credits.
Born-famous John F. Kennedy Jr. did his law-school work there, graduating in 1989. Alec Baldwin, who studied at NYU as a starving student in the 1980s, returned to finish his degree as an established movie star in the 1990s. Supermodel Christy Turlington enrolled in 1995, at the peak of her catwalk career, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1999.
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A touchy situation
Busty blond Anna Nicole Smith stunned viewers Tuesday morning when she groped her surgically enhanced breasts on live television, reports IMDB.com.
The heiress appeared on the talk show “The View” to promote her upcoming fashion line when she began talking about her recent dramatic weight loss. But distracted co-host Star Jones interrupted proceedings when she told Smith, “I gotta tell you – and I would never in a million years comment about another woman’s breasts – you may have the biggest breasts I’ve ever sat next to in my life! You’re such a tiny girl and I just keep thinking, “That must hurt to carry around all day!”‘
When show regular Joy Behar asked whether the boobs were natural and was informed by Smith that they were fake, she and the audience members sat bemused as the towering Texan rolled and bounced her perky assets in her hands.
Jones quickly blurted, “OK, you don’t have to bounce them, Anna! Enough with the feeling!”
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