Nicolas Cage plans to cut back on acting to pursue other interests, such as helping develop independent cinema in his new home of the Bahamas.
I m thinking about taking more time in between movies, Cage said. I feel I ve made a lot of movies already and I want to start exploring other opportunities that I can apply myself to, whether it s writing or other interests that I may develop.
Cage, who has appeared in more than 55 movies, was in Nassau on Friday to receive the Chopard Award for career achievement at the Bahamas International Film Festival. Sean Connery, Cage s co-star in the 1996 thriller The Rock, presented the award.
Nic is a professional and brings to the table all the stuff that makes it a real joy, Connery said.
Cage, who bought an undeveloped private island in the Exuma Cays this year, said he wants to give back: My hope for the festival is that it ...
will allow me to bring in the people I know in the industry and hopefully that will stimulate conversations between the older, seasoned talent with the young, hungry talent that s displayed here.
Hundreds of fans and bargain-hunters descended on Tori Spelling s yard sale in Los Angeles and walked away with wine glasses, paintings, lingerie, roller skates, a rubber duck and other items.
Memorabilia from Spelling s time with the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210 also sold quickly Friday and Saturday.
One person paid $25 for a plastic Starbucks mug that reportedly retained a smear of Spelling s lipstick.
About 300 people showed up at the Tori Spelling Dazzling Studio City Estate Sale at the rented home she shares with husband Dean McDermott. Spelling, pregnant with their first child, reportedly plans to open a bed and breakfast and raise their child outside of Los Angeles.
Sobbing with joy, Courtney Love, 42, thanked a judge Monday after he terminated her probation and dismissed three misdemeanor cases, including two drug-related charges.
Thank you for not taking me into custody, Love told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin. You ve been a good, fair judge.
Sorry for crying. In September 2005, Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, was sentenced to a drug treatment facility for violating probation in the cases one for illegal possession of painkillers, one for being under the influence of a controlled substance in public, and another for assault and battery.
I think you ve done very well.
You ve shown to me you are interested in a much less destructive lifestyle, Rubin said. Love said she would stay committed to sobriety. Out of my own free will!
she added.
Sharon Stone, the former Cat Stevens and Lionel Richie praised Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus efforts to relieve poverty before a star-studded concert Monday. I am honored to be part of this very, very great day in my father s life, said his daughter, Monica Yunus, 29, a singer with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
It has taken him 30 years to get the message across, she said of her father s work to provide loans to the poor in Bangladesh.
Richie said it was time to sing for poverty relief, 20 years after he and celebs recorded We Are the World to raise money for famine relief in Africa. We thought we were going to eradicate hunger throughout the world, Richie said.
Now it s 20 years later and we re still discussing the same issue.
Jordana Brewster, who starred in The Fast and the Furious, is engaged to movie producer Andrew Form, her publicist, Heidi Slan, said Monday.
The couple became engaged Nov.
4, Slan said. It will be the first marriage for both. They have been dating for a year.
Brewster, 26, has also appeared in Annapolis and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, which Form produced.
1. Apocalypto, $15 million
2.
Happy Feet, $12.9 million
3. The Holiday, $12.
8 million
4. Casino Royale, $8.9 million
5.
Blood Diamond, $8.6 million
Among celebrity birthdays today: Game show host Bob Barker is 83. Singer Connie Francis is 68.
Singer Dionne Warwick is 66. Actor Wings Hauser is 59. Singer-percussionist Sheila E.
is 47. Actress Jennifer Connelly is 36. Actress Mayim Bialik ( Blossom ) is 31.
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