Glitter: Renée Zellweger in Chicago
Question: Renee Zellweger has been nominated for an Oscar three years in a row. Can you tell me how many other times this has happened? Has anyone ever pulled it off more than three times in a row? Thanks!Answer: William Hurt and Russell Crowe have both been nominated for best actor three times in a row, Hurt for Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Children of a Lesser God (1986) and Broadcast News (1987) — he won for Kiss of the Spider Woman — and Crowe for The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe won for Gladiator. And just for the record, Zellweger's three-in-a-row nominations were for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Chicago (2002) and Cold Mountain (2003); the third time was the lucky one for her.
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David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach
It looks like things might get a bit nasty in David Hasselhoff’s divorce from Pamela Bach, his wife of 16 years. In documents obtained by The Insider, the Baywatch alum's lawyer is looking to snuff Bach's bid to obtain some of her husband's medical records. (Although there are no details about the sought-after files, Hasselhoff has entered rehab for alcohol abuse on at least two occasions.) Isn't anyone worried about how all of this will affect not just the couple's two children but Hobie?
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Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes
Question: I remember the whole 60 Minutes controversy that became The Insider, but if I recall, that wasn't the first time the show had a fight on its hands. Wasn't there a lawsuit with Gen. William Westmoreland, too? What was that about?Answer: It wasn't actually 60 Minutes that was involved in the Westmoreland lawsuit, Lee. It was Mike Wallace, a correspondent for that show, who worked on a 1982 CBS News report titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception. The main thrust of the report was that Westmoreland, the former commander of U.S. military forces in Vietnam, oversaw a military-intelligence effort to trick President Lyn
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Soap vet Tonja Walker-Davidson drops by Court TV's Hollywood Heat Sept. 29 at 11 pm/ET. She'll dish her recent spoof of CNN Headline News legal pundit Nancy Grace on Passions. If you can't stay up that late, just read this week's Soaps Q&A with Tonja.... The Insider correspondent Ananda Lewis covers a Newman Enterprises press conference on Y&R Oct. 20.... General Hospital is aging Luke and Laura's daughter, Lesley Lu. When "Lulu" returns to Port Charles on Oct. 28, she'll be 15 years old — even though she was born in 1994 — and played by daytime rookie Julie Marie Berman.... By the way, Tony Geary is back from his annual vacation in Amsterdam. Luke returns to GH Oct. 7 with news that his secret mission for Alcazar has gone awry.... GL's Crystal Hunt (Lizzie) is auctioning off her Daytime Emmy gowns on eBay to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims. De
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Kathie Lee Gifford, who debuts as a correspondent on The Insider today, is said to be shopping around a new daytime talk show that would pair her with Donny Osmond. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gifford is hoping to launch the show in fall 2006, presumably to coincide with son Cody's 45th birthday.
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"I do not want to look back years from now and go, 'Ugh, that's so embarrassing, I can't believe I was on the cover of US Weekly for 10 weeks in a row.'" — Hilary Duff on the headline grabbing of such peers as Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan. For more from the controversy-averse teen queen, read our interview in today's Insider.
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Kathie Lee Gifford
A few sweatshop employees soon may feel free to return late from their five-minute lunch break: Kathie Lee Gifford, formerly of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, is returning to syndicated television as a special correspondent for Paramount's The Insider entertainment newsmagazine beginning Sept. 12. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Gifford will cover celebrity interviews, the Broadway beat and pretty much every single detail of little Cody's and Cassidy's lives.
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Pat O'Brien can't make up his mind. Is he a sports broadcaster who does entertainment news or is he a celebrity interviewer who dabbles in sports? After nine years at CBS Sports, he left in 1990 to do stints at ET and Access Hollywood before debuting as The Insider. In the midst of all that, O'Brien also covered the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Next up, he hosts tonight's CBS special, The Greatest Commercials: Super Bowl vs. the World, at 8 pm/ET. It features classic American ads from the big game competing against foreign spots. As O'Brien himself would say, let's get inside...TV Guide Online: How will this TV commercial showdown impact our standing in the international community?Pat O'Brien: I feel that this is one time [Americans have] really got to get behind their country. There are no blue states, there are no red states here. There are only Americans. [But] it's funny, people do like to see what the world puts out —
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