Drew Barrymore has jumped into the precocious blonde producers'
pool. With a new two year first-look deal at Fox 2000 (if the name fits...),
Drew's shown Silverstone-like insight choosing her first Fox project,
Born To Shop. Producer Barrymore will play a shopaholic who gets
hit by a bus and comes back from the dead to enlist her best shopping
pal in the search for the perfect parents for her rebirth on earth.
(No, I did not make that up!) Let's hope Drew isn't about to become
just another flash-on-the-desk.
Jeremy Irons is playing the censorship card, claiming that the
U.S. distributors are withholding distribution of Adrian Lyne's
version of Lolita due to its content. The film, based on the
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love. Rough Cut takes a dim view of censorship and is proud to
stand up for our principles!
Obsesses With Sundance must be the new Chief of Connecticut's Mashantucket
Pequot Indian tribe. They announced this week that the tribe, which
operates a casino that brings in $1 billion a year, will produce Naturally
Native, a "sort of Indian version of The Brothers McMullan,"
according to screenwriter/co-director Valerie Red-Horse. No word
yet on whether Red-Horse will give a starring role to her girlfriend
who can't act. Or to Lauren Holly.
Hugh Grant will star in Columbia's American Neurotic,
which centers on a compulsive womanizer who is unable to commit to any
single woman. (Write your own joke here.)
