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There have been many news stories posted about the Katie/Chris split - most being reprints of the AP account. Anyway, here are a couple stories that you might not have seen ... From BostonHerald.com Katie, Chris nix nups KATIE HOLMES has broken off her engagement to ``American Pie'' darling Chris Klein, Us Weekly reports. ``They broke off the engagement but are remaining good friends,'' a rep for the once-happy couple said. ``But they are no longer dating.'' Which may explain why Katie was such a pickle puss at Super Bowl XXXIX last month! The fresh-faced pair had been going strong for five years before their 2003 engagement but suffered some growing pains when Holmes, known forever as Joey from ``Dawson's Creek,'' moved to New York City and left Chris behind in L.A. Evidently, Brad and Jen continue to set trends in Tinseltown circles. (See Richards, Denise for further proof.) ==================== From the Defamer Short Ends: Another Couple Bites The Dust Chris Klein and Katie Holmes have split. How much pain can Hollywood possibly be expected to endure in one day? We imagine that Klein grew tired of the way that every time the adorable Holmes stood still in a park, chipmunks would gather at her feet and bluebirds would perch on her shoulders. [Ed.note—For the record, we could never get tired of that.] A scan of Katie at the Entertainment Weekly Oscar party. (From the latest issue of EW - 3/11/05) (click on Katie pic to enlarge)
A "TYFS" Production Report from indieWIRE: "Thank You For Smoking" Based on the popular novel by Christopher Buckley, "Thank You For Smoking" takes a satiric look at the world of Big Tobacco. Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the tobacco industry, travels the country as the face of cigarettes spending his days negotiating cigarette product placement in movies, hanging with the Marlboro Man, and later with his buddies, lobbyists for tobacco, guns and alcohol aptly named the M.O.D. squad (Merchants of Death), all while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son. Since Mel Gibson's Icon Productions bought the book rights in the late 1990's an adaptation for the screen has been stagnant. But four years ago writer/director Jason Reitman (son of famous producer/director Ivan Reitman) voiced his interest in the project. "When I got an agent and he asked me what I wanted to do I said this, 'Thank You For Smoking'," Reitman recalled. "He said, 'Oh, it's going to be a little tricky, Icon has owned it for a while and I'm not sure if anything is happening on it anymore.'" But there was something happening. David Sacks' production company Room 9 Entertainment acquired the rights and last summer joined forces with Ed Pressman and John Schmidt's ContentFilm to co-finance and co-produce the film. Getting Buckley's blessing to adapt the book before he started writing ("I left him a message saying, 'Hi, this is Jason Reitman, I'm the guy who's going to screw up your book.'"), Reitman admitted that writing the screenplay wasn't as strenuous as getting someone to make it. "I'm not trying to kiss the author's ass, but it's wall to wall funny and I would literally cut and paste the dialogue right out of the book," he said. Shooting began on January 24 and will continue through early March in Los Angeles with a small stint in Washington D.C. Cinematographer James Whitaker ("The Cooler") will be shooting on 35 mm. The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Naylor, with Robert Duvall, Katie Holmes, Sam Elliott, and William H. Macy. |
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