Thursday, September 23, 2004
Thursday September the 23th/Entertainment News(Morning)
C.S.I. Returns
Despite several series debuts and summer finales in the mix, a repeat of CSI was the No. 1 show in America last week, beating the season opener of Survivor: Vanuatu and a strong Monday Night Football return.
The Sept. 23 show is expected to draw at least 25 million U.S. viewers and close to three million in Canada. In a season of under-performing rookies (Father Of The Pride, LAX, Listen Up, The Next Great Champ), CSI seems to be network TV’s last sure thing.
Not bad for a show that barely made the CBS schedule in 2000. With a second spin-off showing promise (CSI:NY, starring Gary Sinise which debuted Sept. 22), CBS could have three CSIs in the U.S. Top-10 this season.
Season 5 has brought its share of growing pains. First, creator Anthony Zuiker, a former Vegas tram operator who sold CBS on CSI with the very first script he ever wrote, has left the series to be the hands-on showrunner on CSI: NY.
This summer, series regulars George Eads (Nick Stokes) and Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) were suspended by CBS after the network took a hard line toward a perceived salary standoff. (Eads maintains he just slept in.)
Both are back, and take some ribbing in tonight’s opener. “So I had some time to think while I was away,” Fox says into a mirror in her first scene. “Enough time to figure out why I made such a stupid mistake.”
She’s talking about her character’s drinking problem — wink, wink.
Reiko Aylesworth (24) guests tonight as an uptight DNA expert hired to replace Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), who gets a rough ride from lab boss Gil Grissom (William Petersen) in his field debut. French Stewart (3rd Rock From The Sun) also guests.
As always, the show is a dazzling, high-tech whodunit. Just don’t make the same mistake I made and watch it over supper.
Forensics and food do not mix.
Elton John Slams photographers
The star arrived in the country to play the last date in his tour of the Far East.
But after touching down at Taipei's Chiang Kai-Shek airport by private jet in the early hours of this morning, he was besieged by photographers and TV crews.
A Taiwanese news channel showed Sir Elton, dressed in a royal blue tracksuit and matching sunglasses, clenching his teeth and muttering expletives as he stood with his arms crossed tightly across his chest.
"Rude, vile pigs!" he shouted. "Do you know what that means? Rude, vile pigs. That's what all of you are."
One of the photographers shouted back: "Why don't you get out of Taiwan?"
Sir Elton replied: "We'd love to get out of Taiwan if it's full of people like you. Pig! Pig!"
The star, who recently performed in Shanghai and Hong Kong, said: "We had a great tour of the Far East and then we come to Taiwan."
It is not the first time the 57-year-old singer has lost his temper in public.
In the fly-on-the-wall documentary Tantrums And Tiaras, made by his partner David Furnish, he famously threw a fit when a female fan waved at him and shouted "Yoo hoo!" on the tennis court of his French Riviera hotel.
He stormed off court saying: "I'm never coming back to the south of France again."
A spokeswoman for Sir Elton accused police and airport security officials of failing to protect the star but said he was "bravely" carrying on with his concert at the Chung Shan soccer stadium.
Britney Marriage reportly a fake
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- So, did she or didn't?
Britney Spears most definitely got married last week, People magazine reports in its Oct. 4 issue filled with pictures of the pop star and her fiance, Kevin Federline, in wedding apparel and surrounded by family and friends.
What the couple didn't do, according to the Los Angeles County registrar's office, is file a marriage licence after the ceremony.
No big deal, says a member of the singer's camp who declined to be quoted by name.
"They're scheduled to file it next week," she told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Spears told People magazine essentially the same thing.
"I know we're not completely legal until we file the licence, which we'll do next week," the 22-year-old pop star said. "But in a real sense, a spiritual sense, we're married."
Federline, 26, said the delay was caused when the couple moved their wedding date up to Sept. 18 as word leaked out that they were planning to be married Oct. 16.
Moving the date up a month, he said, didn't give their lawyers time to finish their prenuptial agreement.
"It's done (now)," he said. "The details aren't anyone's business. But it wasn't any big deal."
Kathy Treggs, the Los Angeles County recorder's office manager of public records, said the couple have 10 days from the date of the wedding to file the licence. As far as she knows, Treggs said, the couple didn't take out a licence from a Los Angeles County office but could have pulled one from any county recorder's office in the state or from any number of notary publics authorized to issue them.
Us Magazine reported that it has obtained a draft of the prenuptial agreement that states if the couple divorce, Spears will pay Federline $300,000 US a year for a period of time equal to half the length of their marriage. She will have no financial obligation to his two children by a previous relationship, and any gift valued at $10,000 or more will require a legal document stating who will own it if the couple split.
Federline, described in the document as "presently possessed of property of moderate value," can make no claim to any of Spears' companies but bears no responsibility if any of them lose money.
Spears is worth at least $32 million, according to the document.
In January, Spears married childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise wedding in Las Vegas. That marriage was annulled 55 hours later.,/em>
Despite several series debuts and summer finales in the mix, a repeat of CSI was the No. 1 show in America last week, beating the season opener of Survivor: Vanuatu and a strong Monday Night Football return.
The Sept. 23 show is expected to draw at least 25 million U.S. viewers and close to three million in Canada. In a season of under-performing rookies (Father Of The Pride, LAX, Listen Up, The Next Great Champ), CSI seems to be network TV’s last sure thing.
Not bad for a show that barely made the CBS schedule in 2000. With a second spin-off showing promise (CSI:NY, starring Gary Sinise which debuted Sept. 22), CBS could have three CSIs in the U.S. Top-10 this season.
Season 5 has brought its share of growing pains. First, creator Anthony Zuiker, a former Vegas tram operator who sold CBS on CSI with the very first script he ever wrote, has left the series to be the hands-on showrunner on CSI: NY.
This summer, series regulars George Eads (Nick Stokes) and Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) were suspended by CBS after the network took a hard line toward a perceived salary standoff. (Eads maintains he just slept in.)
Both are back, and take some ribbing in tonight’s opener. “So I had some time to think while I was away,” Fox says into a mirror in her first scene. “Enough time to figure out why I made such a stupid mistake.”
She’s talking about her character’s drinking problem — wink, wink.
Reiko Aylesworth (24) guests tonight as an uptight DNA expert hired to replace Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), who gets a rough ride from lab boss Gil Grissom (William Petersen) in his field debut. French Stewart (3rd Rock From The Sun) also guests.
As always, the show is a dazzling, high-tech whodunit. Just don’t make the same mistake I made and watch it over supper.
Forensics and food do not mix.
Elton John Slams photographers
The star arrived in the country to play the last date in his tour of the Far East.
But after touching down at Taipei's Chiang Kai-Shek airport by private jet in the early hours of this morning, he was besieged by photographers and TV crews.
A Taiwanese news channel showed Sir Elton, dressed in a royal blue tracksuit and matching sunglasses, clenching his teeth and muttering expletives as he stood with his arms crossed tightly across his chest.
"Rude, vile pigs!" he shouted. "Do you know what that means? Rude, vile pigs. That's what all of you are."
One of the photographers shouted back: "Why don't you get out of Taiwan?"
Sir Elton replied: "We'd love to get out of Taiwan if it's full of people like you. Pig! Pig!"
The star, who recently performed in Shanghai and Hong Kong, said: "We had a great tour of the Far East and then we come to Taiwan."
It is not the first time the 57-year-old singer has lost his temper in public.
In the fly-on-the-wall documentary Tantrums And Tiaras, made by his partner David Furnish, he famously threw a fit when a female fan waved at him and shouted "Yoo hoo!" on the tennis court of his French Riviera hotel.
He stormed off court saying: "I'm never coming back to the south of France again."
A spokeswoman for Sir Elton accused police and airport security officials of failing to protect the star but said he was "bravely" carrying on with his concert at the Chung Shan soccer stadium.
Britney Marriage reportly a fake
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- So, did she or didn't?
Britney Spears most definitely got married last week, People magazine reports in its Oct. 4 issue filled with pictures of the pop star and her fiance, Kevin Federline, in wedding apparel and surrounded by family and friends.
What the couple didn't do, according to the Los Angeles County registrar's office, is file a marriage licence after the ceremony.
No big deal, says a member of the singer's camp who declined to be quoted by name.
"They're scheduled to file it next week," she told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Spears told People magazine essentially the same thing.
"I know we're not completely legal until we file the licence, which we'll do next week," the 22-year-old pop star said. "But in a real sense, a spiritual sense, we're married."
Federline, 26, said the delay was caused when the couple moved their wedding date up to Sept. 18 as word leaked out that they were planning to be married Oct. 16.
Moving the date up a month, he said, didn't give their lawyers time to finish their prenuptial agreement.
"It's done (now)," he said. "The details aren't anyone's business. But it wasn't any big deal."
Kathy Treggs, the Los Angeles County recorder's office manager of public records, said the couple have 10 days from the date of the wedding to file the licence. As far as she knows, Treggs said, the couple didn't take out a licence from a Los Angeles County office but could have pulled one from any county recorder's office in the state or from any number of notary publics authorized to issue them.
Us Magazine reported that it has obtained a draft of the prenuptial agreement that states if the couple divorce, Spears will pay Federline $300,000 US a year for a period of time equal to half the length of their marriage. She will have no financial obligation to his two children by a previous relationship, and any gift valued at $10,000 or more will require a legal document stating who will own it if the couple split.
Federline, described in the document as "presently possessed of property of moderate value," can make no claim to any of Spears' companies but bears no responsibility if any of them lose money.
Spears is worth at least $32 million, according to the document.
In January, Spears married childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise wedding in Las Vegas. That marriage was annulled 55 hours later.,/em>
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