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Sean Connery gets along awaited knighthood
Sean Connery returned home into his hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland on July 5 to be dubbed a Knight Bachelorby Queen Elizabeth for his services to film and drama. The 69 year old actor finally received the honor 3 years after a Scottish official vetoed his nomination, reportedly of Connery's ardent support of an independent Scotland. Accompanied by his wife, Micheline, and his younger brother, Neil. The former James Bond donned full Highlands regalia, including a jacket that hid the SCOTLAND FOREVER tatoo on his forarm. Following the ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Sir Sean's party retired to the stately Caledonian Hotel for a luncheon. Connery, who grew up in a tenement and once worked as a milkman, called the occassion "one of the proudest days of my life."
Child's Play
'THE KID'S' Spencer Breslin already has an actress girlfriend and a backup plan
AGE: 8
HOMETOWN: New York, where he lives with his mom Kim, his dad Michael, brother Ryan , and sister Abigail.
A STAR IS BORN: At age 3, Spencer was discovered on a Manhattan playground by a talent manager. After some 50 TV commercials and a turn as a crazed child on Law and Order, he landed the role of the young version of Bruce Willis's character in Disney's The Kid.
YOUNG LOVE: Though he enjoyed meeting Willis's set-visiting Spanish girlfriend, Maria Bravo, it seems Spencer has a special friend of his own: 7 year old actress Skye McCole Bartusiak.
COP-OUT: Should the acting gig go sour, Spencer has a Plan B: "I want to be a New York City cop. I like their uniforms."
Making Movies
Mark Wahlberg has signed up to star in director Tim Burton's update of the sci-fi series Planet of The Apes. Wahlberg is also setting to co-star in a rendition of Ocean's Eleven, the 1960 Las Vegas Rat Pack caper, which reunites him with his Perfect Storm and Three Kings co-star, George Clooney.
Anthony Hopkins begins shooting his starring role in the film of Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis in early October. He'll play a stranger who changes the life of a widow and her son.
Fiennes is culled for Chen's "Killing" (Variety)
Joseph Fiennes is in negotiations to star opposite Heather
Graham in "Killing Me Softly," the first English-lingo pic from
Chinese helmer Chen Kaige ("Farewell My Concubine").
Fiennes ("Elizabeth", "Shakespeare in Love") will next
appear with Jude Law in the Paramount/Mandalay
production of Jean Jacques Annaud's "Enemy at the Gates".
MGM had picked up U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to the $25
million-budgeted "Killing Me" in a negative pickup deal worth close to $10
million earlier this month (Daily Variety, Aug. 10). The Montecito Picture Co., the production shingle of ex-Universal topper
Tom Pollock and helmer Ivan Reitman, is exec producing. Producers are
Michael Chinich, Dan Goldberg, Joe Medjuck and Lynda Myles.
The erotic thriller, based on the novel by Nicci French, spins the tale of a
London research scientist (Graham) who opts out of her comfortable but
ordinary relationship with her boyfriend and into a dangerously obsessive
bond with a handsome and mysterious mountaineer. Production designer
turned writer Kara Lindstrom penned the script. Deals for worldwide distribution are in the works.
"Killing" is set to start lensing in London on Oct. 29, with an eye to release
in fall 2001.
Pic reps the first English-lingo effort by any of China's famed Fifth
Generation helmers, who include Zhang Yimou and Zhou Xiaowen. Chen's
most recent film is "The Emperor and the Assassin". His pic "Farewell My
Concubine" won both the Palme d'Or and the Intl. Critics Prize at Cannes.
 
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