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Cameron Diaz &
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Cameron Diaz hurried
from production of "What Happens in Vegas" with Ashton Kutcher
into production of her currently shooting psychological
thriller, "The Box" with James Marsden, with barely any time in
between. She'll work right up 'til Christmas and resume after
the holiday -- and, she expects, she'll pretty much keep working
on back-to-back projects through spring.
It's because, she tells us, "like a lot of people, I'm very busy
with films in production, looking ahead to June. The actors'
strike is imminent, and everyone wants to do as much as they can
before it happens." With her delightful, ratings-topping "Shrek
the Halls" due for an encore airing Dec. 11 on ABC, the
box-office queen says of the next big-screen chapter in
DreamWorks' ogre oeuvre, "I haven't heard yet.
I'm just waiting for that day I get that phone call. I have no
idea what's in store. 'Shrek Goes Fourth,' I think it's called.
It's some clever spin on 'four.'"
HURRY UP AND WAIT: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin expects to be
making another feature in 2007. But the WWE icon, whose "The
Condemned" film was released last April, admits that working in
the movie world is still a big adjustment for him. "I've been in
sports entertainment since 1990," points out Austin. "As long as
I've been with the WWE, I've been on the move, on the go. The
movie process is much slower -- but I'm looking forward to
getting to work, being productive."
Austin will be seen doing what he does best come Monday night
(Dec. 10) in the "Monday Night Raw" 15-year anniversary special.
The show, which has been the top-rated basic-cable series since
1999, helped Austin achieve stardom -- as it did such names as
The Rock, John Cena and Stacy Keibler.
HOW TO END THE STRIKE: As the Hollywood writers' strike grinds
on, and the industry braces for potential actors' and directors'
strikes next year, 89-year-old publicist extraordinaire Julian
Myers is busy advocating his Myers Plan to cure the labor woes
crippling the town. He suggests a team of such esteemed people
as past presidents of both the motion-picture and television
academies, deans of the local universities' cinema schools, key
execs and editors, local statesmen and stateswomen -- "women and
men who share a love or our life," he explains -- "to get
together and work out the agreements."
Notes Myers, a marathon runner who's anticipating making a
90-mile run from San Diego to Los Angeles for his 90th birthday
next year, "Hollywood is endangered as never before. Take it
from one who was much involved in the 1949 strike. Again, we are
seeing union against union. … I've been a union member since
graduating from USC Cinema in 1939, and the unions have been
good for Hollywood and for me and my family. Today, everyone in
Hollywood is a loser." Hear, hear!
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