Nip/Tuck cast looking for a pay raise

The cast of Nip/Tuck, the popular FX Networks’ popular Golden Globe award-winning drama, are asking to raise their pay. The shooting of the sixth season will start from today. Agents of the casts are now negotiating with the producer of the show. So far, there had been no walk outs.

Agents of Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon are asking for $2,50,000 per episode which the double of their season five pay. Dylan and Julian play the famous plastic surgeons in the show. Walsh and McMohan’s attorney, famous lawyer Martin Singer did not comment on the issue.

Another actor of the show Joely Richardson, is also looking forward to a pay raise of more than $100,000 per-episode.

Because the Nip/Tuck cast is contracted through Warner Bros. TV, which produces the show, attorneys for the actors are in talks with FX honchos about compensating the cast with big bonuses, similar to last year. The hitch appears to be how much the cable net's willing to pony up.

The main reason behind this raise is that most of the stars think that as the show will continue till 2011, they will not be hired by other producers. FX publicists did not want to talk about it.

Nip/Tuck was first aired in 2003 and the first episode became the highest rated basic cable series of all time. It also inspired a new plastic surgery reality show titled, Dr. 90210.

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Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading takes top spot in box office

Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s latest movie, Burn After Reading, has become a success. Released on September 12, 2008, the movie collected $19.4 million in ticket sales. This is a good news for the movie industry because for the last seven weeks, the theatres were not doing good business. Four movies have been released in the last weekend and collected a total of $105 million.

Burn After Reading, written and directed by the famous Coen Brothers, is their first movie since their Oscar winning No Country for Old Man. The movie is a black spy comedy. It tells the story of Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich), a retired CIA analyst, who is blackmailed two gym employees. They find a disk containing secret information, that was left by Osbourne’s wife in the gym.

Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys took the second spot collecting $18 million. Interestingly, Lions Gate Entertainment, the distributor of the movie, did not even bothered to do a media screening. On the opening weekend, the movie collected $8705 on average per theatre. Other top movies include: The House Bunny, The Dark Knight, Bangkok Dangerous, and Tropic Thunder.

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Paprazzi were duped by Jamie Lynn Spears

The Spears family is one of the most photographed people in USA at present. Britney Spears and her sister Jamie Lynn Spears are followed by paparazzi every where they go. On September 10, when Jamie Lynn Spears arrived at the LAX airport with her baby daughter in towel, the paparazzi rained down on her with their camera flash and every one was trying to get a good picture but there was a twist in the story. The lady in question was not actually Jamie Lynn Spears. She was another woman who looked like Jamie Lynn Spears.

It was said that to avoid the paparazzi, Jami Lynn Spears used a decoy. However, the women said that she was not a decoy, the police was just helping her to go through the crowd.

This is not the first time, such incident took place. Earlier, there were such incidents where men or women who looked like some celebrities were flocked by paparazzi. Suddenly crowd forms around the person and causes problem for other passengers as flights can not take off on time. The latest incident was singer Kanye West, who grabbed a photographers camera and broke it.

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Jenna Fischer is going to adopt nine cats

Jenna Fischer, the shy but intelligent receptionist of The Office, is a cat lover. While studying in college, she saved a black-and-white cat, Andy, from one of her friend’s apartment complex. Even today, Andy is her most favorite cat. She even worked at a kitty crisis line for one year. Jenna says:

"That was like being a social worker for cats. You feel totally responsible when someone calls about an abandoned kitten,

To express her love for these furry animals, Jenna Fischer, fostered nine cats for a non-profit organization in Los Angeles named Kitten Rescue. One of these nine cats includes Honey Bear, a 25-lb cat with “hiding issues.”

Fischer is also going to host a fundraiser, "Fur Ball at the Skirball" for Kitten Rescue. The show is going to be held on September 14, 2008 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. In the show, Angela Kinsey, another famous cat lover, will show various procedures to groom cats.

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Are Lindsay Lohan and her "Girlfriend" Samantha Ronson planning to get married?

It looks like Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson are going to get married finishing all the rumors and controversies. It all started when Lindsay Lohan was seen wearing a heart shaped ring while she was with her girlfriend, Samantha Ronson in a DJ party in New York.

This week, Samantha Ronson, while performing at a party in Los Angeles said:

"By the end of this year, my love will be Mrs Ronson…Tonight shows the power of a woman - to underestimate that is to underestimate the world.”

Recently, Lindsay Lohan told Marie Claire magazine that she and Samantha Ronson have matching tattoos. She also said that she was really happy because Samantha was a great person and she had a great influence on people around her. Lindsay said that she was ready to move forward.

I do not know whether it is another public stunt but if it really happens, then it will get serious publicity like Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi marriage.

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Lynne Spears made mistakes but she has no regrets over her daughters career

In her memoir, Lynne Spears, Britney Spears’ mother denied the allegation of being a “pushy mother.” 53 years old Lynne Spears said that every mother made mistakes and also did but she has no regrets regarding her daughters’ carrier.

The memoir titled, "Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World," was published by Thomas Nelson, a Christian publisher, who publishes Bibles and other inspirational books.

In an interview with the People Magazine, Lynne Spears said:

"I think you have to let them follow their dreams. I think it would be worse in the end if you didn't,"

The memoir which tells the story of the Spears family during the phenomenal rise of Britney Spears and their problems was supposed to be released in May but postponed after news of Jamie Lynn Spears’ pregnancy came out.

Lynne Spears said that she did not have any huge ambitions for Britney. She expressed her dissatisfaction over the way she was presented in the media as a mother who gains from her daughter.

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Jhonny Depp takes up his guitar once again

Actor Johnny Depp took up guitar once again and performed with his old band, The Kids, in a Florida charity show. On August 29, 2008, Johnny Depp performed at the second annual Sheila Witkin Memorial Reunion concert with the band for ninety minutes in a gathering of 2,500 people. Wearing a torn shirt, torn jeans and a flannel shirt wrapped around his waist, the forty five year old actor played the guitar and sang backup vocals. His wife, Vanessa Paradis, and nine year old daughter, Lily-Rose, cheered for him.

The money collected from the show will be donated to the Dan Marino Foundation. It is an organization dedicated to children with special needs. Last year, the band performed in another charity show.

Depp’s grew a taste for music after his mother bought him a guitar when he was twelve years old. In the beginning, he played with various garage bands. During his high school years, Depp joined The Kids. The band later went to Los Angeles to get a record deal but before anything happened, the group broke up and Depp tried his luck in acting and ended up being one of the most sought after Hollywood actor.

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