There's something about Cameron Diaz that makes producers
think she'd be just right to star opposite Meryl Streep in
"Success." Diaz, who is hot after the success of "There's
Something About Mary," is close to taking the role, Variety
reports. "Success" is about the mentor-protege relationship
between two women TV network executives, and the original
script was by the husband-wife team of John Gregory Dunne
and Joan Didion.
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The current Miss America, Kate Shindle, has selected actress
Sharon Stone as the recipient of the 1998 Miss America Woman
of Achievement Award for her work on behalf of AIDS victims.
Shindle has spent her year-long reign as Miss America
lecturing to college and high school students about AIDS,
sex and the use of condoms. The Woman of Achievement Award
will be presented during this year's Miss America pageant to
be televised on ABC.
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HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Steven Spielberg has hired prolific
screenwriter Ron Bass to adapt the screenplay for his next film,
"Memoirs of a Geisha." Bass is already hard at work adapting Arthur
Golden's epic novel into a script. "Even before Steven (Spielberg)
came on board I wanted to be the guy who wrote this," Bass told Daily
Variety. "With him directing, it became that much more attractive."
"Geisha" tells the story of Nitta Sayuri, a nine-year-old girl sold
into slavery in Kyoto in 1929, who grows up to become one of Japan's
most renowned geishas. Last week, Spielberg cast unknown actresses
Rika Okamoto and Julyana Soelistyo in the picture's lead roles.
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HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - After working its way up the box office chart
for more than seven weeks, "There's Something About Mary" landed at
No. 1 for the first time over the Labor Day holiday weekend, with a
studio-projected four-day take of about $11.6 million. While the rest
of the summer blockbusters have wilted in the late summer heat, the
20th Century Fox comedy continues to defy gravity like Cameron Diaz's
bangs in the picture's now-famous hair gel scene. "People who have
seen it are seeing it again and people who haven't seen it yet have
heard so much about it, that when they get around to seeing a
picture, this is the one they pick," said Tom Sherak, chairman of
20th Domestic Film Group.
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