By SEAN DALY Special to the Daily Press
■ Lara Flynn Boyle's dress was “startling,” says Nicholson What did Jack Nicholson think of Lara Flynn Boyle’s pink tutu at Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards? “It was startling,” says the actor, who picked up Best Actor honors for his performance in the drama “About Schmidt.” “I always said a good actor knows how to make a good scandal. I slipped out to get a cigarette and saw her [for the first time] from behind and wasn’t sure it was her.” Nicholson was not the only star on hand with an opinion about his on-again-off-again girlfriend’s strange outfit. At a post-show bash sponsored by In Style magazine, fashion critic Melissa Rivers exclaimed, “God bless her for wearing that dress,” while “Malcolm In The Middle” star Jane Kaczmarek joked, “I wondered if [Bjork’s] swan outfit was already taken. That was an unusual choice, wasn’t it?” Later, singer Leann Rimes told the Daly Report: “I didn’t know anybody was coming to the ballet tonight!” ■ “8 Simple Rules” star trades tennis for TV Kaley Cuoco gave up becoming a professional tennis star to concentrate on her acting career.
“I was traveling everywhere and playing nationally and internationally, but I had to give it up. It was important to me, but not as important as this,” the 17-year-old star of ABC’s “8 Simple Rules To Date My Teenage Daughter” tells us. “I was at a tennis academy. I was playing for five hours a day and going to auditions afterwards. Then I realized I had to make a choice. So now I am 100 percent committed to acting and I haven’t picked up a racket in 6 months.” ■ Just call him “Joe Dropout”
Another week, another scandal for “Joe Millionaire” Evan M a r r i o t t. Addressing a group of television critics last weekend in Hollywood, the world’s most famous 28 year-old construction worker confessed, “I never completed high school.” Marriott attended Hargrave Military Academy in Chatham, VA, but never graduated because, according to a school spokesperson, “He didn’t want to take a certain course from a certain teacher that is notoriously tough.” In other “Joe Millionaire” news, the former hotel bellhop admits he has a soft spot for redheads. (Could this mean he will select New York City graphics specialist Alison?) “If you look at the girlfriends I’ve had in the past, they were all very different,” he says. “Some were short, some were tall. I’ve had bitchy girlfriends and nice. If there is a redhead in the crowd, I’ll head on over there.” His dream date? “I like Marilu Henner and she is a redhead. She might be an oldie, but she’s a goodie. She’s got that whole lactose thing going on, which I don’t really understand, but she’s a hottie. I also like Liz Hurley.” ■ Globe winners recall table-waiting days Long before “The Sopranos,” Edie Falco was waiting tables at New York’s Formerly Joe’s restaurant with then-aspiring actor Michael Chiklis (“The Shield”). “He was a terrible waiter,” the Golden Globe winning actress recalled after claiming her Best Actress award for the portrayal of mob wife Carmela Soprano. “He was always talking and chatting and his tables were always dirty.” Falco, battling a nasty case of laryngitis, told reporters her own most challenging job came last year in the Broadway production of “Frankie & Johnny.” “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, and I don’t want to do it again anytime soon,” she said, adding, “I would be happy playing Carmela until she expires.” ■ Parker and Broderick in legal dispute Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have filed a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages from Sephora USA for using their photographs in perfume ads. “At no time past or present did plaintiffs authorize, agree or consent to the use of their names, pictures, likenesses and/or personas, either jointly or individually, in any way, by Sephora,” reads the 7-page complaint filed Jan. 10 by Los Angeles attorney Martin Singer. Parker recently announced the cancellation of her highly rated series “Sex and The City.” Broderick will appear next month in the ABC television adaptation of “The Music Man.” The couple, who have a 3-month-old son named James, have not ruled out acting together in the future, Broderick says. “Neither of us wants to trade on our visibility as a couple, but every now and then people send things. If the parts were right for both of us, it might be fun.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 24, 2003. Read the original PDF.