Delany leaving 'NYPD Blue'
Kim Delaney will exit her role as New York police Det. Diane Russell on ABC's popular "NYPD Blue" at the end of this season.
If her new series doesn't fly, Delaney has a safety net because there's no melodrama planned for her finale. She's not going to die, like Russell's lover, played by Jimmy Smits, so she could always return.
"I go out standing," Delaney told The Associated Press.
She'll play Philadelphia lawyer Kathleen Maguire in "Philly," produced by Steven Bochco. Her legal drama is produced under Bochco's new deal with Paramount Television as a 13-episode order for ABC's fall season.
Curtis chooses motherhood
She's adding "The Tailor of Panama" to her list of film credits, but Jamie Lee Curtis is thinking about giving up her work on the silver screen to spend more time with her two children. "We are raising generations of motherless children," she says in the March issue of More magazine, making it clear that she means upper middle-class mothers "who have chosen careers that demand they hand over the child-rearing to other people."
There's also this consideration, the 42-year-old actress says: "The realities are that as you get older, there's a point where you quickly become a caricature of yourself. I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers."
"The Tailor of Panama" also stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan. It's scheduled for release later this month.
Crowe kidnapping threatened
The FBI is investigating a plot to kidnap "Gladiator" star Russell Crowe.
The agency became aware of the plot several weeks ago and has monitored the Australian-born actor during appearances in the United States, FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said Tuesday.
In January, agents donned tuxedos to escort Crowe to the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, she added. The FBI would not release any other details.
Scotland Yard agents, also alerted to the kidnapping plot against him, provided protection during the movie's London premiere, according to the show business news program "Entertainment Tonight."
Anna Nicole nixed from estate
A Houston jury ruled Wednesday that Anna Nicole Smith, former stripper and Playboy playmate, and the oldest son of her late Texas oilman husband are entitled to none of his multimillion-dollar estate.
The jury affirmed that the oilman, J. Howard Marshall II, had named his younger son, E. Pierce Marshall, 61, as his sole heir.
Smith, 33, already had dropped her claim on her husband's estate earlier in the trial, after a federal bankruptcy judge in California awarded her $475 million. But the verdict in Texas could ultimately undermine the California ruling, which is still under appeal.
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