‘Cosby’ family reunion incomplete

New York One member of the Huxtable family won’t be attending next month’s reunion of “The Cosby Show.”

Lisa Bonet, who played teen-age daughter Denise Huxtable on the NBC sitcom from 1984-91, said the special lacked artistic merit and turned down the network’s offer to take part.

“The whole experience and energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit,” the 34-year-old actress told People magazine for its April 29 issue. “I was not feeling the love. It was a take-it-or-leave-it, with-or-without-you offer, and I felt devalued and disrespected.”

Senator courted by Hollywood

Tucson, Ariz. The best-selling memoir of Sen. John McCain could be hitting the big screen.

Producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau bought the film rights to the book “Faith of My Fathers” earlier this year for an undisclosed sum and are planning a feature film, the Arizona Daily Star reported Sunday.

Geisler and Roberdeau produced the 1998 World War II drama “The Thin Red Line.”

McCain plans to donate his share of the proceeds to charity, as he has done with royalties from his book.

Otherworldly influence?

Radnor, Pa. Ted Danson will portray a spiritual medium he consulted in real life to try to contact his late father.

Danson stars as best-selling medium James Van Praagh in the CBS miniseries “Living with the Dead” on Sunday and April 30.

It turns out the role might not be much of a stretch for Danson, who stars in the CBS sitcom “Becker.”

After network executives sent a script and offer to Danson, they learned that subject and star had met a week earlier.

“I had been to Ted’s house just that week before to do a spiritual reading for him and his wife, Mary Steenburgen,” Van Praagh said. “Now, how wild is that? It all seemed to be part of a divine plan.”

Former porn star dies

Denver Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film “Deep Throat” and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries suffered in a car crash. She was 53.

Boreman was taken to Denver Health Medical Center with massive trauma and internal injuries after the April 3 accident, hospital spokeswoman Sara Spaulding said.

Boreman claimed her first husband forced her into pornography at gunpoint. They divorced in 1973.

Their relationship disintegrated into a life of violence, rape, prostitution and pornography, according to her 1980 autobiography, “Ordeal” and her testimony before congressional committees investigating pornography.

Boreman said she was never paid a penny for “Deep Throat” and her husband only was paid $1,250, though the film grossed a reported $600 million.