Talk show terrorists
New York Talk show hosts are just as despicable as terrorists in Sean Penn's world.
"I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution," Penn says in the February issue of Talk magazine, calling Fox News Channel's O'Reilly "an embraced pariah."
"He's a grumpy, self-loathing joke," the actor says of O'Reilly. "There's a long history of people who capitalize on the lowest common denominator of people's impulses. Adolf Hitler being one of them. ..."
The Fox News host said Wednesday that he planned to highlight Penn's quotes as his "most ridiculous" news item of the week.
"Madonna called me up and told me not to worry about it," O'Reilly said, referring to Penn's ex-wife.
His lips are sealed
Los Angeles John Corbett won't give any hints as to whether his "Sex and the City" character, Aidan, will actually marry Carrie this season.
Aidan and Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, got engaged before the HBO comedy went on hiatus last summer.
"You have to watch it just like my mom. My mom asked the same question, so don't feel bad," Corbett told reporters. "I love my mom much more than you all."
The fourth season of "Sex and the City" begins at 8 p.m. CST Sunday.
Movie part paid off
New York Shooting "Ocean's Eleven" at the Bellagio in Las Vegas made it easy for Andy Garcia to fall into the role of casino owner Terry Benedict.
"I'd go on the set this is my casino," he said. "We were shooting in pit No. 5, which is sort of the high-end pit, and I'd look around and the place was packed not only with our extras, but beyond that, the casino was functioning so it was really, it was like an actor's dream."
"Ocean's Eleven," co-starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt, is in theaters now.
Hollywood history burns
Los Angeles A historic Hollywood apartment complex, which movie mogul Jesse L. Lasky built in 1917 and Charlie Chaplin once owned, was heavily damaged Tuesday by a blaze.
The vacant four-story Hillview Apartments is the oldest apartment building on Hollywood Boulevard, city historians say.
Lasky, who founded one of Hollywood's first movie studios, Famous Players-Lasky, built the Mediterranean-style apartment building to provide housing for his actors, according to Historic Resources Group, a California-based preservation firm.
"Everybody that was anybody in the silent (movie) days lived there," Douglas Carlton, director of Keep Old Los Angeles, a local historical society, said Tuesday night.
The building, a few blocks west of Hollywood and Vine, was long past its glory days by the time it was closed after being damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Lasky died in 1958.
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