We’re so numbed to hearing Rosie O’Donnell blathering like a crazy woman bully on any subject that’ll get her in the news, that we didn’t think her railings about American Idol being “weightest and racist” were even worth mentioning.
Even by Britney Spears standards, this weekend packed a wallop.
The pop star, 25, was lying low Sunday after creating a frenzy by shaving her head.
Video of Spears’ mother, Lynn, in Los Angeles Saturday shows her giving a thumbs-up sign when asked if Spears was OK. But the singer has not been spotted since she was photographed and videotaped Friday night in an L.A. hair salon, where she had her hair shorn off. Afterward, she got a new tattoo.
Dreamgirls isn’t the only Broadway show to make it to the movie theaters this year. Last week I went to see a screening of ShowBusiness a documentary on the 2003/2004 Broadway season, produced and directed by Dori Berinstein, a three time Tony award winning producer who in the midst of mounting her 11th Broadway show, Legally Blonde (based on the Reese Witherspoon comedy) opening this April. The film, in theaters May 11th follows four shows which opened that season, Avenue Q, Wicked, Caroline or Change and Taboo through their production processes, opening nights, awards nominations and in the case of Taboo, closings.
