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As more and more women flock to Gerard Butler off-camera, two more have signed on to play his lady friends on screen.
The LA Times says his upcoming flick “Playing the Field” has just confirmed the addition of two more high-profile stars to play his love interests (yes, more than one!) – Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer.
The plot of the movie apparently goes something like this: Butler is a successful, playboy European soccer player moving back to the USA to try and mend things with his estranged American wife (Jessica Biel) by coaching his son’s little league team. His plan starts to fall apart when the local gals- Uma Thurman as the wife of neighbour Dennis Quaid, Zeta-Jones as a newsreader and Greer as a house-wife- start to throw themselves at him. I can’t really say I’m surprised.
The pun-tastic “Playing the Field” began filming this week under the direction of Italian Gabriele Muccino, and is eyeing a 2012 release.
She’s won an Oscar, a Bafta, a CBE and a Tony award plus popular praise for staunchly supporting her husband through his recent cancer ordeal.
Now Catherine Zeta-Jones is being honoured in New York for promoting Wales around the world.
The St David’s Society of the State of New York is making the 41-year-old star the guest of honour at its 176th annual dinner dance at the plush Yale Club in Manhattan.
She will be given the New York Welsh society’s highest prize, the William R Hopkins medal, at the glitzy evening on March 4.
And at her side will be her Oscar-winning husband Michael Douglas, 66, now recovering after months of chemo and radiotherapy for stage four throat cancer, which doctors have told him has now gone.
Previous recipients of the William R Hopkins medal have included singer Iris Williams and composer Karl Jenkins.
On the guest list will be Professor Peter Stead, the social historian and broadcaster who founded the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the richest literary prizes in the world.
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a patron and international ambassador of the £30,000 prize which was won in 2010 by US writer Elyse Fenton.
Professor Stead said yesterday: “I am absolutely thrilled Catherine is being given this honour by the St David’s Society of the State of New York.
“She has done such a lot to promote Wales and the Welsh around the world through her work.
“But she is also an active supporter of charities and other causes including the arts and her role as a backer of the Dylan Thomas Prize has been a pivotal one. She thoroughly deserves to be honoured by New Yorkers who are either Welsh or have Welsh backgrounds.
“I’m told by the organisers Michael Douglas will be with her and I’m sure everyone will be pleased to see him.
“It promises to be a great night of celebrating Welshness in the heart of one of the most influential cities in the world.”
The Yale Club of New York City, where the annual banquet will take place, commonly called the Yale Club, is a private club in Midtown Manhattan.
Its membership is restricted almost entirely to alumni and faculty members of Ivy League universities such as Yale, which was named after one of its early benefactors, the Welsh merchant Elihu Yale.
The St David’s Society of the State of New York, one of the oldest ex-pat Welsh societies in the world, holds its banquet there annually to celebrate the connection.
With a clubhouse comprising 22 storeys and a worldwide membership of over 11,000, it is the largest private clubhouse in the world.
The chair of the St David’s Society of New York is David Morgan, a Swansea-born banker now living and working in New York.
Just days ago, new photographs appeared to confirm Michael Douglas has put his health problems well behind him.
He was pictured looking fit and healthy with his Welsh wife and their seven-year-old daughter Carys in the stands at Madison Square Garden, watching the Pittsburgh Penguins take on the home side New York Rangers.
And they looked like they were having a great time together as they watched Rangers beat the Penguins 5-3.
Zeta-Jones and Douglas and their two children have now moved to New York after previously living in Bermuda, where Douglas has a hotel.
Zeta-Jones has been described as “a rock” after being by her husband’s side following his diagnosis with cancer last year and in turn he has praised her dedication to him, describing her as the “love of his life”.
CATHERINE Zeta-Jones has praised husband Michael Douglas’ healthy appearance as the actor continues his recovery from throat cancer.
The Swansea-born actress and her Hollywood star husband yesterday made a front row appearance at New York Fashion Week and the couple will next week visit Buckingham Palace where Zeta-Jones will finally collect her CBE.
Douglas, who is recovering from gruelling treatment in his battle against throat cancer, looked tanned and healthy yesterday in a grey cashmere jumper and sunglasses as he watched the autumn/winter show by American designer Michael Kors.
Zeta-Jones, who was dressed in black leather, gave the Wall Street star a hug, before telling reporters: “Doesn’t he look great?”
In January, Douglas declared that he had been given the all-clear by doctors after gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.
During the eight-week treatment cycle at a New York Hospital, Douglas had lost 40 pounds, which he has started to gain back. He will now have regular examinations by specialists to check the cancer has not returned.
The couple’s appearance at the fashion show comes just a week before Zeta-Jones’ date at Buckingham Palace.
The Tony award-winning actress received the award in the Queen’s Birthday honours list last June for services to the film industry and charity.
She has long been a patron of Swansea’s Longfields Day Centre, which caters for young adults with cerebral palsy and related disabilities, but after Douglas was diagnosed with stage four throat cancer last summer, she has been unable to collect her award.
At the time of the announcement last summer, she said: “I am absolutely thrilled with this honour. As a British subject, I feel incredibly proud, at the same time it is overwhelming and humbling.”
The glamour couple, along with family members, will now make the trip to London where she will be formally presented with her CBE on February 24.
Update! Insiders tell Vulture exclusively that now that Bruce Willis is committing to star as a professional gambler-in-shambles named Dink, the rest of the cast for Stephen Frears’s sports-gambling movie Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog (adapted from Beth Raymer’s memoir) is falling quickly into place at Focus Features: We now hear the odds are good that Justin Timberlake will play the part of Rosie, a Long Island bookmaker who runs a massive off-shore sports book under which Raymer (to be played by Rebecca Hall) apprenticed. We also hear the smart money is on Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones signing on to play Tulip, Willis’s wife. Just in the nick of time: Shooting on the picture — described by Variety as equal parts The Grifters and High Fidelity — is scheduled to start in April.
NEW YORK (CBS) Catherine Zeta-Jones says she’s angry that doctor’s didn’t discover husband Michael Douglas’ cancer diagnosis sooner.Douglas is currently undergoing radiation and chemotherapy to treat a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue.
The actor said he spent months seeking attention for persistent ear and throat pain, but that no cause was found until he received the cancer diagnosis in early August.
“It makes me furious they didn’t detect it earlier,” Zeta-Jones told People magazine in an interview published in Friday’s issue. “He sought every option and nothing was found.”
Douglas and Zeta-Jones have been married for 10 years and have two children together, Dylan, 10, and Carys, 7.
The actor announced his diagnosis on August 16.
Zeta-Jones told the magazine that she struggles with watching her husband become fatigued due to the radiation and chemotherapy, which Douglas said “really knocks you out.”
“I know maybe I should be stronger, but emotionally I just don’t want to see that,” she said, later adding, “The hardest part is seeing his fatigue, because Michael is never tired.”
In his first appearance following the announcement of his diagnosis, Douglas told “Late Show” host David Letterman on Tuesday that while his disease was late “stage four,” the cancer remains above the neck and that means expectations are good, with an 80 percent or better chance of recovery.
Congratulations to our beautiful Catherine for her first Tony Award Nomination!
| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical | |||
| Kate Baldwin | Finian’s Rainbow | ||
| Sherie Rene Scott | Everyday Rapture | ||
| Montego Glover | Memphis | ||
| Christiane Noll | Ragtime | ||
| Catherine Zeta-Jones | A Little Night Music | ||
As a federal judge weighs whether to send Cameron Douglas to prison for possibly 10 years or more, his stepmother Catherine Zeta-Jones hopes the judge will consider the 31-year-old’s “positive attributes” along with the drug charges against him.
“As a mother to Cameron’s half brother and sister, Dylan and Carys, I have seen Cameron be an exceptional brother to both,” the Oscar-winning actress, 40, wrote to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in one of more than two dozen letters from family members and friends in support of Cameron.
“Never, in my experience over the years, has Cameron shown any signs of the disease, that has tormented him, toward his siblings, or has [he] ever been abusive to us as a family at any time,” she wrote.
Catherine has donated a pair of VIP Tickets to A Little Night Music along with an additional Meet & Greet with her backstage! This will be benefiting Rosie O’Donnell’s Rosie’s Broadway Kids. The auction is running through December 3rd here. The current bid is $1,500.00.
SOURCE: Sean from CharityBuzz
On this morning’s episode of LIVE! with Regis and Kelly, star Michael Douglas confirmed the many recent reports and rumors that his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, will indeed star in the upcoming fall revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
The New York Post’s Michael Riedel reported recently in his ‘On Broadway’ column in the The New York Post that the upcoming revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC has found its leading ladies. Riedel reveals that Catherine Zeta-Jones and recent Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury have agreed to appear in the production.
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Riedel’s article noted that Lansbury was keen to play Madame Armfeldt, provided the producers lined up another star to play her daughter, Desiree. The producers, after an anxious search, struck Hollywood gold with their catch for the role, Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones. Zeta-Jones won an Oscar as Velma Kelly in the film “Chicago” and got her start on the West End musical stage.
Riedel states in his column that Stephen Sondheim himself called Zeta-Jones and persuaded her to do “NIGHT MUSIC.” It will open at the Walter Kerr in December 2009.
Read that full story in The New York Post by clicking here
In April, it was announced that a revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is headed for Broadway. The production will be directed by Tony Award-winner Trevor Nunn, and will utilize the creative team behind the recent London production, which opened at the Menier Chocolate Factory before transferring to the Garrick Theatre on December 3, 2008.
The production will be produced by David Babani for Chocolate Factory Productions; Andrew Fell; and the Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh Group. In addition to Director Nunn, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will include Musical Supervision by Carolyn Humphris, Musical Direction by Tom Murray, Choreography by Lynne Page, General Management by Frankel/Green Theatrical Management and Casting by Tara Rubin Casting.
This will be the first Broadway Revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. The show made its premiere on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on Feb. 25, 1973. The cast featured Len Cariou as Fredrik, Hermione Gingold as Madame Armfeldt, and Glynis Johns as Desiree. The score to the popular Sondheim musical includes the often-recorded “Send in the Clowns” and “Every Day a Little Death.”
T-Mobile is bringing back its former spokeswoman Catherine Zeta-Jones for a new, price-focused advertising campaign that starts during Wednesday night’s “American Idol” finale.
The commercial kicks off with T-Mobile telling viewers that eight out of 10 Americans unknowingly pay too much for cellphone service. A team of economists is dispatched to homes to help consumers out, and they get the typical response that door-to-door salesmen receive.
Cue Ms. Zeta-Jones, who starred in T-Mobile’s “Get More” advertising three years ago. She asks the man who comes to the door: “Have a moment for a mobile makeover?”
“I believe I do,” he answers.
The ad, done by T-Mobile’s agency Publicis in the West, then invites viewers to visit BillShrink.com, a site that offers comparisons of different cellphone plans, for a second opinion.