MOVIES Darth Vader is Bob Dylan! Well, kind of. In the Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl, now shooting in Louisiana, ex-Dark Side dweller Hayden Christensen plays ''a character originally scripted as 'Bob Dylan.' They changed it to 'Danny Quinn' to make it more ambiguous,'' the actor explains. Seems director George Hickenlooper (The Man From Elysian Fields) and screenwriter Captain Mauzner (Wonderland) deemed rumors of Dylan's affair with Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) too iffy. Since ''all the other characters are portrayed as they were — Guy Pearce is playing Andy Warhol,'' Christensen lobbied to restore the icon's name, to no avail: Danny Quinn will be a composite of such '60s rockers as Dylan and Mick Jagger. But Christensen knows which musical legend he'll channel on screen. ''I'm gonna play Bob Dylan,'' he says firmly. ''And I'm so excited — I'm a big fan.''
MOVIES Woody Allen is on a Euro-kick! Following Match Point and the recently wrapped Scoop, both shot in the U.K., the formerly Manhattan-centric director is set to shoot a third movie in Britain this year before lensing a yet-to-be-scripted English-language flick in Spain in 2007. Wait, how do you say neurotic in Spanish again?
TELEVISION Ryan Seacrest has pacted with E! Entertainment Television to host programs like Live From the Red Carpet (beginning with this month's Golden Globes) and produce celeb interview specials for the net — all while emceeing American Idol this season! Maybe he'll hire Brian Dunkleman as his personal bee-yotch.
MOVIES Now that he's done with Bond, Pierce Brosnan is free to be bad, bad, bad! In Butterfly on a Wheel, a psychological thriller set in Chicago costarring Maria Bello, Brosnan plays ''a psychopath'' who kidnaps ''a couple from an upscale neighborhood,'' according to the actor's producing partner Beau St. Clair. ''Their whole lives [are] dismantled over the course of a day.'' And the follow-up to 1999's The Thomas Crown Affair? ''We're noodling it along,'' Brosnan says. ''It's a ways off.''
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