REEL DEALS Add ''The Time Machine'' to the list of movies pushed back to the future in the wake of last week's disaster. Actually, the Warner Bros.-DreamWorks coproduction had already been delayed from a Christmas release to February in a decision made before the attacks, but now, its ending, which shows pieces of the moon falling on New York City, will have to be redone....
Kate Hudson has dropped out of the adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's bestseller ''The Girl With the Pearl Earring,'' and the movie's funding has followed her. Production is expected to be delayed a month, until November, as the production seeks new financing and a new leading lady to star opposite Ralph Fiennes, who will play 17th-century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer....
Julie Andrews, Mira Sorvino, Barbara Hershey, and Anthony LaPaglia have all canceled plans to promote their movies at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, citing the terrorist tragedy. A publicist for Andrews, who was to have received a lifetime achievement award, said in a statement, ''In these terrible moments of loss, sadness, and emotion for so many people, Miss Andrews firmly thinks that, while the entire world is mourning, it would be a gesture of insensitivity on her part to attend the festive act.''
LEGAL BRIEF Yasmine Bleeth may face drug and alcohol charges after she lost control of her car in a minor car accident near Detroit on Wednesday night, E! reports. On her way to the Detroit airport, the former ''Baywatch'' and ''Nash Bridges'' star ran her car onto a highway median. Neither she nor her unidentified male passenger were hurt. (Bleeth has reportedly been dating a Detroit nightclub owner) The police who responded said she failed a sobriety test and had in her purse four syringes containing what they believed to by liquid cocaine and a plastic bag with cocaine residue. Bleeth was held overnight in the Romulus, Michigan, jail. She may have to return to Michigan in a few weeks when the blood test results come back from the lab. She could be charged with misdemeanor DUI and felony drug posession and face a one- to seven-year prison sentence. Bleeth, 33, spent time in rehab last year for an undisclosed addiction.
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