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FIASCO
Oops! On June 27, the firms backing www.whowantstobeamoviestar.com — including Blockbuster Entertainment, MP3.com, Yahoo!, and the William Morris Agency — announced plans to auction off roles in a comedy feature (to be written by Mouse Hunt scribe Adam Rifkin). The problem? California law bars the sale of jobs. The next day, they changed course: Top bidders can award roles to others but not themselves. On its first day, more than 240 bids totaling $35,000 were submitted. Filming is set for fall.

LAWSUITS
Not all Jennifer Lopez's legal woes can be traced to Puff Daddy. On June 2, L.A. talent agency the Gold Company sued the 29-year-old actress-chanteuse for breach of contract, claiming at least $1 million in damages. The suit alleges Lopez broke an agreement made in 1994 (when she was an unknown dancer on In Living Color) to pay commissions to the agency. Lopez's spokesman said he had not seen the complaint.

DEATHS
Suave Italian actor Vittorio Gassman, 77, of a heart attack, June 29, in Rome. Renowned for his work in drama and comedy, he starred in 1958's Big Deal on Madonna Street and won the top acting prize at Cannes in 1975 for playing a blind military officer in Profumo di Donna (Al Pacino won an Oscar reprising the role in the '92 U.S. version, Scent of a Woman). In the '50s, he wed Shelley Winters, the second of his three wives.... British actor David Tomlinson, 83, who played the dad in 1964's Mary Poppins, of undisclosed causes, June 24, in Buckinghamshire, England. He also starred in 1969's The Love Bug.

Originally posted Jul 14, 2000 Published in issue #549 Jul 14, 2000 Order article reprints
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