Duchovny finishes rehab
Published Wednesday October 8th, 2008
Berry named sexiest woman
A lawyer for David Duchovny says the actor has checked out of a rehabilitation facility for treatment of sex addiction. Duchovny, who plays a sex-obsessed character on Showtime's Californication, voluntarily entered the facility in late August.
Says lawyer Stanton Stein: "David has successfully completed his rehabilitation, he is out of rehab and will be starting a movie soon."
Duchovny starred as the conspiracy-minded Fox Mulder on The X-Files TV series and in two films.
The 48-year-old actor and his wife, actress Tea Leoni, have two children. The couple married in 1997.
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In the year of Sex and the City, perhaps it's no surprise that an event honouring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton and Halle Berry joined dozens of other stars in a ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel on Monday for Elle magazine's 15th annual Women in Hollywood tribute, honouring seven noteworthy women in entertainment.
Fonda served as an informal entertainment ambassador before the program, chatting up actress Kat Dennings and introducing Amber Tamblyn to Shirley MacLaine. Meanwhile, the evening's host, Chelsea Handler, shared laughs with Jenny McCarthy and Cheryl Hines. Other guests included Kate Beckinsale, Courteney Cox, Eva Mendes, Angie Harmon and Cheryl Tiegs.
Elle's annual dinner pays tribute to women "who are telling our stories" in Hollywood, said editor Roberta Myers. This year's honorees included Berry, Fonda, Kidman, Anne Hathaway, Sigourney Weaver, Isla Fisher and director Catherine Hardwicke - all of whom are featured in the magazine's November issue.
"Someday hopefully it won't be necessary to allocate a special evening to celebrate where we are and how far we've come," Weaver said. "Someday women writers, producers and crew members will be so commonplace, and roles and salaries for actresses will outstrip those for men, and pigs will fly."
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Alongside a photo spread that shows her in little more than a T-shirt, Halle Berry talks about being the sexiest woman alive, a title Esquire magazine gives her in its November issue.
"I don't know exactly what it means, but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I'll take it," says Berry, who gave birth to her daughter, Nahla, in March.
"Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being," she says. "It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments."
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R. Kelly has won a $3.4 million (U.S.) award against his former tour promoter and is asking a Los Angeles judge to help him collect.
R. Kelly Touring, which represents the singer, filed court documents on Monday seeking a judge's confirmation of the award granted against Georgia-based Rowe Entertainment last month.
Kelly's company claimed that Rowe Entertainment and owner Leonard Rowe failed to pay him in full for shows scheduled for late last year and early 2008. An arbitrator agreed with Kelly's claims. Documents show Rowe disputed the arbitration, but did not offer an defence during a recent hearing.
An after-hours phone message left for Rowe's lawyer in Atlanta was not returned Monday.
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Matthew Broderick will return to Broadway next spring in a revival of The Philanthropist, a comedy by English playwright Christopher Hampton.
The Roundabout Theatre Company production, directed by David Grindley, will open April 26, 2009, at the American Airlines Theatre, Todd Haimes, the Roundabout's artistic director, announced Monday. It will begin preview performances April 10.
Broderick, in his first Broadway appearance since the 2005 revival of The Odd Couple, portrays Philip, an insular college professor. Other casting will be announced.
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