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By Marc Peyser
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Quick, Get Me Rumor Control!
New Jersey and San Francisco weren't the only places where it was uncertain last week what was up with marriage, whether solemnized or impending. In Hollywood--you knew that was where this was going, right?--Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz were fighting off rumors that he'd popped the question with her parents' blessing and a Tiffany ring. This followed reports two weeks ago that the relationship was on the skids; it was alleged Justin was cheatin' with a British model, occasioning his libel suit against London's News of the World. And although he and Diaz deny that they're engaged, they do say they're happily in love. That was a load off our minds.
Meanwhile, Kate Hudson is denying rumors in yet another British tabloid--can't these Brits pick on their own celebrities?--that her marriage to Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson is in trouble. Kate says she and Chris are still a coalition of the willing. So, a week full of happy news, in L.A at least. At this rate, we won't even need the Defense of Marriage Act.
--Devon Thomas
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Maybe the Devil Made Them Do It?
"Exorcist: The Beginning" must have a curse hanging over it. Making this Prequel to the 1973 classic has proved to be a Horror story That William Peter Blatty himself couldn't have topped.
Dead End
Director John Frankenheimer was hired, then died.
Scare Tactic
Paul Schrader hired. His footage deemed "not scary."
Unkindest Cut
Schrader's film shelved. Renny Harlin redirects entire film.
Double Trouble
Warner Bros. hopes to release both versions on DVD.
Final Justice
"Exorcist" author Blatty sees Schrader's version. Loves it.
Jenna Bares All!
Jenna Jameson is famous for going where no porn star has gone before: to an Oxford Union debate, for instance, and on "The O'Reilly Factor." Now, like Saint Augustine and Bill Clinton--though not in their spirit of repentance--Jameson has written her autobiography, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star." As you'd expect, it's chock full of oh-my-God tidbits, from revelations about Marilyn Manson's anatomy to stories of crude come-ons from Bruce Willis and Wesley Snipes. But the real shockeroo is the guy Jenna still regrets letting get away: Howard Stern. "To this day, I still wonder what would have happened if we'd had the guts to tear each other's clothes off," she writes. We don't. Nor would we have wanted to see the video.
--Marc Peyser
Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw is a little bit country, a little bit ... of everything, actually: author, actor, sex symbol and father to Faith Hill's three girls. He still hasn't quit his day job. He's currently singing and touring on his latest album, "Live Like You Were Dying." The country crooner spoke to NEWSWEEK's Vanessa Juarez.
You're like J. Lo in a lot of ways. You're a multiple threat: pop star, actor--
I don't have J. Lo's butt, though.
Songs like "Live Like You Were Dying" and "Kill Myself" make this album seem a downer.
I think the album is the opposite of that when you listen to it all of the way through. It's not a downer at all. All of those songs are kind of uplifting in a way.
Your father, the former Mets pitcher Tug McGraw, died this year. Did that influence the record?
I would have probably recorded these songs no matter what. If you try to let your life rule your music too much, then you start singing at people. I didn't set out for there to be a theme--I just always try to pick the best songs that I can find and put them together. And then everything that you've done in your life kind of comes in subliminally and colors the edges of the music.
You've written books on your band and on fatherhood. Why not songs? Well, I've always written them, but I just don't ever like anything I write.
I hear that women flash you at shows? Is it your sex appeal or music? That's just the environment. I think that happens at every concert. Some shouldn't be doing that, though.
Why's that?
[Laughs] They just shouldn't be.
Looking back on the early '90s, when you were trying to make it, is being a huge star all you thought it was cracked up to be?
I like it better than any job I've ever had. It beats roofing for a living, that's for sure.
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