Friday, July 17, 2009

'It's forever fine to be working' : Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver acting 1970s housewives who struggle to accept her gay son in desire for Bobby. Her Emmy proposal today, she says, "means so much to all of us personally. All of us were over the moon. It's a movie that the producers were trying to get on for 13 years. We shot this movie in 21 days," she told USA TODAY's Donna Freydkin.

Right now, Weaver is in Santa Fe, shooting Greg Mottola's comedy Paul. "It's the contrast of Prayers for Bobby," she says.

Her qualms she'll do much celebrating tonight. "I'm working. My husband is in New York. He runs the Flea Theater in New York. They're busy raising money," she says. "I hope to catch up with him. I'll be celebrating by being on the set and working. It's forever fine to be working."

Toni Collette never thinking she'd be doing TV

Toni Collette is chosen for singing a woman with multiple personalities in Showtime's The United States of Tara. I presently got here a pair of days ago. Now I'm certainly alert. I never thinking I'd be working in TV let alone being selected for awards," she told USA Today’s Donna Freydkin. "I fully love this show. I'm so pleased."

As far as this, she's spent her day with her daughter Sage, born in January.

"We're just getting over jet lag. Since hearing about the nomination, we've eaten scrambled eggs and I've read a Curious George book to my daughter about seven times. It's a pretty ordinary day," says the first-time mom.

Ivanka Trump Gotta Coupled

Ivanka Trump's engaged! And her daddy Donald supported.

Ivanka, 27, post the news on Twitter today, say she got engaged to her longtime friend beau Jared Kushner, 27, publisher of the New York Observer, last night -- "really the happiest day of my life!!!" she wrote. A rep for the couple confirms the news to Usmagazine.com.

"I'm very happy about it," Donald Trump told Us. Ivanka and Jared have been dating since 2007. They briefly split, but reconciled in July 2008.

Meghan McCain: Joe must join to test

What you think about Meghan McCain , you have to welcome that she's not afraid to say what's on her mind. The newest example: her Out magazine interview in which she talks about gay marriage. But what's making news is her belief of Samuel Werzelbacher, or Joe the Plumber, who recently complained about "queers," telling Christianity Today, "I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children." To which Meghan says, “Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He must stick to testing .

Simon Baker gets early on birthday present

Simon Baker - Actor who didn't believe he
had a chance for an Emmy proposal, The Mentalist's Simon Baker woke up
early this morning before going to the set of his hit CBS drama. When
Baker noticed that he had no calls, he fell back to sleep, reports USA TODAY's
Gary Strauss. "The odds were beside me. It's a practical show, I thinking the type
was overloaded with brilliant people'' he says. When Baker woke up an hour
later, he noticed a bunch of messages and a "s-load of texts."
Baker's birthday is July 30. "I'm 40 in two weeks, I've been doing this
for nearly 20 years,'' he says.”My kids believe I'm old and over the hill.
But this is a nice-looking good birthday present."