Ceckj & other: June 2008

Sunday 22 June 2008

"Gossip Girl" star makes date for Halloween film

By Gregg Goldstein

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Haunting of Molly
Hartley," a suspense thriller starring "Gossip Girl" hunk Chace
Crawford, will open in U.S. theaters at Halloween.

Haley Bennett ("Music & Lyrics") stars in the title role, a
new kid in town who discovers that her troubled past just might
be a prelude to an even more disturbing future. Crawford plays
a student who shows her the ropes at her new private school.

Jake Weber ("Medium"), AnnaLynne McCord (the CW's upcoming
"90210") and Shannon Marie Woodward ("The Riches") also star.

Mickey Liddell, a producer on "Everwood," directed the
film, which will be released on about 2,000 screens by
Freestyle Releasing.

Also opening at Halloween will be "Saw V," the latest entry
in the lucrative horror franchise.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Sunday 15 June 2008

Cook Won Idol Because He Was Scared Of Dying!

David Cook says that he won American Idol because he was scared of dying!

According to the 2008 champ, he developed the laid-back stage persona that won the audience over, not because he's a natural rock star, but because he didn't want to "have a coronary".

David suffers genetically from high blood-pressure and he was even rushed to hospital after one show because he had been so nervous about forgetting his lyrics that it went through the roof.

The 25-year-old told Rolling Stone magazine that, over the years, he has learned to deal with the problem by staying in control of his emotions and not letting himself get flustered.

He told that magazine that he has learned "to take the yin with the yang. If not, I'll die!"

"I was never in it to win it," he said, "and that took some pressure off me."

"If I'd gotten caught up in all that, I would've had a coronary."

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