Nothing against Cary Elwes (who I’m sure is a fine and diligent writer), but if anyone is going to write a memoir about the wacky hijinks on the set of The Princess Bride, it seems like it should be Wallace Shawn.
Elwes said he was inspired to write a Princess Bride memoir after a cast reunion at the 2012 New York Film Festival, where the movie celebrated its 25th anniversary. After some brainstorming and a creeping realization that nothing in his career would ever match the magic of The Princess Bride, Elwes scored a book deal with Simon & Schuster. As You Wish: Tales from the Princess Bride will be released in the fall of 2014, and will include interviews with castmembers, a forward by director Rob Reiner, and a little insert explaining that, if you were excited to purchase your copy, you’re old and contemporary pop culture no longer considers you part of its target demographic. [THR]
- Oh no, y’all! A burglar broke into SOMEONE’s house in Studio City, and though the LAPD won’t identify who that SOMEONE is, they named the address of a residence that reportedly belongs to SOMEONE named Miley Cyrus. [CNN]
- Paris Hilton is taking legal action to shut down the Slovenian site ParisHiltonPornVideos.com for all the obvious reasons one would want to shut down a porn site that had one’s name attached to it. Myriad lessons about regret and sex tape-making abound. [TMZ]
- According to six of his former employees, Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, the “biggest star on Spanish radio,” regularly forced them to watch him pee in empty bottles and move his bowels. Sotelo also allegedly engaged in lots of demonstrative penis gesturing, and bit people. [TMZ]
- Kate “The Shears” Middleton has reportedly fired her royal hairdresser for making her locks too shiny. [Telegraph]
- Three of Willie Nelson‘s band members were injured when his tour bus crashed in East Texas. Nelson has suspended performances in December so he can focus all of his music’s healing powers on helping his injured bandmates recover. [HuffPo]
- Rob Ford became the first mayor in Toronto’s long and illustrious history as that city America fucked with unnecessarily during the War of 1812 to be featured in a New Yorker cartoon. [Boing Boing]
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley maniacally laughs off news that her husband Brad is cheating on her with Carrie Underwood, then draws a hot bath and contemplates her life in the glass cloche of celebrity gossip. [E!]
- The remaining Beastie Boys are in a legal imbroglio with a toy company called Goldieblox about whether the company’s recent use of the song “Girls” constitutes fair use, or whether Goldieblox just ripped it off from the Beastie Boys without asking. [THR]
- Britney Spears is selling merchandise urging all the bitches to work, which, in this economy, seems pretty cruel. [Buzzfeed]
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