Gallo laughs off underage love Click to enlarge photo Actor/director Vincent Gallo has laughed off reports he’s dating an underage girl insisting it’s his "humanitarian duty" to befriend the sexy teen. The Brown Bunny star, 45, has been romantically linked to Los Angeles socialite Cory Kennedy, with the 16-year-old boasting of their close relationship on her internet blog. In it she hails Gallo as a "keeper" and posts photos of the pair together. However, the actor insists their relationship isn’t sexual and jokes he’s merely following new mum Madonna’s example by looking after the teen. He tells PageSix.com, "With the psychotic, middle-aged Madonna out there on the loose buying up all the stolen Negro babies in Africa, I felt it my social and humanitarian duty to take in any young, beautiful and sexy orphaned Jew teens running wild in Beverly Hills. "Cory’s a great kid, and I’m proud to be her daddy."
Molly Shannon, so beloved from "Saturday Night Live," really wanted a part in Sofia Coppola’s "Marie Antoinette." The problem was that the movie was due to commence shooting at exactly the same time Shannon was supposed to give birth to her second child in March 2005. What to do? Shannon, appearing at the Hamptons International Film Festival last weekend, explained her dilemma to one of our spies. Apparently she asked her doctor to induce labor, thereby having her son, Nolan, two weeks early. She made the start of "Marie Antoinette," and is now on screen playing the teen queen’s auntie. It doesn’t sound that great for Nolan, but the baby did get a part out of it himself. He appears with Molly in a new feature called "Shut Up and Sing," which unfortunately shares a title with the Dixie Chicks documentary that opens this Friday. Shannon has three more films coming in 2007, including a role in "Evan Almighty," now thought to be the most expensive comedy ever made. Luckily, none of them required a surgical procedure.
It is nice to know what her priorities are…acting is more important than the life of her baby. Yes a baby has a good chance of being ok being born two weeks early, but why the f()ck risk it, for a role? So sad.
WARNER Bros. stands accused of making empty promises to provide prosthetic limbs to orphaned African amputees and then reneging so that the studio’s movie "Blood Diamond" could get extra publicity. During filming of the flick, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou, producers shipped in 27 teenage and child amputees – victims of tribal warfare – from surrounding hospitals to appear as extras. In addition to paying the children day rates for their work, the producers – touched by the kids’ tragic circumstances – promised to fit all of them with prosthetic limbs after shooting wrapped in June. But they’re still waiting. Young Nkululo Mnisi – whose arms and legs were cut off by machete-wielding rebels – used to be taunted by cruel classmates as "baboon" because of the way he ran on his stumps and crutches. Mnisi told a South African newspaper that the dream that kept him going was the promise of getting artificial limbs so he’d be able to play soccer like a normal child. But months after filming ended, Mnisi and his fellow amputees were still waiting. When they asked Warner Bros. about the promised prosthetics, they were allegedly told, "You will have to wait for December, when the movie comes out, so we can get some publicity out of it." A local African charity, Eastern Cape, came to the rescue when it heard of the amputees’ cruelly dashed hopes, and outfitted them with limbs paid for by the organization. Eastern Cape has said that if Warner Bros. does finally come through with the money, it will go to 27 other deserving amputees. A rep for Warner Bros. told Page Six, "We’re working on it." Meanwhile, The L.A. Times got it wrong when it reported that the DeBeers diamond cartel had demanded a disclaimer in the picture about so-called "conflict diamonds," which fund various African warlords. A rep for DeBeers said, "No one at DeBeers asked the filmmakers for a disclaimer or any other change in ‘Blood Diamond.
John Lennon’s killer told a parole board that he was immediately filled with remorse after shooting the Beatle – and begged God to turn back time, transcripts revealed yesterday. Mark David Chapman, who was denied parole this month, said he had "regrets right away." "I would like to say I felt horrible," Chapman, 51, said during the 16-minute hearing on Oct. 10 – a day after what would have been Lennon’s 66th birthday. "I was asking God to change back time and try to find some way out of it." Chapman, who is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence, shot Lennon four times outside The Dakota on W. 72nd St. on Dec. 8, 1980. "I believe that if I really wanted to, I could have changed my mind," Chapman said. "I had ample opportunity to do it and I didn’t do it and I regret that deeply." The loner said he carried out the killing in a twisted bid for attention. "The result would be that I would be famous," he said. "I was looking for reasons to vent all that anger and confusion and low self-esteem."
