Perez Hilton Upset By Roseanne Shooting Remark, But Ready for MTV
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
Aug 30, 2007
"Two and a Half Men" creator/exec producer Chuck Lorre is juggling his CBS sitcom with the launch of his new series, "The Big Bang Theory," but he says no way is he leaving his established hit to anyone else. "I just think I'm not willing to step away from this show that's been so good to me and the people who have been so good to me," says Lorre, whose Charlie Sheen-Jon Cryer series garnered Emmy nominations for Best Comedy, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and two Best Supporting Actress nods.
Perez Hilton Upset By Roseanne Shooting Remark, But Ready for MTV
"So I'm trying to figure it out as I go along. I don't really have a plan." It helped, he says, to get shooting of the new season of "Two and a Half Men" underway first before production began on "Big Bang Theory." He adds, "I made a command decision to push the nervous breakdown into September."
As far as "Two and a Half Men," Lorre says big plans are afoot for the 100th episode they'll be shooting next week. "It involves the return of Melanie Lynskey, who played Charlie's stalker," he says. "We lost her to a Fox show last season, so we wrote her out of the series. That show didn't survive, and we're happy to have her back. When her character left the show last year, she left for London. But Charlie comes to realize there's a great vacuum in his life she used to fill, so he goes to London to seek her out." Lorre says, "I want this season to be the best ever," and not because of the multi-Emmy noms last season produced. "I don't take that into account," he says. "We work really hard, and there's a great deal of gratitude that we find an audience, so we feel responsible to deliver every week something that is worth their time. Emmy nominations are terrific acknowledgment, but you still have to step up -- and the way we step up is to try to make people laugh."
AND IN THIS CORNER: Controversial blogger Perez Hilton is quick to take cheap shots at certain celebrities, but when one celebrity recently fired back, he admits he didn't like what he saw. "Most recently I had Roseanne Barr -- you know, the washed-up, has-been comic -- she was writing these disturbing rants on her MySpace page saying how she wished she could shoot me," says the celeb-outing, pantyless photo-posting, lawsuit-garnering 29-year-old gossipmonger born Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.
"I can take a lot. You can call me fat, ugly, stupid, a bad writer, but don't wish physical harm on me. Don't say you want to shoot me. That's bordering on insane." Being hated by those he writes about is certainly one of the downsides that come with being Perez, but he doesn't seem to be lacking in celebrity friends -- something he claims not to care about. "I don't want to be friends with celebrities, yet I am, and it happens, but it's not something I set out to do," says Perez, who at any given day can be seen mugging it up with various entertainers. Of course, they may just want to stay on his good side.
Starting today (8/30), folks will get the chance to see a more lighthearted Perez when he participates in MTV's "Celebrity Rap Superstar" in which various celebrities will be mentored by the likes of rappers Tone Loc or Warren G. They'll then compete in front of a live studio audience each week. "I thought it'd be fun and kind of insane to have me try to rap. I can barely even sing," says Perez, who has a reality show of his own coming on VH1 in September. "Maybe I'll adopt a new gangster nickname like P-Nasty." Hmm? Sounds like another Eminem in the making. "Hahaha! I'm better than Eminem. He can just deal with it." Now that's the Perez we know!
HIS MAIN FOCUS: Taye Diggs says he didn't even consider asking the "Private Practice" producers to make concessions for him to continue to do films as he pleases. "With a show like this you gotta put all your eggs in that basket and see what happens," says Diggs, who plays a hotshot doctor/media star on the "Grey's Anatomy" spin-off with Kate Walsh and Tim Daly. "If I'm fortunate to get a film during a hiatus, we'll do that. Take it as it comes, as they say."
NICE WAY TO LIVE: Country songstress Martina McBride tells us she got the title for her "Waking Up Laughing" album from her own experience. "Actually, I have done that. I'm dreaming and laughing in my dream, and wake myself up." McBride, who's been busy with multiple TV commitments, concert trekking and her three young daughters this summer, says, "We are going to have some down time, but it is fun on the road. It's like a big family for my daughters out there, like they have two homes. And there are things to do with (children) in each town."
(With reports by Stephanie DuBois and Emily Feimster)
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