Small Talk
Newcastle Herald
Wednesday February 13, 2008
THE Queensland-made Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey romantic thriller Fool's Gold has struck-box office gold in North America. The film, shot largely on the Great Barrier Reef, earned $US21.6 million ($23.9 million) to claim the number one spot in US and Canadian theatres on the weekend. Fool's Gold was also a winner in Australian cinemas despite some very poor reviews, taking the top spot with almost $2 million. The film is about a divorced couple searching for Caribbean treasure.
ROCK star Lenny Kravitz has been admitted to a Miami hospital suffering from severe bronchitis. The 43-year-old musician had been suffering from a series of severe respiratory tract infections in tandem with the flu since mid-January, and the illness has evolved into bronchitis. "Due to extreme dehydration and fatigue, doctors were unable to control it with outpatient treatment and advised the singer to check into the hospital," the spokeswoman said in a statement. "He was taken this morning to the emergency room at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami for immediate treatment." His illness forced him to postpone a trip to Europe to promote his album It Is Time For a Love Revolution, which was released last week. ACTOR Sienna Miller has told a court of her terror as paparazzi photographers chased her car across London after a night out at a club. Giving evidence for 30 minutes, Miller said photographers darted in and out of traffic and almost blinded her driver by taking flash pictures. She was in the witness box as the key defence witness in a case involving her ex-boyfriend's brother, Otis Ferry, who is accused of criminal damage. Ferry, the son of Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry, was with his brother, Isaac Miller's then boyfriend and the actress, as they left Boujis nightclub in west London, last February. Ferry, 25, is accused of "taking the law into his own hands" by forcibly removing the keys from two photographers' cars. US actor Kyle MacLachlan and his wife, Desiree Gruber, are expecting their first child. MacLachlan, 48, starred in Twin Peaks, David Lynch's short-lived ode to bizarre doings in the north-west US. His TV credits also include Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives.
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