Hopper: All’s ‘good right now’ despite cancer
Prostate cancer couldn’t keep Dennis Hopper away from the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday.
The 73-year-old actor and artist attended the Breeders’ Cup on Arcadia, Calif., in support of The V Foundation for Cancer Research, the official charity of the year-ending thoroughbred championships at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.
It was revealed last month that Hopper had been diagnosed with cancer, although he said Saturday he’s been battling it for the past nine years. He’s started a new, experimental treatment at the University of Southern California that he says he hopes will help.
“It has great promise,” Hopper said. “Everything’s good right now.”
Hopper recently canceled his appearance at an exhibition of his artwork and photography at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. He was hospitalized in New York last month and treated for dehydration.
Matthew Broderick focuses on ‘Wonderful World’
Matthew Broderick says he’s puzzled by the bashing he’s received for his actions during the first New York preview of “The Starry Messenger,” a new play by good friend Kenneth Lonergan.
“We had to rush to our first preview and then I guess we got some press just after one show, which I don’t really understand,” the actor says.
Messages posted on various theater Web sites said a prompter in the front row needed to assist Broderick with his lines during the Oct. 26 performance of the three-hour play, produced by off-Broadway’s New Group.
Broderick adds, “It’s going very well now, I think, now that we’ve had a whole week. And it’s going to be really good by the time it opens.”
New Group artistic director Scott Elliott said “The Starry Messenger,” the story of an astronomy teacher’s affair with a younger woman, will open Nov. 23, a week later than originally planned.
For now, Broderick, who has appeared on stage in such hits as “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “The Producers,” has something else on which to focus — a new movie.
At a cocktail reception to promote “Wonderful World” during the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the still boyish-looking actor said the film was an opportunity to work with another friend — screenwriter and first-time director Joshua Godlin.
“I just thought it was a beautifully written script. ... The director is my close friend, so I was very happy get to work with him,” the 47-year-old Broderick says.
In “Wonderful World,” a dark comedy, Broderick portrays a former children’s folk singer and father who has fallen on hard times — until he meets his roommate’s flamboyant sister, played by Tony Award-nominated actress Sanaa Lathan.
A&E: Reality show about Jacksons premieres Dec. 13
A reality show miniseries about the Jackson family will premiere Dec. 13 on A&E, the network says. Back-to-back hour episodes will air that night at 9 p.m.
“The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty” focuses on brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Tito and Marlon as they prepare to reunite for a concert tour. It also chronicles their lives as they cope with Michael’s drug-induced death in June.
There will be six episodes, the network said.
“This deeply intimate portrait will provide viewers with a raw and honest look inside a musical dynasty,” said A&E and Bio Channel vice president Robert Sharenow.
The cable network had originally announced “The Jacksons” as a documentary special in May, before the star’s death. In August, “Entertainment Tonight” aired what A&E said was leaked footage from the special.
— Herald wire services
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