Entertainment Briefs for March 25, 2010
Love Hewitt shoots Cupid; Glover tries to save Hugo Boss jobs; Wright, Schiff set for Broadway
Love Hewitt shoots Cupid
NEW YORK - Jennifer Love Hewitt had more than a breakup on her hands when she recently split from her "Ghost Whisperer" co-star, Jamie Kennedy. She was about to embark on a tour promoting her new book about relationships.
"It wasn't ideal timing," the 31-year-old actress admits, laughing. "Here's my relationship book and I'm single."
Still, she has gone ahead with the publicity tour for "The Day I Shot Cupid: My Name is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-Aholic." And she's embracing one of its lessons: Allow yourself 72 hours to wallow after a breakup. Then move forward.
"Put your big girl pants on and move on," Hewitt tells The Associated Press. "Seventy-two hours is an appropriate time. After that you start to smell and your friends don't want to talk to you. ... It doesn't mean it fixes your feelings or takes away the sadness. You should just start to go, 'I'm OK.'"
The book also includes these tips: Accept that men will always check out other women. Guys hate to spoon. And one shouldn't be overzealous with a new significant other.
There's even a section written by Kennedy himself, who assures women that most guys like their girls curvy, not stick-thin.
Hewitt includes personal anecdotes, such as when she made his-and-her toiletry kits for a guy she was dating. She thought it was cute; he found it scary.
The book also sets the record straight on parts of Hewitt's relationship history, which has been played out in the press.
"My dating life has been written about really since I was 15 ... so this book is my way of saying, 'No, this is who I am and this is what I've really thought about that, and these are the things that I've done that maybe you didn't read about."
Despite her recent difficulties, Hewitt says there wouldn't be, say, Shakespeare without love-aholics like herself.
"Dreaming about romance is not any different than having a vision board, which is the big thing out there that you're supposed to do ... to put it out there in the universe."
The book is published by Hyperion, a division of ABC.
Glover tries to save Hugo Boss jobs
BROOKLYN, Ohio - Actor and activist Danny Glover has offered hugs and moral support to Cleveland-area workers at a men's suit plant that faces a shutdown next month with the loss of 375 jobs.
Workers at the Hugo Boss plant in Brooklyn, Ohio, cheered as the star of the "Lethal Weapon" action movies toured the operation Tuesday.
Glover later held a news conference and appealed to Germany's Hugo Boss AG to reverse its shutdown decision. Glover led a boycott of Hugo Boss formal wear at the Academy Awards earlier this month.
The company says its shutdown decision stands. The company says the union representing workers rejected concessions at the plant, which it says isn't globally competitive.
Wright, Schiff set for Broadway
NEW YORK - Robin Wright and Richard Schiff will make their Broadway debut next season in a revival of Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Talley's Folly."
Producers Phil Monat, T. Richard Fitzgerald and Randall L. Wreghitt announced Tuesday that the production will open in spring 2011 at a theater to be announced. Marshall Mason, who originally directed the play some 30 years ago, will direct. Mason also directed such Wilson plays as "Fifth of July" and "Angels Fall."
Wright is best known for her roles in such films as "Forrest Gump," ''The Princess Bride" and "Hurlyburly." Schiff played communications director Toby Zeigler in "The West Wing" on NBC.