Entertainment Briefs for October 20, 2010
Hathaway wary after ex's arrest
NEW YORK - Anne Hathaway is now at a point where she can joke about her former boyfriend admitting he was a con artist.
The 27-year-old actress opens up about the ordeal in the November issue of Vogue magazine.
Asked to name her "deal-breakers" with men, Hathaway replied, "Uh ... fraud?" and laughs.
Raffaello Follieri pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of millions of dollars by falsely claiming he had Vatican connections that enabled him to buy church property at a discount. He was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison in 2008.
Jewelry that Follieri gave Hathaway was recently auctioned off by U.S. marshals.
All joking aside, the actress admits the relationship took its toll.
The experience taught her to be "more wary," she said. "It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting."
Shooting the movie "Love and Other Drugs" opposite Jake Gyllenhaal helped Hathaway move forward, she said. Trust is a theme of the film, and it forced Hathaway to confront the issue.
"I was a wreck from start to finish," Hathaway told Vogue. "I think I cried every single day."
The Oscar-nominated actress is dating actor Adam Shulman.
"Love and Other Drugs" opens Nov. 24.
Asner returning with CMT sitcom
NEW YORK - Television veteran Ed Asner is coming back to series TV with the first scripted sitcom for CMT.
On the new show, "Working Class," Asner will co-star as the crusty but lovable neighbor to the blue-collar single mom played by series star Melissa Peterman.
The network announced Monday that the 12-episode multi-camera comedy will premiere in January on CMT.
Asner, who turns 81 next month, is beloved for his signature role as cranky journalist Lou Grant. His return to TV follows recent successes for two fellow cast-mates from the legendary "Mary Tyler Moore Show": Betty White on TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" and Cloris Leachman on Fox's "Raising Hope."
Peterman previously appeared on the sitcom "Reba" and hosts CMT's "The Singing Bee."
Jolie gets Bosnia filing permit back
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Angelina Jolie has been given back a permit to film in Bosnia that was briefly withdrawn because of rumors that her movie featured a rape victim who falls in love with her assailant, her producer said Monday.
Jolie was given back the permit for her first project as a director after the country's culture minster was given the script in an attempt to assure him the rumors were false, said Edin Sarkic, Jolie's Bosnian producer. The minister did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Mass rape was a taboo topic in the immediate aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war between Serb and Bosnian Muslim forces but since then victims have formed a group to campaign for their rights, which has become one of the country's most powerful lobbies.
The Association of Women Victims of War protested Jolie's production after hearing rumors that the film's main characters - a Bosnian woman and a Serb man - were a rape victim and rapist.
Culture minister Gavrilo Grahovac pulled the filming permit Wednesday.
Sarkic said that the newly restored permit will allow Jolie and her crew to start filming in Sarajevo in November. They are currently filming in Hungary. He said the whole controversy was "unnecessary."
Bakira Hasecic, leader of the association, told The Associated Press that she had tried to meet Jolie since August, when she first heard the rumors about the film's plot.
"We expect to meet with her now finally and we hope she will convince us that what we were suspecting and what we were afraid of is not true," Hasecic said.
Jolie said in a written statement Friday that it would be a shame if "unfair pressure based on wrong information" prevented her crew from shooting her film, whose title hasn't been publicly released.
"My hope is that people will hold judgment until they have seen the film," Jolie said.