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Hopkins recounts tequila hallucinations
Indo-Asian News Service
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) Oscar winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins says he had become so hooked on alcohol that he suffered severe hallucinations.
According to Internet Movie Database, Hopkins has been sober for close to 30 years now after battling the addiction.
In the early 1970s Hopkins had developed a strong desire for Mexican spirit tequila which caused strange side-effects.
He says: "I was really sort of on a prolonged acid trip. I saw things and had peculiar quasi-religious experiences. I thought I was John The Baptist, and I would talk to the sea at Malibu and the sea would talk back to me. It was weird."
Sollozzo death scene kept me in 'Godfather': Pacino
Indo-Asian News Service
London, Sep 25 (IANS) Oscar winning actor Al Pacino says that if not for the death scene in "The Godfather" he would have been fired.
Pacino revealed that he was extremely insecure while making the film because director Francis Ford Coppola kept dismissing him every day, according to contactmusic.com.
Pacino had beat out other great actors such as Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Dustin Hoffman for the role of Michael Corleone.
He said: "I thought I was going to be fired so it was fine. I thought, 'It was not meant to be'. I was going to be (fired) until they saw the 'SOLLOZZO scene' - the scene where I shot Sollozzo in the restaurant. That was the scene that kept me in the picture."
Five celebrities in Forbes 400 rich list
Indo-Asian News Service
Los Angeles, Sep 25 (IANS) Celebrity talk show host Oprah Winfrey and directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are among the five celebrities in the new Forbes magazine list of 400 Richest People in the US.
According to Hollywood.com, lifestyle queen Martha Stewart was the fifth richest celebrity with an estimated worth of $970 million.
Winfrey was fourth with $1.4 million. Property tycoon-turned-reality TV star Donald Trump and sci-fi filmmaker Steven Spielberg were tied at second with $2.7 billion while "Star Wars" director George Lucas topped them with an estimated worth of $3.5 billion.
But none of them come close to America's richest person - Microsoft boss Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at a whopping $50 billion.
Foster has small fight at the movies
Indo-Asian News Service
London, Sep 25 (IANS) Oscar winning actress Jodie Foster lost her cool at the movies recently when a woman in a seat in front of her kept shushing Foster's son for asking questions.
According to contactmusic.com, Foster took her son to watch the famous documentary "March Of The Penguins". She confronted the woman in front of her when she tried to tell her kid to keep quiet.
Foster says: "This woman went berserk. She started with the shushing from the get go... and then she starts yelling at me. Finally, I just turn into the most perfect police officer where I was whispering, `You know, you're really disturbing everybody, and I think it would be a good idea if you moved if you're not happy."
She added: "It almost came to blows. I go to a movie, I don't want to be disturbed. But don't go to a noon Sunday matinee of a family movie. I mean, what do you expect?"
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