Amy Fisher and Buttafuocos will reunite on television

Fisher and Buttafuocoswill reunite on television
NEW YORK -- More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot his wife in the face, the one-time "Long Island Lolita" and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion. All three have signed on for the appearance, which has yet to be sold to a network, television producer David Krieff told the New York Post for Monday editions. "It's time to just put it behind us," Fisher, now 31, told the newspaper. "We played this all out in a public eye. It'd be interesting to let the public see the healing process at the end. They saw everything else -- why not let them see the final product?" Fisher spent seven years in prison. Joey Buttafuoco, who was jailed for statutory rape following the 1992 shooting, said he planned to ask Fisher to explain her actions. "I've been asked about a million times by Mary Jo, 'Why did Amy shoot me?' I was never able to get that answer," said Buttafuoco, now 49. "There's going to be a lot of shocking revelations, and that's why I'm excited to sit down to do this," he said.
'Da Vinci Code' to openCannes Film Festival
PARIS -- Case cracked: "The Da Vinci Code" will be the opening-night movie at the Cannes Film Festival in May, organizers said. Based on Dan Brown's esoteric thriller about code-breaking and conspiracy, the film will debut at the Riviera festival and in French theaters May 17, the festival said Saturday. The rest of the world will have to wait two days, until May 19. The adaptation by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("A Beautiful Mind") has an international cast led by Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
Today's Birthdays:
Actor Ernest Borgnine is 89. Evangelist Oral Roberts is 88. Singer-songwriter Ray Stevens is 67. Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond is 65. Singer Aaron Neville is 65. Actor Michael Ontkean is 60. Actor Daniel Auteuil is 56. Country singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs is 56. Comedian Yakov Smirnoff is 55. Bandleader-musician Jools Holland is 48. Rhythm-and-blues singer Theopolis Peoples is 45. Country musician Keech Rainwater (Lonestar) is 43. Comedian Phil LaMarr is 39. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Mary Lou Retton is 38. Rhythm-and-blues singer Pat "Sleepy" Brown (Society of Soul) is 36. Actor Matthew Lillard is 36. Actress Merrilee McCommas is 35. Actress Tatyana Ali is 27. Actress Mischa Barton is 20.