Don't look for Pfeiffer on 'Boston Legal'

Don't look for Pfeifferon 'Boston Legal'
BOSTON -- Don't hold your breath for a guest appearance by Michelle Pfeiffer on David E. Kelley's latest TV show.
Kelley, the creator of such hits as "Ally McBeal" and "Boston Public," said his wife could have a role on his "Practice" spinoff, "Boston Legal" only if certain conditions are met. "She would be great. The trick would be convincing her to ever work with me. Even though I might be able to persuade her that other people are running the show, she might not quite believe that I would completely stay out of the process," he said.
"We made one rule that we would try not to work together if possible. For example, I wrote a feature a year ago that I thought she would happen to be right for. She read it, she liked it, and the next day I was fired off the project," he said. "Boston Legal" stars James Spader and William Shatner as two eccentric lawyers.
Love blossomson set of movie
SAN FRANCISCO -- The onscreen romance in "Stage Beauty" could be upstaged by the real romance that ignited on the movie's set between Claire Danes and Billy Crudup.
The film's co-stars were hounded by questions about their relationship at the premiere of "Stage Beauty" at the Toronto International Film Festival. The couple offered the standard "no comment" to all questions about their personal lives, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday.
"All I will say is that we work very well together," Danes told the newspaper.
But "Stage Beauty" director Richard Eyre stirred the pot by acknowledging their relationship to Entertainment Weekly. He commented that it was apparent during filming that "these two very intelligent actors, who are witty and attractive, got on very well."
Newlywed Woodsis taking it easy
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tiger Woods always said he had to win a major golf tournament for it to be considered a great year, but he might have found an exception last week when he got married in Barbados. "As far as off the course, it is a great year," Woods said Sunday from his yacht, where he and new bride Elin Nordegren have been diving on their honeymoon since their marriage in the Caribbean.
Sounding more relaxed than ever, Woods is in no hurry to resurface. His next tournament is supposed to be the Funai Classic at Disney, which starts Oct. 21 about 10 minutes away from his home in Florida, but Woods did not say whether he was going to play.
"I'm having so much fun on my honeymoon, I don't know if I'll be back or not," he said during a 30-minute conference call. "It depends on how much fun I'm having out here and whether I need to get back." Woods doesn't expect to be any different on the course how that he has a ring on his finger.
"It's not going to change the way I play golf," he said. "I've been living with Elin. We've been happy together the last two years. Nothing has changed in that regard. Just because you're married doesn't change the way a relationship is, it just changes the way it's viewed from the outside."
Notable death
HOUSTON -- Maxime A. Faget, a pioneering NASA engineer who designed the original spacecraft for Project Mercury and whose work helped create every human spacecraft the agency has launched since, has died. He was 83.
Faget died Saturday at his home in Houston, the space agency announced Sunday on its Web site.
After retiring from NASA, Faget was among the founders of one of the early private space companies, Space Industries Inc., established in 1982.
Today's birthdays
Author Elmore Leonard is 79. Actor Ron Leibman is 67. Country singer Gene Watson is 61. Singer-musician Daryl Hall is 55. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, is 54. R & amp;B musician Andrew Woolfolk is 54. Actress-director Catlin Adams is 54. Actor David Morse is 51. Country singer Paulette Carlson is 51. Football player Steve Young is 43. Actress Joan Cusack is 42. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 40. Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 39. Actor Luke Perry is 38. Country singer-songwriter Todd Snider is 38. Actress Jane Krakowski is 36. Rapper MC Lyte is 33. Singer NeeNa Lee is 29. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg is 19.