Film pits best friends against each other
Film pits best friends against each other
NEW YORK — Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato are BFFs in real life — but in their upcoming Disney Channel movie “Princess Protection Program,” they don’t start out that way.
Gomez plays a tomboy whose family takes in Lovato’s princess after a dictator invades her country. Gomez, who turns 17 this summer along with Lovato, says they bicker at first but eventually “realize that they complement each other.”
Gomez says they fit their roles, since Lovato is more princessy.
While filming in Puerto Rico, Gomez says Disney tried to separate the duo at night by putting them in different buildings. But according to Gomez, she lived in Lovato’s room “half the time.”
“Princess Protection Program” airs June 26.
Comedian poses nude on cover of GQ magazine
NEW YORK — Sacha Baron Cohen strips down as his naked alter ego — the flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista Bruno — for the July cover of GQ magazine.
He sports a tanned glow and a shaggy head of highlighted hair and is artfully posed.
The actor-comedian’s 2006 movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” was a surprise box-office hit.
His new film, “Bruno,” is scheduled for release July 10.
Baron Cohen staged an elaborate prank at the recent MTV Movie Awards. In character as Bruno, he descended from the ceiling on a wire in a fake mishap that ended with his bare hindquarters in rapper Eminem’s face. Eminem stormed off in a huff but later said he was in on the joke.
Today’s birthdays
Actor Peter Lupus (TV’s “Mission: Impossible”) is 77. Singer Barry Manilow is 63. Comedian Joe Piscopo is 58. Actor Thomas Haden Church (“Sideways,” “Wings,” “Ned and Stacy”) is 48. Actor Greg Kinnear is 46. Actress Kami Cotler (“The Waltons”) is 44. Actor Jason Patric is 43. Actor-comedian Will Forte (“Saturday Night Live”) is 39.