following the firestorm he started with a homophobic invective, hit back Thursday. "They fired the wrong guy," the actor, 43, said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle. Knight for stoking the scandal that led Washington to lose his job.
Knight is the one who should have been let go, he told the newspaper. Washington, who said he is considering a lawsuit, accused Knight of exploiting the controversy to get a salary increase and to enhance his role. A spokeswoman for ABC did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
Kentucky native Billy Ray Cyrus is crossing his fingers that his daughter, star Miley Cyrus, won't go the wild way of Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. He even shows her articles about the Hollywood troublemakers as cautionary tales. So far, so good.
"The biggest phenomenon in all this is that the kid's been able to keep her head on her shoulders," the country singer, 45, tells People magazine in its new issue. Cyrus co-stars with Miley, 14, on the hit Disney Channel series about a country-girl-turned-pop-star who tries to keep her celebrity life a secret from her classmates. Billy Ray aims to keep life "as normal as possible" for Miley, who's enrolled in a public school that allows her to study on the set and come in for exams on Fridays.
Woody Allen, directing an opera? In Los Angeles? It will happen in September 2008, said Placido Domingo, general director of the Los Angeles Opera.
The New York filmmaker will make his operatic directorial debut with the opening event of the L.A. "I have no idea what I am doing," Allen said in a statement Thursday.
"But incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm." Allen is scheduled to direct part of Puccini's a trio of one-act operas. Movie director William Friedkin will direct the other two.
following the firestorm he started with a homophobic invective, hit back Thursday.
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