News Hound | 17 June 2009

Posted on 17 June 2009 by heidi

With Movie Talk’s regular Hound Dog of Hot Gossip on leave, I’m standing in to sniff out the stories that matter in the movie world – and a few that don’t, really, but still have an intriguing whiff about them.

Whispers abound that chameleon actor Michael Sheen (aka Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough) is being slated to play Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the next Bond film.

Pictures are released of Mickey Rourke in his disguise as Whiplash, the chief villain in the new Iron Man film starring Robert Downey Jr. Not a pretty sight.

66-year-old star Harrison Ford blows young upstarts Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise away in the pay scales of Forbes’s annual Celebrity 100 chart earning close to $65million this year – thanks to his profit share deal on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Not bad for a pensioner.

Looking for Eric director Ken Loach is at the centre of a growing brouhaha at the Edinburgh Film Festival over his involvement in the Festival’s decision to refuse a grant from an Israeli Embassy to fund travel for a young Israeli filmmaker.

Sacked Fox News journo Roger Friedman claims Tom Cruise and John Travolta were instrumental in getting the station to give him the push because of his outspoken criticism of Scientology.

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