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Well, we might no get an 'Iron Man 4', but if Anne Hathaway and director Garry Marshall can work their collective magic then we could get a 'Princess Diaries 3' on the big screen.
Come on, Disney. Just make both! It's like finding money on the ground.
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Steve
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Demi Lovato celebrates four years of sobriety
Demi Lovato shared her pride over being four years sober from drugs and alcohol on social media this week.
The "Confident" singer, having entered rehab in 2012, took to Twitter to celebrate the special milestone.
"This last year I experienced so much life and too much death... But I made it through... Sober. #4Years #GodsWill," Lovato wrote Tuesday, most likely referring to the death of two pet dogs, one reportedly killed by a coyote.
Lovato has used her position as a person diagnosed with bipolar depression to empower others who may have similar experiences. She has appeared on several news programs to discuss her experience and even visited Capitol Hill to advocate for mental health reform in the country.
"I think that the more that you're vocal for yourself, and for others, the more that people can help you," she advised to those experiencing mental health problems during an interview in October. "That's why it's so important that you speak up."
As a result of her consistent advocacy, GLAAD has announced it will honor the "Cool For The Summer" singer with a Vanguard Award during its 27th annual award ceremony in April.
"Demi Lovato has consistently used her platform as a successful artist to send messages of acceptance and support to LGBT people everywhere," GLAAD President and Chief Executive Officer Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement. "She is an extraordinary ally who is committed to helping young people embrace who they are and live the lives they love."
Xena to be openly gay in upcoming remake, producer says
The title character in NBC's Xena: Warrior Princess remake will be written as openly gay, the show's executive producer confirmed.
During a Q&A session on social media platform Tumblr, the show's new executive producer, Javier Grillo-Marxuach said he is looking to "fully explore a relationship that could only be shown subtextually" in the 1990s syndication.
"Xena will be a different show made for very different reasons," he said, explaining there wouldn't be a reason to bring the series back if it were not to more deeply explore Xena and Gabrielle's romantic relationship. The 1990s version of Xena carried heavily implied homoerotic undertones, but never made Xena's sexuality explicitly clear.
In 2003, actress Lucy Lawless -- who portrayed the warrior princess between 1995 and 2001 -- said her character was "definitely" a lesbian.
"There was always a 'Well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the final scene, that cemented it for me," she told Lesbian News at the time.
"Now it wasn't that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was 'Nope, they're married, man.'"
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Which former 'Friends' star has been cast to play Ted Kennedy in REELZ miniseries 'After Camelot'?
Anne Hathaway, director Garry Marshall 'want to do' 'Princess Diaries 3'
A third entry in the Princess Diaries series once again starring Anne Hathaway may become a reality according to director Garry Marshall.
"I was with Anne Hathaway a couple weeks ago, it looks like we want to do Princess Diaries 3 in Manhattan," Marshall explained Monday to People magazine.
"Anne Hathaway is very pregnant so we have to wait until she has the baby and then I think we're going to do it," he continued noting that any movement on the project would have to happen after the birth of her first child with husband Adam Shulman.
Based on Meg Cabot's book of the same name, the original film, Princess Diaries released in 2001, starred Julie Andrews and Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, a young girl who finds out she is the royal heir to the throne of the fictional Kingdom of Genovia. The successful series helped launched Hathaway's career at the time.
Marshall is also confident that Chris Pine, who portrayed Hathaway's love interest in the 2004 sequel, Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, could also be willing to return for another installment. "Maybe," Marshall said of his involvement. "He's quite big now, you know."
According to reports, a fan recently asked Pine if he "prays every night for Princess Diaries 3 to which he responded "Have you been reading my diary?"
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Which former 'Friends' star has been cast to play Ted Kennedy in REELZ miniseries 'After Camelot'?
Actor Matthew Perry has signed on to star as Ted Kennedy in the four-hour miniseries The Kennedys: After Camelot, REELZ announced Tuesday.
Perry will also serve as an executive producer on the program, which is the adaptation of the book After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family 1968 to the Present by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
The follow-up to 2011's The Kennedys is expected to premiere in spring 2017.
"Matthew Perry portrays Ted Kennedy in the years following the assassinations of his brothers Jack and Bobby and depicts his very complicated public and private life as he tries to live up to the Kennedy family political ambition and fill a male leadership void in the family itself," the cable network said on its website. "Perry joins Katie Holmes, portraying Jackie Kennedy Onassis, who despite her desire for privacy had arguably become the most famous and admired woman in the world. Jackie's ties to the Kennedy family remained strong throughout her life and her relationship with her brother-in-law Ted grew ever closer as they constantly turned to one another for support and as confidantes."