Now the summer cricket season is over, bespectacled wonderboy bowler Daniel Vettori is giving television a spin. He's joined The Golf Show (Sky Sport, TV One) with former TV3 reporter Bernadine Lim. The two new faces aim to make the Phil Leishman-fronted show more "youth-oriented". The segment Vettori's World has the Black Cap teeing off with sports mates and famous types, recent back injury willing, of course.
* A TOLKIEN GESTURE: Unless you are reading this by dawn's early light you may be too late to get the first public peek at the scenes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Two minutes of footage from the $360 million made-in-NZ million project and some behind-the-scenes' video, were to be broadcast on the movies' official website - www.lordoftherings.net - from 7 am today. Meanwhile, this weekend a LOTR crew start a month of filming around Mt Ruapehu.
* MR PRESIDENT, THE KING OF THE WORLD IS HERE TO SEE YOU: Leonardo DiCaprio, possibly in image-damage control world after The Beach's alleged environmental damage, has interviewed President Clinton about ecological matters for an ABC television special for Earth Day 2000 on April 22. Meanwhile, after much speculation, DiCaprio has said he isn't going to play Darth Vader, the younger - the teenage Anakin Skywalker - in Star Wars Episode II.
* GIRL, DOWNLOADED: Angelina Jolie - recent best supporting actress Oscar winner for Girl, Interrupted - is to play busty cyber babe Lara Croft in a film version of hit PlayStation and PC title Tomb Raider. So she can act ...yeah but can she do that really neat thing Lara does when you go L1, X, X, L2, O, O, R1, R2?
* MICHAEL CAINE RANG TO SAY HE'D SELL IT TO YOU: Eleven year-old Sixth Sense star Haley Joel "I see dead people" Osment, may have lost the best supporting actor Oscar to veteran Michael Caine but, y'know, life goes on - to the tune of $US2 million. That's what he'll get for starring in the Steven Spielberg-directed, Stanley Kubrick-originated sci-fi flick, A.I.
* DREDGING UP THE PAST PART 1: Diana Ross announced plans for a US tour with The Supremes, although the two singers signed up for the shows, Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne, actually joined the group after Ross' departure 30 years ago. A New York tabloid tagged it the "Diana Ross and the Sub-premes" tour and surviving original member Mary Wilson, who kept the group going into the 70s, is reportedly miffed despite an offer of $US3 million ($NZ6.03 million).
* DREDGING UP THE PAST PART 2: The television series, the out-takes Anthology CDs and now the door stop. The three surviving Beatles have written a book "setting the record straight" about the Fab Four.The 360-page will weigh a hefty 2 kg, include 1200 mostly unpublished photos and is estimated to cost $NZ160.
* DREDGING UP THE PAST PART 3: Twenty six years after his death English folk enigma Nick Drake may be getting his first hit - that's his song Pink Moon (the title track of his final album from 1972) being used in the Volkswagen Beetle telly advert. The song is to be released as a single in the US where the ad has already caused a surge in album sales.
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