Katie Holmes is getting a chance to shed her good-girl image, thanks to Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick. Tom Cruise's new sweetie is in talks to play the tragic beauty onscreen.
Katie Holmes wants to be bad - and boyfriend Tom Cruise wants to help her.
The sweet-faced "Dawson's Creek" actress is in talks to play Andy Warhol's drug-addicted muse Edie Sedgwick in "Factory Girl."
Jude Law's fiancée, Sienna Miller, was due to play the It girl, who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971. While some claim the producers decided to go for a bigger star, Miller's reps say she bowed out after landing the role of Celia in a prestigious West End production of "As You Like It."
Attorney Aaron Richard Golub, who is producing "Factory Girl" with Holly Wiersma and Bob Yari, tells us, "It was a scheduling conflict. We love Sienna."
But they really love Holmes. Director George Hickenlooper, who had lunch with her in L.A. yesterday, sees the 26-year-old clean-scrubbed actress as perfect to star as the tragic heiress, who died at 28 after several stays in mental hospitals.
"Katie is not too different from Edie, who arrived in New York as young, innocent, looking for excitement," says the "Man From Elysian Fields" director.
Holmes' new guy, Cruise, who picked her up after a recent "Factory Girl" meeting, is said to agree that the role will help take her beyond the girl next door.
"Tom loves getting into his roles, and he's already helping Katie research Edie," an insider tells us. "I've heard they're even going to the cemetery where Edie is buried."
As for the rest of the cast, "L.A. Confidential" star Guy Pearce will play Warhol. Gwen Stefani is due to play fellow Factory girl Richie Berlin. Stefani's husband, Gavin Rossdale, will play Warhol star Gerard Malanga.
P.S. Hickenlooper says he's steering clear of the controversy over whether Sedgwick had an affair with Bob Dylan. "Edie definitely knew Dylan, Jim Morrison, Mick Jagger and others," says the filmmaker. "We've decided to create a character who is kind of hybrid of all of them."
Tom Cruise already professed his love - for Nicole Kidman
At least one Nicole Kidman fan wasn't pleased by Tom Cruise's Risky Business resurrection on Oprah this week. An email traveling the long way from Alabama offered this note from Tom Cruise Publicity Watchdog correspondent Lisa.
I am outraged at Tom Cruise for acting like a midlife crisis force to be reckoned with on The Oprah Winfrey show the other day. How dare he say he has never felt this way before! He was on Oprah in 1994 promoting "Interview with the Vampire" and spoke of Nicole in the same manner saying she was his soulmate, etc. How does all this make Nicole feel? He has already slapped her in the face enough and luckily she is tough enough to take it, but are his kids? Imagine knowing now that their father saying what he did on Oprah the other day, that they feel he never loved their mother, Nicole, the same way at all!
What a ***** he is. Katie is way too young for him when a man is going through this midlife crisis thing. It definitely will not last. Tom will ultimately die pining for the Nicole that did not want him anymore after what he did to her. He is only acting out right now. What a shame!
Well said, Lisa. After all, it's always about the kids.
The thing with Tom is that he needs someone with him who is less famous than him so that he feels like the big man in the relationship. He broke up with Nicole when her star started to rise and picked an unknown girlfriend who he then dumped as she started to get more famous, he has now gone and hooked up with someone who is not as famous as him, and as Katie's star starts to rise he'll end up dumping her for someone else less famous again. Tom needs to find whatever he's looking for in HIMSELF not in all these different women, when he comes to terms with his own inadequasy (sp?) or whatever is his REAL problem.
schmiggens said this in post #6 : WARNING: Don't kiss Tom Cruise
He's obviously got germs
SCIENTOLOGY NOT TO BLAME FOR HOLMES 'SORES'
The controversial Church of Scientology has slammed reports one its rituals was responsible for the sores on Katie Holmes' mouth in May.
Only a week after Tom Cruise and Holmes confirmed they had been dating for "a couple of weeks" in late April, the former "Dawson's Creek" star was photographed with several cold sores and a red rash around her mouth.
While most critics believed Holmes had acquired the sores from her public kissing sessions with Cruise, several gossip columnists claimed the 26-year-old actress developed the sores after enduring a Scientology process, known as purification.
Holmes has been studying the religion since she began dating her now-fiance Cruise.
The alleged client of the purification is given vitamin B3 (niacin), which helps to decrease cholesterol and boost circulation.
However, a spokesman for the church says, "Whatever is on Katie's face has nothing to do with us. It's insulting that you would ask such a thing."
05-13-2005 09:37 AM
