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Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone are going to show us the money again with a sequel to their 1987 hit “Wall Street.” Filming starts this summer.
Douglas will reprise his role as Gordon Gekko, and Stone is back to direct the sequel, which has the working title “Wall Street 2.”
“We need to keep the story line under wraps, but it’s literally ripped from today’s headlines,” said Gregg Brilliant, 20th Century Fox spokesman. “It’s going to be very big and very cool.”
Reps for Sarah Jessica Parker, 44, and Matthew Broderick, 47, say the couple are expecting twin daughters this summer through a surrogate pregnancy.
The “Sex and the City” star and her actor-husband are “overjoyed,” their publicists say. The couple have a son.
MTV is betting on a British model who dates a rock star to help fill the void left by “Total Request Live.”
“The Alexa Chung Show” will be a mix of celebrity talk, music and online interaction with viewers. The midday series begins June 15.
Chung has been on TV since she was 18 and now dates Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner, MTV said.
More free tickets will be distributed for a Jay Leno comedy show to lift spirits in Wilmington, Ohio, which is taking a heavy hit from layoffs.
Four-thousand tickets were given away Monday for the Comedy Stimulus show May 10. Leno decided to add a second show, so 4,000 tickets for that performance became available Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Leno returned to “The Tonight Show” on Monday, joking about his 103-degree fever that sent him to the hospital, but not specifying his illness.
The top five prime-time TV shows for April 20 to 26:
1. “American Idol (Tues.),” Fox, 23.96 million
2. “American Idol (Wed.),” Fox, 23.95 million
3. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 20.5 million
4. “Dancing With the Stars (results),” ABC, 14.7 million
5. “CSI,” CBS, 14.6 million
Among celebrity birthdays today: Bluesman Otis Rush is 75. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is 55. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis is 52. Actress Michelle Pfeiffer is 51. Actress Eve Plumb (“The Brady Bunch”) is 51. Singer Carnie Wilson of Wilson Phillips is 41. Actress Uma Thurman is 39. Rapper Master P is 39.
