Entertainment

New Fox Sitcom

Contributed - Feb 25, 2005 / 1:51 pm | Story: 7377

Brooke Shields and Christopher MacDonald will star in the Fox sitcom pilot "New Car Smell." As the title suggests, it's set in a car dealership.
Former Friends star DAVID SCHWIMMER heads to London in April to play a womanizer in a new play called Some Girls. Schwimmer told the London Evening Standard the play is, quote, "about relationships and the choices people make, learning to live with those choices and recovering from the damage done when those choices go wrong".
Skateboarder TONY HAWK has a guest role on the March 21st episode of CSI: Miami. Hawk will play a skater and video game tester who ends up dead. The CSI crew suspect he's the victim of foul play.
Kill Bill director QUENTIN TARANTINO is such a fan of CSI, he's offered to direct the hour-long season finale. CBS accepted the offer and says Tarantino will not just direct the finale -- he'll also help create the storyline, which revolves around a CSI member in danger. This isn't Tarantino's first venture into television -- he had a recurring guest role on ABC's Alias and directed an episode of ER. The CSI finale airs May 19th.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE, who became an inspiration to cancer patients everywhere by appearing on the Grammy Awards bald, now says she's cancer-free. She tells Rolling Stone Online, quote, "I was in bed for two months, but I'm in the clear now."