"Every time he got himself into trouble, we believed that there was healing that was going to come," Lorre tells TV Guide. "We intervened all the time. I was so afraid my friend was going to die." He says firing Chas was the ethical thing to do. "This was not a game. This was drug addiction writ large."
Today in EntBiz news
Lindsay Lohan won't be on with Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday after all! LiLo planned to unveil her new Playboy photo spread on Ellen's gabfest. A show rep tells Us Weekly that LiLo missed her flight back to Hawaii Tuesday, when she was scheduled to tape the episode.
Martin Scorsese's Paris-set phantasmagoria Hugo and Michel Hazanavicius' Hollywood-set French silent film The Artist dominate the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, earning 11 nominations each, including best picture. The Viola Davis-starring The Help and Danish master Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive share second place with eight nods each. A lot of other films earned a lot of other noms. The gala airs live from Hollywood on Jan. 12 on VH1.
Seth Rogen of 50/50 has been picked to host the 27th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards held Feb. 25 in Santa Monica, Calif.
Doris Day on Rock Hudson
"We really liked each other," says singer, comic, and sex symbol Doris Day of her fave costar, Rock Hudson.
Day, 87, who made three pics with Hudson in the 1950s, including Pillow Talk, says she was in for a shock when she ran into the actor in 1985, the year he died of AIDS.
"At first I didn't know who he was," Day tells Parade. "I looked at him and was almost in tears. He was so thin, just gaunt. . . . But we walked and laughed together. He was so seriously ill, but he was still funny. It just about put me away - it's so hard to be funny when you know what's going to happen."
