ROLL CALL: No Nudity For Bond, And A Curse Upon ‘Lost’?

Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans by Tommy Vergason

March 12, 2007

HAWAII 5-0 : The island castaways on the hit show “Lost” face dangers of all sorts, including smoke monsters, the mysterious “Others,” and a crazy eye-patch wearing suicidal Russian. But it’s their real-life run-ins with the Hawaiian police department that have at least one actor crying “curse.” Three castmembers have been arrested for vehicle-related offenses over the last few years, while six others have allegedly been cited, but not arrested. Josh Holloway, who plays the wise-cracking character Sawyer, is the latest cast mate to receive a ticket (for speeding), and reportedly sums up the string of police encounters for GLAMOUR magazine by calling it the “Lost Curse.” PEOPLE quotes Holloway as telling Glamour: “We’re easy targets. First of all we’re on an island which means it’s very easily patrolled. And we happen to be famous. I told ‘em they should be embarrassed about giving me a ticket for doing 53 in a 35 zone. I mean, come on! Go catch real criminals!”

More Celebrity Scoop After the Video!

IT’S ‘BOND,’ NOT ‘BOD’ : Daniel Craig is preparing to catch criminals in the next installment of the James Bond film franchise, but don’t expect him to do it undressed this time. Movie news site DARK HORIZONS reports that Craig has asked the filmmakers to make sure he’s covered up for the next film, after he drew so much attention for the scenes in hislight-blue bathingtrunks in “Casino Royale.” He reportedly wishes for viewers to pay more attention to his acting this time, rather than his appearance. According to the article, a source tells WENN news service: “Daniel was a little uncomfortable at the amount of nudity he had to do. He appreciated that a lot of it was to win over the female fans but it’s not something he wants to make a habit of, no matter how good he looks in his trunks.”

A ‘FANTASTIC’ ROMANCE? : Another crimefighter with a smokin’ body (or fiery body, if you count his Johnny Storm role in “Fantastic Four”) is actor Chris Evans, who is reportedly carrying a torch for “Poseidon” star Emmy Rossum, according to E! ONLINE’S MARC MALKIN. The report claims that the two young stars dined together at Prime Grill in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, and then were seen performingPDA at Teddy’s at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel later that night. When asked for comment, a rep for Rossum insists that the two are “just friends.” Evans, meanwhile, split with his famous girlfriend of five years, Jessica Biel, in 2006.

A ‘CHANGE’ FOR EASTWOOD & JOLIE? : Two megawatt celebrities are about to form a union of their own, though not in the romantic sense. VARIETY reports that Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie are in talks to work on “The Changeling,” which is being fast-tracked at Universal. Eastwood is likely to direct the film, with Jolie in the starring role, according to the report. The movie is being penned by comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski, and is based on the real-life tale of a woman whose son is abducted but retrieved, though the returned child may not actually be her kid. The woman must then confront corruption in the LAPD. “The Changeling” is set to begin production later this year if Eastwood and Jolie commit.

ABSENT IN ASPEN: And finally, a real-life tale of lost and found: THE ASPEN TIMES tells of a search-and-rescue mission that involved three actors on the slopes of Aspen Mountain on Saturday. Rob Murrow, Chad Lowe and Fisher Stevens got in some trouble on Saturday when they went off-course during the Aspen Youth Experience Celebrity Downhill skiing event, but were luckily discovered by two patrollers who had responded to another S.O.S. call, according to the report. Morrow says to reporters that they’re all “good skiiers,” but admits that the periodic snow squalls and heavy fog caused them to go “every which way.” Luckily the patrollers heard their voices when helping another beleaguered skiier, and they led the group down the mountain in a three-hour journey over steep, heavily wooded terrain. No injuries were reported.