Nurse Reyes Leaves `Scrubs’; Hopper Rides Again: Hollywood Buzz
“Scrubs” co-star Judy Reyes is leaving the half-hour comedy after this season — and she won’t be surprised if others go with her.
Reyes, who plays nurse Carla Espinosa, says she wants to move on to feature films and maybe a role on Broadway. Co-star Zach Braff and creator-producer Bill Lawrence probably will leave the show as well, Reyes said in an interview. 
“Their salaries exceed the budget of ABC and, I think, so do their ambitions,” Reyes, 40, said. “Mine do, too.”
“Scrubs,” about the staff of an inner-city hospital, is moving to the ABC network from NBC, where it ran for seven seasons. The new season, likely to begin in December or January, will include a one-hour special shot in the Bahamas, where the doctors and nurses gather to attend the wedding of the hospital’s janitor.
Reyes also will appear in “Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story,” a TV movie based on the true story of a mother who refused to believe that her infant daughter died in a house fire. It airs Aug. 17 on the Lifetime Movie Network.
`Easy Rider’
Dennis Hopper, director and star of the counterculture hit “Easy Rider,” says studios have too much control over movies these days.
It was different in the late 1960s, when the film about two hippie bikers helped foster artistic freedom, said Hopper, 72, whose work will be explored in an exhibit at Cinematheque Francaise in Paris.
“Films today are mostly made by committee, whereas films in the ’60s, for a short time after `Easy Rider,’ were made by directors,” Hopper said in an e-mailed response to a question.
The “Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood” exhibit and film festival runs Oct. 15 through Jan. 19. The show will feature Hopper’s photographs and items from his personal art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel.
Still a busy actor, Hopper has supporting roles in two films that opened last weekend. He gets back on a motorcycle in “Hell Ride,” a drama about warring biker gangs, and plays a poet in “Elegy,” about a professor (Ben Kingsley) who has an affair with a student (Penelope Cruz).
Diamond Chandelier
Celebrities at next month’s Emmy awards in Los Angeles will bask in the glow of a diamond-studded chandelier worth $10 million to $20 million.
The custom-made fixture will be the centerpiece of the “green room,” the lounge where the actors who hand out awards wait to go onstage. The lounge in the Nokia Theatre was designed by Mark Boone for Architectural Digest, which is having it built for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the group that hands out the Emmys.
The three-tiered chandelier, adorned with more than 5,000 diamonds, is being made by Boston-based jeweler Hearts On Fire. The exact value hasn’t been determined because the jeweler hasn’t decided how many diamonds will be on it, Architectural Digest spokesman James Humphrey said in an interview.
The chandelier will be sold after the Sept. 21 telecast on ABC, he said.









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