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Showbiz Today Reports: Actors Injured, Arrested in Barroom Brawl

Aired April 13, 2001 - 10:44   ET

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MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, everyone. I am Michael Okwu in New York.

Actors Steve Buscemi and Vince Vaughn were in North Carolina filming the movie "Domestic Disturbance," when the two got into a barroom brawl with locals. Police say Buscemi was stabbed in the throat, head, and arm early yesterday morning. According to Buscemi's publicist, the actor, best known for his roles in "Fargo" and "Armageddon," has returned to New York to recover. Meanwhile, Vaughn, who was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault, has been released on bond.

Well, what happens when the director of "Home Alone" and "The Breakfast Club" cooks up his own version of a widely popular French farce? You get "Just Visiting," a new comedy from director John Hughes. The fish-out-of-water film takes a medieval knight and drops him in, well, of course, Chicago. CNN's Sherri Sylvester "just visited" with the cast.

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SHERRI SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Of course it seems unlikely, a 12th century French-speaking knight in 21st century Chicago. But that's the fun.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a red dragon!

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SYLVESTER: It's "Just Visiting." And it's adapted from the farce "Les Visiteurs," 1993's highest-grossing film in France. The current incarnation began when Christian Clavier, costar of the original, got a call from John Hughes, the writer-director of "Home Alone."

CHRISTIAN CLAVIER, ACTOR: He saw the French version in the plane. And he said, "I would like to make a remake of your movie."

SYLVESTER: Faster than you can say...

CLAVIER: Bonjour. SYLVESTER: ... Clavier had co-written and was costarring in the film with Jean Reno and Christina Applegate, who ride the subway rails on horseback for this knights-in-shining-Chicago saga.

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE, ACTRESS: I don't think that God intended for horses to be on trains like that. So it was very interesting to try to get that poor guy on the el while it was moving.

JEAN RENO, ACTOR: They gave me the possibility to have a horse in the middle of Chicago with like 20 police cars following me into the subway.

SYLVESTER: Their time travel also entailed navigating the summer heat in a weighty wardrobe.

RENO: With Christina, with the armor, with the helmet, you know. But, you sigh, you have to do it.

APPLEGATE: It took three girls to like walk me around everywhere. I needed to have -- one girl was carrying the back, one girl was carrying the head thing, couldn't just run up to use the bathroom real quick and run down. It was sort of a big production.

SYLVESTER: Mixing it up with the medieval gave costar Tara Reid a chance to ponder which time period she'd live in if she could choose.

TARA REID, ACTRESS: I kind of like the style like the '50s, how like romantic the guys were and how nice they were and they had to like rule you.

SYLVESTER: In the future for Tara Reid is "Josie and the Pussycats," for Jean Reno, "Rollerball," and for Christina Applegate, "A View From the Top."

Sherri Sylvester, CNN Entertainment News, Hollywood.

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OKWU: As Sherri just mentioned, you can see more of Tara Reid in "Josie and the Pussycats." And we'll have her costar Rachel Leigh Cook coming up in our next Showbiz Today Reports. That's at 11:35 a.m. Eastern time.

For now, I'm Michael Okwu in New York. CNN LIVE this morning continues right after this.

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