Fans think Sheridanshould face up to surgery

Some Nicollette Sheridan fans are chortling over her new role.

The “Desperate Housewives” star has become a pitchwoman for a skin-care product called NuGlow. On the product’s Web site and in CDs sent to prospective customers, the 41-year-old former “Knots Landing” star boldly declares that she’s never had any plastic surgery. Some find that line a bit of a stretch.

Ever since “Desperate Housewives” began airing, the folks at AwfulPlasticSurgery.com have been bombarded with “horrified” emails about Sheridan’s appearance. “It definitely looks like she’s had a face lift,” the site concludes.  “Her nose is also slimmer than it was in her 'Knots Landing' days; not only is it slimmer, she’s had an implant put in her nose to make it look longer.  . . . Overall, she looks pretty hard these days.”

Sheridan’s face is also a topic of conversation on various plastic-surgery forums.

“Why did she go and butcher her face??” laments a poster called “mermaiddelsol." “That is sooo sad.” Chortles one fan: “Nicollette Sheridan promoting a skin-care product to make you look young is a little like Pamela Anderson doing an exercise video to increase your bust size.”

Even the widely loved and generally kind columnist Liz Smith recently commented on Sheridan’s apparently altered appearance, noting that she “looks startlingly exotic these days; features up and a little slanted, a little transgendered-esque.”

Bye-bye Bridget

"Bridget Jones" fans waiting for another sequel shouldn’t hold their breath. Colin Firth, who played love interest Mark Darcy, says a third installment in the series starring Reneé Zellweger would be a bad idea.

“In the abstract, it’s unthinkable,” the actor told the CanWest News Service. “I can’t think where a sequel would go.”

Firth also made it clear that he was fed up with the whole “Darcy thing” and suggested that no one else in the flick was terribly eager to sign up for the second in the series. In fact, he quips, “The only way where I could possibly imagine [a third film] being interesting is that if it showed us in [an] advanced state of decrepitude. Really puncturing the fairy tale completely might be a way to take it.”

Notes from all over

Director Oliver Stone, out promoting “Alexander,” explained why he cast bad-boy actor Colin Farrell in the lead role: “The first meeting was a disaster. [Farrell] was a skinny little Dublin boy, drunk as a skunk — breaking glasses in the restaurant, with his hand on my thigh the whole time. I couldn’t stand him. He was a feisty fellow — I didn’t seem him then as Alexander, I saw him as an interesting actor.  . . He coalesced at the screen test. He put some Doris Day wigs on his head. I didn’t think he could do it — he’s Tyrone Power, he’s black Irish. The point is, he became blond.” . . . Speaking of people who become blondes, Madonna will be directing the screen version of her book, “The English Roses,” reports the London Sun.  . . . Billy Bob Thornton says it’s sometimes hard to be a role model to his sons. “They came to the set once and one said, ‘Dad, you are talking disgustingly!’” the “Bad Santa” star said, reports, World Entertainment News Network. “I said, ‘I know — I do it for a living.’ Then my other boy said, ‘Dad, I can’t believe you touched that girl’s butt!’ Although he was grinning when he said it.”

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