Cause You've Got Personality

I always love reading Walter Scott's Personality Parade. This is from the latest:

A "Cooper Laiden" (is that a name, a job or a disease?) from LA notes Eddie Murphy's latest, Meet Dave, flopped. Is he through? Oh no, Scott says. He's had flops before, but is still one of Hollywood's most in-demand actors.

I agree the guy's still a star who can carry a movie. I even think he's a good actor. But a couple more flops like Meet Dave and he won't be so in demand any more.

Kate Murdoch of Provo says she hear's Keira Knightley will play Eliza Doolittle in a new My Fair Lady, and wants to know if she can sing.

Yes, Scott is glad to note. But an inside source says Keira has not signed on yet. "It depends on the script and other factors." It depends on the script?! Okay, movie adaptations can change things a bit (though George Cukor's 1964 version didn't), but it's not as if this role, with songs by Lerner and Loewe and dialogue by George Bernard Shaw, is an unknown quantity.