Vince Vaughan`s Strategy for Dealing with Media Attention; No Photos of Brangelina Baby
HAMMER: Welcome back to SHOWBIZ TONIGHT for a Thursday, 30 minutes past the hour. I`m A.J. Hammer in New York.</s>VARGAS: And I`m Sibila Vargas in Hollywood. This is TV`s most provocative entertainment news show.</s>HAMMER: Sibila, have you heard, there`s a new Vince Vaughn movie coming out co-starring Jennifer Aniston, called "The Break-Up" it`s true. You may have heard something about this thing. Now, Vince would be the first to tell you a few years ago maybe he wasn`t a household name. Now you can`t drive by a magazine stand without seeing his picture. What`s it like living under the media glare, that spotlight? We`ll talk to him about that and about "The Break-Up," coming up in just a couple of minutes.</s>VARGAS: Also coming up, there`s a superhero that`s coming back, but this time she`s coming backs as a gay character and of course, A.J., a lot of people eyebrows are raised.</s>HAMMER: I can`t imagine.</s>VARGAS: Causing a little bit of controversy. We`ll tell you all about it and why they decided to do this, that`s coming up. But first, 20 years ago, the outlook was grim if you didn`t have a ring on that finger by a certain age. Well, according to a Harvard-Yale study in "Newsweek" magazine, a single woman at age 30 had a 20 percent chance of getting married, and by 35, only a five percent chance. Well, we caught up with two of the women interviewed for that original article, and it appears they defied those odds. Here`s CNN`s Alina Cho for SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.</s>ANNOUNCER: Three, two, one.</s>ALINO CHO, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Year 1986, "Top Gun" the most popular movie. "Higher Love," record of the year. And this headline captured the attention of women all over the country. College educated women who failed to marry in their 20s had only a slim chance of ever tying the knot. The most infamous line has even appeared in movies.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know it`s easier to be killed by a terrorist than to get married over age 40.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s not true. That statistic is not true.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That`s right, it`s not true. But it feels true.</s>CHO: Sally Jackson was 39 when "Newsweek" first interviewed her.</s>JACKSON: Because I was in the story a lot of women came to me and acted as it I were the author of the study and they said, how can this be, how can this be? And I said it probably isn`t accurate.</s>CHO: Unlike many other women, Jackson wasn`t worried she wasn`t anxious to have kids. She had a successful P.R. business and plenty of friends including Paul Nates (ph), a man she met on a blind date. PAUL NATES (ph),</s>JACKSON`S HUSBAND: I was taken and she was not.</s>JACKSON: Not my type.</s>CHO: The two were married in 1994. She was 47. She`s now 59 and married for 12 years.</s>JACKSON: It`s great, but it`s great at the right time with the right person. The institution in itself isn`t great, a relationship is great. And I would never compromise on a great relationship.</s>CHO: The late of the research shows, 90 percent of baby boomers will eventually walk down the aisle. A far cry from the 1986 statistics which stated, a single woman of 35 had just a five percent chance of getting married. But not everyone wants to be a wife. Nancy Rigg is 56 and happily single.</s>NANCY RIGG, HAPPILY SINGLE: My life has been full pill filled without children. My life has been fulfilled without a husband.</s>CHO: Rigg was 29 when she lost her fiance in a flash flood. She has dedicated her life to water rescue programs, spends a lot of time with her dog, and rarely thinks about the benefits of marriage except recently when she moved into her new house.</s>RIGG: It`s times like that, I mean, practical times that you think, my goodness I really could use a couple of strapping young sons to come and help or to, not to mention a husband with a good back.</s>CHO: Sally Jackson and Paul Nates (ph) say finding love later in life can be a blessing.</s>JACKSON: People who wish away their lives because they`re not married are cheating themselves.</s>NATES: Don`t worry about it. It`ll either happen or it won`t and there really isn`t a whole lot you can do about it.</s>VARGAS: And that was CNN`s Alina Cho for</s>SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. HAMMER: So what if that marriage or relationship doesn`t work out? Is it at all possible to continue to live together? Just one of the topics that is explored in Vince Vaughn`s "The Break-Up." Vince Vaughn joining me here in New York. It is excellent to see you.</s>VINCE VAUGHN, ACTOR: Always good to see you. How have you been?</s>HAMMER: It`s good. In fact, the last time we were hanging out was literally right before the release of "The Wedding Crashers."</s>VAUGHN: That`s right.</s>HAMMER: Before you knew it was going to blow up like it did.</s>VAUGHN: That`s right.</s>HAMMER: And now people quote the movie on the street, don`t they?</s>VAUGHN: Yeah, you know, I`ve always had that with movies with "The Swingers" or old School with earmuffs or swingers with your money, baby. I`ve always had quotes that stick from films.</s>HAMMER: But this, absolutely huge.</s>VAUGHN: Yeah, you know, I knew we made a really good movie with "Wedding Crashers," I thought it was really funny and it also had a good story there, but you can never really plan for something to catch on to that in that way.</s>HAMMER: And you transition from a movie where you actually find love, you sort it out in the end and you find love to a movie about "The Break-up."</s>VAUGHN: Yes.</s>HAMMER: Of course, you play this guy named Gary, Jennifer Aniston plays Brooke. Things begin to unravel in your relationship. In fact, I want to take a look at this one particular clip where your character, Gary, kind of screws up a shopping list. Let`s take a look at this.</s>JENNIFER ANISTON, "BROOKE": Gary.</s>VINCE VAUGHN, "GARY": Yeah?</s>ANISTON: You got three lemons.</s>VAUGHN: What my baby wants my baby gets, you know that.</s>ANISTON: Yeah, but I wanted 12. Baby wanted 12.</s>VAUGHN: Why would you want 12 lemons?</s>ANISTON: Because I`m making a 12 lemon centerpiece.</s>VAUGHN: So no one`s even eating them, they`re just -- they`re show lemons?</s>ANISTON: Yeah. They`re just show lemons. Shown in the center of the table. Glad you find that amusing. But I cannot fill a vase with only three.</s>VAUGHN: Well, can`t you use like a drinking glass?</s>ANISTON: I can`t use a drinking.</s>VAUGHN: We could have a smaller version of a centerpiece.</s>ANISTON: I`m not going to use a drinking glass for our centerpiece.</s>VAUGHN: You know what. I`ve got an idea. Why don`t we go ahead and scratch the centerpiece idea altogether because the chicken, that burnt my mouth, could maybe use a little bit of lemon on top of it. Guess what? Now we made a better meal versus something visually nice to look at.</s>HAMMER: Now Vince, I got tell you, I walked out of this movie thinking he`s actually kind of doing a public service for people here, because a lot of buys going to walk out of film thinking, man, I got take a look at some of my stuff and I`m taking her for granted and all that.</s>VAUGHN: Yeah. You know, for me, I haven`t always gotten scripts for romantic comedies, but they always had really bizarre kind of subplot to them and I always thought what about a movie just called "The Break-Up" where you take a couple and kind of early on in the movie, you know, find them at a place where the relationship is starting to unravel and you know I thought relationships are so strange and funny enough as they are that you don`t need some kind of bizarre subplot form. And there`s a lot of people that are moving in together and some folks that are actually buying together in order to save money and end up splitting up and they`re kind of stuck with, you know, what are we going to do with this place that we bought together?</s>HAMMER: What do we do?</s>VAUGHN: Yeah, it`s kind of like an odd couple for relationships.</s>HAMMER: Yeah, and I think a lot of women should want to be taking their boyfriends or husbands and say hey, pay attention because ultimately what you come to terms with is the fact I really am not looking after this.</s>VAUGHN: Yeah. You know, its kind of a cautionary tale where you sort of look at the funny side of how people argue, and this case, you know, the argument becomes about he was supposed to bring home 12 lemons, he only brought home three lemons, but really it`s about so many other thing that they`re not talking about. And so, I think the movie really, in a comedic way, looks at, you know. kind of if you`re not good with the relationship, even if you`re in love, things can go bad and then it takes more complicated, serious, unpredictable twists where it looks at a serious side of that.</s>HAMMER: And ever since you guys started working on this film, you and your co-star, Jennifer Aniston, you may have noticed, there`s been a little bit of media attention.</s>VAUGHN: I have no idea what you`re talking about.</s>HAMMER: You just -- yeah, you might have seen something about this, because obviously it has been constant. Has it gotten to the point where you guys can kind of look at it and laugh at it all?</s>VAUGHN: I mean, I always have. You know, I moved out from Illinois to be an actor and when I moved out thee wasn`t a lot of shows dedicated to the celebrity lifestyle of actors. It was really just kind of previews or talking about the films and most of my friends, who I started with, we all were really trying to be good actors and more importantly, just trying to work, just trying to get a job, and as years have gone on it`s become a much greater fascination with celebrity lifestyle. I`ve never been that interested in it and for me, it was kind of a new thing to kind of be put under the spotlight. But I realize people are just trying to sell magazines.</s>HAMMER: Sure.</s>VAUGHN: They`re trying to sell stories. You don`t take it personal. Although a lot of things that they write are not true. You just have to laugh at it because they would write it about anyone in that position.</s>HAMMER: Right, but there has to come a point where maybe it interferes with your life a bit. We had your buddy Jon Favreau, you did "Swingers" with him, of course, and you`ve known him for how many years, now?</s>VAUGHN: Oh, I`ve known Fav since "Rudy." So and "Swingers" was 10 years ago, so probably 12 years.</s>HAMMER: Right, well, when Jon was here, he said -- well, I asked him what`s it like seeing your buddy on all of these magazines and in the center of all of this attention and he said it`s a little bit weird and I feel bad for him because basically he`s a guy who doesn`t like a lot of people around. He doesn`t want to have to have a bodyguard. And he kind of -- he felt a little sorry for your situation. You`ve always been a down to earth person, but what way have you had to change to adjust to it all?</s>VAUGHN: Well, you really try not tom anyway, I do. I just don`t take it that seriously, that stuff. It is an inconvenience sometimes, if you have people following you and that kind of stuff, but I`m not that interested in it. And I think that, you know, with time all things sort of pass and, you know, my focus has been, like I said, acting and trying make good movies and I`ve never used my personal life, one way or the other, to get out there and try to, you know, be a celebrity. I`ve considered myself more of an actor. So, you know, it`s something that I`m dealing with right now. But like you said, it`s all so sort of ridiculous and none of it is really all that important that you do laugh at it. What really is important to me, of course, is always trying to do a good job and make a great movie.</s>HAMMER: I got to ask you with less than 30 seconds to go, love lesson number one from Vince Vaughn, the most important thing?</s>VAUGHN: Love lesson No. 1, well, depends on what you`re after. But, I guess love lesson No. 1 would be just to say "yes" a lot in a relationship even if you don`t mean it.</s>HAMMER: Get all of the.</s>VAUGHN: I find that over sincerity goes a long way.</s>HAMMER: And get all of the items of the shopping list. Vince Vaughn.</s>VAUGHN: No question about it. Always great to see you. I enjoy the show. Thank you.</s>HAMMER: Thanks I appreciate it. And of course you can catch "The Break- Up" this weekend, it`s opening up in theaters everywhere, tomorrow.</s>VARGAS: Vince Vaughn`s quite a smart guy there. Well, coming up, Batwoman`s coming back, and coming out. The caped crusader is a lesbian. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the comic book controversy.</s>HAMMER: And "American Idol" fans all had their favorite, of course, but it came to blows for two people who reportedly disagreed on the winner. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT has the family feud. Plus, the Dixie Chicks come back swinging.</s>MAINES: I hated people got to use my words against me when I didn`t support the war, in my mind, because I do support the troops, because I support human life.</s>VARGAS: The band`s back with a No. 1 album. How the country stars beat the backlash to their President Bush bashing. It`s the interview you`ll see only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. That`s coming up.