Coffee, Tea or Paltrow?

6:00 a.m. ET (1000 GMT) April 28, 2000
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox411/043000.sml


It looks like Gwyneth Paltrow has found her next starring
role: as a flight attendant.

Paltrow is this close to signing on the dotted line to
play one in A View From the Top, which was written by
Eric Wald and will be directed by Bruno Barreto. The
romantic comedy concerns a young woman whose lifelong
ambition has been to fly the friendly skies.

A couple of months ago, Miramax bought Wald's script for
a low six-figure advance and started casting about for a
heroine. If Paltrow says yes to Barreto — and there's
every indication she will — View will start rolling
this summer.

Barreto's current movie is the light-hearted Bossa Nova,
which apparently won the heart of Miramax co-chairman
Harvey Weinstein. Miramax also released Barreto's 1998
film, Four Days in September.

Ironically, Gwyneth is spending a lot of time on
cinematic air flight projects. Her next movie scheduled
for release, called Bounce, is about a woman who loses
her husband in an air crash and winds up falling for the
man with whom the hubby traded the ill-fated tickets.
Paltrow's off-again on-again boyfriend Ben Affleck is
her co-star in Bounce, which opens in July.

Barreto and Paltrow have something in common: Barreto's
current wife is Amy Irving, Steven Spielberg's first
wife. Spielberg is a longtime family friend of the
Paltrow family — they call him Uncle Max. Irving, you
may recall, got about $100 million from Spielberg in
their 1989 divorce. Paltrow was then just 16.