<strong><span class="subhead">Kenny Ortega is &lsquo;footloose,&rsquo; not Footloose</span></strong></p><p><strong>Kenny Ortega</strong>, director of all three &ldquo;High School Musical&rdquo; movies and the new <strong>Michael Jackson </strong>film, has bowed out of his commitment to direct the remake of &ldquo;Footloose.&rdquo;</p><p>Production is still slated to begin in March with<strong> Chace </strong><strong>Crawford</strong> of &ldquo;Gossip Girl&rdquo; in the role that <strong>Kevin Bacon </strong>originated.</p><p>&ldquo;Coming off the extraordinary project, Michael Jackson&rsquo;s `This is It,&rsquo; director Kenny Ortega has decided it is premature for him to commit to his next film&hellip;&rdquo; reads a statement from Ortega&rsquo;s publicity folks.</p><p>Ortega and Paramount apparently couldn&rsquo;t agree on &ldquo;tone and budget&rdquo; for the movie, insiders tell Variety.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Gervais gets &lsquo;Globes&rsquo;</span></strong></p><p>Comedian <strong>Ricky Gervais </strong>will host the Golden Globes awards show next year. (What? <strong>Neil Patrick Harris </strong>was booked?)</p><p>This will be the first time since 1995 that the show has had a host. Organizers have been relying on the celebrity power of the show, letting the stars themselves present the awards.</p><p>They changed their minds after Gervais had the audience in stitches when he presented an award at last season&rsquo;s Globes.</p><p>Gervais says the Globes folks made him an offer he couldn&rsquo;t refuse: free rein as host.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">ScarJo gets &lsquo;A View&rsquo;</span></strong></p><p><strong>Scarlett Johansson</strong> will make her Broadway debut next year opposite <strong>Liev Schreiber </strong>in a revival of <strong>Arthur Miller</strong>&rsquo;s &ldquo;A View From the Bridge.&rdquo;</p><p>Schreiber will portray a Brooklyn longshoreman who is obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, played by Johansson.</p><p>The play will open Jan. 24 at the Cort Theater, with previews beginning Dec. 28.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Norton runs for a cause</span></strong></p><p><strong>Edward Norton </strong>plans to run the New York City Marathon on Sunday to support the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, which works to preserve tribal lands in Kenya and Tanzania.</p><p>Olathe-based Garmin International Inc. is sponsoring the effort, too.</p><p>&ldquo;The wildlife from that part of the world is in a lot of ways the wildlife of our childhood imaginations,&rdquo; says the &ldquo;Fight Club&rdquo; star. &ldquo;It is lions and giraffes and rhinoceros, and I think there are deep-seated reasons we&rsquo;re still connected to that.</p><p>&ldquo;I think for a lot of people, it&rsquo;s horrifying to imagine having to say to their kids or grandkids that these things used to exist and now they&rsquo;re gone.&rdquo;</p><p>Norton decided some to bring some Maasai people to New York to run with him. </p><p>Good luck to all.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Angelina&rsquo;s no-bake cake</span></strong></p><p>Now we know what <strong>Angelina Jolie </strong>is doing when she&rsquo;s not out saving the world&rsquo;s children: She&rsquo;s watching the Food Network.</p><p>&ldquo;I was really surprised when her friend let me know she made my no-bake birthday cake,&rdquo; says <strong>Sandra Lee</strong>, host of the network&rsquo;s &ldquo;Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee&rdquo; show.</p><p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a semi-homemade mommy just like the rest of us!&rdquo;</p><p>Angelina made Lee&rsquo;s cake &mdash; made from grocery-store sponge cake, cupcakes and cookies &mdash; for son Maddox&rsquo;s birthday.