Dunst is no mild-mannered Mary Jane

Plus: Mel Gibson goes after alienated-youth market

	Actors Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire
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By Jeannette Walls

msnbc.com

updated 2:50 a.m. ET July 14, 2004

Spider-Man’s Mary Jane seems to have a little venom of her own.

Kirsten Dunst, who plays the love interest in the super-hot super-hero flick, lashed out at a reporter while promoting the film in the U.K.

The interviewer asked Dunst if there was any professional competition between her and sweetie Jake Gyllenhaal — since they each have a movie in theaters now. "That would be pretty lame if our relationship was like that — and I’m not going to answer any questions like that," replied an unsmiling Dunst. "I’m not going to give you any gossip."

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"Well, what was it like to work with Tobey Maguire on ‘Spider-Man’ since you two had a fling back when you made the first one?" asked the intrepid reporter.

"That’s not true! And that is gossip!" Dunst said. "I already told you I’m not going to go there."

"Oh, I’m sorry," replied the reporter. "I'm so bad at gossip"

"You mean you can’t keep your mouth shut," snapped Dunst. "Yeah, I’m really going to tell you something about my private life."

Dunst’s rep wasn’t available for comment.

The passion of the rap
IMAGE: Gibson
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Looks like "The Passion of the Christ" is going after the alienated-youth market.

Mel Gibson has asked Christian rap/heavy group P.O.D. to perform a song that will be included on a CD released simultaneously with the DVD of the movie about the last days of Christ, sources say.

P.O.D. — which stands for Payable On Death — was given a private screening of the controversial film before its release. Lead singer Sonny Sandoval said of the flick, "This is the real deal-brutal, honest, touching. This film made me check my own heart and my own faith. It’s not the fairy tale story of Christ we’re all used to. So, even before anybody wanted to be involved, in the heat of the controversy, I wanted to give back and contribute to this."

Notes from all over
IMAGE: Spears
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Sources say that Britney Spears’ handlers are hoping that her marriage to Kevin Federline never happens. The singer’s official Web site makes no mention of the engagement. . . . Madonna changed a line of "Mother and Father" in her Chicago concert last night. "I use to think he was a jerk" became "He didn't know how much it hurt," and sharp-eared fans wondered if it was because the Material Girl’s dad was in the audience. . . . George W. Bush says D.C. politics are nastier than he expected. "I didn’t realize Washington was going to be so bitter," the president says in the August issue of Ladies Home Journal. "Austin was not a bitter place. Washington turns out to be a lot different town than I envisioned it to be."