In the interests of full disclosure, it should be noted that we here at the Apple, while initially amused by gossip about the alleged AdKat hookup, are getting a wee bit bored with the whole thing. At least until the shots of a topless Adam and a Tomless Katie canoodling about Shreveport come out. We’re saying we’d like to see some documentation on this thing. Until then, we’re all about the acting, baby.

Despite this, we couldn’t help but find ourselves giddy like schoolchildren at the inclusion of Adam on the May 2nd episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. We don’t actually know how Adam feels about KO, but the staff here at the Apple have been fans since his first pairing with once-and-current tag team partner Dan Patrick on SportsCenter, so it was a big cheap thrill for us to have two of our favorite men sharing the airwaves if only for a moment.

Watch it! Before the video police shut us down.

Recap after the jump. (more…)

We here at the Apple have an undeniable public record in support of the notion that Adam Rothenberg is “hot” and possesses a “lovely ass.” And we heartily concur with Star magazine’s belief in the overpowering sexiness of Adam’s “acting cred.” So we would certainly never scoff at the notion of any woman swooning under the effects of the patent-pending Rothenberg charm.

Nevertheless, we don’t know what to make of the fact that Mad Money co-star Katie Holmes didn’t immediately leap from Adam’s arms when the director called “cut.” Our first instinct from looking at the photos that have leaked out was that they were getting a note from the director and just stayed put, perhaps waiting to go again. Hey, we’ve all been there.

But when Jeannette Walls informed us that Life & Style magazine features a set insider’s report that “(Katie and Adam) lingered after … and it got everyone talking” and “They shot a scene in which Adam wrapped his arms around Katie’s waist, then the two of them had an intimate discussion,” we didn’t know what to think. It’s Jeannette Walls, people! She would never steer us wrong. After all, “Katie was touching Adam’s arm while they were talking, like girls do when they like somebody,” which is sooooo true.

Still reeling from these revelations, we were faced with the brain-teaser of how to reconcile Star’s earlier report that Tom Cruise is attempting to interfere with a steamy scene between our Adam and Katie when TMZ swears that “Katie’s not supposed to have any love interest in the flick”? It’s truly a mystery.

As we attempt to puzzle this one out, we’d like to give a big thanks to both TMZ and MSNBC’s Walls for driving a passel of new Adam-curious readers our way. We’ve got our fingers crossed that the bandwidth holds out.

Well, what do you know? Here’s our Adam lovin’, touchin’, and squeezin’ the divine Ms. Katie Holmes on the set of Mad Money.

The picture above — and this one — are candid, between the takes, shots snapped by some intrepid soul… who then, apparently, floated them all over the Internet this past week.

Hey, we’re not complaining. The Apple is just happy to see that Adam has a good “handle” on his current situation.

Thanks to Ann and Google for the heads up about the photos.

By which I mean, the latest copy of Star magazine was borne from a neighborhood bodega to my apartment this past week.

Why would I buy such a magazine, you might ask? Well, there just so happened to be an adorable little photo in the lower left hand corner. What choice did I have? (more…)

Although I must admit that I was a little saddened to discover that this flick wasn’t a remake of 1980’s How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, I was overjoyed to hear that Adam would be appearing in it. Written and directed by Callie Khouri of Thelma & Louise fame and starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes, Mad Money appears to continue our favorite thespian’s well-established pattern of appealing to those of us mercifully free from the burden of the Y-chromosome.

Adam’s certainly on a roll these days. It is, most definitely, on.

Mad Money

A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)’s American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash that surrounds her night after night ultimately proves too powerful to resist, Bridget teams with two of the other cleaners for a criminal exercise in creative moneymaking. Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes co-star in a crime comedy inspired by actual events. (All-Movie Guide)

Cast: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Roger R. Cross, Adam Rothenberg
Director: Callie Khouri
Producers: James Acheson, Jay Cohen, Frank DeMartini
Writers: Glenn Gers, Callie Khouri

For more information:
     imdb entry

Update (05/02/2007):
The cast now includes Ted Danson and a pair of HITG! veterans, Thelma & Louise co-star Christopher McDonald and the great comedic character actor Stephen Root.