The Apple is back for another roundup of items and updates from the world of Adam Rothenberg. Enjoy.

In the first part of a two-part Entertainment Tonight interview with Adam’s Mad Money co-star Katie Holmes, we picked up the confirmation that there will be “on-screen passion” between the two in the flick and also nabbed the brooding production still used above. Nice.

Many thanks to Myma over at katieholmes.com for the video.

Mad Money was expected to wrap production on June 8th, which would have been Friday. Still no official site or release date, but a fairly awful poster for Mad Money has popped up (we stole our copy from Katie-Holmes.org) that I’m personally hoping is some kind of draft placeholder thing.

 

We can also give a big thanks to Katie-Holmes.org for the May 11th production still above, which was also featured in the May 28th Life & Style as part of a little Katie-related piece which noted that an insider claims that she and Adam have “great rapport.”

The Mariah Carey fansites have been tracking the development of Tennessee pretty closely and recently reported rumors that the film might debut at a film festival this fall to be followed by a general release in 2008. Or something. Nobody really knows at this point is what we’re saying, although David Cronenberg (director Aaron Woodley’s uncle) has seen a rough cut and given a big thumbs up to Carey’s performance. Sadly, no word on what DC thought of our man Adam.

Heading into Week 2 of Adam’s breakthrough role as “Man Katie Holmes Might or Might Not Be Flirting With,” we here at the Apple thought we’d round up some of the more Adam-centric tidbits from the mountain of largely redundant press clippings we’ve been sorting through.

Expanding on the story they manufactured debuted back in April was Star magazine, whose May 14th cover featured the on-set snap as part of their second Adam appearance. As we noted, there’s been a slew of stories on this rumor, from Fox News to MSNBC, from TMZ to Defamer, largely based on the Life & Style report and mostly retreads of the same old, same old.

Going a bit beyond to dig out some nice trivia for the newbies was the May 14th issue of InTouch. Although insisting that Tom totally trusts Katie, the publication nevertheless felt the need to feature a little box comparing the “sexy” “rising star” Adam Rothenberg to a curiously ticked-off-looking Tom Cruise, satisfying one query by our commenters Tom and Joslin, who wanted to know Adam’s height (5′11″). (We should note they also claim he made his reputation on the Broadway stage while the closest he’s been thus far is just off Broadway on 8th Avenue, so we’d take the height assertion with a grain of salt.)

In addition, they mention that Adam is from the fine state of New Jersey, that he served in Army at Fort Bliss in Texas and even manage to work in a little plug for Tennessee, which should be moviegoers’ first real chance to get to know him as an actor.

Big thanks to Sammie323 for the fine scans of this piece; we would have missed it otherwise.

And, finally, in addition to all the stuff that everybody else already reported on days before the magazine hit the stores, the Life & Style piece gets bonus points for finding a photo of Tom Cruise that kind of sort of makes him look like Adam and for the above quote from Adam’s presumably proud mother, Gillian. (Unfortunately, they lose points for reversing one of the production shots on their cover, which always makes people look kind of creepy.)

That’s all we’ve got for now, but we expect this to become a regular feature here at the Apple as we watch Adam’s career unfold over the coming months, so check back in with us later for more news.

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.

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…)