All this time we thought “Real Housewives of New York” star Bethany Frankel had a rockin’ body, but apparently we never saw her in a low cut dress. Yikes. Those cockeyed implants are very distracting. Bethany is promoting her low calorie “Skinny Girl Margarita” at the Montauk Yacht Club. Maybe she went to the same plastic surgeon as Tori Spelling.
This photo proves that even former models can make a fashion mistake. Naturally beautiful Milla Jovovich needs to rethink this look. She’s usually dressed to kill – we especially loved her looks in “The Fifth Element.” Milla has spent the summer at a Michigan prison filming “Stone” – a thriller with Edward Norton and Robert Deniro. Norton plays a sneaky inmate who arranges to have his sexy wife start a flirtation with the prison warden played by Deniro.
From the look of her, you’d never guess that “Wonder Woman” Lynda Carter was in rehab about this time last year. She showed up looking fabulous at a book store in Toronto promoting her CD “At Last.” Now that her kids have grown up, Lynda has resumed her singing career onstage and in cabaret. The former Miss World USA is in fine form to do so.
Julia Child’s infatuation with mid-century Paris and the city’s cuisine makes for a delicious true story about her life there in the delightful “Julie & Julia.” Meryl Streep is thoroughly convincing as the towering and enthusiastic Julia and Stanley Tucci is endearing as her supportive husband. Their eventful life in France is serious competition for Amy Adams’ contrasting life in modern New York, but Amy is up for the challenge. All in all, the movie is a triumph for Nora Ephron – we thought mostly women would love this movie, but men seem to like it just as much. We walked out of the movie craving beef bourguignon. And Julia would be proud to hear that her cookbooks have hit the best seller list again.
It looks like Olivia Newton John’s boyfriend Patrick McDermott, who abruptly disappeared in 2005, has been living in Mexico and doesn’t want to be found. Olivia was shocked when Patrick went missing off a fishing boat and was thought to be drowned. But it seems the bankrupt cameraman faked his death to avoid bills and responsibilities. Private investigators hired to locate Patrick say they have received faxes from a friend of Patrick asking them to stop the search and leave him alone. But he owes child support to a former wife so that won’t happen. Fortunately Olivia dodged a bullet – she has since married John Easterling and is living happily ever after.
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He’s only been officially split from Shannon Elizabeth for two days and already Derek Hough is looking a little like a lonely guy. Derek and Shannon announced that their romance was over with matching tweet posts on Friday. He’s seen here skateboarding to a tanning salon. After a tanning session he meandered on wheels into The Grove.
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Paula Abdul looked like she was walking on air at LAX this weekend. You’d think she didn’t have a care in the world. (Maybe she doesn’t. We still maintain that she will return to American Idol.) She was NOT happy to find a police officer writing a ticket for her limo driver. Paula turned on the charm, but the cop wouldn’t budge. He obviously had no sympathy for her career dilemma.
Willy DeVille, and find this tribute painful to write. (Willy died of pancreatic cancer a few days ago.) We’ll, never forget the first time we saw Willy – his band Mink DeVille performed on Saturday Night Live. He was mesmerizing. It was the height of punk music and Willy took it to another level- he dressed like a cross between a lanky English fop and a Latino pimp. A swirling pompadour, frock coats, purple and black, earrings, ruffles, the first gold front tooth we ever saw, and he managed to smoke and chew gum while he sang. It was love at first sight. He sang passionate ghetto love songs and also songs about Italian shoes and Cadillacs. We saw Willy sing “Save the Last Dance For Me” in the basement of a Sunset Strip club and will never forget his tender, yearning version of a great song. A sensitive, macho, dandy who brought street elegance to punk, he became a huge star in Europe, but America never quite understood him. We saw him perform every chance we got and were delighted to meet him and find out he was friendly and modest and loved his wife and dogs. The last time we saw him he gave us the white wife-beater undershirt off his back, and autographed it with a magic marker “Love, Willy.” We miss him terribly.
The mystery of the parentage of Michael Jackson’s kids just took another twist, and this is a BIG one! English actor and former child star (above right, 1968’s “Oliver!”) Mark Lester,51, has confessed to the News of the World that he donated sperm for Michael Jackson to have children! It makes sense. Long ago we predicted that the father of Michael’s children was probably Macaulay Culkin, but we didn’t realize he had such a close friendship (since 1981) with another cute blonde child actor – Mark Lester. Certainly Michael would want his children to look like one of his favorite little boys. Mark says he AGREED to donate his sperm so Michael could start a family after he divorced Lisa Marie Presley. SIGNIFICANTLY, Mark is the godfather to all of Michael’s children and Michael was godfather to Mark’s four children. Mark says he has stepped forward now because he has been cut off from the kids since Katherine Jackson got custody. He’s eager to have a DNA test. WE can hardly wait!
Swine flu finally reared it’s ugly head in Hollywood and naturally everybody panicked- for awhile. Calmer heads eventually prevailed. Last week the cast and crew of Brothers & Sisters, including Sally Field, Rob Lowe, Calista Flockhart, and Rachel Griffiths, received ominous phone calls from the production office telling them that “someone” connected to the show had tested POSITIVE for swine flu, but they refused to identify who it was. The caller told everyone NOT to report for work the next day until further notice. The cast and crew were alarmed, but the next day they were reassured that docs declared it was safe to return to the set – but anyone who felt even slightly ill should stay home. We’re betting that germ conscious actors avoided the craft table for awhile.