COLD FEET: A year ago Kelly Osbourne accepted male model Luke Worrall’s marriage proposal. So if they’re not married by now, why don’t they at least have a date picked out? Kelly says, “Luke’s unpredictable and sweet, not many men his age are willing to admit how much they care.” But, the reality TV star must be having a bad case of cold feet, because she worries, “A lot of times, I’ve found people get married for the wrong reasons. I know people think I’m crazy, but I just don’t want to do it right now.”
YOUNG LOVE: The two Taylors, Lautner and Swift may have refused, so far, to admit that they’re officially a couple, but they’re certainly telegraphing “couple status” to anyone watching. Taylor Swift arranged an intimate dinner in Studio City so she could introduce her hunk to her mom. Now, they’ve gone to an L.A. Kings hockey game and sitting side by side ignored the action on the ice. They were that totally preoccupied starring into each other’s eyes that onlookers were soon convinced they’d managed to totally forget everything and everybody else.
RIDING A ROCKET: Does Justin Timberlake ever have anything, other than his love life, that doesn’t come up a winner? When he releases a song or a video, it goes straight to the top of the charts. He released his own clothing and accessories line and zoom, up it, too, went – right through the roof. Now, he’s coming out with a brand of tequila and even before it’s out, it’s already been chosen the official sponsor of all Live Nation venues all across the country. The wonder is when does he find time for his declared passion...golf
HE CAN ONLY WISH: Hunky Mario Lopez wants the world to know that while he certainly appreciates the gorgeous Eva Longoria Parker, he could never get romantically involved with her. Never mind that Longoria Parker is already married to San Antonio Spurs basketball star Tony Parker, and therefore unavailable, Lopez says they’re such close friends that it would feel like kissing his sister. In fact, the former “Saved By The Bell” star maintains, “I’ve known her for so long it would seem incestuous. We’re the same age, our families know each other, and we’re from the same culture, we go back, way back. It would be too weird.
WHO’S GUARDING WHO: If Lindsay Lohan didn’t have bad luck, she wouldn’t have any. The other night she and her bodyguard were at a trendy Hollywood club and they got separated. As soon as the muscleman realized they were apart, he set about to rejoin his charge, but there as one of those yellow police tapes stretched between them. He ended up getting detained by the vigilant LAPD who weren’t going to let him go until the Georgia Rule star came out looking for him and identified him.
GIRLISH: Country star and emerging movie star Taylor Swift loves talking about her love of hockey. So when she was invited on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” she thought she’d be asked about that and her very successful country music career. But Ellen threw in a switch up and began to ask about her hunk, Taylor Lautner. Ellen soon found out that all she was going to get was shy smiles while Taylor sat staring into her hands. The songbird was asked if her man was a good kisser and she ended up giggling like the schoolgirl she so recently was. It doesn’t take much to read that sign language!
A PROPHET IN HER OWN TIME: Who will end up with the ‘Braggin rights or on the Red Carpet?” Marilyn Lewis, California’s favorite restaurant gal of Kate Mantilini, was also an incredible fashion-forward designer 40 years ago called Cardinali. She designed all of Marlo Thomas’ clothes in her hit TV show, “That Girl”—the precursor to “Sex and the City” (girl alone in NY but without sex). Marilyn was the Patricia Fields of the ‘60s and the ‘70s...her designs were the cutting edge and always with a lady like wink and a touch of sensuality. Marilyn did not want them cut up for patterns, or laying in boxes. She wanted to donate them to KCET/PBS so they would stay alive on gorgeous women of today and be sold at auction. Her incredible clothes were featured at Saks 5th Ave., Neiman’s, and Bergdorf Goodman. Among her beautiful and rich clientele were Nancy Reagan in her Cardinali Red Chiffon for the party she threw for Frank Sinatra. James Galanos even once told our Marilyn recently how great she was and that all the “boys club” were waching what she did. Cardinali was the one who influenced the designers of today, and now they will dance again worn by a whole new generation. KCET showcases Marilyn’s exremely modern vintage pieces this month.
IT’S REALLY OVER: The gossips had convinced themselves and most everybody else that Jude Law had taken advantage of the opportunity of starring on Broadway at the same time as ex-girlfriend Sienna Miller by re-kindling their once white hot affair. The giddier ones were even whispering about a trip down the aisle, after all they were working just one block apart on the Great White Way. But Law came out, the meanie, and let everybody know in no uncertain terms, “We’re just friends and may run into each other occasionally, but that’s all it is.”
SHE’S GOT TO BE KIDDING, RIGHT?: Jessica Simpson hasn’t had the greatest luck in the romance department lately. The beauty has worked her way through an impressive string of athletes and musicians in the last four years, including such names as Tony Romo and John Mayer. This has caused the girl with the stellar looks to take some time to re-think the kind of men she wants to date. The result of her meditations is a decision to avoid the types she’s gone with before and now she only wants to date braniacs. Simpson allows, “I don’t like to be bored. Unfortunately I can reach boredom very quickly and easily. So, now I’m looking for intellectual men – guys who can keep me intrigued!”
HAPPILY SINGLE: Chanteuse Kelly Rowland has her own take on life. The beauty has decided to march only to her own drummer and not to worry about what her friends are doing or others might think of her decisions. The songbird even claims to have found the beauty in being single, “I like being by myself. If I want people around, the I see my friends. When I want a date, I’ll get one. The only person I need to make happy is me.”
A ROSE BY ANY NAME: If you think you know Dame Judi Dench, Kevin Spacey says you’ve got another think coming. The American actor who is the Director of the Old Vic in London laughs that people who think that Ms. Dench is a prim and proper English M’Lady just don’t know the same person he does. In fact, Spacey claims that Dench is more than ready to walk away from her title. He claims, “She’s hilarious and nothing close to the characters she plays. Truth be told, she’s bored silly with all that stuff and prefers to be just Judi.”
NO RESPECT: It seems everybody has been having a difficult time of it lately. Over in Blighty, the folks who own the Terminator franchise have offered to sell it, but they know what they have and are not going to be hold a fire sale. Joss Whedon, who created the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” franchise, offered a bid of $10,000. They didn’t even bother responding and met his letter with icy silence. After all, the most recent sequel made $371 million worldwide!
GETTING EVEN: Revenge, they say, is a dish best eaten cold. It’s been a bit more than a year since Chris Brown beat Rihanna in a car, and during all this time the songstress has been demurely quiet. But, now comes what can only be a shot fired right at Brown by his very EX girlfriend. A local scribe asked where Rihanna hoped to be in ten years and the now fully healed beauty riposted, “I hope to find love in that time. It’d be really annoying to reach thirty-one without EVER HAVING BEEN IN LOVE!” She must just have been heavily “in like.”
INTO THE CLOUDS: Brazilian beauty Gisele Bundchen had made many men’s hearts and imaginations take flight. Now, the beauty who wore wings when a Victoria’s Secret model, has decided to take off for the clouds for herself and for real! The supermodel has been quietly taking piloting lessons and has passed the first part of her helicopter flying exam. By the time her baby is born, she’ll most probably have her license, because she is one girl who perseveres.
THE PRESIDENT SELECTED: President Obama has named some new members of his Committee on Arts and the Humanities, which is co-chaired by George Stevens, Jr. and First Lady Michelle Obama. The selectees are a luminous group and include Forest Whitaker, Sarah Jessica Parker and Edward Norton. This is the Committee which selects the honorees each year for the Kennedy Center Honors. The next extravaganza ought to be something really worth watching!
BOW WOW PERKS: Mariah Carey believes that whenever someone stars in a production they should be accorded an entourage. And that’s just what she insisted that her two co-stars in a commercial they all shot together should get, and that’s just what they got. From Carey’s viewpoint it’s just right and proper to take care of fellow actors. The actors in question are J.J. and Cha Cha, and they are Carey’s two cute Jack Russell Terriers. “After all they co-starred with me, I had an entourage, so they should have one too” was the way she looked at it.
HE KNOWS: Ozzy Osbourne knows why he’s still around, after all those wild years of carrying on an abuse of his body, the former Black Sabbath singer says, “If I’d never met and fallen in love with Sharon, I’d be dead by now.” He freely admits, “If I’d never met and fallen in love with Sharon, I’d be dead by now. I’d have killed myself. She was patient and stuck by me. She is the best thing that ever happened to me. She stuck it out; her being sober saved me.”
CAN YOU SAY ‘COUGAR’?: Director Sam Taylor-Wood separated quietly last year from her husband, art dealer Jay Jopling. The forty-two year old director of the John Lennon bio-flick Nowhere Boy has finally dropped the other shoe. She’s become engaged to the nineteen year-old actor Aaron Johnson whom she cast in her movie to play the young Lennon. Taylor-Wood isn’t bothered by the twenty-three year difference in their ages. The producers of “Cougartown” ought to get on the phone right away. Talk about perfect type casting!
NO HE WON’T: Everybody knows that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe took it all off on stage in both the West End and on Broadway. It looks like so many who couldn’t get to either location were left wanting. Every time Radcliffe is in another production rumors begin swirling that he’s going to go nude again. The newest rumor is circulating wildly, but a tired of it all Radcliffe has let it be known that it just isn’t so. “This whole thing is a complete fabrication,” the hunky twenty year-old insists.
TRIMMING THE MANE: Russell Brand knows that if he walked around looking as groomed as Robert Pattinson it could restrict his future movie roles. He has his sights set on Hollywood, especially since he’s been going out with Katie Price. Although he denies he would cut off his mane in order to play the lead in a remake of Dudley Moore’s Arthur, he knows that looking like a homeless person means he’ll only be able to play tramps. He says, “I can’t keep playing long haired scruffy men, otherwise I will go nowhere.”