The first part of this article is about Sheryl Crow who is engaged to Lance Armstrong. Lance is a strong Bush supporter who should be listening to his wife to be. She doesn't think much of Bush. Before you read this take a look at Crow. sheryl-crow.biz Would you believe she is 43 years old? She sure doesn't look like it. Isn't that a lovely smile?
The second part is about Macaulay Culkin and I only included it because it was on the same page and I didn't know he was so troubled.
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Posted on Sun, Jan. 15, 2006
Crow takes swipe at Bush
George Rush and Joanna Molloy Star Talk
Even when she's perfecting her tan, Sheryl Crow can't get George Bush off her mind.
Last weekend, the folks at Ritz-Carlton hired the Grammy winner to perform at the opening of their 60th hotel, on Grand Cayman. You may recall that Sen. John Kerry blamed the island -- where Enron hid its massive debts -- for America's tax-evasion problem. Although she campaigned for Kerry, Crow wasn't about to knock her host country, especially since the Ritz-Carlton had treated her to a week of scuba-diving and piña coladas.
But she couldn't entirely miss a chance to tee off on Bush.
Like his father, the president has sought to turn America into "an imperial power and create strongholds over oil-heavy countries in order for us to control and manipulate them," she told us. "Now, if we pull out (of Iraq) we are going to leave a complete and total mess. We don't even know who we're fighting over there."
Meanwhile, Crow deftly deflected questions about when she and supercyclist fiance Lance Armstrong plan to marry -- and whether it's true they've been visiting fertility specialists.
"I read that," the 43-year-old stunner said with a smile. "That's very exciting. I hope it works out well for them."
Crow recalled that, ever since she met Armstrong, she's been reading that "I've been going to fertility clinics, and that I got married in Portland about two years ago.
"I can laugh about it. But in the privacy of my own home, it grieves me, because those are such... personal topics. That somebody would feel they have the right to write about it is grotesque."
Also putting on the Ritz at developer Michael Ryan's resort was Tony Bennett, who delivered a swinging set. Others on hand included Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Meloni, Chloe Sevigny and Steve Case. Rosario Dawson canceled at the last minute because, she said,"God told me not to come," said a source. No one partied later than "Entourage" star Adrian Grenier, who was spotted having breakfast with Gillian Turner, a fetching redhead.
Home alone|
Macaulay Culkin still finds it risky staying home alone -- but at age 25, his chief threat may be himself.
Though he has survived child stardom to become a serious actor, it seems the thought of taking his own life has crossed his mind. At least, that's a conclusion you could draw reading his auto-biographical novel, "Junior."
Culkin's alter ego, Junior, keeps a cup of pills in a closet. "Sometimes when I've had enough to drink I take them out of their protective closet and let them roll around my fingers," he writes. "I wonder if I should take them. If I could... I could cut my wrists. If you're really serious about doing a thing like that. There's a million ways to do it. I prefer my cup of pills."
Junior tends to ramble and lose his train of thought. But he keeps returning to his father, the failed actor who wanted his son to be the star he never was.
Mac describes the novel's Kit Culkin stand-in as both "a loving man who looked out for the best interest of his family" and "a cold-blooded (person) who ripped my family apart from the inside out."
Culkin writes about a party a teenage Junior throws for his friends in a suite at a fancy hotel one weekend, when they make a slight mess of the place.
"My father woke me up by dragging me out of bed by my face," the "Good Son" star writes. "But my father didn't beat me in front of my friends, because that would have been embarrassing.... Instead he lined all of my friends up at the front door, pulled out his wallet, and one by one he handed each of them a fresh 20-dollar bill and told them never to speak to me again. And the kicker was they took it."
Junior also says: "My father liked to hit things. His favorite thing to hit was my mother. He hurt her a lot."
Once, as the family strolled down a street, Culkin writes, "Father got very angry and began shamelessly beating my mother over the head over and over again with his fist right in front of everyone on the street."
Because of his family troubles, Junior attests, he "learned how to read court papers when I was 14 years old."
When he was 13, he was frightened by a mob of paparazzi on a press line. "So I did what my gut was telling me to do: I ran." After thundering jeers from the photographers, Junior's father forced him back on the red carpet.
"The mob of photographers didn't cheer when I returned, of course. They just yelled, 'Do that chicken dance, monkey boy!' and I obliged, knowing that they were killing any speck of joy I used to have for my work."
Kit Culkin couldn't be reached for comment.
"Junior," from Miramax Books, hits stores in March.
more... but it's just hollywood gossip which I just skimmed and didn't see anything interesting---- montereyherald.com |
