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Friday, June 30, 2006
Wedding bells for Janet and Jermaine?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We were more than a little intrigued by “Entertainment Tonight’s” ever-so-brief chat with Atlantans Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson on the red carpet at the BET Music Awards on Tuesday night. The music mogul and singer/actress were clowning around when Dupri suddenly announced “We’re getting married on Sept. 26!” as Jackson giggled. In a voice-over, “Entertainment Tonight” claimed Dupri was kidding. Still, when we e-mailed Patti Webster, the couple’s rep, on Thursday inquiring about the statement, Webster coyly replied, “Good question …” Hmmm, maybe we shouldn’t have immediately disregarded those whisperings around town that the newly svelte Ms. Jackson is scouting out alterations on a previously purchased designer wedding gown …
‘The View’ without Star
Barbara Walters desperately tried to move on from the drama of “Stargate” on Thursday morning on “The View” with “One Life To Live” actress Renee Goldsberry guest-hosting in Star Jones Reynolds’ still-warm seat. While Goldsberry (who has guest-hosted on the show previously) was her usual informed, savvy, gorgeous self, Walters ended up choking on one of her own feet just moments into the telecast.
Walters conceded that, as the grand dame of ABC News, she doesn’t actually watch her network’s daytime dramas when not starring in one herself. So she asked Goldsberry, “What do you do on ‘One Life to Live’? ” Goldsberry replied, “I play an attorney.”
The studio audience immediately erupted in nervous laughter. Jones Reynolds, you see, prior to her occupation as a Bridezilla, was best known on “The View” as a legal eagle. As the blood entertainingly drained from her face, Walters gasped, “Heaven help me!”
Incidentally, we were lucky enough to catch a link that www.defamer.com briefly posted online Thursday. The vilification video clip of Walters publicly banishing Jones Reynolds came with a “Passive-Aggression-o-meter” marking levels starting at “Disapproving Church Lady” and maxing out at “British Royalty.”
Fort Benning rallies the troops for Hanks
Actor Tom Hanks was inducted in absentia Thursday at Fort Benning as an honorary member of the U.S. Army’s Ranger Hall of Fame for his portrayal of a World War II Army Ranger company commander in the movie “Saving Private Ryan.” He was also recognized for his continuing commitment to honoring those who served in the war.
Besides his role in “Saving Private Ryan,” Hanks was cited for serving as the national spokesman for the World War II Memorial Campaign, for being the honorary chairman of the D-Day Museum Capital Campaign and for his role in writing and helping to produce the Emmy Award-winning miniseries, “Band of Brothers.”
Perhaps scared away by the swarms of paparazzi loitering around Fort Benning, Hanks was unable to attend the induction ceremony. He becomes the first actor to receive such an honor.
Each year, the Army’s elite Ranger units and regimental associations nominate few Ranger Hall of Fame candidates, who are scrutinized by a selection board. All but honorary inductees like Hanks have to be graduates of the Army’s grueling Ranger School at Fort Benning, or they have to have served in a Ranger unit.
The latest 17 inductees were mostly career soldiers, ranging from generals to sergeants.
Bizarre Bazaar cover
Pregnant pop singer Britney Spears is baring nearly all on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine. How naked is she, you ask? The mere fact that we’re not running said cover in this space should tell you something.
The singer posed in the buff for the cover of the August issue; there’s also a photo spread inside. On the cover, Spears, who is sitting, cups her breasts with her hands and crosses her legs while showing her protruding belly and smiling for the camera of lensman Alexi Lubomirski.
“Nothing to wear?” a cover headline asks. “487 best new ideas inside.”
The singer is also sporting new darker-hued tresses.
That’s spelled C-L-A-S-S-Y.
Spears revealed to late-night talk-show host David Letterman last month that she was pregnant with her second child, confirming media reports, ending much speculation and resulting in our first good night’s sleep in months…
Stork report
Mariska Hargitay, star of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and her husband, Peter Hermann, have welcomed their first child, a son named August, People magazine reports.
The baby, who was a week overdue, was born by Caesarean section Wednesday in Los Angeles, weighing 10 pounds, 9 ounces, the magazine said.
“Mother and baby are doing wonderfully,” Hargitay’s publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, was quoted as saying. “She is ecstatic — over the moon.”
Hargitay and Hermann, an actor, married in August 2004.
Celebrity birthdays
Singer Lena Horne is 89. Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke is 55. Actor David Garrison (“Married … With Children”) is 54. Actor David Alan Grier is 51. Actor Vincent D’Onofrio is 47. Actress Monica Potter (“Boston Legal”) is 35. “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino is 22.
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