Issue Date: March 25, 2007
Are Emily Blunt and Michael Bublé a couple? I thought I heard his name paired with hers at the Golden Globe Awards.
Lulu Gergel, Horseheads, N.Y.
You did. They were at the Globes together; she won one. The adorable couple has been on red carpets all awards season both here and in England.
I saw the 2005 movie "The Family Stone" for a second time recently and really enjoyed Rachel McAdams' performance. She was so popular for a while. What happened?
Judi Stone, Highland Park, Ill.
After laying low last year, McAdams can be seen with cotton-candy-pink streaks in her hair on the April cover of "Elle" magazine. The fashion periodical plucked her to model couture that debuted during fashion week in Paris. Come fall, the 28-year-old actress will be seen with Pierce Brosnan in the crime drama "Married Life." And with engagement rumors orbiting McAdams and "Notebook" co-star Ryan Gosling, maybe she'll soon have a married life, too.
What happened to Megan Mullally's talk show? I can't find it.
Laura Sager, Palm Springs, Calif.
Sorry, Laura, but NBC canceled it in early January after four months of low ratings. It's too bad: Mullally had hoped the show would begin a new chapter in her career.
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Rhea Perlman loves kids. She has three of her own, but they are nearly grown. That's probably why she started writing her "Otto Undercover" series of children's books: "to hang on to them a little longer," she tells me. Otto, a race car driver/secret agent/singer with a penchant for palindromes and other backward words, is based on stories Perlman told her youngest, son Jake, who's now a college freshman. She says she and husband Danny DeVito both told a lot of stories to their kids, mostly to amuse them on car trips or during restaurant waits, and "later on, I didn't want to lose them." Her fifth book, "Otto Undercover: The Brink of Ex-stink-tion," hit stores earlier this month. Perlman, 58, is a reader, too, preferring novels to non-fiction, "although I keep buying non-fiction because I keep watching Jon Stewart and seeing all these (political) authors, and I think I should read them."
Is Eva La Rue, on "CSI: Miami," married? Does she have children? I remember her from the daytime soap "All My Children."
Bob Miller, Lillian, Ala.
La Rue, 40, is a busy mom to daughter Kaya, 5, from her marriage to John Callahan, who played her husband on "AMC." They divorced in 2004. Her first husband was John O'Hurley, a hit on "Dancing with the Stars." "He couldn't dance a lick before," she tells us. "My mom tried to teach him a waltz for our wedding day, but he couldn't get it." La Rue has hosted the Miss America Pageant and other shows, but she has a new job that's more serious -- the documentary "Uganda: Peril to Pearl." "I get to interview Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Kofi Annan. I feel like a relative idiot, but I'm excited."
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Laura Bell Bundy has much in common with Reese Witherspoon, although she didn't know they had the same first name until I told her (Witherspoon is actually Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon). Bundy, 25, is the bundle of energy who is creating for the Broadway stage the "Legally Blonde" character Elle Woods that made Witherspoon a bankable star. "There's a template that was beautifully created by Reese," says the Lexington, Ky., native, also working on a new album. "And I have a lot in common with Elle." Bundy has worked professionally since she was 9, so she knows not to put too much stock in early reviews. But I know that when she played San Francisco, they loved her.
What is humor columnist Dave Barry up to these days? I know he took a break in 2005 from his column to do "other things." Any chance his column will return?
Judith Stephens, Orwigsburg, Pa.
"My column and I remain good friends, but we will continue to date other people," Barry, 59, quips. By "other," he means the official blog, DaveBarry.com, that reflects his quirky humor. "On the blog, I'm often just sharing something from the news I think people might find funny," says the Pulitzer Prize winner, via e-mail. "I'll post a news item about, say, caterpillar flatulence, and I'll check back an hour later and somehow the commenters have turned it into an argument about Barry Manilow." In his extra free time, the writer is finishing up his Peter Pan prequel trifecta with the children's book "Peter and the Secret of Rundoon," due out this fall. And also, "as you would expect, I'm doing a lot of underwear modeling." That last sentence is why, at my house, we love Dave Barry.
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Martin Scorsese, who won his first Oscar for Best Directing last month, got a chuckle from the audience when he said, "Everywhere I go ... doctor's offices, meetings, people would ask why I hadn't won an Oscar." Backstage, however, the director was more philosophical, musing that an earlier win might have changed his approach to making movies or affected his choice of projects. "I'm glad it went this way," said Scorsese, 64, who enjoyed that George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg gave him the award. "Francis has been like a big brother in my life. Spielberg and Lucas and I worked together ... helped each other. It's almost like a private little film school."
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BIRTHDAYS
March 25: Sarah Jessica Parker, 42; Marcia Cross, 45; Aretha Franklin, 65
March 26: Keira Knightley, 22; Kenny Chesney, 39
March 27: Fergie, 32; Mariah Carey, 37
March 28: Julia Stiles, 26; Vince Vaughn, 37; Reba McEntire, 52
March 29: Lucy Lawless, 39
March 30: Norah Jones, 28; Celine Dion, 39; Eric Clapton, 62; Warren Beatty, 70
March 31: Ewan McGregor, 36
Contributing: Jon Tollestrup
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