Issue date: June 27, 1999
Is Kate Capshaw,
Steven Spielberg's wife, the mother of all his seven children? She
looks much too young.
Audrey Hoover, Clearfield, Pa.
The director's second wife is a fit 45 and birth mother of four; one is from her first marriage. Together, they've adopted two and had three. Spielberg has a son from his first marriage, to actress Amy Irving. Capshaw continues acting part time but says motherhood prepared her for producing her current movie, The Love Letter. "I never sit down during the day. I'll be in the kitchen with the phone cradled, a baby on one hip, trying to flip pancakes." She's careful about the films her kids see. "I don't take [them] to see R's. And the little ones, I'm very careful what PG-13s they see. PG-13 can be suggestive. It raises questions they don't really need to have answered right now."
Where is
talented actress-singer Vanessa L. Williams lately? She had a splashy
movie last summer. Is she working on any new films?
Janet Purdy-Graham, Trenton, N.J.
The deposed Miss America spent part of the spring in Spain
making Man of La Mancha for TNT and will be in two fall films,
including one her three kids will love: Adventures of Elmo in
Grouchland. Along with work, she's a divorced mom (her ex is
Ramon Hervey, her former publicist and manager) doing carpool duty
and attending kids' concerts and plays in Chappaqua, N.Y., near
her hometown of Millwood. Her parents often help out with the children,
ages 12, 10 and 6. Somehow, Williams, 36, also finds time for romance:
She's dating the L.A. Lakers' Rick Fox.
After Cleveland
Indians outfielder David Justice divorced actress Halle Berry, I
read plenty about how she was putting life back together. What about
him?
Durwyn Robinson, Los Angeles
Divorced two years ago, Justice, 33, now makes his off-season home near his hometown of Covington, Ky., in the Cincinnati area. He has no steady girlfriend. "Going through my divorce was unbelievable," says Justice, who's paid $7 million a season. "A lot of the things I heard about myself were untrue. There's no reason to jump into another relationship till I realize what I want. And everything I need is right in Cincinnati: my friends, my mom." Justice once wanted a law enforcement career. "I wanted to be at the highest level; that's the FBI. I never thought of being in the big leagues, even after I got drafted."
Singing
sensation 98 had hit singles in Because of You and The Hardest Thing,
a platinum CD and a Grammy nomination for a song on the Mulan soundtrack.
Are they here to stay?
Dawn Blake, Zanesville, Ohio
"They have the emotional and spiritual fiber to stay together," declares David Bischoff, who as "Kristin Sparks" wrote the new fan book 98 and Getting Hotter. The Ohio quartet model themselves after R&B's Boyz II Men, whose staying power is undisputed; they're not a boy band like 'N Sync who just "dance well and have catchy songs," says Bischoff. "98 are good-looking guys, but they're older. A lot of the fans I encounter are adults."
How did
Chelsea Clinton have time to travel with her mother while studying
at Stanford? What is she doing on her summer break?
Betty Bjerke, Hood River, Ore.
Her plans are never announced, but it's a good bet there'll be
more travel with her mother and time on vacation with both parents
in August. Chelsea's earlier travels with the first lady were on
breaks from Stanford, the California university where the 19-year-old
will be a junior this fall. Author Carl Anthony, now writing a book
on first families, says the Clintons' mother-daughter bond is extraordinary:
"Chelsea makes life real for Hillary. You think of her as a teenage
girl, but she is so articulate, focused and confident. It's easy
to see her as her mother's closest friend."
Contributing: Nancy Mills, Bob Nightengale, Laura Elizabeth Pohl
This week's
Birthdays
June 27: Tobey Maguire, 24; Ross Perot, 69.
June 28: Aileen Quinn, 28; John Cusack, 33; Mel Brooks, 73.
June 29: Sharon Lawrence, 38; Fred Grandy, 51.
June 30: Mike Tyson, 33; Lena Horne, 82.
July 1: Liv Tyler, 22; Pamela Lee, 32; Andre Braugher, 37; Deborah
Harry, 54.
July 2: Richard Petty, 62.
July 3: Kevin Hearn, 30; Tom Cruise, 37.
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