Model/actress Brooklyn Decker had a tougher time of it early the previous day at the U.S. Open than her husband, Andy Roddick, who whipped a companion Nebraskan Jack Sock in straight sets.
Decker was unknown in a long, big sweatshirt as she waited single for Roddick outside the president's gate at 12:45 a.m. the previous day.
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abruptly, Decker started getting heckled by a group of intolerant journalists who were on the last media bus and thought Decker was tenture of land them up.
The journalists screamed over and over again at Decker: "Hurry up and get on the bus," not realizing she was Roddick's famous wife and not with the media. Decker, who arrived to be embarrassed, walked away toward a players' van. Roddick is in action today against Julien Benneteau.
Kate Hudson's father is set to let lo a tell-all book.
Bill Hudson - the ex-husband of Goldie Hawn - will feast in a riotous manner all about his life in new tome '2 Versions: The Other Side of renown and Family', which will hit stands on November 1.
According to RadarOnline.com, the book will also document Bill's issues with "relating to insanity" after Kate and her brother Oliver were raised by Goldie's life partner Kurt Russell following her divorce from Bill in 1980.
The book's website states: "Life in the a brilliant concentrated light is not without its consequences, and the Hudson family was no exception. While enjoying success as a part of the 1970s musical group The Hudson Brothers, Bill Hudson fell in love and married actress Goldie Hawn.
"After their divorce, Bill found himself in the middle of the controversial issue of parental alienation. His rights as a father to see his children were often played out in the media because Oliver and Kate became actors themselves."
However, Bill, 61, is hopeful he will one day have a "healthy adult relationship" with his children.
The website of '2 Versions: The Other Side of Fame and Family' continued: "His book also talks about how parents can often become alienated from their children when they don't have primary custody. Hopefully, at some point, this family will be able to have a healthy adult relationship before it's too late."
A dog bites a shark, a man captures it on video, and a
you tube viral event is born. This video, featuring two dogs that appear to be experienced shark herders, is closing in on 3 million views on you tube.
The video began to a granary major attention earlier this week, but it was uploaded a little over a month ago by a 32-year-old construction worker from Perth, Australia who has a fishing-and-journey blog proper called Fishing Western Australia.
He titled the "video Dog has a sit or rest on so as to be carried on a shark" and not the more sensationalist ''dog bites shark'', which is perhaps why it took a while to find legs. But now that it has legs, the video is on fire, going from 1.5 million views to close to 3 million on Friday alone.
On July 20, the videographer posted a note on his blog, using his new found fame to plug tourism to Australia.
I would just like to say thank you everyone who has taken an interest in my video, the response has been amazing, i would really like to urge anyone who is thinking of travailing to Australia to include Broom e and Cape Leveque in your trip as they are really amazing places.
Today is Monday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2011. There are 138 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 15, 1961, as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire in a scene captured in a famous photograph.
On this date:
In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had slain.
In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica.
In 1914, the Panama Canal opened to traffic.
In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.
In 1945, in a radio address, Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.
In 1947, India became independent after some 200 years of British rule.
In 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. Bahrain declared its independence from Britain.
In 1974, a gunman attempted to shoot South Korean President Park Chung-hee during a speech; although Park was unhurt, his wife was struck and killed, along with a teenage girl. (The gunman was later executed.)
In 1998, 29 people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh (OH'-mah), Northern Ireland; a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility.
Ten years ago: A Texas appeals court halted the execution of Napoleon Beazley just hours before he was scheduled to die for a murder he'd committed as a teenager. (Beazley was executed in May 2002.) The Air Force gave the go-ahead to build its new F-22 fighter. Robert R. Courtney, a Kansas City, Mo., pharmacist accused of diluting chemotherapy drugs, surrendered to the FBI. (He was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.) Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own.
Five years ago: Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon. Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (teh-ah-ree-kee-noo-ee, Dame teh-ah-ty-rung-ee-kah-hoo), the queen of New Zealand's indigenous Maori population, died on North Island, New Zealand, at age 75.
One year ago: Former medical student Philip Markoff, charged with killing Julissa Brisman, a masseuse he'd met through Craigslist, was found dead in his Boston jail cell, a suicide. Martin Kaymer won the PGA Championship in Sheboygan, Wis., in a three-hole playoff that did not include Dustin Johnson, who was penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Rose Marie is 88. Political activist Phyllis Schlafly is 87. Actor Mike Connors is 86. Game show host Jim Lange is 79. Actress Lori Nelson is 78. Civil rights activist Vernon Jordan is 76. Actor Jim Dale is 76. Actress Pat Priest is 75. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 73. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is 73. Musician Pete York (Spencer Davis Group) is 69. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 67. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 65. Rock singer-musician Tom Johnston (The Doobie Brothers) is 63. Actress Phyllis Smith (TV: "The Office") is 62. Britain's Princess Anne is 61. Actress Tess Harper is 61. Actor Larry Mathews is 56. Actor Zeljko Ivanek (ZEHL'-koh eh-VON'-ehk) is 54. Actor-comedian Rondell Sheridan is 53. Rock singer-musician Matt Johnson (The The) is 50. Movie director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (ihn-YAH'-ee-tu) is 48. Country singer Angela Rae (Wild Horses) is 45. Actor Peter Hermann is 44. Actress Debra Messing is 43. Actor Anthony Anderson is 41. Actor Ben Affleck is 39. Singer Mikey Graham (Boyzone) is 39. Actress Natasha Henstridge is 37. Actress Nicole Paggi is 34. Figure skater Jennifer Kirk is 27. Latin pop singer Belinda (cq) (Film: "The Cheetah Girls 2") is 22. Rock singer Joe Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 22. Actor-singer Carlos Pena is 22. Actress Jennifer Lawrence (TV: "The Bill Engvall Show") is 21.
Heather Locklear's publicist says the U.S. actress is engaged to her longtime beau, actor Jack Wagner.
A representative for the former star of "Spin City," "Melrose Place," "T.J. Hooker" and "Dynasty" confirmed her engagement Friday.
Wagner is a daytime drama veteran, having starred on "General Hospital" and "The Bold and the Beautiful," as well as the nighttime soap "Melrose Place" with Locklear.
Locklear and Wagner have been dating since 2007.
Locklear, 49, was previously married to rockers Tommy Lee and Richie Sambora. She and Sambora have a daughter.
Wagner, 51, was married to his "GH" co-star Kristina Malandro. They have two sons.
Starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel and Bradley Cooper. A story about a guy who is a perennial naysayer. After he attends a self-help seminar, he is challenged to say "yes" to everything for one year. He takes on the challenge, and he won't say "no" to anything.
Twitter handle of the day: William Shatner, @WilliamShatner
His profile says "Philanthropist, actor, producer, father, husband and grandfather." He has 678,625 followers. A recent tweet reads "I'm making a BIG announcement Sunday at the Star Trek convention! Those attending will hear it first. Hope to see you there! My best, Bill."
Having eluded several close calls with death, the one-time actress, Hungarian beauty queen and bon vivant remains bed-ridden in her ornate Bel Air mansion getting massages, sleeping and watching television -- a far cry from the time not that long ago when she was among the most recognizable celebrities on the planet.
It was hard not to think about her as I drove down Sunset Boulevard the other day and was struck by a billboard featuring a giant photo of Zsa Zsa and her ninth husband, Frederic Prinz von Anhalt, on their wedding day, nearly 25 years ago.
After all, there aren't many people in Hollywood who can brag about a 25-year marriage after eight divorces.
With Gabor having survived her 94th birthday and about to celebrate her anniversary in a lavish party this weekend, I began to muse about what makes Zsa Zsa... well Zsa Zsa.
She appeared in more than 40 feature films, including ones directed by such luminaries as Mervyn LeRoy, Vincent Minnelli and John Houston. But her most memorable roles were in B movies, including my personal favorite, "Queen of Outer Space." I'd be hard pressed to call her a movie star.
Her television career was even more prolific, her appearances having ranged from the sublime -- Playhouse 90 -- to the ridiculous -- Mr. Ed, which featured a talking horse. Zsa Zsa actually earned two Emmy nominations for her TV work. But I've never heard her described as a television star, either.
I decided to call an expert on fame and celebrity. USC professor Leo Braudy, author of The Frenzy of Renown, reminded me of the words of noted historian Daniel J. Boorstin: "A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness."
"She's a prime example of a kind of emptiness of Hollywood fame," Braudy told me. "It's really more about your publicity, not what you accomplish."
But from my perspective, Zsa Zsa was a pioneer -- probably the first and biggest Hollywood celeb to become famous for being famous. In that sense, she blazed the path for many of today's bad girls of Hollywood, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton (great-niece by her marriage to Conrad Hilton) to name just two.
Like many of those who mirror her today, Zsa Zsa's romantic liaisons became a subject of huge public interest. Her 1983 union with Mexican attorney and actor Felipe de Alba, for one, dissolved after a single day when it was discovered she had failed to properly divorce number seven, Michael O'Hara. British actor George Sanders was married to both Zsa Zsa and her older sister, Magda, though at different times.
While Paris and Lindsay both had their run-ins with the law, Zsa Zsa was masterful in capitalizing on her troubles. "The Slap Heard 'Round the World" was how the media dubbed her confrontation with a towering motorcycle cop who had the audacity to stop Gabor's gleaming white Rolls Royce convertible for a traffic violation. The incident prompted a series of television appearances and film projects for Zsa Zsa.
John Blanchette, who has represented Gabor for 29 years (a relationship that has lasted longer than any of her marriages) said that Zsa Zsa's unique personality cemented her popularity. "There was just more substance there," Blanchette told me. "Henry Kissinger said she was the smartest woman he ever met."
In fact, Gabor had a classical upbringing. She studied at a Swiss boarding school and her first stage appearance was in an operetta staged in Vienna. Gabor's popularity in Hollywood coincided with a Post WWII fascination with Europe.
"It was like a replay of the comedies of the 30s, with European characters in a Fred Astaire movie,'' Braudy explained. "It gave her credibility as an exotic type."
These days, celebrity seems to come much easier . "They just need to have enough money and be in the right place at the right time," Braudy added. "The trick is staying power."
Zsa Zsa has plenty of that.
She survived a series of medical setbacks that could have ended her life a half dozen times in the last decade. It was almost a year ago that a priest administered last rites to her at her hospital bed. Among the problems: a stroke, a fall requiring hip replacement, blood clots, amputation of a leg above the knee, bleeding that left her in a coma -- from which she emerged only three months ago.
I asked her husband, a relentless promoter known around Hollywood simply as "the prince," what life is like for Zsa Zsa these days. He told me that though she is bed ridden, she is much more responsive today than when she returned from the hospital. She's comfortable, in no pain and takes only two pills daily.
"She watches TV and talks a little," he said. "I tell her stories, the good times we had in Paris. We talk about family and Hollywood and the Oscars. When it's a good subject she smiles. She gets it."
Mainly her husband sees his role as keeping Zsa Zsa (and not coincidentally himself) front and center in the world of Hollywood gossip. He never misses an opportunity to get public attention, which included the $68,000 he spent on the giant Sunset Strip billboard featuring Zsa Zsa in her Oscar del la Renta wedding dress and he in his princely uniform.
His antics have drawn withering criticism from Zsa Zsa's only daughter, Francesca Hilton, and some in the entertainment world. Howard Bragman, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bragman) one of Hollywood's top celebrity publicists who is not above using a stunt or two to get publicity for his clients, told me he considers this latest move "grotesque."
"Seriously, folks, It shows such an addiction to fame and attention," Bragman told me. "And what's with the uniform? Prince of what? Did he buy it at the back of the Robb Report?" (In fact, the prince was born Hans Robert Lichtenberg) and received his title when he was adopted as an adult by Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt , daughter-in-law of German Emperor William II, in what was rumored to be a financially solid move for the princess.
The prince said he's used to these barbs. "People attack me for a lot of things. I personally don't give a shit. I do what I have to do and what my wife wants me to do."
Zsa Zsa, he added, is bigger than life and it's his job to "blow everything up" to make sure she remains huge in the public's mind.
Sunday night's gala party will be yet another opportunity. There will be a large media tent stocked with a warm and cold buffet. About 80 notables are invited, including Angie Dickenson, Kirk Douglas, Valarie Harper, Hugh Heffner, Larry King, Magic Johnson, Will Smith, Phyllis Diller, Nancy Reagan and..wait for it....Beverly Hills Municipal Judge Charles Rubin, who handed out Zsa Zsa's 72-day jail sentence in the cop-slapping incident.
In December, l there will be a Beverly Hills auction of all Gabor's clothing and other items, including 10 fur coats and thousands of designer dresses. Yes, that will include the summer frock that her publicist calls the "slapper dress."
"All of Hollywood is a circus," the prince concluded. "That's why we're here. What my wife did was a circus, so I continue."
On this, the prince and I agree. What is Hollywood if not a huckster's paradise? And if Zsa Zsa is the ringmaster, I say bring in the clowns!
The journalists screamed over and over again at Decker: "Hurry up and get on the bus," not realizing she was Roddick's famous wife and not with the media. Decker, who arrived to be embarrassed, walked away toward a players' van. Roddick is in action today against Julien Benneteau.
