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Sunday, April 29th, 2007


Actress Celeste Holm turned 88 on Sunday. She co-starred in the classic sophisticated backstage comedy/drama from 1950, All About Eve. In the black & white still from the film, she’s the lady in the middle facing the star of the film, Bette Davis.


In the color photo, you can see Celeste Holm today with her husband. By the way, her husband is the handsome, dark-haired man on the far left. I am so not making this up. I sat behind the married couple at a Broadway opening night (as I wrote in the entry under this one), and watched as he gently stroked the back of her neck during the first act. I thought he was her bodyguard and was attempting to revive her. During the intermission, I met someone involved with the play who broke the news to me to he’s not hired security, he’s the other half. Having had no luck for months on Match.com and other online dating sites and feeling somewhat jealous, I mumbled to myself, “Great. She looks like a kitchen witch and got a hunk like that. Meanwhile I couldn’t get lucky on Death Row with a fistful of $50 bills and a carton o’ Camels.”

I have since gotten over myself and I wish Celeste Holm a very happy birthday. All things considered, she’s an inspiration for all of us to keep hope alive. (But I still feel that Match.com can bite me.)

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HolmGirl

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Celeste Holm turns 88 today. She plays Margo Channing’s best friend in the classic All About Eve, , starring Bette Davis as Margo. If you’ve never seen that movie, today might be a good day to rent it. Absolutely fabulous. Two years ago, I sat directly behind Ms. Holm at a Broadway show. It was in the winter. She had on a fur coat that started under her chin and ended at her ankles. For a moment, I thought Chewbacca was walking into the row in front of mine and then we all realized it was Oscar winner Celeste Holm. She looked very happy. More on that later.

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The Condemned (R)

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I like Steve Austin, the former wrestling star who was known as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The musclebear could be a likeable action movie hero like Stallone and Schwarzenegger were in their prime.

However, the new picture that he stars in puts the P-U in putrid. To his credit, he is smart enough to look embarrassed to be in that mess. The Condemned producers owe me 1 hour and 40 minutes of my life back.

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feeling randy

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Yesterday I asked “Where is Condoleeeeeeeeeeeeeezza Rice”? These last couple of weeks have been very intense for the president and I had not seen her deflecting tough questions from press in his defense, like Wonder Woman deflecting bullets off those fab wristbands she wore.

Well…I guess Condi had been busy. Randall Tobias, a State Department official, resigned yesterday when it was discovered that he had been doing business with a woman known as the “D.C. Madam.” ABC News broke the story last evening. How do you steam Rice? Give her the news that a top man on her White House team has been sending out for hookers — and a network news team is on the story. And it’s Friday. Lord have mercy. You just know that her last good nerve was worked.

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where is she?

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Last week, we had the Virginia Tech tragedy which made international headlines. Two days before it happened, President Bush was thanking the National Rifle Association at a gala dinner for “keeping America safe.” This week, the Senate passed an Iraq withdrawal bill that W. will surely veto and he got a lot of criticism in the Democratic debates.

Where has Condoleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezza Rice been? She’s usually right out there telling us how the President feels and trying to make him look good. Not that I’ve seen all the news lately, but I have seen more of Alec Baldwin that I’ve seen of Ms. Rice. That can’t be good.

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on films

Friday, April 27th, 2007

www.Whoopi.com

Go there, look for “Bobby Rivers, Entertainment” in the right-hand column and click onto it. You’ll come to a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabulous page of my current film reviews, DVD tips and clips. This was Wedding Week on Whoopi’s radio show, so my classic DVD pick is a comedy that had a very important wedding scene. Enjoy.

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Rosie leaving The View

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Where will Danny DeVito go now when he’s drunk and promoting something? Frankly, I’m concerned.

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celebrity update

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Abe Vigoda is still alive. I checked. Just thought some of you would like to know. Enjoy your weekend.

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soccer without balls

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

www.LATimes.com

Go to the website for The Los Angeles Times and read the totally fascinating *Old Mike, New Christine* essay written in the first person by Mike Penner. The reporter, who has covered sports for 20 years and who also coaches a soccer team, is taking some time off. He will leave the newspaper offices as Mike and come back as Christine. As he writes in today’s edition, “I am a transsexual sportswriter.”

By dinnertime today, that article will probably have made national news. Not only that, when “Christine” returns to work, there will probably be an offer to host her own show on MSNBC. Or, in her case, PMS-NBC. The networks definitely will come a-callin’. Bless Mike’s heart on his bravery and may all go well.

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Ask Velveeta Mae

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Dear Velveeta Mae,

I read in Wednesday’s Page Six section of the New York Post that LL Cool J has been approached to play Brick in another revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The article added that the proposed revival will be directed by Debbie Allen. Is that true? It’s raining here in New York City. I hope it’s sunny where you are.

Sincerely,
Concerned In NYC

Dear Concerned,

Honey, that ain’t rain. Jesus is weeping at that theatrical news. I read and heard the same report. If you listen very closely, you can hear a whirring noise. Like a Cuisinart. That’s the sound of Tennessee Williams spinning in his grave. I love me some Debbie Allen, especially when she wore hoop earrings on every episode of “Fame.” But I still haven’t quite forgiven her for choreographing a Savion Glover tap routine to the theme from “Schindler’s List” on the 1994 Academy Awards. Jews in concentration camps and he’s dancing like that penguin in “Happy Feet.” Girlfriend had lost her choreographic mind. But that’s just me. Frankly, Miss Velveeta Mae is very concerned about LL Cool J trying to play Brick. Has he ever seen the play? Has he ever read the play? Has anyone ever read it to him? It’s not exactly illustrated like his current workout book, you know. Does the poor dear know that Brick drinks because he’s in the closet? I want to see Debbie explain that one to LL. Also, I’m just waiting for the news that Al Roker has been cast as Big Daddy with Gary Coleman as Gooper and Paula Abdul as Sister Woman. This is why I drink here in Compton, California. If I didn’t, I’d be weeping like Jesus.

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