- HOME
- NEWS
- SPORTS
- BUSINESS
- FYI/LIVING
- ENTERTAINMENT
- OPINION
- JOBS
- CARS
- REAL ESTATE
- RENTALS
- CLASSIFIEDS
- SHOPPING
- EXTRAS
Posted on Sun, Nov. 08, 2009 10:15 PM
Stargazing | Lansbury honored; Dolly and Tony talk faith
More News
Dolly, Tony get religious
They say politics makes strange bedfellows.
Religion does, too.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Dolly Parton will be featured in a new BBC series that explores the role of religious beliefs in the lives of high-profile people.
Blair will talk about becoming Catholic. Parton will talk about balancing her faith with her work.
The series begins later this month.
Lansbury honored
Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a theater that has produced more of the composer’s works than any other U.S. theater.
Signature Theatre will honor the 84-year-old actress in April at a gala celebration for the theater in Arlington, Va.
The theater created the award to honor those who excel at interpreting or collaborating on Sondheim’s music.
Lansbury returns to Broadway this month in Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Cirque du So Presley
“Viva ELVIS” is the name of the new Cirque du Soleil show hitting the Las Vegas strip.
The show, which will open in December, will be a tribute to the life and music of Elvis Presley.
It will play at the Aria Resort & Casino at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter complex.
Kidman’s kinky ways
TMI, Nicole Kidman, TMI.
Tom Cruise’s ex tells Britain’s GQ magazine about her fetish experiments.
“My life has been about exploring types of love,” says Kidman, now married to country singer Keith Urban.
“I’ve explored obsession, I’ve explored strange sexual fetish stuff, I’ve explored the mundane aspect of marriage and monogamy. But I’m still on that journey.”
She also says that she has never publicly discussed her relationship with Cruise — and never will.
“I burned most of my journals after I remarried. You’re only going to find out bad things. You can’t read somebody’s diary. You shouldn’t read it,” she says.
“I know I live inside some rose-colored cloud, but I’ll never waver on it. I will go to the grave with all my secrets, all my stories.”
Yearwood cooking again
Trisha Yearwood has written another cookbook, this one with her mother, Gwen Yearwood, and sister, Beth Yearwood Bernard.
“Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood” comes out April 6.
An earlier cookbook, “Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen,” hit the New York Times best-seller list twice last year.
The country star, married to that other country star named Garth Brooks, has peppered the recipes with personal anecdotes and stories about Yearwood family gatherings.
Among the mostly Southern recipes: Cowboy Lasagna, Vegetable Pie, Grandma Yearwood’s Coconut Cake and Garth’s Breakfast Bowl.
So … hungry … now.
Starbrites
Early holiday entertainment news:
•The NFL and the Detroit Lions will honor the 50th anniversary of Motown Records with a Motown-themed halftime show at the Thanksgiving Day game against the Green Bay Packers.
•Punk rockers Green Day will help Carson Daly ring in the New Year. The band is slated to perform on “NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly,” which airs live from Times Square.
Bette Midler will perform her Las Vegas show — “The Showgirl Must Go On” — for the last time on Jan. 31. Her show has played for almost two years at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
When Lisa Gutierrez isn’t wondering what Trisha puts in “Garth’s Breakfast Bowl,” she’s Stargazing among hopefully accurate celebrity news reports.
Posted on Sun, Nov. 08, 2009 10:15 PM
@Nyx.CommentBody@