Richard Dreyfuss Marries
March 20, 2006
Last week, Richard Dreyfuss had a close encounter of the marrying kind.
In Harrisonburg, Virginia, last week for a talk at James Madison University, the veteran actor, 58, went way off script. On Thursday, he ditched campus for the nearby Rockingham County Courthouse, where he picked up a marriage license and exchanged vows with his girlfriend, Russian-born Svetlana Erokhin, 46, on the spot in the magistrate's office.
"We had no idea they would be marrying," Andy Perrine, associate VP of communications and marketing at James Madison, told People magazine.
Russell's Rugby Rabbitohs
March 20, 2006
Hotel concierges can rejoiceRussell Crowe has a new outlet for his aggression. But it's still gonna cost him.
The Oscar-winning Australian actor has purchased a majority stake in the National Rugby League's South Sydney Rabbitohs, one of the oldest and most famous clubs in the brutal, injury-inducing sport.
Rock Tape Still Blocked
March 20, 2006
Paris Hilton could learn a thing or two from Kid Rock about how to successfully keep one's sex tape off the Internet.
Lawyers for the Detroit-based rap-rocker reached a tentative agreement Friday with porn purveyor World Wide Red Light District to extend a judge's order blocking the release of a video showing Rock and former Creed frontman Scott Stapp in the company of four women without the necessity of a further hearing, Rock's attorney, William Horton, told the "Detroit News."
Trump's Little Apprentice
March 20, 2006
Nepotism be damned, Donald Trump has a new apprentice.
The real estate mogul/reality star and his model wife, Melania Knauss welcomed a son Monday in New York. It's the first child for couple, who married last year, and the fifth child overall for Trump.
The proud papa wasted no time in getting the word out on his new heir.
Just 20 minutes after the birth, Trump phoned in to MSNBC's "Imus in the Morning" to share the nursery news.
"Everyone's perfect," Trump reported in his unmistakably humble way. "[Melania's] very happy and it's really great."
Wopat: Driving Hazzard
March 20, 2006
We don't think Uncle Jesse would approve of this.
Tom Wopat, the actor famed for playing Luke Duke on the classic TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard," found himself in the custody of a real-life Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane after getting busted for drunken driving in northern New Jersey last week, police confirmed.
Passaic County Sheriff's Department spokesperson Bill Maer says the 54-year-old Wopat was behind the wheel of a Ford Bronco when he struck some orange traffic cones and nearly slammed into a Ringwood police vehicle at the scene of an unrelated accident.