Farrah Fawcett’s longtime partner, Ryan O’Neal, has joined the chorus of other Hollywood figures including Jane Fonda and Roger Ebert in expressing dismay that Fawcett was left out of the “In Memoriam” segment of Sunday’s Academy Awards.
There is no comment other than we were disappointed that she was not included,” a rep for O’Neal told PEOPLE.
Fonda and Ebert both Tweeted about the snub during the broadcast. “No Farrah Fawcett in the memorial tribute? Major fail,” Ebert wrote. “And where was Farrah Fawcett? She should have been included,” wrote Fonda.
The “In Memoriam” portion of the broadcast features a montage of film-industry figures who have passed away in the previous year. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger says that the segment can only honor so many people.
“Every year it’s an unfortunate reality that we can’t include everybody,” she told the Associated Press.
Before the show, Academy executive director Bruce Davis spoke about the difficult process of creating the segment:
“It is the single most troubling element of the Oscar show every year…Because more people die each year than can possibly be included in that segment…It gets close to agonizing by the end,” he said. “You are dropping people who the public knows. It’s just not comfortable.”
Fawcett, whose untimely demise happened last June, at the young age of 62, was firstly a TV actress, though she did appear in a number of feature films.
Sarah Palin has a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes: God uses them.
When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs on her hand to remember them, she said:
“I didn’t really have a good answer, as so often — is me…But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I’ll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it’s good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, ‘I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’m in good company.’”
The line alluded to by Mrs. Palin:
“Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands.”
Was Isaiah referring to permanent marker, or something more drastic?
Before invoking God, Palin tried to explain the hand notes by calling them “a poor man’s teleprompter.” Earlier in her speech before Ohio Right to Life, she claimed that she really got the idea from her father, a schoolteacher, who would “read the palm of his hand to see what, you know, was on tap first for the curriculum the next day.”
Palin also repeated the God story in Calgary on Saturday, after Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin joked about her hand notes during a question-and-answer session. One audience member yelled out, “Atta girl!”
Cecilia Attias, the former first lady of France, officially made New York her home at Thursday night’s inaugural gala dinner for the Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women.
Mrs. Attias divorced Parkozy in 2007 after 11 years of marriage. The following year she married Morocco-born and New York-based global events planner Richard Attias, who recently founded the New York Forum, a conference for the global business elite that will launch in New York in June. Mr.
Attias also serves as vice president for the Foundation, which aims “to be a guiding force in making positive change for women across the globe,” according to the Website.
Guests at the New York Public Library event enjoyed a dinner of Atlantic cod confit, short ribs, and roasted beef tenderloin prepared by famous chef, Daniel Boulud.
Mrs. Attias, a former fitting model for Elsa Schiaparelli, looked elegant in a black sequin top and tuxedo jacket and slacks.
The breakout star of the evening, though, was Louis Sarkozy, Cecilia and Nicolas’s only child. Upon accepting a surprise award for his support of the Foundation, the 12-year-old admitted to the audience:
“Basically everyone I know is knackered, me included. But I didn’t imagine that there could be health problems associated with not getting a good night’s rest,” wrote the stunning Gwyneth Paltrow in this week’s GOOP newsletter.
She adds that she was disturbed to learn that sleep deprivation can result in premature aging, as well as weight gain, so she asked her doctor how she could increase her sleep hours.
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One of the producers of the Oscar nominated war flick, “The Hurt Locker” will not be allowed to attend Sunday’s Academy Awards, because of e-mails which he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie.
But if indeed “The Hurt Locker” takes home a Best Picture award, Nicolas Chartier will have to receive his trophy at a later date.
The executive committee of the producers branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences imposed the penalty on Chartier, who violated Oscar rules which prohibit such mailings, promoting one film or disparaging another.
Chartier sent an e-mail on February 19, to some academy members asking for their support for his movie, which he reminded was “not a “$500 million film” – an obvious allusion to best-picture contender “Avatar.”
Other e-mails, posted by the Los Angeles Times, quoted Chartier asking Oscar voters to rank “The Hurt Locker” at No. 1 and “Avatar” at No. 10.
Chartier apologized in a subsequent e-mail message:
“My naivete, ignorance of the rules and plain stupidity as a first-time nominee is not an excuse for this behavior and I strongly regret it…”
“Avatar” won the Golden Globe for best drama. “The Hurt Locker” has dominated honors from critics and key Hollywood trade groups, which include guilds representing directors, writers and producers.
At last month’s British Academy Film Awards, “The Hurt Locker” won over “Avatar,” taking home six prizes, including best picture.
Chartier is one of four producers listed on the motion picture’s best-picture nomination, along with “Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and Greg Shapiro. Bigelow and “Avatar” director James Cameron were married from 1989 to 1991.
Of course the penalty against Chartier does not affect the other three producers, who are still free to attend the Oscars.
The academy announced its sanction against Chartier as Oscar balloting came to a close on Tuesday. The producers branch stopped just short of the harsher penalty of rescinding Chartier’s nomination, which would have kept him from receiving an Oscar statuette if his film is victorious.
Tom Sherak, Academy president said:
“You would hope it wouldn’t have happened…It will not cloud what the night is. This was an individual thing that happened. It’s been dealt with, and now we’re going on to the show.”
“Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one”
are found in Deuteronomy 6:4.
For Jews, it is arguably the most important part of the liturgy.
In the days of the Roman Empire, in the first century A.D., Jews in their own country were forbidden to practice their religion.
But one martyr named Rabbi Akiva refused to give up his faith.
He was put to death by Roman executors and his last words were,
“Shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai, Echad…”
That is the Hebrew translation of the line from Deuteronomy 6:4…For Jews, this story is very famous.
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Son of Marie Osmond, Michael Blosil died on Friday night in Los Angeles after leaping to his death from his eighth floor apartment. He left a note as described towards the bottom of this story saying that he wished to commit suicide after a life-long battle with depression. He was 18. Blosil was a student at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, the school on the LA season of “Project Runway” and on “The Hills.”
In 2007, at age 16, he went to rehab for undisclosed reasons. His friends and roommates told authorities on Saturday that he was clean and sober at the time of his death.
In March 2009 Marie gave an interview to People magazine saying that he was out of rehab and better:
“Those kinds of things are really very hard for a teenager to deal with…And if he ever wants to talk about it … he will, but it has to be their choice. It’s not my choice.”
Marie and her husband Brian Blosil split in 2007 after 20 years of marriage and eight kids, five of whom (including Michael) were adopted. Entertainment Tonight broke the news of the death with the following report:
Osmond family members have notified ET that Marie Osmond’s son Michael Blosil leapt to his death Friday night in Los Angeles. Contacted by phone this morning, Donny Osmond tells us:
“Please pray for my sister and her family.”
Here are the details: Michael, who was in his late teens and is one of Marie’s eight children, died after jumping from his downtown Los Angeles apartment at about 9 p.m. on Friday night. He left a note explaining he intended to commit suicide due to his life-long battle with severe depression that left him, he said, feeling as if he had no friends and could never fit in.
We’re told that his mother Marie, who helped him fight the condition throughout his life, is devastated by the loss. Donny and Marie’s Las Vegas show has been cancelled tonight.
Marie, herself, was hospitalized in 2006 for what the National Enquirer called a suicide attempt of her own. But she denied this claim.
She released a statement:
“My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.”
Jim Carrey, the 47-year-old funnyman is now a grandfather.
His daughter Jane, 22, gave birth to her first baby — a son named Jackson Riley Santana — early on Friday morning, according to a media release.
The child was born in an unnamed Los Angeles hospital weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces.
Besides the first name of “Jackson” the boy will have some serious musical advantages. Jane is a singer-songwriter for the alternative-rock The Jane Carrey Band and the father is Alex Santana, the lead singer of the metal band Blood Money. The two were married just last November.
Carrey has expressed delight about the new development. His website features this tidbit in the biography section.
“He eagerly awaits the next role of his life…Grandpa.”
“I’m excited about it because I never really got along with girls growing up…I was a little afraid that if it was a girl that she would not like me, you know? So I’m very happy about the boy.”
Jane’s mother is Jim’s ex-wife Melissa Womer. They were divorced in 1995.
News flash! George Clooney will not be saying arrivederci to his Italian villa.
“To complete the news cycle, I’m not buying an island and am not selling my house in Italy,”
the actor said on Wednesday in response to the latest real estate rumor, that Clooney was putting his Lake Como home, Villa Oleandra, on the market and searching for a place on nearby Loreto Island.
“The story was made up…then picked up…and now denied…end of another riveting day of false news.”
George Clooney seems to always know the right thing to say to make him sound even more hip and the tabloids sound even more lame.
Surrounded by topiary and red geraniums, the 18th century house offers its owners great privacy, a large draw-card for international celebrities.
One report I found had AC Milan’s superstar acquisition David Beckham pining away for the Oscar winner’s Como-adjacent digs. Well it looks like he and Victoria will just have to get in line for an invite, just like the rest of the A-list – which includes a Russian vodka billionaire.
Clooney bought the opulent villa in 2001 for a mere 7 million euros. He and his Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis will apparently be sticking around.
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Farrah Fawcett’s longtime partner, Ryan O’Neal, has joined the chorus of other Hollywood figures including Jane Fonda and Roger Ebert in expressing dismay that Fawcett was left out of the “In Memoriam” segment of Sunday’s Academy Awards.
Cecilia Attias, the former first lady of France, officially made New York her home at Thursday night’s inaugural gala dinner for the 
Mrs. Attias, a former fitting model for Elsa Schiaparelli, looked elegant in a black sequin top and tuxedo jacket and slacks.
“Basically everyone I know is knackered, me included. But I didn’t imagine that there could be health problems associated with not getting a good night’s rest,” wrote the stunning 
