The magnificent, towering, mostly despised Marilyn sculpture that has been waving its dress in the air over Pioneer Court in Chicago is being dismantled for a trip to California. Most people wait until they get here to get ripped apart.
The 26-ft. work, titled “Forever Marilyn,” was created by Seward Johnson, is now bound for Palm Springs.
The dress Marilyn wore in “The Seven Year Itch,” on which the sculpture is based, sold last June for $4.6 million to an unknown buyer.
It had been in the collection of Debbie Reynolds, who bought it when 20th Century Fox unloaded all of Marilyn’s wardrobe in 1971.
“American Idol” wannabeen David Archuleta, now 21, has announced to his legion of fan that he’s leaving show business in order to become a Mormon missionary for two years. Maybe he’ll knock on your door! That is, if you live in South America.
After a training session in Utah, where they keep the Mormons, David will travel south to spread the word of the Latter Day Saints. Apparently he’ll be incommunicado for the entire two years, so don’t expect him on any “Idol” reunion shows… not that anyone would watch them if they made them.
Bon voyage, young Davy, and here’s hoping your showbiz dad hasn’t pushed you out of the glitter so you could pimp for the lord.
And now, because I love it, here’s the funny underwear the Mormons wear. For real.
Yeah, “American Idol” is at it again. That’s Melissa Rivers Steven Tyler as he appeared on last night’s show. They missed one. Here’s the lovely Giselle Loves-Oldies singing Lenny Kravitz.
Sylvester Stallone and his Danish wife Brigitte Nielsen (who was involved in a car accident last night) “back in the day,” and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and his Finnish boyfriend, Sauli Koskinen, who were both arrested last night for fighting outside of a club in Finland.
What would Jackie do?
Stallone’s mother, Jackie Stallone, photographed four years ago at age 86. Most of her just turned 90.
Ashton Kutcher made news yesterday on TheDirty.com when they reported that he banged some blonde in Las Vegas, and the story went wide. That didn’t prevent the sitcom doofus cleanup man from showing up at some awards nonsense last night at the Kodak, honoring wee TV magnate Ryan Seacrest.
If you don’t think Ashton’s a putz, I offer up that hat as proof. But which of these two is more guilty of a moral trespass? Ryan Seacrest brought us “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” and its multiple spinoff infections.
Jacqueline Kennedy on a visit to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police barracks in Ottawa, Ontario, greeted by RCMP Commissioner C. W. Harvison, fifty years ago this week, May 17, 1961.
