Monday, March 27, 2006
A Concert for Joseph McLellan
A memorial concert will be presented tonight at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater in honor of the late Joseph McLellan , who wrote for The Washington Post from 1972 to 2005 and served as the paper's chief classical music critic from 1981 to 1995.
The free concert, which will begin at 7, will feature the baritone Gordon Hawkins (who recently starred in "Porgy and Bess" with Washington National Opera), the Audubon String Quartet , pianist-composer Jessica Krash, guitarist Berta Rojas and members of the Washington National Opera and Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program.
The Kennedy Center has donated the use of the theater and all costs in memory of McLellan, who died Dec. 26. Today would have been his 77th birthday.
Hasselhoff Must Keep AwayLos Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark A. Juhas has issued a temporary restraining order requiring David Hasselhoff to stay at least 100 yards away from his estranged wife, Pamela Bach , according to court documents unsealed this week.
The order, which allows the former "Baywatch" star contact with his wife only for "peaceful contacts related to court ordered visitation" for one of their two teenage daughters.
Bach, 42, has custody of one daughter and Hasselhoff, 53, has custody of the other.
Juhas scheduled a hearing for April 4 to decide whether to extend the order to three years.
In her request for the order, Bach claimed instances of domestic violence last December and in February. In one incident, police officers were summoned to the scene but did not, at the time, give Bach an emergency protective order, according to court papers.
Hasselhoff's publicist said the actor "categorically denies" Bach's allegations but declined to elaborate.
"Out of consideration for his children, which, as always, remains his paramount concern, he is not going to discuss this publicly," publicist Judy Katz said.
Hasselhoff filed for divorce Jan. 12, citing irreconcilable differences after 16 years of marriage. Bach filed her own divorce papers a day later, also citing irreconcilable differences.
Hasselhoff played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon on "Baywatch" from 1989 to 2000. He also starred in the 1980s TV series "Knight Rider."
Bach appeared in the soap opera "The Young and the Restless" and in numerous episodes of "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider."
New Knees Is Good KneesAngela Lansbury, who recently had knee replacement surgery, is thrilled. The 80-year-old actress, who is promoting the procedure for women on behalf of an orthopedics company, says she had been "crippled" for years by intolerable knee pain.
She says the procedure has allowed her to dance again.
"I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life," the four-time Tony Award winner said. "But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can."
"I want to tell women, 'Don't put it off,' " Lansbury said.
Lansbury said she waited until last July to have the surgery -- which replaces deteriorating cartilage of the knee joint with metal and plastic -- because she feared it would be too painful.
The actress starred as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series "Murder, She Wrote," and also starred on Broadway and in the 1962 movie "The Manchurian Candidate."
'Housewives' GameThe hit television series "Desperate Housewives" has inspired a video game.
Walt Disney's Buena Vista Games Inc. announced Friday that it plans to release this fall a PC video game based on the show. In the game, players will take on the role of a new Wisteria Lane housewife, who is able to uncover or create scandals.
-- Catherine Handren
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