Saturday, October 21, 2006
Keith Urban Checks Into Rehab
Country music star Keith Urban has voluntarily entered a rehabilitation center for treatment, according to a release from his publicist, Paul Freundlich. Urban arrived at the center with his wife, Nicole Kidman , by his side, the release says.
"I deeply regret the hurt this has caused Nicole and the ones that love and support me," Urban said in a statement. "One can never let one's guard down on recovery, and I'm afraid that I have."
Urban, who turns 39 next week, has publicly acknowledged a former addiction to cocaine. All immediate appearances for his forthcoming album, "Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing," will be postponed. The album was set for release Nov. 7.
Dinner With George and BarbaraThe Peking Gourmet Inn received a visit from two loyal customers Thursday night -- former president George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara .
According to one tipster, the former first lady entered the Falls Church restaurant a little before 8 p.m. and proceeded to a private table without acknowledging the light applause. The former president walked in moments later to a standing ovation. He smiled and shook a few hands before joining his wife.
Bush and his wife have been dining at the restaurant since his days as vice president under Ronald Reagan .
Smith Balks at DNA TestAnna Nicole Smith has no intention of allowing her 6-week-old daughter to undergo a paternity test, according to her attorney. Smith's ex-boyfriend, photographer Larry Birkhead, is seeking a court order to force Smith to bring the girl from the Bahamas to California for a DNA test. A birth certificate lists Smith's current boyfriend, Howard K. Stern , as the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern .
An attorney for Birkhead, Debra Opri , has said she is traveling to the islands this weekend to take depositions from Smith and Stern on Monday.
Smith buried her 20-year-old son, Daniel , on Thursday. He died while visiting his mother in a Nassau hospital three days after the baby was born on Sept. 7.
A pathologist hired by Smith said Daniel died of an accidental combination of methadone and two antidepressants. The results of official toxicology tests and a police investigation have not been publicly released.
George Michael's Puff PiecePop star George Michael sang the praises of marijuana during a recently taped television interview, prompting criticism from anti-drug campaigners yesterday. British television network ITV said the singer even lit up a joint while being interviewed for the arts program "The South Bank Show."
"This stuff keeps me sane and happy," Michael, 43, told the program. "I'd say it's a great drug -- but obviously it's not very healthy."
Noted . . .Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce, according to British newspapers. He and his wife, Elaine , have filed the necessary papers at Cambridge County Court . . . "Desperate Housewives" heartthrob Dougray Scott has proposed to his girlfriend, actress Claire Forlani , according to People . . . Actor Haley Joel Osment, 18, who crashed his car into a mailbox in July, was given three years probation and ordered to spend 60 hours in an alcohol rehab program and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings . . . It'll be a girl for "Marie Antoinette" director Sofia Coppola, who is seven months pregnant. The father is her boyfriend, Thomas Mars , singer for the excellent French rock band Phoenix . . . And it's two for singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels , who gave birth to son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose on Tuesday, the couple announced yesterday . . .
. . . and Quoted"I feel fit to continue and bring the same physical action."
-- 64-year-old actor Harrison Ford , who's set to star in "Indiana Jones 4." The script is still in development.
-- Compiled by Chris Richards from staff and wire reports
. . . and Quoted"I feel fit to continue and bring the same physical action."
-- 64-year-old actor Harrison Ford , who's set to star in "Indiana Jones 4." The script is still in development.
-- Compiled by Chris Richards from staff and wire reports
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