A fellow Alaskan ...
The daily dish… a spicy serving of celebrity news
Alaskan native Jewel says she admires failed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s “You betcha!” attitude, reports the New York Daily News.
“Alaskan women are very can-do women. We’re the pioneer state!” says the singer, who’s touting the anti-domestic violence campaign, A Kiss for Country. “The women who settled Alaska had a large role in shaping it. The way I was raised, I never thought I was any different than boys. You can really see that in Sarah Palin.”
Happy mom ...
Minnie Driver has been a mother for only two months but already she says she’s thinking about having another baby, reports People online.
“I’d have another one,” the actress told Ellen DeGeneres on her show that aired Friday. Driver, 38, gave birth to 9-pound, 12-ounce son Henry in September. “It only kicks in after you have really forgotten [labor]. I’ve only just managed to look at the pictures of the birth,” Driver said. “I only looked at a few pictures and they do make you kind of go, ‘Owwww! Ouch!’, but then I look at him. I want another one of them.”
Driver has declined to name the baby’s father. She says Henry is a
good baby. “Very easy,” she said. She also noted that Henry was too big for his Halloween pumpkin costume. “On the back there was just this huge triangle where his diaper showed because we couldn’t
close it,” Driver said. DeGeneres gave Driver outfits that acknowledged Henry’s size with the saying: “I may be BIG but my Mom is Minnie.”
‘Sister’ on stage ...
Whoopi Goldberg is getting in the act again with “Sister Act.”
The performer will produce but not star in a London stage version of her hit 1992 movie about an on-the-lam singer who hides out in a convent. The musical will open June 2, 2009, at the London Palladium.
There are changes in the story, Goldberg said. “She [the singer] still is a woman running away ... hidden away with all those nuns, a fish out of water,” Goldberg said. “But she is not as old as I am or was at the time [the movie was filmed]. So she has a lot of decisions to make, more decisions to make than my character had. So it will be fun to watch. I’m excited.”
Celebrity birthdays
Sunday: Actress Marg Helgenberger (“CSI”) is 50. Drummer Mani (Stone Roses) is 46. Country singer-guitarist Keith Burns of Trick Pony is 45. Jazz singer Diana Krall is 44. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (“World Trade Center,” “Secretary”) is 31.
Monday: Singer Gordon Lightfoot is 70. Actress Lauren Hutton is
65. Actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is 50. Actress Rachel McAdams (“Wedding Crashers”) is 30.
Tuesday: Actor Oscar Nunez (“The Office”) is 50. Actor Owen Wilson (“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Zoolander”) is 40. Actor Nathan Kress (“iCarly”) is 16.
Wednesday: Actor Alan Young (“Mr. Ed”) is 89. Talk show host Larry King is 75. Actress Meg Ryan is 47. Actress Jodie Foster is 46. Dancerchoreographer Savion Glover is 35.
Thursday: Actress Veronica Hamel is 65. Actress Bo Derek is 52. Country singer Dierks Bentley is 33.
Friday: Actress Marlo Thomas is
71. Actress Goldie Hawn is 63. Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 45. Singer Bjork is 43. Actress Jena Malone (“Saved,” “Life As A House”) is 24.
Next Saturday: Actor Robert Vaughn (“The Man from U. N. C. L. E.”) is 76. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is 50. Actress Mariel Hemingway is 47. Actress Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation,” “Ghost World”) is 24.
