In Frances Ha, which opens Friday at Coral Gables Art Cinema, Greta Gerwig (Lola Versus, Damsels in Distress) plays Frances, a cash-strapped New York dancer involved perhaps too deeply with her roommate Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of musician Sting).
Donald Trump crowned his “All Star Celebrity Apprentice” Sunday night on NBC. Was it laid-back cowboy Trace Adkins or Vegas headliner Penn Jillette? The last two standing were tasked with creating an ad campaign and flavor of ice cream for Walgreens food brand Delish. In this corner: Teller’s Magic Swurtle chocolate turtle concoction. In the other: Adkins’ Maple Macadamia MashUp. Both flavors are currently on sale at the drugstore chain, but it was Adkins’ who took home the win.
PBS newscaster Jim Lehrer is 79. TV personality David Hartman is 78. Actor James Fox is 74. Actor Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca in “Star Wars”) is 69. Musician Pete Townshend is 68. Singer-actress-model Grace Jones is 61. Singer Jenny Berggren of Ace of Base is 41. Singer Shooter Jennings is 34. Guitarist Tim McTague of Underoath is 30. Guitarist James Richardson of MGMT is 30. Actor Eric Lloyd (“The Santa Clause”) is 27.
Actor Bill Macy (“Maude”) is 91. Actor Robert Morse (“Mad Men”) is 82. Actor Dwayne Hickman (“The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 79. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 64. Country singer George Strait is 61. Actor Chow Yun-Fat (“Anna and the King,” “The Replacement Killers”) is 58. Singer-actress Martika is 44. Comedian Tina Fey is 43. Rapper Special Ed is 39. Musician Jack Johnson is 38. Actor Allen Leech (“Downton Abbey”) is 32.
“Busy is good,” says Wendy Williams driving to her home in New Jersey. Today, her plans include grocery shopping, Pilates and cooking dinner. “The phone is on the windshield,” the TV diva admits.
Winona Ryder is still pale, diminutive and breathtakingly pretty. She still peppers her speech with the vocalized pauses of her teen years — “you know.”
George Michael was involved in a single car crash in England Thursday. The singer was reportedly airlifted to a hospital with a head injury.
LeBron James celebrated the Miami Heat’s big win over the Chicago Bulls Thursday night with Drake at Katsuya’s Dragon Lounge at the SLS Hotel South Beach. Although James was not drinking, Katsuya has added a special victory cocktail to the list — the Heat Kanji Cocktail.
Fantasia Barrino hasn’t felt this energized since winning American Idol in 2004.
In town for the premiere of After Earth at the Miami Science Museum and the Heat game Wednesday, Will and Jaden Smith stopped by Univision’s Despierta America where the elder Smith impressed co-host Karla Martinez with his Spanish, while son Jaden went head to head in a trivia game with co-host Ana Patricia Gonzales. Earlier in the week, Jesse Eisenberg was on the show promoting his latest, Now You See Me, in between sharing magic tricks and fending off the amusing advances of Raul Gonzalez, channeling his cleaning lady character Dona Meche.
Singer Taj Mahal is 71. Singer-guitarist George Johnson of The Brothers Johnson is 60. TV personality Kathleen Sullivan is 60. Actor Bill Paxton is 58. Actor-comedian Bob Saget is 57. Singer Enya is 52. Talk-show host Craig Ferguson is 51. Musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is 48. TV personality-interior designer Thom Filicia is 44. Singer Jordan Knight is 43. Dancer Derek Hough is 28. Actress Nikki Reed is 25.
The bad dream gets worse for a Scottsdale eatery featured on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Amy’s Baking Company.
Is your cat driving you bonkers? You may need to enlist the services of Jackson Galaxy. The star of Animal Planet’s My Cat From Hell is all about taming the little creatures that inhabit and often attempt to destroy your happy home.
Jazz drummer Billy Cobham is 69. Actor Pierce Brosnan is 60. Actress Debra Winger is 58. Actress Mare Winningham is 54. Bassist Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) is 48. Singer Janet Jackson is 47. Singer Ralph Tresvant is 45. Actor David Boreanaz is 44. Political correspondent Tucker Carlson is 44. Actress Tracey Gold is 44. Actress Tori Spelling is 40. Actress Megan Fox (“Transformers”) is 27. Actor Marc John Jefferies (“The Tracy Morgan Show”) is 23.
Angelina Jolie’s decision to not only have a preventive double mastectomy but to go public about was incredibly brave.
Almost a decade after John Ritter died from an undiagnosed congenital heart defect, his widow Amy Yasbeck, 50, has found love again with her lawyer, reports The National Enquirer. Michael Plonsker, 56, was part of the team who filed a $64 million wrongful death lawsuit against Ritter’s doctors and the hospital where he was taken after collapsing Sept. 11, 2003. Ritter’s family received more than $14 million in the case.
Socialite Filomena Tobias — the Miami Heat’s middle finger lady — came out of her self-imposed silence before Wednesday night’s Heat-Bulls game and apologized for her behavior during the series’ Game 2.
Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 77. Singer Trini Lopez is 76. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 73. Country singer K.T. Oslin is 71. Musician Brian Eno is 65. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 61. Musician Mike Oldfield is 60. Actor Lee Horsley is 58. Singer Prince Be of PM Dawn is 43. Actor David Charvet (“Melrose Place”) is 41. Actor Russell Hornsby (“Grimm”) is 39. Actor David Krumholtz (“Numb3rs”) is 35. Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler (“The Sopranos”) is 32.
If Sean Hannity had his way, he’d be a full-time South Florida resident.
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