Like so many other couples in Hollywood, Eva Longoria, 31, and Tony Parker, 24, are “thrilled to announce” that after “dating steadily for two years,” they are “officially engaged,” says Longoria’s rep, Liza Anderson. Parker, a point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, was born in Belgium and raised in France; which, according to Eva’s rep, is where they plan to wed next summer. The pair met for the first time in the locker room after a Spurs’...  Read More »

NOVEMBER 30th It was ten years ago today (1996) that the world lost one of its more creatively odd characters, singer Tiny Tim. Born in New York in 1925, and given the name Herbert Khaury, Tiny Tim was most famously known for his song “Tiptoe Through the Tulips”, which highlighted his unique falsetto singing and ukulele playing. In the 1960s he performed in Greenwich Village and a 1968 documentary about the 60s, You Are What You Eat, used several of his...  Read More »

I didn’t even know they were an item. Did you? But I found a bunch of pictures of them together, so I guess they are. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Survivor producer Mark Burnett and Touched By An Angel’s Roma Downey, both 46, got engaged. Apparently, they don’t feel the same way as Cameron Diaz when it comes to marriage. “I have found my angel,” Burnett told People magazine. The British born Burnett and Roma Downey, who is from Northern...  Read More »

Cameron Diaz, 34, is commitment-phobic and doesn’t want to get married, or have kids. She has also admitted that she doesn’t even want the responsibility of caring for a dog. Yesterday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen brought up the subject, saying, “When [Justin] was on the show I asked him if you were going to get married.” To which Cameron responded, “I saw that. You know the answer to that, Ellen. I’m a commitment-phobe. Don’t want...  Read More »

Ever since I first saw the movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I have been convinced that Tim Curry wears women’s underwear — under everything. Think about it…… As Dr. Frank N. Furter, he moves comfortably and freely in his lingerie. Almost too comfortably – as if it were a second skin – and he handles his platform heals like he’s worn them all his life. Now think about his role as Cardinal Richelieu in 1993’s The...  Read More »

GOBBLE! GOBBLE! GOBBLE! The above work of art, created by Norman Rockwell, was one painting in a four part series called Four Freedoms. This depiction of a Thanksgiving dinner is Rockwell’s representation of the “Freedom From Want”. The other three paintings in the series (below) represent “The Freedom of Speech”, “The Freedom of Worship”, and “The Freedom From Fear”. Norman Percevel Rockwell was born in New York City on February 3, 1894...  Read More »

NOVEMBER 22nd On this day in 1916, noted author Jack London died of kidney failure, at the age of 40, in Glen Ellen, California. Known as one of the best writers to capture the last wild frontier of Alaska, Jack London published his first stories in 1899, and eventually produced over 50 volumes of short stories, novels, and political essays. His 1903 novel, The Call of the Wild, about a domestic dog that joins an Alaskan wolf pack, reflected his beliefs in...  Read More »