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Zsa Zsa Gabor to Become New Mother at 94, Husband Says

Poor Zsa, Zsa….

She’s 94, bedridden and just had her leg amputated.

But worse, she’s married to a crazy man….

She must be near death and this guy is trying to milk all the publicity he can get before she goes…

He knows no one will pay attention to him once she’s gone…

Sad….

From CNN.com:

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband wants his 94-year-old wife to become a mother again using an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother, Prince Frederic von Anhalt told CNN Thursday.

“I’ve gone through the initial steps of donor matching and blood work and next week the donation process will begin,” von Anhalt said.

Gabor’s only child, Francesca Hilton, described herself as shocked when told of the plan Thursday.

“That’s just weird,” Hilton said.

Von Anhalt, 67, said he is working with Dr. Mark Surry of the Southern California Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills. CNN calls to the center have not been returned.

Gabor has suffered major health problems in the last year, including hip replacement surgery and a leg amputation. She has been unable to walk since a 2002 car accident.

“I’m a retired guy,” von Anhalt said. “I can take care of it.”

via Zsa Zsa Gabor to become new mother at 94, husband says – CNN.com.

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Is It Possible To Become A Gay Icon?

Cute article from Joel Stein in Time Magazine in light of Elizabeth Taylor’s passing…

Here is a brief excerpt and a link to the full article at the bottom:

Irish wakes are good, sitting Shivah is O.K., jazz funerals are great, and ayatullah processions have their moments, but the people you really want to show up when you die are the gays. The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, is still mourning Elizabeth Taylor, who hung out there with her dog Daisy, drinking watermelon-and-apple martinis. Taylor was a gay-male icon: beautiful and talented with a messy personal life, addictions to drugs or alcohol, and about 14 marriages. I don’t know the details because I’m straight.

In fact, gay icons totally confuse me. I get that Maria Callas and Judy Garland are hot, talented women martyred by their art. But Marilyn Monroe was fabulous and tragic, and gays don’t care about her except as a Halloween costume. And I’ve yet to hear of one drag queen who puns off of Vincent van Gogh. Meanwhile, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler and Cher seem to have fine lives. Is inner strength the key? Or vulnerability? And how can you possibly iconicize all four Golden Girls? They’re so different.

But all of them have a much better deal than having straight-dude fans. The moment you stop playing your sport, they ignore you and your sad suburban autograph signings. But if you’re a gay icon and get addicted to meth, stop working and abuse your assistant, your fans just love you more for it. I needed to figure out how to become a gay icon. Even if it required drinking watermelon-and-apple martinis.

via Is It Possible To Become A Gay Icon? – TIME.

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Happy Birthday, Billie Holiday!

The Great Billie Holiday was born on April 7, 1915 and left us entirely too soon…

But her recordings live on…

As does her legion…

For those of you who only remember Diana Ross in “The Lady Sings the Blues”, here is the real Lady Day:

“Strange Fruit”

“God Bless the Child”-She co-wrote this one…

“Good Morning Heartache”

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Happy Birthday, Bette Davis!

Today really should be a National Holiday…..

Bette Davis was born April 5th, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts…

She has always been one of my favorite actresses…

Here are some of her memorable scenes…

There were so many…

“Now, Voyager”

“All About Eve”

And so many more…

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“Moon River” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” are 50

Whenever Politics give me the Mean Reds, there’s nothing like an Audrey Hepburn film to take the edge off…

This was one of her best.  Hard to believe it was made 50 years ago…

It’s still one of my favorites…

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Ali McGraw is 73 today…And “Love Story” is 41

It’s hard to believe either of these facts…

It’s also hard to believe what a cultural impact the movie “Love Story” had…

And it’s hard to believe Ryan O’Neal was once good-looking and somewhat sane…

I was a child and my parent’s wouldn’t let me go see it, so I read the book…

Just like I did with “Valley of the Dolls”, “Peyton Place” and “The Exorcist”…

It was years later when I finally saw it….and didn’t think it was very good.

But it was a very big deal when it first came out…

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry” was one of the silliest movie lines I ever heard…

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James Franco: Anne Hathaway Made Me Look Stoned at Oscars

I can’t believe everyone is still talking about this…

Of course, it was really bad…

But as I said, I blame the writers and, if you read the closing line carefully, apparently so does James Franco…

From PopEater.com.  Emphasis is mine..

For the first time since hosting the Oscars, James Franco is addressing rumors that he was stoned during the gig. In an interview on ‘The Late Show With Dave Letterman,’ airing Thursday evening, the actor reveals why he appeared so low energy.

“People said I was under the influence,” Franco said during his ‘Late Show’ interview, which airs tonight.

“Now why would they say that?” asked Letterman with a laugh.

The ‘127 Hours’ actor replied, “I’ve thought about it. I think I know why, because–I love her–but Anne Hathaway is so energetic, I think the Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway.”

“Truthfully,” Franco added, “and I haven’t watched it back, maybe I had low energy. I actually played those lines as well as well as I could.”

via James Franco: Anne Hathaway Made Me Look Stoned at Oscars | PopEater.com.

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Rob Lowe: Somewhere, A Picture is Aging…

How can he look like this at 47???

Amazing…

I swear he looks better than he did in “St Elmo’s Fire”, one of my favorite 1980’s films…

He must have made a deal with the devil….

It’s Dorian Gray time….

From the latest Vanity Fair:

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Elizabeth Taylor had amassed $600 million fortune in properties, jewels and stocks

From the NY Post:

Screen queen Elizabeth Taylor has left behind a fortune worth at least $600 million, much of which is expected to go to the AIDS charities she championed for decades.

Her famous jewelry collection, valued at an eye-popping $150 million in 2002, is likely to be auctioned off with the bulk of the proceeds going to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and amfAR, the AIDS charity she helped found in 1985, according to WFLD/Fox TV Chicago.

“From what I understand, she seems to have been very wise about her investments,” said a financial planner who has worked with other Hollywood A-listers.

At the time of her 1994 divorce from her last husband, Larry Fortensky, Taylor’s net worth was estimated at $608.4 million. That figure could now be well in excess of $1 billion.

During the 1990s, Taylor reportedly earned about $2 per second, or about $63 million per year.

Her famed perfume, White Diamonds, earned more than $70 million last year, according to reports.

via Elizabeth Taylor had amassed $600 million fortune in properties, jewels and stocks – NYPOST.com.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor Says ‘I’m Next’

Poor Zsa, Zsa….

It’s all about her….

Upon learning that her dear friend Elizabeth Taylor has passed away on Wednesday morning, Zsa Zsa Gabor became so upset that she was rushed back to the hospital in Los Angeles, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

Zsa Zsa’s husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt told RadarOnline.com that his wife was watching television when the story broke of Taylor’s death.

Taylor and Gabor, 94, had been friends for decades and she “went hysterical” after she was told of her passing.

“Zsa Zsa said celebrities go in threes and I’m next,” her husband said she exclaimed.

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor passed away after spending six weeks in the hospital for congestive heart failure. She was 79. Hollywood icon Jane Russell died in February, she was 89.

Frederic said Zsa Zsa’s blood pressure “went through the roof,” so he called an ambulance and she was rushed back to the UCLA Medical Center.

via EXCLUSIVE: Zsa Zsa Gabor Says ‘I’m Next’ After Learning Of Elizabeth Taylor’s Death, Rushed To Hospital | Radar Online.

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