Sideshow | Not just another wedding for the TV cameras
The exchange of vows. Dancing. Music. A couple of fights. Just another wedding? Not the case Saturday night at the Loews Philadelphia as West Chester's MTV/skater-punk hero Bam Margera, 27, married childhood friend Missy Rothstein, 26, before about 350 friends, family members and an MTV crew. Margera's brother Jesse was best man.
The exchange of vows. Dancing. Music. A couple of fights.
Just another wedding? Not the case Saturday night at the Loews Philadelphia as West Chester's MTV/skater-punk hero Bam Margera, 27, married childhood friend Missy Rothstein, 26, before about 350 friends, family members and an MTV crew. Margera's brother Jesse was best man.
Iggy Pop performed after the salad course. Among guests were Tony Hawk, the skateboarding legend, James Iha, formerly of Smashing Pumpkins, and the usual gang of Margera associates, including Dico and Rake Yohn. Philly restaurateur Dave Magrogan of Kildare's Irish Pub and Doc Magrogan's Oyster House were there, as were radio personalities Preston Elliot, Casey Fosbenner, Kathy Romano of WMMR's Preston & Steve show. The show's Steve Morrison was under the weather. Witnesses reported two scuffles involving unspecified combatants. The wedding will be Topic A of today's Preston & Steve show (6 to 10 a.m., 93.3 FM).
Margera, who rose to fame on the shows Jackass and Viva La Bam, allowed MTV to follow the wedding for a nine-episode series Bam's Unholy Union.
It premiered Tuesday; the wedding itself, the final episode, will be shown in early April. The couple will honeymoon in Dubai.
MTV cameras took pains to avoid taping Margera's uncle Vincent "Don Vito" Margera, who on Thursday was ordered to stand trial on charges that he groped three girls at an appearance in Colorado. He is free on $50,000 bail, pending his March 5 arraignment.
Hawk, by the way, impressed staff at Lacroix at the Rittenhouse Friday when he and his wife, Lhotse, came in for dinner. They left a 50 percent tip.
- Michael Klein
Scorsese 'Filmmaker of Year'
Martin Scorsese
won the top honor Saturday from the Directors Guild of America for his mob saga
The Departed
, moving him a step closer to finally receiving Hollywood's biggest filmmaking prize at the Academy Awards.
Scorsese was chosen as filmmaker of the year by his peers, his first win at the guild awards after six previous nominations. The guild winner usually goes on to win the best-director Oscar.
"If you look at the graph at the spikes at where the picture is doing really great figures, it's like looking at a veritable map of the American underworld," such as Boca Raton, Fla., Scorsese said. "Vegas, forget about it, it was amazing."
Walter Hill won the guild's directing honor for TV movies for the Western Broken Trail. Other TV winners included Richard Shepard for comedy directing on the pilot episode of Ugly Betty, Jon Cassar for drama directing for an episode of 24, and Chicago filmmaker Rob Marshall for musical variety directing for "Tony Bennett: An American Classic." Arunas Matelis won for feature-film documentary for Before Flying Back to the Earth, a portrait of children hospitalized with leukemia.
- Associated Press
Weekend Box Office
The fright film The Messengers, about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.
Opening in second place was Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore's mother-daughter comedy Because I Said So, the Universal release taking in $13 million, according to studio estimates yesterday.
The latest in a string of horror hits from Sony, The Messengers bumped off the previous weekend's No. 1 flick, 20th Century Fox's Epic Movie, which slipped to third with $8.2 million, raising its 10-day total to $29.4 million.
- Associated Press
O'Neal accused of assaulting son
Authorities have accused Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O'Neal of assaulting his adult son at the actor's home over the weekend.
Deputies and paramedics were called to O'Neal's home at 12:30 a.m. Saturday "regarding a battery that had occurred," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. John Benedict said Sunday.
"Deputies determined . . . Griffin O'Neal, his son, had been assaulted by his father," Benedict said.
Ryan O'Neal, 65, was arrested and accused of assault with a deadly weapon and negligent discharge of a firearm. He was released on a $50,000 bond.
- Associated Press
Judge backs heiress
A judge has issued a temporary injunction against a Web site peddling personal pictures, videos, diaries, and other items that heiress Paris Hilton once kept at a storage facility.
The injunction temporarily bars ParisExposed.com from releasing Hilton's Social Security number, and other personal information. Hilton sued the Web site, accusing it of exploiting her belongings for commercial gain.
- Associated Press