Sideshow: Bidding farewell to Heston
Charlton Heston, one of the last lions of Old Hollywood, was remembered at his funeral Saturday as devoutly religious and patriotic - a man who was an imposing figure both in his politics and on the big screen.
Charlton Heston
, one of the last lions of Old Hollywood, was remembered at his funeral Saturday as devoutly religious and patriotic - a man who was an imposing figure both in his politics and on the big screen.
Heston died April 5 at age 83 following a battle with Alzheimer's disease. About 250 people attended the funeral, including family members, politicians and actors. A frail
Nancy Reagan
entered the church on the arm of
Tom Selleck
. After the nearly two-hour ceremony, the former first lady left with
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
. Other notables from Heston's Hollywood history included
Olivia DeHavilland
,
Keith Carradine
,
Pat Boone
,
Oliver Stone
and
Rob Reiner
.
Heston's daughter,
Holly Heston Rochell
, recalled her father's love of poetry. His son,
Fraser Clarke Heston
, talked about his father's devotion to America, saying Heston "loved his country."
Michael Levine
, Heston's publicist for 20 years, said he was struck by how many people attended from both sides of the political aisle. He attributed this to Heston's "virtue and character."
Ivana is hitched - again
Ivana Trump
, ex-wife of real estate mogul
Donald Trump,
wore a pastel pink-and-gold wedding dress when she tied the knot Saturday evening with Italian entrepreneur
Rossano Rubicondi
, the Palm Beach Post reported. The wedding took place at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's opulent seaside mansion in Palm Beach.
Donald Trump, whom she divorced in 1990, attended, as did their children. Ivana Trump, 59, and Rubicondi, 36, have been together for about six years. They got engaged in September, and this is her fourth marriage.
Britney motors to mishap - again
Pop star
Britney Spears
was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.
Spears was driving her 2008 Mercedes on the eastbound Ventura Freeway just east of the 405 freeway about 8:20 p.m. when the mishap occurred, said California Highway Patrol.
Spears was in stop-and-go traffic when her car struck a 2006 Nissan in front of her that had stopped. The Nissan then pushed forward into another vehicle. No damage was noted to any of the vehicles.
'Prom Night' slashes its way to top
Audiences made a date with
Prom Night
, the remake of the 1980 slasher flick that took in $22.7 million to debut as the weekend's No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates yesterday.
The movie, released by Sony's Screen Gems banner, stars
Brittany Snow
as a teen terrorized by a psycho killer on prom night. It overcame the critical drubbing handed to most fright films, which have a built-in audience that often turns out in big numbers on opening weekend regardless of reviews.
Opening in second place was 20th Century Fox's
Street Kings
, a cop drama starring
Keanu Reeves
and
Forest Whitaker
that took in $12 million.
Those movies bumped Sony's
21
, which fell to third with $11 million after two weekends at No. 1, with the Vegas blackjack tale taking a three-week total of $62.3 million.
The weekend's other new wide release, Miramax's
Smart People
, opened at No. 7 with $4.2 million.
Smart People
stars
Dennis Quaid
,
Sarah Jessica Parker
,
Ellen Page
and
Thomas Haden Church
in a comic drama about a crusty English professor and his oddball family and associates.