Sideshow: LiLo, ending rehab, tweets wisdom
Teen starlet turned public menace Lindsay Lohan, 24, is scheduled to be released from rehab Monday. LiLo's court-ordered sojourn followed a brief stay in jail. But don't fear, LiLo has her act together, as she demonstrates in this inspirational tweet.
Teen starlet turned public menace
Lindsay Lohan
, 24, is scheduled to be released from rehab Monday. LiLo's court-ordered sojourn followed a brief stay in jail. But don't fear, LiLo has her act together, as she demonstrates in this inspirational tweet.
"Today is the first day of the rest of my life," she says, before adding this rockin' quote: " 'The future depends on what we do in the present.' - Mahatma Gandhi . . . One step at a time."
A box of chocolates for Twain
Shania Twain
finally has washed that dog of an ex-husband,
Robert John "Mutt" Lange
, out of her hair.
Twain, 45, whose marriage collapsed in '08 when Mutt left her for her then-best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, has married Marie-Anne's ex-husband, chocolate king Frédéric Thiébaud. The Canadian country-popster and the 40-year-old Nestlé suit exchanged vows at sunset on New Year's Day in Rincon, Puerto Rico, before 40 family and friends.
Perez Hilton says the guests capped the ceremony by singing "All You Need Is Love" en masse.
Shania and Frédéric hooked up in '09 while "finding solace with each other after their spouses allegedly had an affair," says People.
Another New Year's nuptial
Valerie Bertinelli
also said her I Do's on Saturday, marrying beau of seven years, financial planner
Tom Vitale
, 49, says People.
"We're so happy," says Bertinelli, 50, star of the 1970s cautionary tale, One Day at a Time. The wedding, at the couple's Malibu, Calif., home, drew 100 guests, including Val's ex-, Eddie Van Halen, whom she divorced in '05 after nearly 25 years, and their son, Wolfie, 19.
A New Year's breakup
The Hollywood Reporter says
John Mellencamp
has split up with his third wife,
Elaine Irwin Mellencamp
, after 18 years. The couple have two teenage sons,
Hud
and
Speck
.
Plan to go gaga on Feb. 13
Lady Gaga
says she'll release a new single, "Born This Way," on Feb. 13. Her next album, also titled
Born This Way
, will be out on May 23. The single tackles a theological issue dear to
St. Augustine
. (Or was it
Deepak Chopra
?) "I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes. . . . Don't hide yourself in regret, just love yourself and you're set."
Far out!
Berry suffers 'exhaustion'
Guitar legend
Chuck Berry
, 84, had to cut short a concert Saturday night in Chicago because of "exhaustion," his rep tells the New York Daily News. Berry had performed two shows Friday in New York.
Ice-T too radical for Hungary?
Hungary's National Media and Infocommunications Authority is investigating a radio station for broadcasting two songs by
Ice-T
- "Warning" and "It's On" - because they may have "adverse effect on the moral development" of children under 16. Authorities say the tunes should not have aired before 9 p.m. to avoid exposing kids to Ice-T's NC-17 rhymes.
'Fockers' makes a lot of money
Little Fockers
, the artwork born of
Robert De Niro
and
Ben Stiller
's love, made $26.3 mil over the weekend to win the box office wars.
True Grit
, the
Coen brothers
' post-revisionary, post-post-ironic, neo-earnest western homage starring
Jeff Bridges
and
Matt Damon
, is at No. 2 with $24.5 mil, according to studio estimates. And Bridges' sci-fi remake,
Tron: Legacy
, is at No. 3 with $18.3 mil.