Is it so long to SoHo for Courtney Love?
The New York Daily News reports a mortgage company is about to foreclose on the singer-actress’ 4,200-square-foot loft. The unit at 30 Crosby St. has been for sale for several months, listed for $5.5 million. But Mercury Capital Corp. has filed a lawsuit seeking to foreclose, claiming Love missed two $30,000 mortgage payments for July and August.
The year’s biggest meteorological story hits – Hurricane Katrina – but where is “Today Show” weatherman Al Roker?
Roker, 51, has been missing from the NBC morning show the past two weeks. “Al is still under the weather,” “Today” co-host Matt Lauer acknowledged on the air Monday.
Roker’s publicist, Howard Rubenstein, finally cleared up the mystery to the New York Daily News’ Lloyd Grove. “(Roker) goes in for minor back surgery for a ruptured disk (Wednesday),” Rubenstein said. “He told me he had his hurricane go-bag all packed and ready to go, but he couldn’t lift it.”
Charlize Theron will play the love interest to Jason Bateman in five episodes of “Arrested Development,” E! Online reported.
The Oscar-winning actress joins the cast of the Emmy- winning Fox comedy in the series’ second episode on Sept. 26. “Arrested Development” kicks off its third season Sept. 19.
Matt Damon’s girlfriend, Luciana Barroso, was rushed to the hospital Sunday because of food poisoning, the New York Post reported. Damon, filming the Robert De Niro-directed “The Good Shepherd,” comforted his tearful girlfriend at the St. Vincent’s Hospital emergency room. Damon’s spokeswoman confirmed Barroso “had food poisoning and got really dehydrated because of that.”
Kathleen Turner and longtime husband Jay Weiss are splitting, the Post reported.
The Tony-nominated star of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” met Weiss when she rented an apartment from the real-estate mogul. The couple, who have a teenage daughter, married in 1983.
This will make you feel old: Donny Osmond is a grandfather. The singer and game-show host’s son Jeremy and his wife, Melissa, welcomed Dylan into the world Aug. 21.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
Rapper The Game no shoe-in in Vegas after MTV shooting
The Game got the boot from a major fashion convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday before he could introduce his new sneaker line.
Organizers thought the rapper was involved in the shooting of Suge Knight at last weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards activities and feared retaliation.
Game’s sneaker, Hurricane by 310, was scheduled to be introduced at the Magic Marketplace at the Las Vegas Convention Center. He told The Associated Press, “They were scared there was going to be some drama, but I don’t know why they would be scared, because I had nothing to do with (the shooting).”
