Will Katie Holmes’ parents boycott her wedding?
The buzz is that Tom Cruise will marry the mother of his daughter Suri in late July or early August in a Scientology ceremony to be performed by church leader David Miscavige.
What’s more, Holmes’ parents, devout Catholics Martin and Kathleen, intend to skip the actual ceremony, a “friend” of Cruise reportedly told Life & Style Weekly.
A spokesman for the couple denies the story, but the magazine quotes a “family friend” as saying Martin and Kathleen Holmes are “not happy” with their daughter’s “choice of where to marry.”
Martin Holmes allegedly told the friend, “Katie can have a proper Catholic wedding her whole family will gladly be a part of.”
Don’t buy those reports Madonna is ready to dump Kabbalah. “She hasn’t done anything to indicate that she’s ready to leave,” a well-placed source told MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls. “It’s more that (the Kabbalah) leaders are nervous that she’ll walk because she’ll re-invent herself again. She’s not reluctant to throw her weight around, and they’re sort of scared of her.”
Pearl Jam will donate $100,000 to environmental groups as part of an effort to offset carbon emissions the band churns out on tour.
The BBC reports the band has been tracking emissions from vehicles and venues to estimate its contribution to global warming. Band members said this was the latest move in its “ongoing efforts” to advance clean renewable energy.
Cascade Land Conservancy and EarthCorps, which work to protect and replenish forests, are among nine groups Pearl Jam chose to receive donations.
Supermodel Christie Brinkley and her fourth husband, Peter Cooke, have separated, her publicist said Tuesday.
“Yes, it’s true. The couple has separated,” publicist Elliot Mintz said in a statement reported by The Associated Press. They married in 1996 and have a daughter.
Brinkley, 52, was previously married to Frenchman Jean-Francois Allaux, singer Billy Joel and developer Richard Taubman. She and Joel have a daughter, and she and Taubman have a son.
Sally Field is signing on for a weekly TV series. She has joined the cast of “Brothers & Sisters,” a drama set to air this fall, ABC announced Tuesday.
“Brothers & Sisters” follows a close-knit family. Field will play the mother of five adult siblings, the network said. The series also stars Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Ron Rifkin, Balthazar Getty and Patricia Wettig.
Doc Severinsen, Johnny Carson’s longtime
bandleader on “The Tonight Show,” plans to step down as the principal pops conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra after next season.
Severinsen, 79, has held the job since 1994. He also will leave a similar job with the Minnesota Orchestra, according to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In a statement, Severinsen said, “Will I still play my horn each day? You betcha!”
Donna Hanover, a former first lady of New York City, has some experience in the ways of love, and she’s putting that experience to use as an AOL Love & Sex Coach.
Hanover, an actor and TV personality, was divorced from now ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani after 20 years of marriage and later rekindled love with a high school sweetheart and married him.
Giuliani married longtime companion Judith Nathan in 2003. He started seeing her while still married to Hanover.
