“The West Wing’s” presidential star, Martin Sheen, heads back to school this month. Sheen, who played President Josiah Bartlet on the NBC drama, registered Friday at National University Galway in western Ireland, where he plans to study philosophy, English literature and oceanography as part of a bachelor of arts degree. “I always had a fantasy about going to college because I left school after high school,” he said. Sheen, 66, said he didn’t think he could attend classes at an American university because his presence would be too distracting for other students.
He may look good at a hearty 66, but sexy soulman Ronald Isley can’t finesse the taxman. The lead crooner of the Isley Brothers (“Shout,” “This Old Heart of Mine”) was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in prison for tax evasion.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was also ordered to pay about $3.1 million to the Internal Revenue Service, having engaged in “pervasive, long-term, pathological” evasion of federal taxes, according to the U.S. district judge assigned to the case.
Dave Grohl made a solemn vow on Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio that when he visits Australia in October, he will follow through with his offer to buy a beer for Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, the two miners who said they had listened to Grohl’s band, Foo Fighters, during the two weeks they were trapped when their mine in Tasmania collapsed in May.
Music legend Diana Ross helped her son Evan celebrate his 18th birthday by giving him an unlimited shopping spree at Maxfield’s clothing store in Los Angeles, according to the New York Post. The price tag: $100,000.
