Actress Marilu Henner, best known for her role in the hit TV series “Taxi,” has married a former college classmate who proposed from his hospital bed after surgery for cancer. Henner, 54, married Michael Brown, also 54, before 100 people in Henner’s home in Los Angeles on Thursday, The New York Times reported in Sunday’s editions. Henner wore a pale peach Escada gown and was given away by her sons Nicky, 12, and Joey, 11. Brown’s twin brother, a Universal Life minister, officiated. It was Henner’s third marriage and the second for Brown, who has three children.
Judi Dench may be one of the world’s most acclaimed actresses, but she still worries about getting work. The 72-year-old film and stage actress says she takes on many roles partly out of fear that her latest one could be her last. “It’s just wanting to be employed in my case,” she told the Los Angeles Times in Sunday’s editions. “(Actor) Trevor Nunn once said to me: ‘You’re always in tears on the first night.’ And I said, ‘I’m so frightened that nobody’s going to ask me to do the next thing.’ I get so fearful about that kind of thing.”
Chris Gardner, whose rags-to- riches story is told in the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness,” spent the film’s opening night speaking at a company party in Wisconsin. Michael Riggs, the CEO of JHT Holdings Inc. in Kenosha., said he arranged through a talent agency for Gardner to be the inspirational speaker at the company’s Christmas party on Dec. 15. Riggs doubted Gardner would make it. He was wrong. “He said, ‘I could have been in Rome or with the world’s biggest star, Will Smith. But I heard there was a company in Kenosha that had been doing great things, and I’d rather be here with fellow Wisconsinites,”‘ Riggs said. Gardner, a Milwaukee native, was a homeless single father in California before becoming a millionaire business executive – the story told in the film based on his autobiography. Smith plays Gardner in the movie.
Ben Stiller’s “Night at the
Museum” debuted with $30.8 million to lead a rush of new movies over the holiday weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The previous weekend’s No. 1 movie, Sony’s “The Pursuit of Happyness,” slipped to second. Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky Balboa” debuted at No. 3 with $22.1 million since opening Wednesday.
