Maybe he knows something we don’t. Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson was great friends with Steve Fossett, part-time Coloradan, aviator and adventurer.Fossett disappeared Sept. 3 after taking off in a small plane over the Nevada desert. Despite massive search efforts, neither he nor the aircraft was found. The search was called off Oct. 2, and that was that.
Branson, who plans on naming Virgin Galactic’s first spaceship “The Spirit of Steve Fossett,” keeps saying things that hint at Fossett being alive.
In the December issue of Outside magazine, Branson says of Fossett: “I dare say we’ll never see anyone like him again on this earth. It’s my greatest hope that in 10 years’ time he’ll write me a lovely letter from some beautiful place in South America.”
At the Nov. 3 Spreading Wings Gala honoring Fossett at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Lowry, Branson sent in a video tribute in which he said it would be nice to see Fossett again one day: “You never know, one day he might come walking out of the desert.”
Hey, Steve, phone home.
Solid Goldie.
Goldie Hawn lands on the cover of Aspen Peak magazine this month.
She and her family visit their 75-acre ranch in Old Snowmass during the winter holidays and again in the summer. She loves it, she loves Piñons restaurant and the Cantina, and she loves the Hawn Foundation, which teaches kids how to kick back, Goldie Style.
“That’s a very large undertaking,” Hawn says. “Partnering with schools, creating curricula for kids, teaching them how to calm themselves, manage their stress and apply mindfulness practices into different strategies like tolerance, perseverance, patience. It will help give these kids what I call a ‘toolbox for life.’ “
Out on a Limerick. University of Colorado at Boulder historian Patty Limerick was featured in a full-page interview in Sunday’s NY Times Magazine.
She talks about her longtime crush on John Wayne. “It took me a very long time to admit to myself that the main reason I don’t watch many Western movies, of the John Wayne kind of Western movies, is that I dissolve with desire to have John Wayne take over my life. I want John Wayne to come into my office and answer the phone and say, ‘The little lady isn’t making any more speaking engagements, buddy.’ “
Limerick kinda regrets saying that — only because she has a very competent assistant, Amanda Dixon, and she didn’t mean to say she’d rather have Wayne.
And the Wayne crush couldn’t be too serious. Limerick married geochemist Houston Kempton on Nov. 3.
City spirit.
”Ask a Mexican!” columnist Gustavo Arellano reads at The Lab at Belmar at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Celine Dion comes to the Pepsi Center on Nov. 19, 2008; tix on sale Monday through Ticketmaster, $41-$135, but likely higher prices for VIP seating Sez who: “Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.” G.C. Lichtenberg
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