Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his wife, Abby, are expecting.
The college sweethearts, who have been married for 2½ years, will become parents in the spring.
“They are both so happy and excited. Eli is being very protective of Abby, as it is still early days,” a source told Page Six of the N.Y. Post.
Eli, 29, and Abby, 26, who met in the spring of his junior year at Ole Miss wed on a beach at the One&Only Palmilla in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in April 2008.
In May last year, Eli and his wife were still basking in newlywed bliss but were beginning to think ahead.
“We’re enjoying being married right now,” Eli said at the time. “There’s no exact plan, but we do plan on starting a family in the future.”
Michael Douglas has been making the three-hour trip from Manhattan to Pennsylvania to visit his jailed son Cameron despite battling advanced throat cancer.
Even though he is recuperating from the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, the “Wall Street 2” star is determined to support his drug-dealing son, who is serving a five-year prison term, according to Radaronline.
“Michael is still visiting with Cameron,” the actor’s longtime friend and publicist Allen Burry told the website.
“He’s not going everyday and not as often as he would like, but he is still visiting with him.”
Cameron, who is serving time in Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp, is expected to be released in December 2013, but the longtime addict could get out a year early, if he completes a prison drug-treatment program.
The Dutchess is being crowned “Woman of the Year” by Billboard magazine.
Fergie will be given the honor on Dec. 2 at a ceremony in New York City. The only female member of the Black Eyed Peas says she’s “humbled” to accept the award and called it a “great career achievement.” The honor pays tribute to a trailblazing female artist and her accomplishments. Though Fergie’s only solo album was 2006’s mutli-platinum “The Dutchess,” she’s continued to sell out venues and score hits with the Black Eyed Peas. They have a new CD, “The Beginning,” out Nov. 30.
Previous Billboard “Woman of the Year” honorees were Beyonce, Ciara and Reba McEntire.
David Lynch has segued from making movies to showing them.
As the first guest artistic director of the AFI Fest, the “Blue Velvet” director has programmed a mini festival within the film festival, which begins next week in Hollywood.
His selections: director Ingmar Bergman’s “Hour of the Wolf” (1968), Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” (1962). Jacques Tati’s “Mon Oncle” (1958), Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954) and Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Blvd.” (1950).
Whittling his list down to just a half-dozen was “impossible in a way,” Lynch noted. “These are films that really inspired me and films I love.” Lynch and the festival have a long history, dating back to his first feature, “Eraserhead” (1976). “I’d been rejected from the New York Film Festival, and Cannes; I was supposed to go,” Lynch recalled, adding that he finally scored a screening for “Eraserhead” at Filmex, the AFI Fest predecessor. “Ben Barenholtz from Libra Films saw it (there) and the film was distributed on the midnight circuit.” “Eraserhead” would become a cult classic and the film that launched Lynch’s Hollywood career, which also includes “The Elephant Man” (1980), “Blue Velvet” (1986), the TV series “Twin Peaks” (1990-91), and “Mulholland Dr.” (2001), for which he received one of his four Oscar nominations.
The director, who has produced video introductions for select screenings, will be on hand Nov. 6 to present the double bill of “Eraserhead” and the classic Hollywood drama “Sunset Blvd..” “Billy Wilder created such a world and I say I would love to live in that world,” Lynch commented. “I loved watching this film and being in that world. William Holden and Gloria Swanson: beyond the beyond, the mood, it’s like a beautiful dream.” In addition to serving as guest artistic director, Lynch also created artwork that serves as the official image of the festival, which is in its 24th year. AFI Fest 2010 is set for Nov. 4-11.
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
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