Home
EXPECTING
Actor Dean Cain, 33, and his ex-girlfriend, model
Samantha Torres, 26, await the spring birth of a child. They
split last year, before Torres learned she was pregnant, and do
not plan to reunite.
ENGAGED
Country singer Vince Gill, 42, and pop-gospel star Amy
Grant, 39, confirmed they plan to marry March 10. It will be the
second marriage for both. Grant was previously wed to
singer-songwriter Gary Chapman, 42, with whom she has three
children; Gill and ex-wife, singer Janis Gill, 46, have one
child.... Singer Carnie Wilson, 31, eldest daughter of the Beach
Boys' Brian Wilson, and rock guitarist Rob Bonfiglio, 32, will
wed in June. It's the first marriage for both.
MARRIED
Actor Christian Bale (American Psycho), 26, and Sibi
Blazic revealed they had wed Jan. 29 at an undisclosed location.
Neither has been married before.
SPLITS
Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, 50, and actor Frank
Langella, 60, have ended their five-year relationship. The
couple met as costars of the '96 comedy Eddie and lived together
in New York and L.A.
AILING
Founding Earth, Wind & Fire member Maurice White, 59,
with Parkinson's disease. Diagnosed in 1992, White postponed
going public; ''He's no longer in denial,'' says a spokesman for
the '70s soul band, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
on March 6.
RECOVERING
Celeb killer whale Keiko (Free Willy), 24, took the
first plunge toward freedom with a March 3 release into an
enclosed part of Iceland's Klettsvik Bay. The bay will serve as
a halfway home until he becomes the first captive whale ever
reintroduced into the wild, possibly later this year. The
five-tonner lived in a cramped Mexico City amusement park until
his 1993 film role raised concern from activists about his
physical condition.
CRIMES
Socorro Del Carmen Membrano, 48, former housekeeper for
actress Sharon Stone, 42, pleaded not guilty March 2 to grand
theft. Police say Membrano pilfered $300,000 in jewelry and
other items from Stone's L.A. home sometime before February. She
was being held on $300,000 bail and couldn't be reached for
comment.... Derek Longmuir, 48, former drummer of the '70s boy
band the Bay City Rollers, pleaded guilty March 3 to possession
of child pornography in Edinburgh, Scotland. Now a nurse at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he'll be sentenced March 24. Longmuir
reportedly told the court he hadn't viewed the films, which he
said belonged to a friend.
LOST
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed
that 4,200 Oscar ballots mailed to its California voters had
disappeared after they were deposited March 1 at the Beverly
Hills Post Office. An Academy spokesman said fresh ballots were
sent March 7. The deadline for votes is March 21.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Two NBC affiliates, Pocatello, Idaho's KPVI and
Salt Lake City's KSL, said March 6 they would not air the
network's new animated prime-time sitcom, God, the Devil and
Bob. KSL's Al Henderson said the series, featuring the Almighty
as a Jerry Garcia look-alike voiced by James Garner, ''does not
meet our standards of taste or quality during family viewing
times.'' Four other small-market stations said they would air it
at a later hour. Responds Matthew Carlson, a God exec producer,
''I like to think we're laughing with God, not at him.''...
Comedian Bill Cosby, 62, announced March 6 his intent to file
a $250 million lawsuit against the National Enquirer if the tab
does not retract a March story claiming that actress Lachele
Covington, 20, had accused him of sexual misconduct. ''The story
is not true. It never happened,'' says Cosby's publicist.
Covington could not be reached for comment; an Enquirerspokesman says the tab stands by its story.
