The great Betty Garrett has died, reports the Associated Press. She was 91. Garrett, a brilliant comedic actress whose work in MGM musicals like On The Town and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, both co-starring Frank Sinatra, is peerless, later appeared on All in the Family, and Lavern and Shirley. Both Betty and her husband Larry Parks, who died in 1975, had the careers hindered by the Hollywood blacklist. Parks had won stardom and an Academy Award nomination as best actor for his portrayal of singer Al Jolson in the 1946 The Jolson Story. But in 1951, he was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and he admitted that he had joined the Communist Party in 1941 and left in 1944 or 1945. Pressed to name his fellow members of the party, Parks pleaded not to be forced "to crawl through the mud as an informer." He agreed to testify fully in executive session. He made one more film, Love Is Better Than Ever with Elizabeth Taylor, and then his film career was over. "It was a dark period, a foolish, foolish period," Garrett said in 1998. "It destroyed a lot of lives and ruined my husband's career." Garrett had also had a brief association with the party but wasn't called to testify, perhaps, she said, "because I was nine months pregnant with my second son, and they didn't think I would be a good witness."
CBS News reports that a calculating Ann Coulter told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington that the Republican party needs to court homosexuals, a statement delivered after the GOP’s acceptance of gay conservatives and gay rights was played at out at CPAC, after organizers extended an invitation to GOProud to be an official participant, prompting some social conservatives to boycott the annual event. In her speech, Coulter said “The left is trying to co-opt gays. They should be on our side. We watched this for 30 years, The left keeps using one group after another to destroy the family. That is their goal, to destroy the family. Liberals want the family destroyed. Then you have loyalty directed to the state.”
51 year old Steven Barry Krumholz, of West Hollywood, was arrested on board the Allure of the Seas in St. Thomas Friday, the Associated Press reporting that Krumholz is being held on charges of possession with intent to sell. The Allure of the Seas, which left Port Everglades, Florida February 6th with an estimated 5,400 passengers on a charter billed as the “world’s largest gay cruise.” Customs and Border Protection agents boarded the ship Wednesday and found drugs on another passenger, who said he had placed an order with Krumholz before the trip and picked them up while on board, according to an affidavit submitted by one of the investigating agents. Agents searched Krumholz's cabin and allegedly found more than 142 ecstasy pills, nearly 3 grams of methamphetamine, a small quantity of ketamine and about $51,000 in cash, the agent said. While waiting for the suspect to return to his cabin, two more passengers came to buy drugs, according to the affidavit.
Pretty Peter Brant Jr, whose family frolic on the beach with mother Stephanie Seymour raised eyebrows, spotted at New York Fashion Week accompanied by the very cute Nick Hissom, although Peter was quick to clarify the two are not a couple, but “very good friends.”
A rough trade-looking Shia LaBeouf sports a new haircut and a new beard – the figurative type, naturally.
Taylor Lautner, looking lovely in a leather jacket and hoodie, arriving at LAX late last night alongside a mystery beard.
Moments ago, ahead of a performance at the Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga arrived via an egg, in incubation, naturally.
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