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Congratulations to Billy Joel and Vanessa Williams, who got married over the 4th of July weekend (not to each other)!

Correction to my last post:

Melissa Rivers has just sold her late mother's, Joan Rivers', penthouse for twenty-eight million dollars.

Eleven rooms, overlooks Central Park, Bette Midler lives in the same building.

The original production budget of Titanic was $125 million, but increased to $200 million, making it the first movie of its time to have a $200 million production budget.

Marilyn Monroe is buried in the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Mortuary.

Joe DiMaggio knew that her two beloved foster mothers are buried there, and that that is where she had wanted to

be buried.

Since then, many celebrities have chosen that cemetery.

I just found out that Burt Lancaster is buried there, under a simple brass marker, only his name and dates on it.

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are also among the famous there.

According to one website, approximately 350 people PER DAY visit Marilyn's crypt......I sort of hope that she knows,

somehow.

Just watching Sir Elton John's performance of 'Candle In The Wind' at Princess Diana's funeral....the song was first

written about Marilyn, then dedicated to Ryan White at a live performance by Elton John (Ryan died the next day),

then re-written for Diana's funeral.

One of the most touching and genuinely moving performances ever.

In the last new film we will ever see Robin Williams, "Boulevard", set to be released this Friday, the 17th, it seems that Robin might have been playing, HIMSELF:

"It's heartbreaking that, in his last dramatic film, Robin Williams plays depressed and repressed, burdened by secrets, a man incapable of connecting. In Boulevard, Williams invests himself in the role of a closeted Nashville bank manager married to a woman for whom he feels only sexless affection. Clearly, the actor was moved by the emotions he was performing, but the yearning we see onscreen is uncomfortably dual: As often happened when the comic turned serious, you can sense Williams's need to connect, sometimes as powerfully as the character's. Williams endeavors to become this man, but his impulse is to shut down, to make himself quiet and inexpressive — to strip away who Williams is rather than to build himself up into someone else.

That means he never gets us to stop seeing the actor we've known for years, the way John Cusack managed when playing Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy. And that makes this last turn of his hurt all the more: His empathy and humanity are apparent at every moment, and in individual scenes, especially with Kathy Baker as the wife, he glances against painful truths about human behavior. But mostly, as his banker putters about Nashville in a past-its-prime Mercedes, it feels like we're watching Robin Williams playing sad, not Robin Williams playing a specific person. I spent the movie aching for its star, not its characters."

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/film/robin-williams-last-drama-isnt-great-but-its-a-heartbreaker-7750980

I'm STILL not over his passing----and, I watch "Night at the Museum", often..... Maybe, I'm, like, prolonging the closure----not wanting to let him go, or something----I dunno----or, maybe it HELPS, to continue to appreciate him, or something.....

Slumdog Millionaire, Taken, Donnie Darko, Fast & Furious, Toy Story 2, Crazy Heart, Puss in Boots, and Saw were all intended to be released straight-to-video.

I thought that 'Taken' and 'Fast And Furious' were high budget films......

Michael Jackson was buried wearing a dark brown shoulder-length pageboy wig.

WOW, I just heard that Country's Golden Couple, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, filed for divorce----I'm SHOCKED----and, saddened!! There have been rumors going-around, for quite some time, now, that there was "trouble in paradise"----but, Blake always denied them, and I really believed him----besides, lots-of-times, rumors have ended-up having absolutely no merit, before, so..... They had been married, 4 years. I wonder what happened..... That's so sad.....

You'd be surprised how high the budgets can be on straight-to-video films. Highest I've seen is about $35 million. Taken was $10 million less than that. The straight-to-video world is changing. It used to mean that a movie had no budget and no stars and wasn't good enough for theatres, and that's still true for a lot of them, but now you're seeing movies with big budgets and stars like Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman that are never intended for theatres. A lot of films can make more money that way rather than having to compete at the box office with the huge blockbusters like Transformers and Avengers.

As for Fast & Furious, it did get an increase in the budget and a theatrical release after Vin Diesel and Paul Walker signed on, but before that, they were planning on taking it straight-to-video without them. The previous film had neither of those actors, and at the time, going straight-to-video with further movies seemed more feasible.

Blake and Miranda are accusing each other of infidelity.

There are grim black-and-white photos of MarilynMonroe in the morgue....they are real, and have blotches/discolorations on the face.

The explanation, that this was caused by the autopsy, has never made sense to me.

Recently, it was made clear....she was face down, and the blood pooled.

After the make up, and the coiffure, though, she supposedly looked natural, and as lovely as ever.

Joe DiMaggio supposedly put white roses into her hands before the lid was closed.

I have never understood why she was not buried wearing the 'Eternity Band' wedding ring from their marriage.

It was found among her stored possessions, and auctioned off many years later.

In 2012 Lisa Marie Presley announced that she was leaving The Church Of Scientology.

She had been raised in that church, by her mother, Priscilla, who had a home built either next door to their Florida

headquarters, or across the street from it.

Lisa Marie said at the time that she felt manipulated and betrayed by those closest to her who were in that church.

And Will Smith and Jada Pinckett have announced that they will divorce.

Couple of years ago, Jada was extremely interested in Scientology, associating with members constantly, and

putting up a LOT of money to open an academy where the kids were taught according to Scientologist principles.

The academy has since closed.

They have NOT announced that----that's some tabloid horse-hockey----Will got on Fb yesterday, and shot-down the rumors.

I had read on an Internet news site that THEY had announced an impending divorce....I guess not even Yahoo is

trustworthy!

Oh, wow----that's a bummer----I would've trusted Yahoo, as well, probably.

Here's the thing, though----how many times have you heard a celebrity shoot-down rumors, and then, later, say: "Yes, it is true"? I know *I* have heard it, ALOT! So, we'll see.....