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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Chris Brown renews 'friendship' with Rihanna
A judge lifted a stay-away order against Chris Brown in February 2011 with Rihanna's consent.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Chris Brown announces breakup with girlfriend Karrueche Tran
- "I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna," Brown says
- Talk of a Rihanna-Brown reunion was fueled when she kissed, hugged him at the MTV VMAs
- Brown remains on probation for assaulting Rihanna in 2009
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Chris Brown acknowledged Thursday he has renewed his "friendship" with Rihanna, the woman he was convicted of beating on the eve of the Grammys in February 2009.
Brown, 23, has two more years of probation to serve for his felony assault conviction, although the judge lifted the "stay away" order that kept him from his victim last year.
The singer sent an unsolicited statement to CNN announcing he was breaking up with Karrueche Tran, the 24-year-old model he began dating a year after he was arrested for the felony assault.
"I have decided to be single to focus on my career," Brown said. "I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna. I'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives."
Tran tweeted a short message Wednesday that appeared directed at Brown: "Bye baby."
The announcement follows publication of paparazzi photos showing Brown and Rihanna together in public and rumors the two entertainers had reunited romantically.
Source: Rihanna argument did not spur Chris Brown fight
The talk of their reunion was fueled last month when Rihanna gave Brown a quick kiss and a hug at the MTV Video Music Awards last month as Brown walked to the stage to accept an award.
Rihanna told Oprah Winfrey in an emotional interview in August that Brown had been her "best friend" and she still loved him.
The judge overseeing Brown's case imposed a "stay away" order when she sentenced him to five years of probation, community service and domestic violence counseling for his felony assault conviction in August 2009.
The order, which was to expire in 2014, required Brown to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna, 10 yards if the two are at the same industry event. The judge lifted the order in February 2011 with Rihanna's consent.
"He just can't bother her," Rihanna's lawyer, Donald Etra, said at the time.
Brown has made several public apologies to Rihanna for the attack, which he seemed to blame on his youth. He was 19 at the time.
"I feel like that we're young," Brown told CNN's Larry King days after his sentencing. "We're both young. So nobody taught us how to love one another. Nobody taught us a book on how to control our emotions or our anger. I'm not trying to fall on the fact that I'm young. I'm just saying it's a lot of stuff that I wish I could have changed that night."
Brown was arrested after an early morning argument inside a rented Lamborghini on a Hollywood street on February 8, 2009.
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According to Brown's probation report, the argument began over an incident at a Beverly Hills party. An earlier, sworn statement by Los Angeles Police Detective DeShon Andrews said the incident began when Rihanna found a text message on his cell phone from "a woman who Brown had a previous sexual relationship with."
The pair argued while in the car driven by Brown, the police statement said. It went on to describe the assault in great detail, saying Brown punched Rihanna -- identified in the statement by her real first name, Robyn, and the first initial of her last name, Fenty -- numerous times and put her in a headlock, restricting her breathing and causing her to start to lose consciousness. He threatened to beat her and kill her, according to the statement, and he bit her ear and her fingers.
Eventually, the statement said, "Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away. A resident in the neighborhood heard Robyn F.'s plea for help and called 911, causing a police response. An investigation was conducted and Robyn F. was issued a domestic violence emergency protective order."
Fans react positively to Rihanna's honesty
The detective said Brown sent a text message nine days later, apologizing.
Rihanna's injuries included cuts and bruises inflicted by a large ring on Brown's right hand, which he used to punch her, the probation report said.
"Officers at the scene observed numerous contusions and abrasions to the victim's face and forehead, as well as bruising to her left arm near the bicep," it said. "They also saw abrasions to her arms near both wrists and on her upper chest near her collarbone and around her neck. There were abrasions on her left leg and on the inside of her upper lips."
Rihanna declined to speak to the probation investigator, so the probation report's details were gathered from police detectives who interviewed her soon after the attack.
"He beat me up," Rihanna told the police, the report said.
Brown made a public apology that July in a video statement posted on his personal Web site.
"I have told Rihanna countless times, and I'm telling you today, that I'm truly, truly sorry in that I wasn't able to handle the situation both differently and better," Brown said in the Web site statement.
"What I did was unacceptable, 100 percent. I can only ask and pray that you forgive me. Please."
Rihanna on Chris Brown: 'I lost my best friend'
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Jerry Seinfeld pens 'really' fuming letter to the editor
Jerry Seinfeld wrote a letter to The New York Times in response to a column about the overuse of "really."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- A New York Times column on the use of 'really' prompted a letter from Jerry Seinfeld
- Seinfeld used the word 10 times to address a TV critic's claim that script writers overuse it
- Seinfeld: "Really? You're upset about too many people saying, "Really?"? I mean, really"
(EW.com) -- Jerry Seinfeld is really, really ticked off.
The comedian penned a letter to The New York Times in response to TV critic Neil Genzlinger's Monday column about the abuse and overuse of one of Seinfeld's favorite words: "really."
"Really, Neil? Really? You're upset about too many people saying, "Really?"? I mean, really," Seinfeld writes.
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The amusingly outraged letter to the editor, which uses the word "really" 10 times, comes to the defense of the "lazy" comedy writers who use the word that Genzlinger claims is "undoing 2,000 years' worth of human progress."
Seinfeld defends "Saturday Night Live's" Weekend Update segment "Really!?! With Seth," which used to star Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers and which Seinfeld himself contributed to in 2010; and turned the tables on Genzlinger by ripping him for using the phrase, "wrap my head around it."
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"Don't preach to us about 'Really?' and then wrap our heads around things," wrote Seinfeld. "You crumbled a bit of civilization off there yourself."
Seinfeld's keen observation about everything and nothing couldn't come at a better time -- his five-borough New York City comedy tour kicks off tomorrow. I really hope he addresses the "R word" in his routine.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez near 'X Factor' host deals
A source says Khloe Kardashian and Mario Lopez could become the new hosts of "X Factor."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- "Those two want to do it, and the show is keen to have them," a show source says
- The 2012 season's "live" shows, which require a host, begin on November 1
Los Angeles (CNN) -- Mario Lopez and Khloe Kardashian are in the final stage of negotiations to co-host the "The X Factor," a source close to the show told CNN Tuesday.
"Those two want to do it, and the show is keen to have them," the source, who asked not to be named, said.
Producers of the Fox TV music competition and managers for Lopez and Kardashian are putting final touches on the hosting deals, the source said.
The 2012 season's "live" shows, which require a host, begin on November 1.
"X Factor" started second season on U.S. television last month with audition episodes in which Britney Spears and Demi Lovato joined L.A. Reid and Simon Cowell on the judge's panel.
First season host Steve Jones left the show earlier this year, along with judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
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McKayla Maroney's second act
Gymnast McKayla Maroney flashes a smile for the camera at the USA House at the Royal College of Art in London in August.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- McKayla Maroney snagged an appearance on the CW's "Hart of Dixie"
- The gymnast says she's "always wanted to be an actress"
- She assures fans she's not cutting her gymnastics career short for acting
(CNN) -- At 16, gymnast McKayla Maroney has already accomplished enough to give her license for a break. But the gold- and silver-medalist isn't stopping, even while on the mend from a recent injury.
Maroney hurt her left leg after suffering a fall during a stop on Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions in September, and she's been recovering slowly but surely, she recently told CNN. One upside to her time away from the tour, though, is that she was able to squeeze in an appearance on The CW's "Hart of Dixie," which returns for a second season Tuesday.
Yet for Maroney, it wasn't simply a fun opportunity -- it's part of a larger goal to one day become a working actress.
"I've always wanted to be an actress ... Ever since I was very little, I really liked being in front of a camera. I've always been drawn to it and I've always wanted to pursue it, just like gymnastics," she said. "It's something that you kind of put in your brain and you never let go of. "
With gymnastics being a sport that retires its athletes at a young age, Maroney has been putting all of her energy toward her athletic goals while she has youth on her side. But "after it's all said and done with the Olympics and Worlds and whatever I get the chance to do, I think that would be my time to really get into acting, something that I want to have as my job when I'm older," she said.
If there was one actor she looks up to and hopes to pattern her career after, the gymnast said, it'd be Angelina Jolie.
"I really like Angelina Jolie, all the jobs that she's done," she said, pointing to Jolie's turn in the action thriller "Salt" as a favorite. "I'm kind of more into movies, because I'm really into getting into [character] and being that person and selling it as well as she always does."
"I like comedy, I like romantic stuff. I think the movie 'Easy A' is super cute and I love Emma Stone, she's an amazing actress and I love how she does all different sorts of things, and that's what I'd like to do. I'm not one kind of person, and that's the whole thing about being an actress, being able to play all different kind of roles."
And so, with help from an agent she acquired a few months before the Olympics, the 16-year-old champ has been looking for ways to break into the industry. The "Hart of Dixie" guest appearance in an upcoming episode came through said agent, and, given that she was momentarily at home from the tour, she went for it.
"It was my first time ever doing anything like that," Maroney said. "Gymnastics, you're in the gym eight hours a day and acting, that's a full-time job as well. So I finally had the time to do it, and I had the best time."
The CW show stars Rachel Bilson ("The O.C.") as Dr. Zoe Hart, a city doctor who's had to adjust to living in small-town Alabama after accepting a job from a physician who left half his practice to her in his will. Maroney will portray the friend of Rose (McKaley Miller), herself a friend of Zoe's.
"Zoe has this guy that she's going on a date with, and Rose really likes this guy, and there's a little bit of drama and I'm kind of backing up Rose," Maroney explained.
Maroney may be green, but she's without trepidation, saying that learning lines and acting on set felt like it came naturally.
"I've done acting classes before, and school plays, and I've always loved it," she added. "It's weird, I was watching ['Hart of Dixie'] the same day that my agent told me that they might want me on the show. I really like the character Rose on the show ... and I thought if I was ever going to be on the show, I'd really want to play her, and then I ended up being her best friend. So it was really surreal and kind of special."
She's also lined up a guest actor role on "Pretty Little Liars" (as a huge fan, she said, "I kind of always thought that it was Toby" who was the elusive "A"), which she hopes to shoot at some point in the future.
"Everything that I'm doing, I love to do. I really just take things one step at a time. Even when things get hard, I just believe that everything happens for a reason," she said. "Life goes on, and you have to make the best of everything. You really do have to enjoy life, because it's short."
But before fans of her athletic prowess fear Maroney's cutting her gymnastics career short in favor of Hollywood, rest assured that she's not done yet.
"Right now, I'm only 16, and gymnastics will always be a part of me," she said of her future plans. "I'm really an athletic person and I don't think I could let go entirely of the sport. I really want to try to go to this next Olympics, [and] after I heal up I'll be back in the gym working as hard as I possibly could just like I did for this Olympics. You can't just say that you want to try ... you have to be focused for whatever you do, just like acting. So I'll really be getting into trying to work for the next Olympics, and in between that I'll be doing, hopefully, little things like what I just did."
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A look at 'Looper's' potential for real world time travel
Bruce Willis plays Joseph Gordon-Levitt's future self in "Looper."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The sci-fi film "Looper" explores the concept of time travel
- Physicist from MIT discredits being able to travel back in time
- While time travel to the past is virtually impossible, hopping into the future is a different matter
(CNN) -- "Looper," this past weekend's mind-bending futuristic thriller from writer/director Rian Johnson, follows "The Terminator's" time traveling mantra: There's no fate but what we make. The destiny audiences forged helped "Looper" land at the box office in second place, earning the film a cool $21.2 million. Not bad for an R-rated action flick whose big questions would have made sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick smirk.
In the film, bottom barrel assassins are handpicked to do the future mobster's dirty work by killing targets in 2044, 30 years before time travel is even invented. Unfortunately, the hit men collecting silver bounty off of bodies sent to the past tend to die young (sort of). They retroactively commit suicide by murdering their future selves, giving them three decades to live life to the fullest. It's also full of space-time paradoxes. What if you could change the future by altering the past? That's precisely what happens when Joe the looper, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, makes the mistake of letting his future form, played by Bruce Willis, escape.
Time travel is obviously a sci-fi staple, but sometimes it's best to keep things simple.
"We'll be sitting here all day making diagrams with straws," Bruce Willis yells at his younger self after being hounded by questions about the history of things to come. But believe it or not, there are scientists who study the real world possibilities of time travel, and it's a lot of information to sip up.
Combating bad pop culture time travel
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 'Looper'
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Edward Farhi is a theoretical physicist from MIT who works with equations in a lab. Naturally, he has a pretty good understanding of the special and general theories of relativity that illuminate the legitimate possibilities of time travel. However, his studies also discredit the entire premise of being able to go back in time.
"The laws of physics were smart enough to not allow a causality violation," Farhi says. "That means that you put the effect before the cause, which is what you do when you time travel backward." An example of this would be lighting a match near a gas canister and having it explode: You can't have an explosion without the lit match because that would be a causality violation.
However, causality violations lead to some of "Looper's" most terrifying, gruesome and memorable moments. One scene in particular features the bodily breakdown of a looper sent to the past. Scars act as notes on a looper's body as they're being carved into the past version of his being. Soon afterward, his limbs, tongue and nose disappear. As his 2044 self is being tortured, we witness a paradox made of nightmares.
Farhi was able to further prove his point by showing that if someone wanted to construct a device that would warp space enough to go back in time, they would need to assemble and collect half of the mass of the universe. In "Looper," the time machine is just a shoddy mechanical sphere covered in coils.
"We wrote a paper called 'An Obstacle to Building a Time Machine' in the laboratory," Farhi says. "It would require a huge warping of space-time and have huge cosmological effects." These effects are dramatic enough that they would have serious consequences for the entire universe.
Theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner Gerard 'T Hooft further studied what could happen if one tried to travel back in time, Farhi explains. "He showed that before you had enough time to go back to the past, the entire universe would collapse so that the universe would end in a big crunch, the opposite of the Big Bang," Farhi says. "That really meant to me without really much further investigation that the laws of physics abhor time travel backward."
Farhi also doesn't favor the belief that one could jump into the past of a parallel universe. "I'm not usually a fan of describing the ultimate universe," he says. "Maybe if you go back in time you end up in another universe and you somehow cannot affect what happens in the future."
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In theory, there would be different outcomes in different universes. "I have trouble understanding that, but one of the things that bothers me about that is this: How come in our universe we never see time travelers?"
Albert Einstein introduced the idea in 1905 that the amount of time that elapses between two occurrences can depend upon the speed of the observer. "He was talking about the actual flow of time," Farhi says. "These texts only become really dramatic when you move close to the speed of light."
This means that while time travel to the past is virtually impossible, hopping into the future is an entirely different matter.
If you managed to hop on a rocket and travel around Earth at the speed of light and one year has elapsed according to your clocks, you could return to find that it's actually a thousand years in the future. "You may wonder if that's science fiction or if it's real, but we believe it's real because every prediction that the special theory of relativity has ever made has been born out of experiment," Farhi says. "These effects aren't dramatic if you're moving slowly, but they're still there."
A less dramatic effect of this is the use of GPS. The clocks in satellites that triangulate where you need to go move at a different rate because they're moving at a high speed. "They're not moving fast, but they're moving at a speed relative to you on Earth," Farhi says. "There's enough of an effect that if they didn't correct for the slowing of the clock that you would not be driving on the road."
If you couldn't travel at light speed on a rocket as a shortcut to the future, a hypothetical alternative would have you creating a strong gravitational force replicating a black hole.
"I could put you on a rope, and I could lower you into the very strong gravitational field of the black hole," Farhi explains. But there's a certain point that couldn't be passed. "Once you get too close to a black hole, there's no force that can overcome the force of the gravitational force, and you're doomed."
The proposition is scary: "You can just hover near the boundary where doom occurs," Farhi says. "If you were hovering there, then your clocks would be running slower than mine." Being closer to the black hole would allow one to age less and experience time differently.
"We could have a reality TV show," Farhi proposes. "A whole day would go by for me, and I would just see you reaching for your breakfast." Technically, the subjects of this time travel experiment could stay in touch through electromagnetic waves.
"Finally, we could come together and I could pull you out of the strong gravitational field," he says. "You could see that you hadn't aged very much and I've aged a lot, but you wouldn't be surprised because we've kept in touch the entire time."
Long story short: If you have the ability to travel at light speed or a strong gravitation field, taking a short path to the future is possible. However, "Looper" presents a one-way trip to the past aside from montage sequences that show what's happening to Bruce Willis in the year 2070.
That begs the question: If we're unable to go back to the past, how can the past exist?
"The past exists as memory," Farhi says. We have books, we have movies, and we have memories. "The past exists in the present because it has an imprint on the present, but the future doesn't," he says.
But we do have the ability to see the past. "You just need to look at the light from a distant galaxy," Farhi points out. "It depends on how far the galaxy is, but it could be a billion years ago. Astronomers are looking at ancient images all the time."
Despite whatever causality violations and problematic backward time traveling devices Rian Johnson presents, "Looper" is a strong sci-fi depiction of time travel. The audience holds the ultimate key to its plausibility: The suspension of disbelief.
If you could time travel, where would you go and what would you do? Let us know in the comments below.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Jack White abruptly ends Radio City Show after 55 minutes
Jack White ended his Saturday concert after about 55 minutes.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Jack White ended the show at Radio City Music Hall after only playing for about 55 minutes
- White stuck mostly to his new material with a high-energy take on "Sixteen Saltines"
- He made an announcement before leaving; some wondered if it was intermission
(Rolling Stone) -- Jack White left his Radio City Music Hall audience confused and angry on Saturday night when he abruptly left the stage and ended the show after only playing for about 55 minutes.
Over the short course of a 12-song set backed by his all-male band, White stuck mostly to his new material with high-energy takes on "Sixteen Saltines" and "Hypocritical Kiss," plus four White Stripes songs; he sprinted to the piano for a new version of "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" and strapped on his Telecaster for an epic "Ball and Biscuit." Despite the crowd's visible enthusiasm, White seemed displeased with its energy level. "Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?" he asked after "Love Interruption" -- a perplexing statement, since the entire floor was standing and cheering. (Later, he asked the crowd to quiet down, "because I can't hear myself think." They cheered anyway.) White regularly eggs on his crowds with sarcastic banter. At one point, he also suggested performing the rest of the show acoustically, which he joked only ten percent of fans would want.
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Soon afterward, White made a short announcement before leaving the stage, leaving some fans wondering if it was just an intermission (maybe he'd be returning with his all-female band?) or a ploy for encore hype. The audience stuck around for several minutes after White's disappearance, expecting him to return even as roadies emerged to unplug instruments and shut off the amps. The waiting crowd broke into a "Seven Nation Army" singalong, but once the curtain went down, the song quickly devolved into booing and some shouting of "F--- Jack White."
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According to the New York Observer, the ushers at the concert seemed equally mystified by its early ending, and a member of the security team later offered an explanation to the reporter. "He wasn't happy with the sound," he said. "I don't know why he pulled that." The paper also noted that White had several "angry exchanges" with a shirtless fan in the front row who was removed by security.
After clearing the auditorium, a loud and disgruntled crowd of about 100 fans reportedly gathered outside the venue near the main backstage exit, banging on parked cars.
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Penny Marshall's in a league of her own
Penny Marshall has written about her highs and lows in her new memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Actress-director Penny Marshall has a new memoir out
- Topics include failed a marriage to Rob Reiner and tensions on the "Laverne & Shirley" set
- She says mom told her as a teen she was "a miscarriage" who was "stubborn and held on"
(CNN) -- Penny Marshall, most famous as the Pepsi- and milk-swigging half of "Laverne & Shirley," reveals in her new memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts," that her life off-camera has been just as crazy as anything that viewers saw on the screen.
Marshall's book reads like a Who's Who of pop culture's major players in the last half of the 20th century. There are stories of Calvin Klein tearing up the dance floor at high school parties and of Marshall hanging out with John Belushi and smelling pillows for Steven Spielberg.
CNN recently sat down with the actress-director as she opened up about her incredible life:
On her unconventional appeal
In her pre-fame days, Marshall quickly learned she didn't fit the Hollywood stereotype when she co-starred in a Head & Shoulders shampoo commercial with a then-unknown blonde named Farrah Fawcett. Marshall's on-set stand-in wore a placard that read "Homely Girl," while the stand-in for Fawcett had one reading "Pretty Girl." Fawcett kindly decided to cross out the word "Homely" and wrote "Plain" instead. In an episode of "Love, American Style," Marshall was cast as the "Homely Girl at Bar."
After becoming a big TV star with her own series, she handled her fame with aplomb, though once at a party she and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's" Louise Lasser cordially congratulated one another on their success, then slipped into a nearby bathroom, giddily jumping up and down and squealing, "We're famous! We're famous!"
On her marriage to Rob Reiner
Before either one of them was well-known, Marshall ended up dating and marrying Rob Reiner, who grew up across the street from Marshall in the Bronx, though the pair had never met. "It was a very wide street," Marshall explained. At one point, both auditioned for a new sitcom, but while Reiner was cast as Mike Stivic, Sally Struthers ended up playing his wife, Gloria, on "All in the Family."
On the ups and downs of 'Laverne & Shirley'
The actress' brother, director Garry Marshall, was a successful TV writer and producer when Jack Klugman convinced him to cast his sister as Oscar's secretary, Myrna, in "The Odd Couple." Later her brother ended up casting his sibling and her old pal Cindy Williams in a guest stint on another hit series, "Happy Days." The two played Laverne and Shirley, "fast girls" Fonzie recruited for a double date with Richie Cunningham.
Marshall and Williams soon got their own spinoff as a slightly more wholesome version of that duo. "Laverne & Shirley" was an immediate hit, debuting as the No. 1-rated show, which was, according to Marshall, "great for my career, not so great for my marriage." It happened that the show "Laverne & Shirley" pushed from the top spot was ... "All in the Family."
"Laverne & Shirley's" success turned out to be a mixed bag in more ways than one. While the show was funny, on the set things weren't always so hilarious. Surrounded by Marshall's kin and cronies, Williams felt outnumbered and overlooked, which led to tension behind the scenes. Though an unhappy Williams ended up leaving the show before it ended, Marshall said that after two decades of silence they've finally patched things up: "I just talked to her last night!"
On Carrie Fisher
Marshall's relationship with best friend Carrie Fisher has endured through thick and thin. "We always got along great because we didn't like the same guys or the same drugs," Marshall joked.
On directing
Though she'll always be Laverne De Fazio to those who grew up on her series' "I Love Lucy"-esque shenanigans, Marshall went on to become a successful director. With her second film, "Big," starring Tom Hanks, she became the first female director to have a film break the $100 million mark at the box office. Marshall went on to direct several popular films, including the Oscar-nominated "Awakenings," where she coped with Robert De Niro's fear of cockroaches and Robin Williams' fear of being outacted by De Niro.
On 'A League of Their Own'
Marshall contended with the unique hormonal challenges of a large, mostly female cast. "Unfortunately, everyone's cycle synced up," Marshall recalled. "The mood swings -- that poor crew!"
On her mother
Throughout the book, Marshall reiterates that her most salient quality is her desire to have fun. But life didn't always make it easy. Her mother, as the title suggests, wasn't exactly June Cleaver. In fact, Marshall said that when she was a teenager her mother told her she'd been unwanted, saying, "You were a miscarriage, but you were stubborn and held on."
On 9/11
Marshall had many friends who were firefighters and as a native New Yorker remains very emotional when it comes to September 11. "When I was recording for book on tape," Marshall said, "I couldn't get through that part -- I just kept tearing up."
On unplanned pregnancies
Having sex with her college sweetheart to cheer him up after a football squad setback, Marshall became pregnant and embarked on a hasty teenage marriage. (At City Hall, they were handed a newlywed's "Starter Kit" consisting of a bar of soap, toothpaste and a small box of Tide.) The pair spent much of their honeymoon watching news about John F. Kennedy's assassination, and things didn't pick up much after that.
Many years later she found herself once again pregnant and unmarried, and though close friend Joe Pesci gallantly offered to step in and act as father, she made the difficult decision to have an abortion. "I didn't want to be tied to the kid's (biological) father," Marshall said. "And that situation was one of my life's only big regrets."
In the end
Through the various heartbreaks and setbacks, Marshall said she knows how to surmount it all. Framed in her bathroom is the Waylon Jennings lyric that speaks to the secret of her success: "I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane."
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Charges dropped in Lindsay Lohan hotel fight
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- Lindsay Lohan and Christian LaBella may file charges against each other, source says
- Lohan grabbed LaBella's phone when she realized he took photos of her, source says
- He may complain Lohan had no right to take his cell phone, a police source says
- Lohan "did sustain some injuries, she was not hospitalized," her publicist says
(CNN) -- Police dropped assault and harassment charges against a man who Lindsay Lohan said choked her during a scuffle over cell phone photos early Sunday, a law enforcement official said.
Instead, police expect Christian LaBella, 25, and Lohan, 26, will file harassment charges against each other, the official, who asked not to be named, told CNN Sunday.
The incident happened in a guest room at New York's Union Square W Hotel at 5 a.m., the official said. LaBella, who was a friend of a friend, accompanied Lohan and another man there following a night of partying at the 1Oak nightclub, the official said.
Lohan told police she grabbed LaBella's phone and ran from the room when she realized he had used it to take photos of her at the nightclub, the official said. She accused LaBella of choking her during the struggle for the phone, the official said.
LaBella, who told police he is a clerical worker from Valley Village, a suburb of Los Angeles, may complain that Lohan had no right to take his cell phone away, another police source said.
Police, who responded to a fire alarm pulled by Lohan, arrested LaBella on two misdemeanor counts of assault and harassment based on Lohan's description of what happened. Those charges were dropped when investigators decided there was not enough evidence to support them, a police official said.
"In the wake of the investigation by detectives, we anticipate cross complaints for harassment," the official said.
Lohan did not seek medical treatment, the official said.
"While she did sustain some injuries, she was not hospitalized," Lohan publicist Steve Honig said.
Lohan, who is on unsupervised probation for a shoplifting conviction, moved to New York this summer following a series of late-night controversies in Los Angeles.
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