After taking their time to walk down the aisle, Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky really got it right when they were married Friday night in New York City - amid a glittering crowd that included the Trumps, Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos (who officiated), Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman (together again, apparently), Chevy Chase, Joan Rivers, Barbara Walters, and Billy Joel, who performed two songs. The couple's secret? Planning. It started "last December," said Elli Jafari, general manager of the midtown restaurant Le Cirque and the couple's wedding planner. "We really kept the secret well." Jafari said Stern is a real sweetheart, despite his shock-jock rep. "He is so sensitive and sweet," she said. "I needed this room to be romantic." Jafari said when the bride saw the room, draped in willows and orchids, she started "crying from excitement. She never saw anything like it before." (People)
'Chihuahua' top dog
The comedy "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" opened as the top film in US theaters, collecting $29 million in ticket sales for Walt Disney Co., while the returning
Shia LaBeouf thriller "Eagle Eye" fell to second place with $17.7 million. "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" combines computer-generated effects and live-action footage, with
Drew Barrymore and
Andy Garcia among those providing voices for the animal characters. The teen romance "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" was third with $12 million, box-office tracker Media By Numbers LLC said today in a statement. The film stars
Michael Cera and
Kat Dennings as strangers who join together to search for a secret concert by their favorite band. (AP)
Janet still ill
Janet Jackson has postponed three more shows on her first North American tour in seven years due an undisclosed illness. Her publicist said in an e-mail late Saturday that Jackson was postponing a Saturday show in Greensboro, N.C., one yesterday in Atlanta, and a third tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale. A statement from Jackson said she arrived in Greensboro, N.C., hoping to perform there Saturday, but a local doctor advised that she not perform after it became "evident" she was not fully recovered. Representatives for the 42-year-old singer say she became "suddenly ill" and was hospitalized last Monday night in Montreal shortly after she arrived for a show. She also canceled concerts in Boston and Philadelphia on Wednesday and Thursday. Jackson's publicist did not elaborate, only saying she was "recuperating." (AP)
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