The news that Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger are separating after 25 years apparently did not surprise friends and family members. TMZ reported yesterday that Shriver, fed up with her husband’s alleged infidelities, had been thinking about leaving for two years. But, according to the website, she was dissuaded from dissolving the marriage by the deaths of her mother, Eunice Shriver, and then her father, Sargent Shriver. The couple had been seen in public lately without their wedding rings, most recently at their nephew’s graduation from Loyola Marymount University. In March, Shriver, who once dated Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, spoke to supporters in a bizarre YouTube video. “It is so stressful to not know what you’re doing next,’’ she said in the video. “I’d like to hear from other people in transition. How did you get through it? What were three things that enabled you to get through your transition?’’ While she figures all that out, Shriver has moved into a Beverly Hills hotel, according to TMZ, and Arnold is “working extremely hard’’ to win her back.
Gaga for online tunes
Lady Gaga is releasing songs from her new album on a section of online game FarmVille before they can be heard elsewhere. The singer will allow singles from “Born This Way’’ to be heard within a neighboring farm in the game called “GagaVille.’’ Players have to complete tasks to hear one new track per day from May 17 to 19.The album is scheduled to be released May 23. (AP)
Skipping Cannes
France’s first lady
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy said yesterday she will not attend the Cannes film festival for “personal and professional’’ reasons but refused to say whether her absence means she is pregnant as French media have suggested. “Midnight in Paris,’’ the Woody Allen movie in which she appears, kicks off the festival. (AP)
Kidnap memoir due
A California woman who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive for 18 years is planning to have her memoir published by summer. Simon & Schuster said
Jaycee Dugard’s account of her ordeal will go on sale July 12. “A Stolen Life’’ will cover Dugard’s abduction and life with
Phillip and
Nancy Garrido, the couple who have confessed to her abduction and rape. (AP)
Long way to the top
“There’s only one way to do it. You get on the stage, you learn your trade, and you get out and play in front of people. You serve your apprenticeship just like anybody else.” — AC/DC vocalist
Brian Johnson, deriding shows like “American Idol” as “shortcuts” to fame.
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