Thursday, July 28, 2016

'Babylon 5' Star Jerry Doyle Dies


'Babylon 5' Star Jerry Doyle Dies at 60

'Babylon 5' Star Jerry Doyle
Jerry Doyle

After 'Babylon 5,' the actor ventured into talk radio.

Jerry Doyle, best known for his role as security chief Michael Garibaldi on the sci-fi series Babylon 5, has died, his family announced Thursday. He was 60.

The actor was found in his Las Vegas home Wednesday, and the cause of death was not immediately known.

Doyle appeared on 109 episodes of Babylon 5 from 1994-1998, and was wed to costar Andrea Thompson from 1995-1997. In recent years, he ventured into talk radio, hosting the political talk program The Jerry Doyle Show. He was also the founder of the political site EpicTimes.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Michael Lohan on Daughter Lindsay's Claim Her Fiance Cheated


Michael Lohan on Daughter Lindsay's Claim Her Fiance Cheated: 'Relationships Take Twists and Turns'

A worried father. Michael Lohan has been in constant contact with his daughter Lindsay Lohan since she took to social media on Saturday, July 23, with claims that her fiancé, Egor Taravasov, cheated on her, and he tells Us Weekly that he believes her.

Friday, July 22, 2016

They Know That Dad Is Not Coming Back


Celine Dion on How Children Are Coping with René Angélil's Death: 'They Know That Dad Is Not Coming Back'

It's been six months since Céline Dion's husband René Angélil died from cancer, and as her family works to move on, she and her three children lean on one another for strength.

During Friday's appearance on the Today show, Dion, 48, said that coping with the loss of her husband has been hard, but she feels "very strong" – and so do the couple's three kids 15-year-old René-Charles and 5-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Taylor Swift vs. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West


Taylor Swift vs. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West: Questions We Still Have

Kim Kardashian released audio of Taylor Swift speaking with Kanye West
Kim Kardashian released audio of Taylor Swift speaking with Kanye West about sexual lyric in "Famous" track via Snapchat. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty, Michael Loccisano/Getty

Can Swift file a lawsuit? Was the video edited?

Taylor Swift and Kanye West have been feuding for seven years now, and even though they came close to reconciling around the time of the 2015 MTV VMAs, the pair's beef has become nastier than ever and now includes West's wife Kim Kardashian.

Tatyana Ali and Ethan Zohn both got married this weekend


Tatyana Ali and Ethan Zohn both got married this weekend

Tatyana Ali,Actress

(CNN)-This past weekend was a good one for celebrity weddings.

"Fresh Prince of Bel Air" star Tatyana Ali on Sunday married professor Vaughn Rasberry, People reported.

The pair are expecting their first child together.

"I'm just excited," the 37-year-old actress told the publication before the ceremony. "All of our family is coming into town."
The couple announced their engagement and the pregnancy in March.

"Survivor: Africa" winner Ethan Zohn and interior designer Lisa Heywood tied the knot on Saturday.

Zohn tweeted a link to the People story about his private wedding in Vermont, which included a wedding photo of him and Heywood.

source:CNN

Friday, July 15, 2016

Mick Jagger Is Reportedly Going to Be a Read More: Mick Jagger Is Reportedly Going to Be a


Mick Jagger Is Reportedly Going to Be a father again.

Mick Jagger,Melanie Hamrick


Mick Jagger‘s family tree is about to get another branch. A report out of England says that the Rolling Stones singer is going to be a father for the eighth time. He is 72, while his girlfriend, ballerina Melanie Hamrick, is 29.
An unnamed source on her side told the U.K. tabloid The Sun that she is more than three months pregnant, adding, “This is great news. It will be Mick’s eighth child and nothing fazes him. He’s been incredibly supportive.” Saying they are “surprised and happy,” the source added that “They are taking the news in their stride.” The news has been confirmed by a spokesperson.
The two have apparently been an item since 2014. However, there do not appear to be any plans for Hamrick and Jagger to get married. “Mick likes the arrangement they have and doesn’t want to be in another formal relationship. … The plan is for Melanie to move out of New York and be based in L.A., where Mick spends a lot of time, or Connecticut where she knows people. … In reality Melanie was coming toward the end of her career as a ballet dancer but has now had to give it up even ­earlier than planned.

Jagger has seven other children — all but three of whom are older than Hamrick — from four other women. His youngest child, Lucas, was born in 1999. The affair Jagger had with his mother Brazilian TV host Luciana Gimenez, resulted in the end of his relationship to Jerry Hall, the mother of four of his kids. In 2014, he became a great-grandfather when Assisi Jackson, the daughter of Jade Jagger — his only child he had with ex-wife Bianca Jagger — gave birth to a baby girl.
This will be the third new arrival in the Stones camp. Back in May, Ronnie Wood and his wife, Sally, welcomed twin girls, Gracie Jane and Alice Rose, into the world.



source: ultimateclassicrock

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Beyoncé Demand Racial Justice


Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Beyoncé Demand Racial Justice in Moving '23 Ways' PSA

Alicia Keys and an A-list roster of social justice advocates are demanding change.

The R&B singer, 35, teamed up with the racial justice group We Are Here Movement to stand up and speak out in a striking PSA entitled "23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You Are Black in America" for Mic.com.

Keys, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Queen Latifah, Pink, Jennifer Hudson, Adam Levine and more recorded videos for the campaign, in which each star lists everyday incidents – from "riding in your girlfriend's car with a child in the back" and "making eye contact" to "on the way to Bible study" and "attending a birthday party" – that led to innocent black lives being taken.


"Go to WeAreHereMovement.com to tell President Obama and Congress that the time for change is now. We demand radical transformation to heal the long history of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to live and to pursue happiness," Keys says at the end of the PSA, which featured original reporting by Mic's Jamilah King.

The moving PSA comes just a week after the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castille.

Sterling, a father of five, was 37 when he was gunned down on by police on July 5 in Baton Rouge after a homeless man called authorities reporting that he was brandishing a firearm; a coworker said he had the gun to protect against robbery.

Castille was 32 when he was shot and killed by police for carrying a licensed gun in a Twin Cities suburb on July 6 during a traffic stop. "Would this have happened if ... the driver were white? I don't think so," Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton said after protests broke out in St. Paul.





source: PeoPle

Monday, July 11, 2016

LIL WAYNE HIT AND HOSPITALIZED


LIL WAYNE
HIT AND HOSPITALIZED WITH ANOTHER SEIZURE

LIL WAYNE
LIL WAYNE

Lil Wayne's epilepsy continues to dog him ... we've learned he was hospitalized last week after suffering a severe seizure.

Wayne has been unable to get his recent seizures under control. You'll recall just last month his plane made 2 emergency landings after he had a series of seizures on the aircraft.

The seizure last week was bad enough that he had to cancel his performance at TAO nightclub in Vegas for a pre-UFC 200 party. Wayne was just moments away from taking the stage when the seizure hit.

We're told Wayne has chalked it up to a medication issue ... that doctors were having trouble figuring out the right balance of Rx.
After a stint in the ICU, Wayne was released and is now resting in Miami.


source: tmz

Friday, July 8, 2016

Emma Watson Meets the 'Beautiful' Actress


Emma Watson Meets the 'Beautiful' Actress Portraying Hermione Granger in the 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' Play

Emma Watson and Hermione Granger

Emma Watson's reliving her magical days as Hermione Granger.

The 26-year-old Harry Potter star attended a special preview of the upcoming Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play at the Palace Theatre in London, England, on Thursday, and received an extra special treat when she came face-to-face with Noma Dumezweni, the actress who portrays the adult version of her beloved role.

Following the show, Watson took to Facebook to share her raving review of the two-part play, which officially opens July 30. The post was accompanied by photos of her conversing with the cast and crew backstage.

"Yesterday I went to see the Cursed Child. I came in with no idea what to expect and it was AMAZING," she shared. "Some things about the play were, I think, possibly even more beautiful than the films."

"Having seen it I felt more connected to Hermione and the stories than I have since Deathly Hallows came out, which was such a gift," the British actress added. "Meeting Noma and seeing her on stage was like meeting my older self and have her tell me everything was going to be alright, which as you can imagine was immensely comforting (and emotional)!"

Watson noted that the cast and crew made her feel like family, and "Noma was everything I could ever hope she would be."

"She's wonderful," Watson revealed. "The music is beautiful… I could go on…"

Watson also took to Twitter, writing, "It was SO lovely to meet you @MissDumezweni. #Hermiones."

It was SO lovely to meet you @MissDumezweni. #Hermiones pic.twitter.com/xkh0PQyZEr

— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) July 7, 2016

Dumezweni, 45, appeared to be just as ecstatic over the meet-and-greet, gushing over Watson in a series of tweets.

"Now I feel I can share the maHUSSIVE Joy I felt, alongside the company when a beautiful, humble and very kind young lady saw @HPPlayLDN," she wrote. "@EmWatson It really was quite emotional to be in your company... And Thank you 4 your lovely self. We spoke of you with MAJOR respect!"

"Blessings Dear @EmWatson," she continued, "and Thank You!"

1. Now I feel I can share the maHUSSIVE Joy I felt, alongside the company when a beautiful, humble and very kind young lady saw @HPPlayLDN.

— MissNoma (@MissDumezweni) July 7, 2016

2. @EmWatson It really was quite emotional to be in your company... And Thank you 4 your lovely self. We spoke of you with MAJOR respect ❤️!

— MissNoma (@MissDumezweni) July 7, 2016
3. Blessings Dear @EmWatson and Thank You! 🌟🌟🌟xxx pic.twitter.com/SIAqUxLBtm

— MissNoma (@MissDumezweni) July 7, 2016

Directed by Tony Award winner John Tiffany, the play is a narrative set 19 years after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's final book in the popular fantasy series. The stage version was written by Jack Thorne and features music composed by Imogen Heap.

Back in May, Disney released the first teaser for their live-action adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, in which Watson portrays the role of Belle.

The video invites viewers to "be our guest" on March 17, 2017, the film's release date. Hear more on the movie -- which also stars Dan Stevens as the Beast, Luke Evans as Gaston, Kevin Kline as Maurice, Josh Gad as Le Fou, Stanley Tucci as Cadenza and Emma Thompson as Mrs. Potts.




source: etonline

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Jim Carrey's girlfriend Cathriona White left him suicide note


Jim Carrey's girlfriend Cathriona White left him suicide note in which she said: 'Please forgive me, I'm just not for this world'

Jim Carrey,Cathriona White
Cathriona White and Jim Carrey in May, 2015 CREDIT: FAMEFLYNET.UK.COM

Details of heartbreaking notes left for Jim Carrey by his ex-girlfriend before she took her own life have emerged, as a coroner ruled her death was suicide.

The body of Irish make-up artist Cathriona White, 30, was discovered at her home in Los Angeles in September.

A report by the Los Angeles county coroner's office found she died after taking a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs.

Ms White and Carrey had broken up a week before her death and she left two notes for the Hollywood star in which she said she was "just not for this world", the report stated.


"I've spent 3 days now in disbelief that you're not here," she wrote. "I can go on broken-hearted and try to put the pieces back. I could, I just don't have the will this time.

'I'm sorry you felt I wasn't there for you. I tried to give you my best part."

Ms White signed off the note, which was found in a sealed envelope, with the word "Dewdrop", the report said.

A second note, also written to "Jim", asked for "his people" to sell her belongings and give the money to her family.

"'I don't really know about burial or that sort of thing. You are my family so whatever you choose will be fine," she wrote.

"Please forgive me. I'm just not for this world."

Ms White was discovered by two of her friends and Carrey's personal assistant Nicole Montez on September 28 after they went to her home to check on her.

According to the report, Carrey had sent a text message to Ms White a day before her body was found asking where his painkillers had gone from under his sink.


It is understood Carrey was referring to the prescription drugs Ambien, Percocet and Propranolol , made out to the name "Arthur King", which were found at Ms White's home, the report said.

Ms White's cause of death was given as "multiple drug effects" after a toxicology report discovered propranolol, zolpidem, oxycodone and oxymorphone in her system.

The last activity on Ms White's phone was a three-minute FaceTime call with Carrey four days before she was found, the coroner said.

Her friend Dennis Bradshaw told investigators she was "happy and upbeat" but would get "really down" and her friends would not hear from her for a while.

Ms White told Mr Bradshaw she was missing her family in Ireland and she was "madly in love with Jim" but their relationship was a "rollercoaster", he said.

"She tied her identity to him and if she felt he (Jim) was slipping away, she would become depressed," the report said.

Carrey was "reclusive" due to his celebrity status and Ms White would often stay at his home, Mr Bradshaw told investigators.

Another friend, Jenny Burpee, said Carrey had first "unexpectedly" broken up with Ms White in 2013 and she had "not eaten or slept for a year afterwards". Ms Burpee said she believed Ms White had previously taken an overdose of pills around two years earlier.

Carrey carried the coffin at Ms White's funeral in the village of Cappawhite, Co Tipperary, in October as she was laid to rest beside her late father. The actor described Ms White's death as like being "hit with a lightning bolt".

Ms White had moved to Los Angeles in 2009 and took roles as an extra on television before working behind the scenes.

The report states that Mark Burton confirmed he and Ms White were legally married at the time of her death.



source: Telegraph

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Kaley Cuoco Pens Lengthy Apology


Kaley Cuoco Pens Lengthy Apology After Image of Her Dog Sitting on an American Flag Sparks Controversy

Kaley Cuoco Pens Lengthy Apology
Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Cuoco took to Instagram on Tuesday, apologizing for a Fourth of July photo faux pas that sparked controversy on social media.

Referencing a now deleted photo of her dog sitting on an American flag, Cuoco penned a lengthy message in which she clarifies that she respects and America and didn't mean to offend anyone.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Celebrities, Who Might Be Reborn.

Celebrities, Who Might Be Reborn.



Sylvester Stallone and Pope Gregory.

Sylvester Stallone and Pope Gregory might be reborn
                            Sylvester Stallone and Pope Gregory

Although Sylvester Stallone and Pope Gregory might share few connections for the untrained eye, some well preserved paintings of the Roman Church ruler can serve as an excellent clue that we are dealing with yet another case of time travel.With a tired face, dark circles around his eyes, ready to give up on his ambition of converting the barbarians to Christianity, Pope Gregory looks exactly like Rocky. It was certainly hard being the pope at the end of the 6th century, a time when Europe was struggling to find new identity after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Zach Galifianakis and Louis Vuitton

Zach Galifianakis and Louis Vuitton might be reborn
Zach Galifianakis and Louis Vuitton

When dealing with actors, it’s never too hard to imagine them impersonating someone else, maybe someone from our past. Zach Galifianakis will most certainly respond with a joke and a loud laugh to the question if he is a time traveler.
A serious hangover could take Zack way further than Vegas, to 19th century Europe, playing the role of the famous fashion empire founder, Louis Vuitton. Although Hollywood won’t see too much potential in the story of someone made famous by his ability to put things in boxes, Zach will definitely do everything to get the play straight.
We can imagine him hitting the Paris pavement on a daily basis, seeking better business opportunities or even the moment when he becomes the personal box maker and packer of the Empress of France. His energy and unrest would fit the effervescence of Paris during the Industrial Revolution.

Rupert Grint and David Wilkie

Rupert Grint and David Wilkie might be reborn
Rupert Grint and David Wilkie

With red hair and a youthful and immature face, Rupert Grint seems to be the exact replica of a famous 18th century Scottish painter, Sir David Wilkie. To put it another perspective, it comes easy for us to suspect that Rupert Grint is actually a time traveler, taking on multiple important characters along the ages.

                                             

Nicolas Cage and his doppelganger from the civil war.

Nicolas Cage and his doppelganger might be reborn
Nicolas Cage and his doppelganger

It is believed the photo was taken by a confederate Civil War prisoner of war photographer called Professor G.B. Smith.
Nicolas Cage has a lot fans around the world and when a Civil War era photo of him emerged in a private collection everybody went nuts. Auctioned on eBay, it serves as a proof that Cage has the ability to defy time and live longer than anyone else.
The actor was very prompt to dismiss the rumors and quickly shifted attention towards the new movies he will be acting in. With some voices claiming that the movie “Vampire’s Kiss’’ barred a strong subliminal message regarding Cage’s immortality and connection with the dark forces, it’s not hard for us to connect the rest of the dots.

Mark Zuckerberg and Philip iv of Spain.

Mark Zuckerberg and Philip iv of Spain might be reborn
Mark Zuckerberg and Philip iv of Spain

Both Mark Zuckerberg and Philip IV of Spain were very influential names for their times, having widespread popularity and controlling the faith of millions. Although four centuries keep them apart, their physical appearance can raise important question whether they are related somehow.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rose Wilder Lane

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rose Wilder Lane might be reborn
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rose Wilder Lane

Put side by side, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rose Wilder Lane, bare a strange resemblance, making us believe there is something fishy about the science community saying that time travel is not possible.

Rose Wilder Lane was a journalist, travel writer, and political theorist, famous for her involvement in American libertarian movement. She was a strong voice in a time when women were barely enrolled in important jobs. Maggie Gyllenhaal apparently has nothing to do social activism and settled for the statute of famous actress.

Macaulay Culkin and a young Vladimir Putin

Macaulay Culkin and a young Vladimir Putin resemabalnce
Macaulay Culkin and a young Vladimir Putin

The side by side pictures can speak more clearly than all what we will write here. Vladimir Putin used the Macaulay Culkin persona to infiltrate the big and small screens of the Americans.

We all know the brief interaction between Macaulay Culkin (or should we say young Vladimir Putin) and Donald Trump in everyone’s favorite Home Alone movie. Was that coincidence, or part of the cunningly plan Putin is creating piece by piece.

Leonardo Dicaprio is actually a woman named Judy Zipper

Leonardo Dicaprio is actually a woman named Judy Zipper
Leonardo Dicaprio is actually a woman named Judy Zipper

Time travel is not enough for recent Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio. Add gender change to that and you get close to the plot further expanded in the movie “Predestination”. A photography found in your typical yearbook has turned the Internet upside-down in a struggle between believers and those failing to accept the fact that Leo was once a woman.

Justin Timberlake Is really this un-named criminal

Justin Timberlake Is really this un-named criminal might be reborn
Justin Timberlake Is really this un-named criminal

We all know Justin Timberlake as a singer with excellent stage performance and with a real talent in making fans all over the world. With a straightforward career and a happy marriage with actress Jessica Biel, few people can spot any flaw in the artist’s life.


John Travolta and his 1800’s counterpart

John Travolta and his 1800’s counterpart
John Travolta and his 1800’s counterpart

John Travolta is a famous actor and the number of his fans ranges somewhere in the tens of millions. When the Internet put a photo of John Travolta next to one attributed to a man living in the 19th century, everything exploded.




Source: www.lifetipsfortravel.com

Friday, July 1, 2016

100 years of shade


100 years of shade: Olivia de Havilland, Joan Fontaine, and the story of Hollywood's bitterest feud

Joan Fontaine (left) and her sister, Olivia de Havilland, circa 1946 CREDIT: GETTY
Joan Fontaine (left) and her sister, Olivia de Havilland, circa 1946 CREDIT: GETTY

"Olivia has always said I was first at everything,” said Joan Fontaine of her sister, Olivia de Havilland, to People magazine in 1978. “I got married first, got an Academy Award first, had a child first. If I die, she'll be furious, because again I'll have got there first!"

Olivia de Havilland didn’t sound furious when Joan Fontaine died, back in December 2013, and issued an entirely normal-sounding statement of sisterly grief. But the fact that Joan died aged 96 has meant that only one of the sisters has reached the ripe old age of 100, and that’s Olivia, today.

She may have been pipped at the post to everything else, but this feat – along with eventually winning two Oscars to Joan’s mere one – is hers alone.
Olivia
Olivia in 1942 CREDIT: REX

Give or take Kirk Douglas, de Havilland is one of the last true greats of the Hollywood Golden Age still drawing breath. She has legendary credits to her name, including the signature role of Melanie in Gone with the Wind (1939) for which Joan auditioned before she got the part.

But it’s her relationship with her sister that gets us all to lean in close, wondering if the record will ever be set straight. Depending on who you believe, this is either one of the most storied and bitter rivalries in film history, or a fiction cooked up by the gossip-hungry press.

One version sees a Cold War enacted across decades, with rumours of little to no communication through much of the sisters’ adult life. The other – supported by Fontaine shortly before her death – sweeps this aside as bunk, and says they spoke and visited all the time.

It seems unlikely that de Havilland, comfortably ensconced in her Paris home and the subject of a much-deserved BFI retrospective this month, will be weighing in on the matter any time soon. According to her sister’s autobiography No Bed of Roses (1978), it began as classic sibling rivalry from their earliest childhood years. Olivia, the older sister by 15 months, rattled the crib and ripped her hand-me-downs.
Olivia with Bette Davis
Olivia with Bette Davis in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte CREDIT: REX

One fight broke Joan’s collar-bone, and Olivia was a wicked bully in print, publishing a fake will in their high school newspaper with this devilish line: “I bequeath to my sister the ability to win boys’ hearts, which she does not have at present.”

They competed for the attentions of their actress mother, Lillian, especially after she moved them from Tokyo to Los Angeles post-divorce and they started jostling for parts in films. While Olivia got the earliest breaks, in Max Reinhardt’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) and a series of swashbucklers with Errol Flynn, Joan served as her chaffeur, despite harbouring her own ambitions as a star.
Olivia
Olivia in Gone With The Wind CREDIT: REX

Deterred by their mother from seeking employment at Warner Bros, where Olivia was thriving, Joan got small parts at RKO, and then caught the attention of George Cukor in The Women (1939), right at the moment when Cukor and Selznick were engaged in their legendary Gone with the Wind casting blitz.

Fontaine – who chose her stepfather’s surname to set herself apart from Olivia – takes the credit for her sister’s casting as Melanie, simply because, according to her account, Joan turned up at the audition wearing overly chic clothes. “You’re much too stylish for the role,” Cukor is meant to have told her, to which she replied in a classic moment of shade, “Well, what about my sister?”

Imagine Fontaine’s envy if de Havilland had waltzed off with the Oscar for that part – Best Supporting Actress – which she was widely tipped to win. Instead, she lost on the night to the first ever black trophy-winner, Hattie McDaniel, in the same film.

The next year, it was Fontaine’s turn, up for Best Actress in another Selznick production, Hitchcock’s Rebecca. Even though the film won Best Picture, she lost to Ginger Rogers. And the year after that, 1941, both sisters were nominated – Joan for Suspicion, Olivia for the immigration romance Hold Back the Dawn.

Relations were understandably tense at the ceremony that night, and then Fontaine’s name was called out. “I stared across the table, where Olivia was sitting directly opposite me,” she wrote in her book. “‘Get up there, get up there,' Olivia whispered commandingly. “Now what had I done? All the animus we'd felt toward each other as children, the hair-pullings, the savage wrestling watches, the time Olivia fractured my collarbone, all came rushing back in kaleidoscopic imagery. My paralysis was total.”
Olivia with Errol Flynn
Olivia with Errol Flynn CREDIT: REX

It feels almost de trop for this great feud to have flared up in public at Academy Awards ceremonies – the stuff of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?-style melodrama, rather than life. And yet it’s the way history records it.

Fast-forward exactly five years, to the Oscars in 1946, and there’s a famous photo of the two sisters, captured by Hymie Fink of Photoplay, just after Olivia levelled the score by winning Best Actress for To Each His Own. Fontaine is meant to have approached her backstage with congratulations, and De Havilland is seen giving her the cold shoulder.

“Our relations have been quite strained for some time,” Olivia told a reporter afterwards. “I couldn’t change my attitude.” And her publicity agent, Henry Rogers, told the press that the two hadn’t spoken for four months. “Miss de Havilland had no wish to have her picture taken with her sister. This goes back for years and years, ever since they were kids,” he said.

There had been man trouble between them in the early Hollywood years, stoking the flames further. If it weren’t enough that Fontaine got married first – the first of four times – she did so to the English actor Brian Aherne, whom Olivia had once dated.

And on the night before their wedding, Olivia’s boyfriend Howard Hughes is meant to have discouraged Joan from going ahead with it: Hughes, the story goes, wanted Joan for himself. When this got back to Olivia, it did so directly from Joan’s mouth. Whatever her intentions, Olivia unforgivingly shot the messenger.

Over the years, though Olivia kept demanding apologies for Joan’s behaviour, things weren’t always openly frosty between them – there’s a photo of them laughing together at a party thrown by Marlene Dietrich in 1967. But another whopping grievance arose when their mother died, in 1975.

Joan was out of the country and not informed about the funeral arrangements. She threatened to call the press if she wasn’t allowed to attend. At the service, they didn’t speak, beginning a pattern of public avoidance which would endure in 1979, when they took opposite ends of the Academy stage for a 50th anniversary class photo, and at the equivalent event 10 years later, when Joan, in the last Oscars appearance she would ever make, is meant to have switched hotel rooms so that she wouldn’t have to stay next to her sister.

Joan, in her later years, had a habit of denying the vendetta, even though much of the evidence for it is in her own written account. Olivia, for her part, has always adopted queenly silence on the matter, showing no interest in raking over old coals. Why should she? Her years of resenting Fontaine as flavour of the month, or the supposedly prettier one leapfrogging over her own stellar achievements, must be long gone.

She’s the more highly regarded actress by a long shot, and has that pair of trophies to show for it, however long she waited to get them. What’s more – Destiny’s Child crescendo, please – she’s the survivor.




source: telegraph