Saturday Fluffernutter:
Saturday Fluffernutter – all the fluffy news about those nutty celebrities.
Indy and Ally sitting in a tree… Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart are tying the knot as the anthropologist with ‘tude is finally making an honest woman of the lawyer which broods. The 66 year old Ford and the 44 year Flockhart old have been an item for seven-and-a-half years.
This is one of those stories which drives me nuts. For forever and a day bands, and artists, would put out a couple of albums, then shift gears. After a few albums, it’s time to give your fans something else, a new voice: show them you aren’t a one trick pony.
This week Amy Winehouse took demos for her 3rd album to her bosses at Island records. Instead of more of the same, the songs, it is reported, had more of a reggae feel. “Her bosses don’t think it’s a wise move to change her style so sharply and have told her that.” What utter nonsense. Either trust your artist and get out of their way, or drop them. But to suggest change is bad is stupidity on a symphonic scale. I have often in my weekend pieces complained about the lack of quality that emerges from the music industry these days. This is a prime example of why that is.
The former Mrs. Eddie Van Halen, Valerie Bertinelli is looking fabulous at 48 and proving it on the cover of People (right).
The folks at Jenny Craig must be doing cartwheels this week.
Another girl next door who recently showed she still had some stuff at 40, Jennifer Aniston released boyfriend John Mayer recently. The reason, apparently he is too busy to call, email, or text her, but has a twitter account full of messages. Seems the former F–R–I–E–N–D was feeling neglected while Mayer was tweeting to strangers.
Think I’d give up my twitter account. Mayer didn’t, and his tweets can be got here.
Robin Williams is in full recovery mode after a heart attack three weeks ago. He has since had surgery to “replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heartbeat,” and is on the mend. Doctors expect Williams to make a full recovery within eight weeks.
Dan Seals (1948-2009) – Back in the 70’s, there were folk groups who had a successful run with pretty acoustic music: Seals and Croft, Dan Fogelberg and England Dan and John Ford Coley among them. Dan Seals was England Dan, and younger brother of Jimmy Seals of Seals and Croft. Their songs were wonderfully melodic, their success great.
It was the eighties though, in the opinion of this blog, that Dan Seals provided his penultimate moment. Bop is one of those songs that reminds how good a simple pop song can be. Three minutes of feel good, fall in love happiness compressed into half-a-dozen chords, two verses, three choruses and a bridge: perfect.
This week of England Dan Seals lost a two year battle with lymphoma at age 61. He is survived by his wife and four children, and At Home in Hespeler expresses their deepest condolences to them.
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