Meg Ryan
Morning Memo: Scarlett Johansson Off The Market; Drew Barrymore to Grow Up; Heather Locklear Arrested
Scarlett Johansson married Ryan Reynolds in Vancouver this weekend. [People]
Real Housewives of New York City star Luann de Lesseps managed to give dating advice to two women at the St. Regis that was at once unsolicited, racist, and sexist. [P6]
Drew Barrymore's friends think she start seeing guys her own age after she was spotted with three different twentysomethings last week. [Full Disclosure]
Dennis Quaid is unhappy that ex-wife Meg Ryan discussed their breakup while promoting her new film, The Women. "I, myself, moved on years ago," he said. [R&M]
Jermaine Dupri drank "Jay-Z's Ace of Spades Champagne and Patrón tequila" until he vomited in girlfriend Janet Jackson's lap at Tenjune. [P6]
Heather Locklear was arrested in Californa for driving under the influence of prescription medication. [US Weekly]
Morning Memo: Samantha Ronson Disses Lesbian Bar; Jenna Jameson Expecting; Meg Ryan on Dennis Quaid
Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend Samantha Ronson reportedly refused to DJ a benefit for Rubyfruit, a West Village lesbian bar, because she "doesn't do those kinds of venues." [P6]
Porn star Jenna Jameson is expecting twins with her boyfriend, UFC fighter Tito Oritz. We guess the two will split the playground taunts equally. [NYDN]
Jenna Bush avoided the "George Bush" masks when she visited the Halloween Adventure store on Broadway. [R&M, third item]
The search is on for stolen photos of Jamie Lynn Spears breastfeeding her new daughter Maddie. [US Weekly]
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Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire, Meg Ryan! The Fashion Week Party You Wish You Went To
Monday evening, the most celeb-packed event in town may not have been the photographer-infested Marc Jacobs show, but an all-but-unpublicized affair across town that took place concurrently—we can only assume this was intentional, in hopes that the fashion machine would be otherwise occupied—on far West 31st Street, where David Arquette and Ben Harper were launching their organic clothing line, Propr, at a bash that doubled as Mr. Arquette's birthday party.
There was no red carpet, no flashbulbs. We stepped into the freight elevator, and as it was about to close, in popped Meg Ryan, in jeans and black corduroy blazer. She stood there awkwardly while everyone tried to pretend that Meg Ryan hadn't just stepped into the elevator. (Note: Her face looked much less scary in person than it has in her last few movies). read more »
Bad Makeover
The Women
Running time 114 minutes
Written and directed by Diane English
Starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing
Diane English’s The Women, from her own screenplay, is supposedly based on George Cukor’s 1939 adaptation by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin of Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 Broadway play. Both the 1936 play and the 1939 movie were funny in a bitchy, misogynist way. Luce was said to have loathed New York society women, and enjoyed ridiculing their fetishes and foibles. Ms. English’s strongly feminist take on the material divests the comedy of all its humor. Actually, Ms. read more »
A Reader's Guide to Celebrity Parent Tell-All Books
Apparently, an increasingly coherent and aware Britney Spears is upset about her mother Lynne's forthcoming tell-all, Through the Storm. The book reveals, among other things, that the pop star lost her virginity at 14 and began drinking in middle school, along with embarrassing details about Britney's many, many crack-ups. No longer content to act as a passive, panty-less A.T.M. for everyone in her circle, Spears is "furious" with her mother, especially since she thinks Lynne "caused so many of her problems and issues" to begin with. We're inclined to believe her--history tells us that just about everything can be blamed on overbearing, childhood-denying, money-hungry stage parents. read more »
Curl, Interrupted: Do Frizzy Coifs Equal Frazzled Psyches?
In the upcoming film The Women, a remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic that’s been re-imagined by writer-director Diane English, Meg Ryan’s hair could be billed as a supporting character to its gaggle of stars: Annette Bening, Cloris Leachman, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Eva Mendes and, of course, Ms. Ryan. When we meet her character, Mary, she’s a kind of superhero suburban mom—stretched violin-string-thin between charitable committees, parenting and grouting her bathroom floor—and The Hair is long and exceedingly ringlety. In classic Meg Ryan fashion, Mary flits charmingly if exhaustedly between her myriad responsibilities, The Hair showing the kinetic energy she’s expended in contrast to her best friend, Sylvia (Ms. read more »


















