If the name François-Henri Pinault doesn’t ring a bell, you may be forgiven. Actress and "Ugly Betty" producer Salma Hayek has kept her romance with the French businessman way, way under the radar. But now two happy announcements have prompted them to come out as a couple: They’re engaged — and yes, that was a baby bump you saw the typically tiny-waisted Salma sporting in recent photos."Businessman François-Henri Pinault, and his fiancée, Salma Hayek, are happy to announce they are expecting the arrival of their first child," Salma’s rep said in a Friday statement.
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Imagine a beautiful dancer in the air, defying gravity, and then visualize a gloriously pregnant woman, carrying the weight with strength and grace no male athlete could duplicate. The twain, one would think, shall never meet: You go with gravity or against it. True, some outstanding dancers returned to the stage with success after giving birth; locally and recently, examples include Joanna Berman, Tina LeBlanc, Kristin Long, Celia Fushille-Burke.
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Stage producer Ken Davenport has come up with a winning formula: cute guys in tight clothes singing tight harmonies.He admits it’s not really his idea. His hit off-Broadway show, "Altar Boyz," which opens at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre this week, is just a new variation on an old theme."The boy band craze started with the Beatles," he said in a recent phone interview from his New York office. "The ‘Altar Boyz’ story is similar to ‘Jersey Boys.’"
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On the 20th anniversary of his critically acclaimed electric opera "Slow Fire," composer Paul Dresher writes on his Web site, "We are continually pleased to be approached by people … who considered it a seminal event, and still hope for yet another chance to see it, this time with their partner and/or children. There was something about Bob and Dad that resonated with most of our audiences, who could see in these figures a part of themselves, their fathers, or someone close from their past."
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With daylight-saving time kicking in this weekend and the first day of spring just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get out on the Bay. The Sausalito-based company Bay and Delta Charters provides a fun and easy way to do it, with a new series of Sunday concert cruises on the Sausalito Empress.The vessel is the newest charter boat on the Bay, says Capt. Gerry Robertson, owner and founder of Bay and Delta Charters. "It’s 90 feet, and it’s really nice. We’ve done a lot of work on it. We’ve spent way more money on it than we ever wanted to, to get it to be really nice."
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It’s easy, looking at Melodie Johnson, to believe she was born a "golden girl," hasn’t a care in the world and lives a fairy tale existence. This blonde, Northern California native, is certainly lovely, blessed with good genes, great cheekbones, an enviable, slim figure on a petite sylphlike frame, a radiant smile and an easy laugh.
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As the leading consumer advocate of the 20th century and the most controversial presidential candidate of the 21st, Ralph Nader is as fascinating as he is polarizing. Given his accomplishments in the fields of automobile and pharmaceutical safety, it could be argued that Nader has done more for America than some presidents. Yet he remains a figure of bitter contention, reviled in some circles for siphoning off enough votes in a few critical states to hand the 2000 election to George W. Bush.
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Is a Suri sibling on the way? A friend of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes was seen at upscaleL.A. baby store La Petit Tresor scoping out design schemes for a boy’s nursery, according to TMZ.com. The gossip site reports that the friend was heard to say, "We want to be prepared for a baby boy."
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Take it from somebody whose enjoyment of monster movies is confined to the "Men in Black" type spoofs of the genre: "The Host" ("Gwoemul"), a new monster flick from Korea, is a 3 ½-star sensation, mostly because it’s about people.It is obvious that if you are over the age of 15, and know only that this is a kind of "Godzilla" revival, you would give it wide berth. Reconsider. Never judge a book by its cover, never bypass a film because of its subject.
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Whatever Frank Miller’s graphic novels lack in heart they compensate for with vividly conceptualized brutality and sensational bloodletting. Like "Sin City," his hyper-violent plunge into a cesspool of pulp sleaze, "300" is a tribute to old-school machismo that plays like a prolonged adrenaline rush. In the hands of director Zack Snyder, fresh off his promising "Dawn of the Dead" remake, Miller’s stylized vision of the Battle of Thermopylae makes a seamless leap from page to screen, with its striking hues and bruising, artfully choreographed battles.
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