TippingtheScales:RenéeZellweger
Everyonestartssomewhere.And
recently,actressRenée Zellweger,
50 , revealed:“In Texas,I workedas
a co cktailwaitressin a stripclub.
One gentlemanwouldtip me
$1 00everytimehe camein,
becauseI thinkhe feltsorry
fo r me. He sawme as a poor
st udent.Did I feelsorryfor
myself?Never.Financingmy
own waythroughcollege
was a definingmarkerfor
me. AndnowI overtip.I
know thedifferencethatcan
makein someone’sday.”HELLOS & GOODBYES
You oughta know...thaton Aug.12, singerAlanis
Morissette, 45, announcedsheandhusband
Mario Treadway hadwelcomedtheirthird
child, baby boy Winter. Meanwhile, actress Milla
Jovovich, 43, revealed via Instagram that she
and her husband, director Paul W.S. Anderson,
54, are expecting their third as well. Also,
10 months after welcoming baby boy Easton,
Olympic skier Bode Miller, 41, and his wife,
volleyball star Morgan Beck Miller, 32, revealed
they are awaiting the arrival of twin boys.
In otherwords,he’sgoing fly-fishing. The man
whodiscoveredthe remains of the Titanic, Robert
Ballard, 77 , is off on another deep-sea pursuit —
findingthe lostplaneofAmelia Earhart, which
disappeared, along with her and her navigator,
over the South Pacific in July 1937. “It’s not the Loch
Ness Monster; it’s not Bigfoot,” said Ballard of the
expedition sponsored by National Geographic.
“Thatplaneexists,which means I’m gonna find it.”
●BABY BOOM
●FAREWELLS
Here’s a shell of a thing. Before unleashing its
annual bumper crop of Pumpkins, Harvest Corn
and classic kernels for the fall, candy company
Brach’s is offering a last blast of summer via a new
confection — Mermaid Fruity Candy Corn, which
sports strawberry, lemon, green apple, grape,
raspberry and orange flavors in such shapes
as hearts, seashells, starfish and, of course, the
titular sea sirens. Fin-tastic!YMCA, RIP. On
Aug. 3, music producer
Henri Belolo, who
was the co-creator
of the Village People,
passed away at the
age of 82. On Aug. 12,
it was announced that
filmmaker Edward
Lewis, who produced
such movies as
Spartacus, Seven Days
in May and Missing,
had died at age 99
back on July 27. Finally,
runner Rosie Ruiz,
famous for faking
victory at the 1980
Boston Marathon,
passed back on July 8.
She was 66.●CULTURE
CLASH
●THE PLANE TRUTH
●MAID AN OFFER
Come out ofthe
cu pboard, you
boys and girls!The
Museum of London
is celebratingthe
40 th anniversaryof oneof rock’slandmark LPs
with a new exhibitiontitled,“TheClash: London
Calling.” It’ll featureover 100 personalitems
from the band, including bassist Paul Simonon’s
smashed-up guitar pictured on the album cover,
and runs from Nov. 15 until March 1, 2020...in case
you’ll be calling in on London anytime soon.6 September 2, 2019 CLOSER