Pitt had the glasses, now he has the plane
Brad Pitt just paid 2 million pounds (almost $3.50 million) to buy a Second World War Spitfire fighter plane, says the Mirror, in England. Now he’s going to learn how to fly it.
Pitt is over there, making a movie called Fury, apparently yet another Hollywood epic about how Americans won the war all by themselves. But while reading up on the war, Brad got interested in the Royal Air Force. The paper says he’ll take flying lessons at the Boultbee Flying Academy, in Oxford.
There are still almost 50 airworthy Spitfires around the world, I understand.
Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, eager to restore her reputation and career after this business about servants seeing her do drugs, has a strategy, says the Mirror: She’s negotiating to go on Oprah’s show, early in 2014, and tell all, or almost all.
You saw the stories: Her two Italian-sister assistants sued after getting canned for running up over $1 million in luxury expenses for themselves on credit cards billed to Lawson and her hubby (until this year), Charles Saatchi.
In court, the two claimed that Nigella, being a daily cocaine user, had authorized the spending; Saatchi seemed to agree with the drugs part but then more or less recanted.
The Mirror quotes unnamed “friends” saying Nigella wants to “set the record straight” about wider issues in her life — and reckons that Oprah’s ratings can help.
Colorado more or less legalizes recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, and the Denver Post will be ready: The daily has named entertainment editor Ricardo Baca to be its pot editor. His first official act: He announced that he’ll be recruiting a freelance pot critic, and a freelance pot advice writer.
There have already been a number of applications, Baca said on the paper’s blog site. No doubt many, many other people also intend to apply, just as soon as they finish the Oreos and get their act together.
Still single after all these years:
George Clooney tells W mag that he continues looking. Asked who is the love of his life, he said “I haven’t met her yet.”
“When I was a kid, I was in love with Audrey Hepburn,” he went on. “I watched Roman Holiday when I was 11, and I thought she was as elegant as anything I’d ever seen. … I also always loved Grace Kelly.”
Attention Springsteen fans! Got $100,000 to spare? Up for auction on Thursday at Sotheby’s is an original handwritten working manuscript of Born to Run. The presale estimate is $70,000 to $100,000.
We don’t know who the seller is, but the Associated Press says the manuscript used to belong to Mike
Appel, Bruce’s ex-manager.
Gee, who could have foreseen this? Charlie Sheen says two of his porn-star girlfriends tried to cheat him out of a lot of money; he wishes they were dead.
Sheen had been going around with three skin-movie performers,
Celeste Star, Jana Jordan and Jayme Langford. Now he says he can’t wait to “dance joyously” on the graves of Langford and Jordan, because they abused his credit card. Stay classy, Charlie. He’s 48.