Springsteen offers young fan a late note
Meanwhile, judge implores Madonna and Guy Ritchie to find a resolution
Last Tuesday, Xabi Glovsky of Claremont, Calif., went to a Bruce Springsteen concert in L.A. with his dad Scott, who’s a big fan.
Xabi’s 9, and it was a school night, but being dragged to an old-people’s-music show was preferable to bedtime, so Xabi went. He and Scott made a sign to hold up: “Bruce, I will be late to school tomorrow. Please sign my note.” Ha ha ha.
But Springsteen did. After the show, Bruce’s security guys found the father-and-son fans and took them backstage. Springsteen spent 15 minutes with them, asking Xabi about school and scrawling a note: “Dear Ms. Jackson, Xabi has been out very late rocking & rolling. Please excuse him if he is tardy.”
From the Claremont Courier to NME, many news outlets reported this story. Alas, none named the lad’s school or reported Ms. Jackson’s reaction.
That giant tattoo on Ben Affleck’s back? A “fake for a movie,” he now tells Extratv.com.
You remember the story, last December? His exes Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner mocked the huge image, which covers him right across the back from shoulders to beltline, at least.
Affleck added that he does “have a number of tattoos… but I try to have them in places where you don’t have to do a lot of coverup … they get sort of addictive, tattoos, after a while.”
A British judge told Madonna and Guy Ritchie to shape up, compromise, and stop wasting their son’s childhood.
Madge and Guy have been fighting in court, on both sides of the Atlantic, over Rocco, 15. As the whole world knows by now, he can’t stand Madonna and wants to live with his dad.
Her tour ended Sunday in Australia, and she reportedly rushed to England. The Mirror says she’s willing to move to England, for proximity to Rocco. The same paper says Ritchie has consulted the paternal-right group Fathers4Justice.
High Court Justice Alistair MacDonald declined Monday to order any resolution to the custody fight, saying instead: “I renew, one final time, my plea for both parents to seek and to find an amicable resolution … As I observed during the course of the hearing, summer does not last forever. The boy very quickly becomes the man.”
Before she was famous, Amy
Schumer was a waitress. Maybe that’s why she left a US$1,000 tip on a $77 bar bill the other day. She’s done things like this before, on a smaller scale.
The other day Schumer, her boyfriend Ben Hanisch, her sister, and three others attended the hit Broadway musical Hamilton — not, alas, about my Ontario birthplace but about Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the U.S.A.
Madeleine DeJohn, one of the theatre-bar crew and an aspiring actress, told the N.Y. Daily News that the whole crew was very grateful. “I’d like to think if I become that successful, that I can do the same,” DeJohn said.