Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

After 7 years, engagement: What decade are the vows?

- Sweat out an e-mail: jchristman@arkansason­line.com Spin Cycle is a weekly smirk at pop culture and a weekly segment on Little Rock’s KURB-FM, B98.5 at 7 a.m. Thursdays. Listen live and hear podcasts at b98.com. JENNIFER CHRISTMAN

Spin Cycle presents another installmen­t of “All the News That’s Fit to Razz.”

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are officially engaged to be married.

After being a couple for seven years, raising six children together and owning countless properties together, it was time to start settling down.

Rapper Nicki Minaj deactivate­d her Twitter account after engaging in a battle with a fan site that leaked her music, writing: “Like seriously its but so much a person can take. Good f***ing bye.”

All a person can say to that is @likeseriou­sly: #pleaselear­npunctuati­onbeforere­turning.

Speaking of Twitter, Courtney Love recently tweeted that Dave Grohl, former bandmate of her late husband, Kurt Cobain, had once hit on the couple’s 19-year-old daughter, Frances Bean Cobain. Bean, who is engaged to another musician, called Love’s claim untrue and “gross.” Love has since apologized (“Bean, sorry I believed the gossip. Mommy loves you”).

Perhaps Love realized her daughter’s wedding might have an open bar?

An open bar wasn’t enough to get Axl Rose, frontman of Guns ’n’ Roses, to attend his band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He chose to boycott because “it doesn’t appear to be somewhere I’m actually wanted or respected.”

So much for being able to Rose above.

Simon Cowell has reportedly given his ex-fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy an $8 million mansion, this after giving another former fiancee a $5 million mansion.

Seems his relationsh­ips— and their payoffs — are way more interestin­g than his talent competitio­n shows. Forget X-factor, Cowell. Give us Ex-factor!

Speaking of marriage, Marilyn Manson is engaged again. No, wait, he’s not. While tabloid reports said aspiring actress Seraphim Ward is tying the knot with Manson, a representa­tive told Us Weekly he’s not engaged to her, and what’s more, he has never met her.

Which would make her not only an aspiring dramatic artist but a con artist too.

Because author J.K. Rowling doesn’t have nearly enough money, she announced she has begun work on a Harry Potter encycloped­ia.

First entry in the “A” section: ‘‘Argggggh! Enough already!”

(Oh wait, she says she’ll donate all royalties to charity? Change that first entry in the “A” section to “All right. We’ll shut up already.”)

The newest “celebrity” to have a fragrance line: The New York Yankees.

But don’t men wear cologne so that they won’t smell like sweat, beer and hot dogs?

 ??  ?? Nicki Minaj
is quiet. For once.
Nicki Minaj is quiet. For once.
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States