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Broadway fundraiser for Biden to star Bareilles, Groban, Miranda
Broadway royalty will be out in force Monday when stars like Sara Bareilles, Cynthia Erivo, Josh Groban, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt perform in a fundraiser for President Joe Biden.
The event is set for Monday in New York City and Biden will attend. Proceeds will benefit his reelection campaign. Tickets range from $250-$7,500.
Others set to perform include Annaleigh Ashford, Alex Edelman, Josh Gad, Christopher Jackson, LaChanze, Ruthie Ann Miles, Leslie Odom Jr., Andrew Rannells, Aaron Tveit and Betsy Wolfe.
The time, address and specific arrival instructions will be shared with ticket holders 36-48 hours before the event.
Thomas Kail will direct, with music supervision by Alex Lacamoire. Additional contributors for the event include Andy Blankenbuehler, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Amanda Green.
Norwegian princess to marry American self-professed shaman
The Norwegian king's eldest child, Princess Märtha Louise, will marry her Hollywood partner, the self-professed shaman Durek Verrett, next summer, the couple announced Wednesday.
King Harald V said in a statement that his family was “delighted to welcome” Verrett, who is from California and claims to be a sixth-generation shaman. The Norwegian princess can trace her ancestry back to Britain's Queen Victoria.
The couple, who toured the country in 2019 as “The Princess and The Shaman,” have created waves in Norway with their alternative beliefs.
For the past several years, Märtha
Louise, 51, has said she can talk with angels, while Verrett, 48, claims that he communicates with a broad range of spirits, wields ancient medicine and has a medallion that helps ward off heavy energies, spells and darkness.
The wedding will take place on Aug. 24 in Geiranger, prized for its typical Norwegian scenery among mountains and fjords. Geiranger is 165 miles north of Bergen, Norway's second-largest city.
The state broadcaster NRK said that Verrett will move to Norway. And while he will join the royal family, he won't have a title.
Ford, who testified against Kavanaugh, will release memoir
The California professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir.
Christine Blasey Ford's “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March.
According to St. Martin's Press, she will share “riveting new details about the lead-up” to her testimony in 2018; “its overwhelming aftermath,” when she allegedly received death threats and was unable to live at her home; and “how people unknown to her around the world restored her faith in humanity.”
Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University and the Stanford University School of Medicine, made headlines when she told the Senate Judiciary Committee about a party she and Kavanaugh attended in the early 1980s. She alleged that he cornered her in a bedroom, pinned her on a bed and tried to take off her clothes, while pressing his hand over her mouth. She fled after a friend of his jumped on the bed and knocked them over.