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Celebrating a Labor Day weekend wedding, James Gandolfini and his lady Deborah Lin tied the knot in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Saturday (August 30).
With family and friends gathered for the big day, Gandolfini, 46, and Lin, 40, exchanged their vows during an intimate 20-minute ceremony at Central Union Church.
I can’t imagine how much it must suck to have a stalker. You must constantly be worried, wondering if that crazy person has followed you, if they’re outside your house lurking in the shadows. It must be even worse if you’re a lesser-known celebrity or a normal person who can’t afford much security. Maybe you have one security guy who works part time and costs you a fortune, and your stalker will soon figure out when he’s off duty anyway.
80s pop star Debbie Gibson, who now prefers to be called Deborah, is still touring and singing. She has an act called “Pop Goes Broadway,” in which she sings hits like “Out of the Blue” and reprises some of her starring Broadway roles, including Cabaret and Chicago. She’s probably not making enough coin to hire an around the clock bodyguard. She has a Spanish stalker, Jorge Puigdollers, 44, who works as a cab driver and runs a fan club for her. He’s traveled to the US multiple times to pursue her, and has been to every concert she’s given since 2002.
Puigdollers has tried to get backstage at Gibson’s concerts, he’s followed her many times, and he’s tried to get into her hotel room. He left a note on Thursday for her under her door asking to meet her in El Paso, and on Sunday he showed up at the door of her house in LA. Gibson called the police and filed for an emergency restraining order that’s effective until Friday. She is seeking a longer term protective order and will have a hearing on May 28 for this case. Gibson says she’s in fear of her life.
Puigdollers is back in Spain, driving a cab and probably saving up for another trip to the states to stalk poor Gibson. He told the AP that he’s sorry and “I don’t want problems and I don’t want to bother her so much.”
Spring time must be stalker time, because John Cusack’s longterm stalker also showed up at his house a couple of weeks ago, throwing stuff over his bushes in a desperate attempt to contact him.
Deborah Gibson is shown at the premiere of Ricky Lake’s documentary “The Business of Being Born” on 1/14/08. She looks great. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures. Details from AP Article found on Huffingtonpost.
The owners of wilting alt weekly The Village Voice continue to condemn their staff to the torture of a thousand cuts. Last week, the Voice's overlords at cost-cutting conglomerate The New Times laid off dance critic Deborah Jowitt after she'd served forty years at the paper. Now, an insider tells us that writer Chris Thompson—who relocated his family from San Francisco to take the job—has been let go. The problem, our tipster says, is that Voice editor-in-chief Tony Ortega has most of his hiring decisions dictated to him by his New Times bosses "and then he sulks because he doesn't really like them, and then decides they aren't 'working out.'" More Voice woes after the jump.
"[T]he Voice is now FIFTH in terms of ad sales amongst the entire chain," the insider tells us. "We used to be first, and now we are FIFTH. Kansas City['s The Pitch] does better than the Voice in ad sales. The [New Times] has proven over and over and over that when they go into anything other than secondary markets, they fail because they apply their boneheaded editorial strategy to the big papers, ignoring what actually worked for those cities. That's why San Francisco was their biggest money loser, because they didn't seem to get that no one wanted their cookie cutter philosophy in such an individualist town."
Is Deborah Solomon going soft? The Times Q&A queen's weekly interviews usually involve verbal water-boarding and creatively bitchy editing, but in her column today, she practically asks ex-Daily Show producer Ben Karlin if she can give him a big fat fucking hug. "Do you have any dating advice for your children?" Solomon asks him. What? What happened to "How do you sleep at night?" which she asked an opposition research guy last month, or "I found it a little basic," her response to money guru Suze Orman's new book? Two weeks ago, she asked Sheryl Crow if she "felt valued enough"! Next week, a heart-to-heart with Karl Rove, in which Solomon tells him she's always available to talk to him about his pointy-headed inner child.
Former Village Voice managing editor Deborah Kolben and Columbia Journalism Review's Gal Beckerman are getting hitched! "A sunset walk on a beach in Mexico, a couple of beers, a sobbing Debbie," is how Beckerman described his proposal. Gag. "I never thought of myself as that girl," Kolben said, "But the second I had a ring on my finger, it was 'Take a picture! Take a picture!'" Heh. What has Kolben been up to since being axed by the Voice in September, after six months on the job? Well, a piece she wrote for the New York Times last weekend on a Flatbush Dunkin' Donuts run by a Jewish woman and a Muslim man ran under the headline "Worshipping Different Gods (But United On The Pork Issue.)" We love it when the Times makes awkward and erroneous jokes about religion! A correction was swiftly issued: "A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin' Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The two faiths worship the same God—not different ones." [Photo by David Reeves.]
New York Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt's column this weekend took on Times magazine Q&A'er Deborah Solomon in response to a recent New York Press cover story on Solomon's editing antics. (Solomon's penchant for refashioning the responses of her interview subjects for her 700-word weekly column earned her the serious ire of NPR host Ira Glass, columnist Amy Dickinson and the LA Times critic Christopher Knight.) Solomon doesn't make much of an effort to come off clean in Hoyt's column, calling Dickinson "boastful," (mean!) and misplacing the tape of her Ira Glass interview (whoops!). Solomon also told the Times' internal watchdog that she was just joking when she told a Columbia Journalism Review reporter in 2005 to "Feel free to mix the pieces of this interview around, which is what I do. There's no Q. and A. protocol... you can write the manual." Hold your horses, Deb, Hoyt writes. "In fact, there is a protocol, and 'Questions For' isn't living up to it," he says. Oh snap. The take-away point here may be, however, that Christ, the New York Press had a story with legs! One with tormented prose that could easily have been cut in half, but nevertheless! You don't have a story until the New York Times says you do, so by all means, congratulations.