Alas: Singer Billy Joel and his wife, Katie Lee, are divorcing.They married in 2004, when Joel was 55 and Katie Lee was 22. “They grew apart,” an anonymous friend tells the NY Post.(Photo supplied by WENN.)
The children’s artist and author was born in Michigan on this day in 1949. His family operated a creamery in Grand Rapids.Van Allsburg’s biography has a swell story about how he lied to an admissions counselor about Norman Rockwell in order to get into art school at the University of Michigan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has broken her elbow after a fall, says Reuters. She’ll have surgery and continue on with her schedule.We’re glad Secretary Clinton is OK. We would have hated to add her to Destination: Sidewalk.
Mental Floss has a fascinating (and brief) piece on 5 Historical Figures ID’d by DNA. Check it out.
The almost-assassin of Ronald Reagan is getting out more these days.
J.D. Salinger is suing someone again. No surprise there, but this is a surprise: Court documents filed in the case describe Mr. Salinger, now 90, who lives in Cornish, N.H., as totally deaf, with ‘several age-related health problems,’ including a recently broken hip that has put him in a rehabilitation facility. Mr. Salinger has not been photographed or granted an interview for decades.Geez, he’s 90?
“For me, greedy is giving. I was First Lady for 20 years; you have to be greedy first to give to all. It is natural.”She’s back!
Princess Caroline of Monaco’s husband Prince Ernst August of Hanover denied in court on Monday drunkenly beating up a hotel manager with a knuckle duster on the Kenyan island of Lamu in 2000.The German aristocrat… said through his lawyer at his retrial in Germany that he gave Josef Brunlehner “two symbolic slaps” because he was annoyed about the noise and laser show at the hotel disco.
U.S. President James K. Polk died 160 years ago today, at the age of 53.
Part Chinese, part English, Alexa Chung is the host of It’s On, MTV’s new daily show. She debuts at noon today.