'Hairspray' Star Begged to Go 'Dancing'
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Sept. 24, 2005: Ashton Kutcher, the star of such epic films as 'Dude, Where's My Car?' and 'The Butterfly Effect,' marries Kabbalist cougar Demi Moore in Beverly Hills, before roughly 100 friends and family, including Moore's ex-husband, Bruce Willis. (OK!/AP)
Sept. 26, 1957: Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' returns to Broadway, this time as Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story.' The retelling of the classic love story will run for 734 performances and produce such classic songs as 'Somewhere' and 'America.' (Everett Collection)
Sept. 29, 1984: With 'Let's Go Crazy' joining both the album and film 'Purple Rain' at No. 1, Prince becomes only the second artist to simultaneously top the song, album and movie charts in the U.S. (Everett Collection)
Sept. 27, 1954: 'The Tonight Show,' hosted by Steve Allen, makes its television debut. The show will become the second-longest running entertainment program in TV history, trailing only 'Guiding Light.' (Bettmann/Corbis)
Sept. 26, 1955: Debbie Reynolds weds crooner Eddie Fisher, a union that will last until Fisher falls under the spell of Elizabeth Taylor four years later. Luckily, the couple is together long enough to produce son Todd Fisher and daughter, Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher. (WireImage.com/LucasFilms/ZUMA)
Sept. 30, 2006: Love is in the air as Amanda Peet marries screenwriter David Benioff in New York City, while 1,348 miles away, Isaac Hanson, the eldest brother from the band Hanson, weds Nicole Dufresne in Tulsa, Okla. (Getty/WireImage.com)
Sept. 29, 2005: Two weeks after photos of her doing lines of cocaine are splashed across the front page of the British tabloid the Daily Mirror, supermodel Kate Moss checks into the $4,000-a-night Meadows Clinic in Wickenberg, Ariz., where she is said tostay for 30 days. (Getty Images)
Sept. 25, 1990: Underwhelmed by drummer Chad Channing, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana invite Dave Grohl to join the band. Later that year they record the landmark album 'Nevermind.' (WireImage.com)
Sept. 29, 2001: Jennifer Lopez marries dancer Cris Judd, whom she'd met on the set of her video for 'Love Don't Cost a Thing.' The union will begin to sour when she is handed a bouquet of flowers from Ben Affleck while Judd and the paparazzi look on at the opening of Madre's, her restaurant in Pasadena, Calif. (Getty Images)
Sept. 26, 2003: Singer Robert Palmer,former frontman for the band Power Station, dies of a heart attack in Paris at the age of 54. (Retna)
Recent Comments
lucialeon 03:36:34 PM Mar 24 2008
I LOVE Marissa
love her energy, her enthusiasm, she is easily my favorite
Kristi of course is excellent, but Marissa is the human touch to the show. No size two, and a jiggle everywhere to go to the music!!
Love her!
bostonbred111 02:37:27 PM Mar 24 2008
Too much facial plastic surgery will make her nose fall off like Michael Jackson's.. no one can touch his nose it will fall off.... about 3 months ago his young son smacked him in the nose Michael had to go have his nose redone. It gets too thin ( bones) the whole nose is just cartilage not much to hold it up...just dont sit in the sun after you are 40 years old, dont use a lot of very hot water on your face and be like Prince Charles great aunt Barbara Cartwright the romance novelist she once said that after you are fifty years old, you have to choose between 2 choices either you can keep your face or keep your body... but not both ( without surgery.)
bostonbred111 02:24:19 PM Mar 24 2008
Priscilla should have left well enough alone. Too late now. She has chipmunk cheeks. LisaMarie is going to be a huge lady like her dad. Don't tell me shes fat because shes only 2 months pregnant look at her head how wide her face is... so what? If she is proud of her famous father then she should be proud to look like he did. Whats wrong with a little chubbiness?
larrylorikunkle 02:09:35 PM Mar 24 2008
I guess that will tell other celebs not to go under the knife. Look at Lyndsay Wagner she is still pretty and she shows her age well. Maybe the winkles bothered Pricillia...
daytonbloomers 02:07:18 PM Mar 24 2008
Priscilla looks like a vampire in this picture ... once considered easily the most beautiful woman ... I would not want to meet her based on the look above - she would scare me. However, I'm sure that she is a lovely lady inside - complete with human flaws - I hope that she shines in this competition. And as for the comments on how Elvis would react - who knows? He may have fallen to the temptation of plastic surgery too!
mrscricket046 01:59:14 PM Mar 24 2008
PRICSILLY PRESELY LOOKS LIKE SHE BELONGS IN A WAX MUSEUM IF SHE SMILES HER FACE WILL CRACK. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL GIRL LOOKS LIKE SHIT.NOW THEY THINK THEY LOOK YOUNG THEY SHOULD BUY A MIRROR WITH ALL THERE MONEY SO THEY CAN REALLY SEE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE. THE KING MUST BE TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE WHEN HE SEEN THAT FACE OF HERS WHEN I SEEN IT I SAID OMG ANOTHER ONE TRYING TO LOOK YOUNG I THINK THIS IS WHY THEY ALL GO ON THIS SHOW SO WE ALL CAN SEE THERE FACE LIFTS.WHO CARES
stardustmemrees 01:57:29 PM Mar 24 2008
I really have to say that I admire Marissa's spirit in wanting to show the world that even though you might have Cervical Cancer (or any type of cancer, for that matter), that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
I am 43yrs old and underwent a complete abdominal hysterectomy and was diagnosed with Stage 2b Cervical Cancer on January 17, 2008 and while I am currently undergoing radiation therapy, after reading this article about how Marissa has experienced the very same thing (some 7yrs ago), her spirit in wanting to 'Dance' gives me a great hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and shows me that (while I may not be anywhere as physically fit or able to), I don't have to let the sadness of my illness get me down and know that I CAN AND WILL BEAT THIS THING and that I CAN DO anything I set my mind to doing!!
HATS OFF TO YOU, MARISSA! I WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK AND HOPE YOU WIN!!!
setonbest 01:54:59 PM Mar 24 2008
Priscilla Presley needs plastic surgery to correct bad facial surgery. Doen't she look in the mirror or don't her daughter or parents tell her?
pladynamite 01:50:32 PM Mar 24 2008
What good is a wrinkle free face and thick ugly lips when they can't be used to talk or smile? Presley spent loads of money to look ugly like that? Why? She cannot dance either. Should be in the top two to be voted off. She may remain due to the pity vote, though.
setonbest 01:44:27 PM Mar 24 2008
Priscilla Presley needs plastic surgery to correct bad facial surgery. Doen't she look in the mirror or don't her daughter or parents tell her?
setonbest 01:44:14 PM Mar 24 2008
Priscilla Presley needs plastic surgery to correct back facial surgery. Doen't she look in the mirror or don't her daughter or parents tell her?
criderinc 01:37:22 PM Mar 24 2008
Is it just me, or does Mario look EXACTLY like Chris Rock?
Venice217 01:34:51 PM Mar 24 2008
!. This show is NOT reality tv, idiots. Can any of you dance like that? This show is hard core and these people train like crazy when they are on it. Reality tv is when they live in a house together and get fat or run around beverly hills fighting or marry plastic surgeons for their money. This show you actually have to HAVE TALENT to get on and HAVE TALENT to stay on.
As far as Marissa( broadway Tony award winner) goes, I love her i hope she wins. She is a great role model and a great dancer.
As far as all the pricilla bashing, she is not just on there by association. She was in huge blockbusers as well as one of the most famous tv shows of all time. And she looks fricken great. But most importantly... how can you talk about her face when she danced that good???!!!! She's not young folks...
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