A judge granted Kelsey Grammer a divorce Thursday, clearing the way for the actor to remarry later this month.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson signed off on Kelsey and Camille Grammer’s split, and the pair will settle financial issues at a later date.

“I have a great many mixed feelings about today – I’m sad for what was, yet excited for the road ahead,” Camille Grammer said in a statement.

She thanked family and friends who had been supportive throughout the couple’s divorce, which was filed in July. Read the rest of article…

 

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s Biggest Loser – Couples Edition is now accepting entries for the fifth installment of Atlanta’s Biggest Loser!

Atlanta’s Biggest Loser – Couples Edition will select six two-person teams from the Atlanta area who will compete against each other to lose the greatest percentage of wieght over a 12-week competition period.

Any type of couple can enter: sisters, brothers, friends, mother-daughter, father-son, co-workers…anything.

The competition will begin Monday, March 7, 2011. Each team will work out with one of two fitness partners — D.R.E.A.M. 1122 or Go With Greer. Read the rest of article…

Source: CNS Reporter: Anthony Jones Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States Published: February 4, 2011 10:17 a.m. EST Topics: Entertainment, Music, Arts, Culture And Entertainment

You may not know Johnny Wright, but you definitely know some of artists he managed at various points in their careers: Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson, New Kids on the Block, and more.

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CHICAGO (AP) — A movie about a stuttering monarch, without sex, car chases or sinewy super heroes, hardly sounds like blockbuster box-office fare.

But in a less flashy way, “The King’s Speech” is about a hero, one who battles an invisible enemy that torments nearly 70 million people around the world. In demystifying the little-understood speech impediment, the award-winning film reveals myths and fascinating truths about stuttering, and has won praise from stutterers of all ages.

For Erik Yehl, an 11-year-old Chicago boy who began stuttering in preschool, the movie’s powerful message is, “I’m not stupid.”

It’s a stigma all people who stutter contend with — the notion that because their words sometimes sputter or fail to come out at all, their minds must be somehow mixed up.

“People who stutter — their minds are perfectly good, and they’re not deaf, and they don’t need to be told to breathe. They Read the rest of article…

“It was like trying to act with people throwing hammers at you” … Richard Roxburgh.

It’s one thing swapping Chekhov banter with Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving for the Sydney Theatre Company, or causing trouble as randy barrister Cleaver Greene in TV’s Rake.

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