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  • ‘Death Wish,’ starring Bruce Willis, arrives in theaters amid debates over guns, alt-right

    Could there be a better — or worse — time for a new “Death Wish?”

    “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”

    — Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association

     

    Enter Dr. Paul Kersey, devoted family man-turned-ruthless vigilante in “Death Wish.”

    Director Eli Roth (“Hostel”) reboots the classic 1974 revenge drama with Bruce Willis taking on the lead role embodied by the late Charles Bronson in the original “Death Wish” and its four — yes, four — sequels.

    With a shift in setting from the mean streets of 1974 New York City to the meaner streets of 2017 Chicago, Dr. Kersey dons a hoodie and vows to take down the thugs who murdered his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and raped his daughter (Camila Morrone).

    This $30 million remake opened Friday amid calls for gun control in the wake of a school shooting, ruminations over street brawls between white supremacists and antifa militants, debate over the Black Lives Matter movement — and focus on the Trump administration’s position on each of these issues.

    Could there be a better — or worse — time for a new “Death Wish?”

    When the film’s trailer debuted last year, it evoked cries of “fascism” and worse from select film scribes. Britain’s Guardian newspaper greeted the trailer by dubbing it an “alt-right fantasy.”

    Such reactions aren’t new for the violent spectacle that is “Death Wish,” which the late Roger Ebert dubbed “propaganda for private gun ownership” in 1974.

    But veteran comic book writer Chuck Dixon says that calling the franchise “fascist” doesn’t make sense.

    “It’s one guy acting alone. It’s the opposite of fascist,” says Mr. Dixon, whose newest book “Levon’s War: Levon Cade Part 5” extends the author’s own vigilante saga.

    Mr. Dixon also discounts critics decrying Mr. Willis’ character for donning a hoodie in the trailer. Some connected the fashion choice to Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012. Mr. Zimmerman, who testified that Martin’s hoodie made him suspicious of the youth, was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter charges.

    “People are looking for things to be sensitive about. Everyone wears hoodies. From a writer’s standpoint, it’s a natural disguise in an urban environment,” the comic book writer says.

    The new film changes the original setting from a crime-ridden Big Apple to Chicago, currently awash with gun violence. Yet the “Death Wish” remake stalled for years. At one time Sylvester Stallone was attached to the vehicle.

    One possible reason for the franchise’s delayed reboot? The vigilante template doesn’t grab the zeitgeist like it did during Bronson’s first film, according to National Review’s Jim Geraghty.

    “Statistically, the average moviegoer is less likely to have experienced something like [what the Kerseys endure], and it’s less of a button that filmmakers can push to get an audience to feel the tension and fear of the characters on screen,” Mr. Geraghty says.

    Crime statistics nationwide are down despite high-profile massacres like this month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and last year’s mass assault in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead. Back in the early 1970s, fear of crime left audiences eager for Bronson’s iconic character.

    Mr. Geraghty points to another reason for the vigilante film’s decline — the modern superhero craze. These larger-than-life characters also take down criminals on their own terms.

    “The Punisher, Rorschach from ‘Watchmen’ and the Crow are some that come to mind that really straddle the genre line. You could probably argue the first half of ‘Batman Begins’ fits it, too,” says Mr. Geraghty, who co-hosts the pop culture podcast “The Jim and Mickey Show.”

    Superheroes and vigilantes share something else in common. Their aim is always true, he says.

    “[A superhero] never beats up or shoots the wrong guy and never accidentally shoots an innocent bystander,” Mr. Geraghty says. “He can always eventually find the criminal kingpin’s hangout. He can save the hostages. He never crosses the moral event horizon and starts killing people who we think don’t deserve it.”

    Jon Gabriel, editor in chief of the center-right site Ricochet.com, predicts that film critics are waiting to pounce on the new “Death Wish.” Social media users may follow.

    “With the school shooting recently and the anti-gun perspective dominating the media, it’s going to be a pretty ugly reaction regardless of the content,” Mr. Gabriel says. “The media is primed to be hostile to it.”

    It doesn’t help that one of Mr. Roth’s recent films, “Green Inferno,” served up social justice warriors as the main course for the film’s cannibal villains.

    Portraying Paul Kersey as a white man, again, also will draw some complaints, Mr. Gabriel says.

    That chorus began with the trailer’s release. Collider.com described the teaser as a “white knight fantasy where a white guy gets to be a famous hero by killing off criminals.”

    One note: The villains targeted in the trailer represent a diverse array of thugs.

    One discussion that may spring from the film touches on a theme we see in one tragic shooting after another: Institutions fail, leaving people to their own devices.

    “We are all our first responders,” Mr. Gabriel says.

    Mr. Dixon says knee jerk reactions to both the film’s trailer and reimagined story reveal an issue plaguing our social media age.

    “We demand too much of our casual pop culture offerings. It’s escapist fiction … you’re escaping into the fantasy of a guy seeking justice on its own terms,” he says.

  • Tom Cruise ‘wins’ worst actor at Razzies; Mel Gibson takes worst supporting actor

    Tom Cruise’s attempted reboot of the “Mummy” franchise landed him the Razzie Award for worst actor. He now has no Oscars after three nominations, but two Razzies. Cruise and Brad Pitt won for worst sc

    LOS ANGELES — Maybe it was destiny for a movie with a pile of poop as a central character.

    “The Emoji Movie” has received Hollywood’s most famous frown, the Razzie Award, for worst picture of 2017, making it the first animated feature in 38 years to earn the top dishonor.

    “Leading this year’s list of movie-misfires is the emoticon-based, talking poop opus,” the Razzies said in a statement announcing the recipients, saying the film came in a year when “Hollywood’s recycled trash heap attained an all-time high” and saw a “toxic-level lack of originality.”

    The annual awards bestowed on the worst the movie business has to offer were announced Saturday in their traditional spot, the day before the Academy Awards.

    “The Emoji Movie” landed four of the 10 Razzies given out this year, also taking worst screenplay, worst director, and worst screen combo, which was given to “any two obnoxious emojis” from the movie.

    Tom Cruise’s attempted reboot of the “Mummy” franchise landed him worst actor. He now has no Oscars after three nominations, but two Razzies. Cruise and Brad Pitt won for worst screen couple for 1994’s “Interview with the Vampire.”

    Tyler Perry took worst actress for “Boo 2! A Madea Halloween,” the director’s 10th time donning a dress and playing his signature white-wigged matriarch.

    Kim Basinger took worst supporting actress for “Fifty Shades Darker,” putting her in the special company of Faye Dunaway, Liza Minelli and Halle Berry as actresses who have won both a Razzie and an Oscar.

    Mel Gibson, who last year won the “Redeemer” award for getting an Oscar nomination just a few years after getting a Razzie nomination, is back at the bottom again as far as the Razzies are concerned, taking worst supporting actor for “Daddy’s Home 2.”

    “Baywatch,” won the inaugural “Special Rotten Tomatoes Award: The Razzie Nominee So Bad You Loved It!” The award is the result of an online poll held in conjunction with the review site Rotten Tomatoes.

    The rest of the Razzie Awards are determined by what the organization says is over 1,000 voting Razzie members 27 countries and from every U.S. state except Montana.

  • Weinstein Co. revives sale deal, staving off bankruptcy

    The Weinstein Co. revived a deal to sell its assets to a group of investors who want to transform the scandal-plagued film studio into a female-led entertainment venture, the latest twist in the compa

    NEW YORK (AP) — The Weinstein Co. revived a deal to sell its assets to a group of investors who want to transform the scandal-plagued film studio into a female-led entertainment venture, the latest twist in the company’s tortured efforts to avoid bankruptcy following the downfall of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.

    The company’s announcement Thursday marks a swift and dramatic reversal of fortunes. It came just four days after the Weinstein Co. announced it would file for bankruptcy protection, saying negotiations had fallen apart with the group led by businesswoman Maria Contreras-Sweet and billionaire investor Ron Burkle. But the two sides soon returned to talks, along with New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who filed a lawsuit against the company three weeks ago that threw a wrench in the deal.

    A bankruptcy protection filing would have halted lawsuits filed by women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, assault and other misconduct. The sale deal includes a commitment from the buyers to establish a compensation fund of up to $90 million for Weinstein’s accusers. Weinstein has denied all allegations of assault.

    “The deal provides a clear path for compensation for victims and protects the jobs of our employees,” the Weinstein Co.’s board of directors said in a statement. “We consider this to be a positive outcome under what have been incredibly difficult circumstances.”

    Contreras-Sweet said the deal would save about 150 jobs and protect the small businesses that are owed money by the studio. She said she would “launch a new company that represents the best practices in corporate governance and transparency.”

    Schneiderman said in a statement that he was pleased that the deal would “create a real, well-funded victims compensation fund, implement HR policies that will protect all employees and will not unjustly reward bad actors.”

    He said his office would work with the two sides to ensure they honor their commitment and that his lawsuit and investigation into the Weinstein Co. remain active.

    The announcement came after Contreras-Sweet and Burkle met with the company’s co-founder, Bob Weinstein, at Schneiderman’s office, according to several people familiar with the negotiations.

    A person familiar with the negotiations said the two sides agreed to a 40-day closing process. The person said the deal includes financing for the Weinstein Co. to meet payroll, rent and other financial obligations while the sale is being finalized.

    The buyers would pay $220 million for most of the Weinstein Co. assets and assume about $225 million of the studio’s debt. The new company would also dedicate $90 million to compensate Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, including $60 million put up by the buyers and $30 million from insurance proceeds. The person also said the buyers intend to retain company’s approximately 150 employees, though personnel decisions will be made later in the process.

    The people declined to be identified because they were unauthorized to speak publicly about the private talks.

    Contreras-Sweet’s proposal has emerged as the Weinstein’s Co.’s best chance to remain mostly intact, although under new leadership and with a different name. Contreras Sweet, who headed the small business administration during the Obama administration, has no previous entertainment experience but her proposal beat out several other prominent bidders who were mostly interested in buying parts of the company out of bankruptcy.

    She has proposed remaking the company into a women-led venture, with a female-majority board of directors. But Schneiderman objected to the deal out of concerns that there insufficient documentation guaranteeing compensation for the victims. He also said the deal would potentially keep in place top executives accused of enabling Weinstein’s alleged abuse of the company’s female employees.

    The lawsuit launched three weeks of fraught, behind-the scenes talks to revive the sale, with several unreleased films hanging in the balance, including the Thomas Edison tale “The Current War,” with Benedict Cumberbatch, and “Mary Magdalene,” starring Rooney Mara.

    Days after Schneiderman’s lawsuit, the Weinstein Co. fired its president and former COO, David Glasser. Contreras-Sweet’s group, in private talks with the attorney general, ironed out a deal to alleviate his concerns, including setting the $90 million compensation fund.

  • Roger Bannister dies at 88; was first to run mile in under 4 minutes

    Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88.

    LONDON — Roger Bannister, the first runner to break the 4-minute barrier in the mile, has died. He was 88.

    Bannister’s family said in a statement that he died peacefully on Saturday in Oxford, the English city where the runner cracked the feat many had thought humanly impossible on a windy afternoon in 1954.

    Bannister, who went on to pursue a long and distinguished medical career, had been slowed by Parkinson’s disease in recent years.

    He was “surrounded by his family who were as loved by him, as he was loved by them,” the family said in a statement announcing his death on Sunday. “He banked his treasure in the hearts of his friends.”

    British Prime Minister Theresa May remembered Bannister as a “British sporting icon whose achievements were an inspiration to us all. He will be greatly missed.”

    Helped by two pacemakers, Bannister clocked 3 minutes, 59.4 seconds over four laps at Oxford’s Iffley Road track on May 6, 1954, to break the 4-minute mile – a test of speed and endurance that stands as one of the defining sporting achievements of the 20th century.

    “It’s amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile,” Bannister said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2012.

    The enduring image of the lanky Oxford medical student – head tilted back, eyes closed and mouth agape as he strained across the finishing tape – captured the public’s imagination, made him a global celebrity and lifted the spirits of Britons still suffering through postwar austerity.

    “It became a symbol of attempting a challenge in the physical world of something hitherto thought impossible,” Bannister said as he approached the 50th anniversary of the feat. “I’d like to see it as a metaphor not only for sport, but for life and seeking challenges.”

    He might not have set the milestone but for the disappointment of finishing without a medal in the 1,500 meters, known as the metric mile, in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. Instead of retiring from the sport, he decided to chase the 4-minute mark.

    Swedish runner Gundar Haegg’s mile time of 4:01.4 had stood for nine years, but in 1954 Bannister, Australian rival John Landy and others were threatening to break it.

    “As it became clear that somebody was going to do it, I felt that I would prefer it to be me,” Bannister told the AP.

    He also wanted to deliver something special for his country.

    “I thought it would be right for Britain to try to get this,” Bannister said. “There was a feeling of patriotism. Our new queen had been crowned the year before, Everest had been climbed in 1953. Although I tried in 1953, I broke the British record, but not the 4-minute mile, and so everything was ready in 1954.”

    His chance finally came on a wet, cool, blustery May afternoon during a meet between Oxford and the Amateur Athletic Association.

    When Bannister looked up at the English flag whipping in the wind atop a nearby church, he feared he would have to call off the record attempt. But, shortly before 6 p.m., the wind died down. The race was on.

    With Chris Brasher setting the pace on the cinder track, they ran a first lap in 57.5 seconds, then 60.7 – 1:58.2 for the half mile. Chris Chataway, a distance specialist, paced a third lap of 62.3 – 3:00.4. Bannister would need to run the final lap in 59 seconds.

    With 250 yards to go, Bannister surged past Chataway, his long arms and legs pumping and his lungs gasping for oxygen.

    “The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist,” he wrote in his book, “The First Four Minutes.”

    “The only reality was the next 200 yards of track under my feet. The tape meant finality – extinction perhaps. I felt at that moment that it was my chance to do one thing supremely well. I drove on, impelled by a combination of fear and pride.”

    After Bannister crossed the finish line, the announcer read out the time: “3…” The rest was drowned out by the roar of the crowd.

    The record lasted just 46 days, as Landy ran 3:57.9 in Turku, Finland, on June 21, 1954. That set the stage for the showdown between Bannister and Landy at the Empire Games, now called the Commonwealth Games, in Vancouver, British Columbia on Aug. 9, 1954.

    Landy set a fast pace, leading by as much as 15 yards before Bannister caught up as the bell rang for the final lap.

    “Around the last bend, I think the crowd was making so much noise he couldn’t hear whether I was behind, or whether he’d dropped me, and he looked over his left shoulder, and I passed him on his right shoulder,” Bannister said.

    Bannister won the race in 3:58.8, with Landy second in 3:59. It was the first time two men had run under 4 minutes in the same race.

    Bannister considered that victory even more satisfying than the first 4-minute mile because it came in a competitive race against his greatest rival.

    Bannister capped his brilliant summer of 1954 by winning the 1,500 meters at the European Championships in Bern, Switzerland, in a games record of 3:43.8.

    Bannister, who was chosen as Sports Illustrated’s first Sportsman of the Year in 1954, retired from competition and pursued a full-time career in neurology. As chairman of the Sports Council between 1971 and 1974, he developed the first test for anabolic steroids.

    “None of my athletics was the greatest achievement,” he said. “My medical work has been my achievement and my family with 14 grandchildren. Those are real achievements.”

    IAAF President Sebastian Coe said Bannister’s death represented a “day of intense sadness both for our nation and for all of us in athletics.”

    Coe ran a mile in a world record 3 minutes, 47.33 seconds in 1981 between winning gold medals in the 1,500 meters at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics.

    “There is not a single athlete of my generation who was not inspired by Roger and his achievements both on and off the track,” Coe tweeted.

    Bannister also served as master of Oxford’s Pembroke College from 1985-93.

    Bannister married Moyra Jacobsson, an artist, in 1955. They had two sons and two daughters and lived in a modest home only minutes away from the track where he made history.

    Bannister outlived his 4-minute mile pacemakers: Brasher, who founded the London Marathon, died in 2003 at the age of 74. Chataway died in 2014 at 82.

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    Former Associated Press European Sports Editor Stephen Wilson contributed to this report.

     

  • Man convicted of killing woman who rejected $8 offer for sex

    A jury has convicted a man of killing a woman who rejected his $8 offer for sex.

    ATLANTA (AP) — A jury has convicted a man of killing a woman who rejected his $8 offer for sex.

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that jurors on Friday convicted Felix Shirley of murder in the January 2017 killing of Misha Moore.

    Citing the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, the newspaper says Shirley was sentenced to life in prison, plus five years.

    The newspaper says Shirley had just ended his shift at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium when Moore approached him. As the two began walking together, Shirley handed Moore $8 for sex. When she told him it wasn’t enough, authorities say Shirley threw her against a wall, kicked and beat her, then shot her with a .22-caliber revolver.

    The slaying was captured on surveillance video. Moore’s body was found at the bottom of a stairwell.

  • Marion Barry, D.C. ‘Mayor for Life,’ memorialized with statue

    A bronze, larger-than-life statue of late D.C. politician Marion Barry was unveiled Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue, memorializing the controversial so-called “Mayor for Life” mere blocks from the Whi

    A bronze, larger-than-life statue of late D.C. politician Marion Barry was unveiled Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue, memorializing the controversial so-called “Mayor for Life” mere blocks from the White House outside the city building where he worked during his decades in public office.

    Erected outside the John A. Wilson Building, the seat of D.C. local government, the eight-foot-tall statue portraying a smiling, waving Barry constitutes “a fitting tribute in this city that he so loved,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said at Saturday afternoon’s unveiling.

    Born and raised in Mississippi, Barry moved to D.C. in the 1960s while working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, one of the era’s most prominent civil rights groups. He ran for city school board the following decade, and in 1974 he was won a seat on the District’s first elected city council.

    Barry, a Democrat, ultimately served four terms as mayor and spent 16 years on the city council prior to passing away in 2014 at the age of 78.

    “Sometime after Martin Luther King had a dream, and before President Barack Obama gave us hope, it was Marion Barry that brought opportunity to Washington, D.C.,” said Ms. Bowser, a fellow Democrat elected mayor in 2014.

    “He embodied the spirit of Washington,” Ms. Bowser said. “Where you can fall down and get back up…Where you fight hard and speak up,” she added.

    Indeed, Barry’s arguably best known outside the Beltway not for his accomplishments during his decades in office, but rather over his 1990 arrest for crack cocaine possession that resulted in six months behind bars. The incident anything but derailed his political career, however, and Barry was re-elected mayor hardly two years after completing his prison sentence.

    “Mr. Barry taught us do not ever give up hope, because as long as you’re waking up on this earth, there can be a comeback,” said Ms. Bowser.

    Chairman Phil Mendelson said the statue of Barry is the first to honor an African-American on Pennsylvania Avenue, a historic roadway that also hosts the White House as well as every presidential inaugural parade.

    “It’s exciting because we are placing a statue to a District of Columbia hero on Pennsylvania Avenue, the nation’s avenue, and in so doing we are reminding everybody that this is not a federal city but a local city with real people and real issues,” he said during there unveiling. “This is an exciting day because we are erecting a statue to an African American hero in the nation’s capital on the nation’s avenue. There are few statues commemorating African Americans in our city, and none on Pennsylvania Avenue.”

    “Some may ask, how could somebody with controversy get elected and re-elected and then get memorialized with a statue?” asked Mr. Mendelson “Well, an essential part of good governance is human relations. Marion Barry connected with people. Marion Barry helped people through thick and thin,” he said.

    The Barry statue was designed by artist Stephen Weitzman and selected by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities from a pool of 13 submissions.

    Built in the early 1900s, the Wilson building has housed several city offices since after the Home Rule Act established the D.C. government in 1973. Then a council member, Barry was shot in the chest while in the Wilson building in 1977 during a two-day standoff perpetrated by a radical Muslim group.

  • West Virginia college creates competitive bagpipe band

    Recruiting efforts are currently underway to form the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College Grade V. Students versed in playing the bagpipes can earn up to a $5,000 scholarship per year

    ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — Recruiting efforts are currently underway to form the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College Grade V. Students versed in playing the bagpipes can earn up to a $5,000 scholarship per year based on audition performance.

    Members of Grade V will share the same MacLeod of Lewis Scottish plaid and perform in parades and other special events along with the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College. In addition, they will compete at regional Highland festivals and games, and learn more about piping and Scottish traditions.

    The current 20-member Highlanders pipe and drum band has a long history with Davis & Elkins College and the Randolph County community.

    Formed in October 1947 as the official band of the H.W. Daniels Post 29 American Legion, the Highlanders group has continued many of its long-held traditions of music and dress with roots in Scottish heritage.

    In 1990, the Highlanders began carrying a banner with their new affiliation and name – the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College. The band now represents the community and the college at various public events, and performs at multiple college functions, including commencement, Founders’ Day and other special events.

    The band has performed in all 50 states and marched in the National Independence Day Parade on historic Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.

    Patrick McKay, an admission counselor at D&E and drummer in the Highlanders since 1997, came up with the idea for forming a competition band after competing himself throughout the years.

    “I’ve noticed the competitors are getting younger,” McKay said. “Every time I would see these young people out there pursuing their passion I would always think D&E would be the perfect environment for them to learn and practice and go on to compete.”

    The younger set of pipers and the more seasoned members of the Highlanders will complement one another by sharing techniques and experiences. The comradery and years of combined experience of the group were part of what attracted Bryan LaFollette to attend Davis & Elkins College. A bagpipe student since the age of 10 and now a college junior, LaFollette was recently named the Highlanders’ pipe master.

    “It’s good to pursue your love for piping because it can take you a long way in life,” LaFollette said. “At the core of everything, though, is your education, and D&E really stands out. We have great resources with professors who truly care and The Naylor Learning Center to keep you on track while you pursue your passion.”

    LaFollette and McKay agree that the new group of pipers will help the tradition of the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College live on in the community and throughout the nation.

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    Information from: The Inter-Mountain, http://www.theintermountain.com

  • Hollywood affairs that ended in ‘I do’

    See the famous celebrity affairs that ended with a trip down the aisle

    Back-up dancer Kevin Federline left his pregnant fiancée, actress Shar Jackson, to be with pop princess Britney Spears. Their two year marriage ended with Federline retaining sole legal and physical custody of their son while Spears would get visitation rights that would increase over time. Federline receives $20,000 per month from Spears in child support

    Hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz was still married to singer Mashonda when he started an affair with Alicia Keys in 2008. The couple married in 2010 and have two children together.Billy Bob Thornton was engaged to Laura Dern when he began his affair with Angelina Jolie. Thornton and Jolie wed in 1999, but divorced in 2003.Brad Pitt stated that he “fell in love” with Angelina Jolie while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. Jolie’s former bodyguard claims that the romance started on the set of their 2005 filmWanderlust co-stars Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux‘s relationship allegedly started while he was still with his girlfriend of 14 years, Heidi BivensActress Julia Roberts and cinematographer Daniel Moder began their relationship on the set of her film The Mexican in 2000, while he was still married Vera Steimberg. After his divorce from Steimberg was finalized, he and Roberts wed on July 4, 2002, in a small ceremony at her ranch in Taos, New Mexico.Spanish actor Antonio Banderas reportedly divorced his wife, Ana Leza, because of his affair with actress Melanie Griffith. Banderas met Griffith in 1995 while filming ‘Two Much.’ They married in 1996, she filed for divorce in 2014NBA all star Dwyane Wade‘s divorce from Siohvaughn Funches was allegedly provoked by his budding relationship with his now wife actress Gabrielle Union.Johnny Depp and Amber Heard allegedly got together on the set of The Rum Diary, before he split from his longtime love Vanessa Paradis. Depp and Heard got married in 2015 and divorced in 2017.Tori Spelling (who was married to Charlie Shanian) was filming the Lifetime TV-movie Mind Over Murder in Ottawa, when she met actor Dean McDermott, who was then married to actress Mary Jo Eustace. Spelling and McDermott began an affair the night they met, Spelling and Shanian separated in October 2005. Spelling married Dean McDermott on May 7, 2006, in a private ceremony in Fiji.One of Hollywood’s greatest love stories, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward were married for 50 years. Newman was still married to his first wife, Jackie Witte, when they first met in 1953Prince Charles started an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986, just five years into his marriage to Princess Diana. Prince Charles and Parker Bowles wed in 2005Country legend Johnny Cash was married to his wife, Vivian, when he began his affair with June Carter. The couple were married from 1968 until his death in 2003.Singer Blake Shelton was married to Kaynette Williams when he fell in love with his future wife, singer Miranda Lambert in 2005. Shelton and Lambert split in 2015 amid rumors of infidelity on both sides.Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart was married to Mayo Methot when he fell in love with Lauren Bacall during the filming ‘To Have and Have Not.’ Bogart and Bacall were married from 1945 until his death in 1957Woody Allen‘s affair with Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn came to light when Farrow allegedly discovered Allen‘s nude Polaroid photographs of Previn in late 1991 or early 1992. Farrow broke off her relationship with Allen in 1992 following the discovery. Allen has been married to Previn since 1997.Singer LeAnn Rimes was married to Dean Sheremet and Actor Eddie Cibrian was married to Brandi Glanville when the couple filmed Northern Lights. Rimes and Cibrian have been married to each other since 2011

  • NFL cheerleaders who became famous

    See the former NFL cheerleaders who enjoyed showbiz success

    Teri Hatcher was cheering for Joe Montana and the San francisco 49ers in 1984….

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