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A look back at a few high (and low) points in this week's world of pop culture.
Poehler/Arnett divorce update After announcing their split last week, actress/comedian
Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”) and “Up All Night” star
Will Arnett are said to be focusing on their two sons Archie, 3 and Abel, 2.
One would hope…
A source told RadarOnline earlier this week that the separation came as the romance between the two actors had died. Still, “(Poehler and Arnett) are very good friends, and together, they will make sure the kids don’t suffer in the breakup,” the source said.
Poehler and Arnett separated Sept. 6 after nine years of marriage.
Wedding rings and thingsYes, "Gossip Girl" actress
Blake Lively did say in an interview with
Allure magazine that she wanted, like, “30 kids” if she could. It’s in the most recent issue of the mag and this comment was ran up and down the flag pole – especially since Lively wed “Green Lantern” actor
Ryan Reynolds last weekend.
The ‘30’ comment was actually made before the two got married but surely that’s how Lively feels now. Just call her happy. The gal wants a big family, what can you say?
A source told
People magazine that the couple – who wed Sunday in South Carolina – had been thinking about wedding bells at least as early as April when they bought a $2 million home in New York.
The horrible tattoo and the troubled singer who got itLet’s just say that new tat on singer
Chris Brown’s neck (ugh) is an image depicting the face of a disfigured woman and call it a day.
(AP)
No, it’s not the Mexican sugar skull his reps first claimed it to be this week…or inspired by a MAC cosmetic case, reps later claimed. And to throw CB a bone, maybe, just maybe, it’s not an inked rendering of Rihanna’s battered face circa 2009 when the world learned the Grammy-winning singer/dancer/actor/once cutie pie doesn't think twice about hitting women.
Whoever “she” is on Chris’s neck, it’s just another indication that he couldn't care less about anything – about what people think, about being an abuser or about how – artistically speaking – his tattoo artist really messed him over on that job. It’s not good.
Moving on!
Sally Struthers in MainePeople reports
Sally Struthers, 65, was arrested under the suspicion of driving under the influence early Thursday in Ogunquit, Maine where she is currently starring in the stage adaptation of “9 to 5.”
The magazine reports the Ogunquit Police released the “All in the Family” actress on $160 cash bail and that her court date is set for December.
Just FYI, Struthers stars as Roz in the musical, which runs through Saturday.
A 98 Degrees bundle of joySinger Nick Lachey and wife Vanessa welcomed a baby boy into the world Wednesday, reports
People magazine.
Camden John Lachey. 8 lbs. 9 ounces. 21 inches long.
"Love has truly been redefined for both of us," the couple told the magazine.
Camden John Lachey. Very nice.
Bacon Numbers of the Hollywood sortAnd if you haven’t by any chance figured out how closely connected ‘Hangover’ actor
Zach Galifianakis is to actor
Kevin Bacon – whom the
Guardian named one of the best actors to have never received an Oscar – now you can.
Really, Bacon hasn’t received an Academy Award. Which somehow seems surprising when you try out Google’s new feature called the Bacon Number.
Launched this week, the Bacon Number – calculated by a Six Degrees of Separation-type algorithm – shows how closely linked a given actor or actress is linked to Bacon. … Bacon the actor, remember. So, the lower the number, the closer the link. The higher… you’ve got it.
The feature was inspired by a game invented by three college friends in 1994, ABC reports.
“Somehow this occurred to us: Kevin Bacon had been in so many different types of movies, it was possible to connect a lot of unlikely people together through his work,” Craig Fass, Brian Turtle and Mike Ginelli wrote in their 1996 book, “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
There could only be one explanation, they wrote. “Kevin Bacon was at the center of the entertainment universe.”
And yet no Oscar. One would think…that even by association, the actor might have one.
So do it. Open up a Google browser window and type “Bacon Number” and the name of an actor or actress into the search area.
Meryl Streep? She’s a 1. (Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon appeared in The River Wild.)
Brad Pitt? 1.
Clint Eastwood? 2.
Now there are a few flaws to this feature, some publications have been quick to point out: Though Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy appeared in “The Dark Knight,” Leahy has no Bacon Number, New York magazine, reported.
It’s not exactly the most useful information but still fun. Pret-ty fun.
Galifianakis's Bacon Number is a 2 by the way.
