She Can Afford The Best With Her Brass In Pocket

When she fronted The Pretenders, rocker Chrissie Hynde was known for her raw voice, catchy melodies and uncompromising attitudes.

These days, she’s hardly known at all, having forfeited the spotlight to a legion of young women singer/songwriters.

Still, it seemed fitting that Hynde would again make news in an unusual way. Not that getting married - which the 46-year-old Ohio native did on July 10 in London with 32-year-old Colombian artist Lucho Brieva - is so unusual.

But getting married in blue jeans is. As is having your wedding party, which included Annie Lennox, at a pizza parlor. “We chose Pizza Express because it was so near to our home,” Hynde reportedly explained.

Loose talk

Rip Torn on his legendary reputation for violence on the set of the play “Steambath”: “They told the press I got drunk and destroyed the set and hit Tony Perkins. And I said, ‘Come on, who would want to hit Tony Perkins?”’ The festivities should be a first-rate operation

Anthony Edwards turns 35 today.

Let’s face it, this is the only way he could do it

He may no longer be part of Madonna’s entourage, but Carlos Leon - the father of Madonna’s 9-month-old daughter - is developing a celebrity status of his own. A recurring character on the Don Johnson television series “Nash Bridges,” Leon has been cast in an off-Broadway play titled “Taking Charge.”

Love and marriage goes together like…

Citing his past problems, comic Martin Lawrence ranks the breakup of his marriage atop the list. “I will probably never get married again because of all the trouble I went through with the first one,” he told Newsweek magazine. “It wasn’t worth it except for my daughter Jasmine, who is beautiful and innocent.”

There was no appropriate role, apparently, for Paula Jones

Bill Clinton is a big fan of Harrison Ford’s upcoming movie “Air Force One,” which portrays a president as sensitive, caring and capable of kicking butt. But Clinton’s biggest thrill was sitting with Glenn Close when Ford asked her to co-star. “I feel like I was present at the creation,” Clinton told Newsweek magazine.

But ‘Toys,’ ‘Hollywood Vice Squad,’ ‘Moll Flanders’ were?

Just in case you wondered, here is a list of the movies that Robin Penn Wright has turned down starring roles in: “The Firm,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Jurassic Park” and “Batman Forever.” Her explanation: “The just weren’t for me,” she told Esquire magazine.

Others will ask, ‘What’s the meaning of that movie?’

What does Jody Foster want fans to get from her new movie “Contact”? “I hope that everybody goes to a coffee shop after seeing the movie and starts talking about big questions, like ‘What’s the meaning of life?”’ she told Hollywood Online.

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