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People: Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks


Gary ColemanAssociated Press
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The honeymoon is over for Gary Coleman and his new bride.

The 40-year-old actor and his 22-year-old wife, Shannon Price, are set to appear on TV’s “Divorce Court” on Thursday and Friday.

The couple wed in August after meeting on the set of the 2006 comedy “Church Ball.”

Among the problems they discuss with Judge Lynn Toler are Coleman’s anger and intimacy issues. Coleman and Price agree they have “ugly” monthly fights.

“If he doesn’t get his way, he throws a temper tantrum like a 5-year-old does,” Price says. “He like stomps the floor and yells, ‘Meehhhh,’ and starts throwing stuff around. He bashes his head in the wall, too.”

Coleman says he gets frustrated because “the male is always the bad guy.”

“When I try to state my case or explain things to her or try to get her to understand my point of view,” he says, “my point of view doesn’t matter.”

Coleman adds that their problems are “not her fault. I always feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders every day I get up. … There are days I don’t even want to get up.”

Re-sealing the deal

So how do singer Seal and supermodel Heidi Klum keep their marriage strong?

According to InStyle, the couple, who wed on May 10, 2005, renew their vows every year on that date, before the “same minister who wed them, while standing on the very same slice of beach in Costa Careyes, Mexico.”

“It focuses us on why we got married,” Seal says, “and sets a good example … for the kids.”

Next in the Electra chair …

Carmen Electra is hoping the third time could be the charm.

The 36-year-old actress, who divorced rocker Dave Navarro last year following an MTV reality-show romance and previously was briefly wed to pro basketball star Dennis Rodman, is engaged to musician Rob Patterson.

From ‘CSI’ to DUI

On the celebrity substance abuse beat, “CSI” star Gary Dourdan was arrested early Monday when Palm Springs police found him asleep in his car and allegedly in possession of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription pills.

And Scott Weiland, lead singer for the newly re-formed Stone Temple Pilots, has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was sentenced to eight days in jail.

The wind cries ‘phony’

An adult entertainment company is releasing what it claims is a 40-year-old sex tape starring legendary rocker Jimi Hendrix – though a Hendrix expert calls it a hoax.

Vivid Entertainment says it obtained the 11-minute tape, which shows a man who looks like Hendrix engaged in various sexual acts with two women, from a collector.

But Charles R. Cross, author of the Hendrix biography “Room Full of Mirrors,” says the face and nostrils of the man don’t match Hendrix, and he’s wearing too many rings.

The birthday bunch

Actress Cloris Leachman is 82. Singer Willie Nelson is 75. Talk show host Gary Collins is 70. Actor Burt Young is 68. Singer Bobby Vee is 65. Actress Jill Clayburgh is 64. Actor Adrian Pasdar is 43. Singer Akon is 35. Actor Johnny Galecki is 33. Actress Kirsten Dunst is 26.