The Kid Looks Like Her From Both Sides Now
Singer Joni Mitchell has found the daughter she put up for adoption 32 years ago.
“Apparently her daughter was looking for her, too, so there’s sort of a fairy tale ending,” said Mitchell’s father, Bill Anderson. “We’ve seen pictures and you can see the similarities.”
The child was conceived while Mitchell was an art student. She didn’t tell her parents about the pregnancy until two years later.
“We’re quite happy. (Mitchell and her daughter) have been together, and we’re looking forward to meeting her later,” Anderson said.
Mitchell said in December that she hoped to have her parents meet their granddaughter while they were still alive.
The father, Toronto photographer Brad McMath, said he and Mitchell “really didn’t want to get married and settle down” at the time.
Loose talk
Courtney Love, on cleaning up her act (in Entertainment Weekly): “You can’t dive into the mosh pit after a certain age.”
She wore one of those ABBA dab-a ‘dos
Agnetha Faltskog turns 47 today.
A friend of the debit is a friend of his
Lawyers for Jerry Garcia’s third and final wife, Deborah Koons Garcia, have asked a judge to reverse a $4.6 million divorce award to wife No. 2, Carolyn “Mountain Girl” Garcia. The late Grateful Dead leader’s estate has been valued at $9.9 million, but business partners, former lovers and acquaintances have filed more than $38 million in claims.
He’s hoping the court will right the wrongs
Barry Manilow is being sued by an Arizona judge who says he’s had a constant ringing in his ears since attending a 1993 concert. Said Judge Philip Espinosa: “I expected Barry Manilow to be soft amplified music.”
The question is, is there enough interest?
Remember how David Bowie raised $55 million by selling bonds to be repaid from future royalties on his old music? Artists said to be considering similar moves include the Rolling Stones, Sting, Pink Floyd, and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Forget NAFTA, he’s negotiating GANJA
Tommy Chong, formerly of Cheech & Chong fame, is advising U.S. citizens to leave their marijuana at home after he was caught with some pot on his way to L.A. from Vancouver, where he’s filming the appropriately titled movie “Best Buds.” Said Chong, who wasn’t charged but will now be searched every time he crosses the border: “Besides, there will be plenty of it up here.”
Let’s all send him some good vibrations
Beach Boys lead guitarist Carl Wilson is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment after cancer was found in his brain and a lung. Doctors believe they identified the cancer early enough to control it in time for the band’s annual summer tour, a spokesman said.
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