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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:12 pm
That's truly a shame. I hope he finds some help and some peace in his life.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 4:33 pm
It is really sad Mamie but I couldn't help but laugh at Mocha's comment ... so bad.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:02 pm
You're just wrong, Nic! LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:23 pm
He has to get clean for his eventual meeting with Jbean Maris, well we were wrong about Wesley's whereabouts.. instead of being with Michael Jackson, maybe he was hanging with Brad and Angelina for awhile?
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 5:31 pm
Has Tommy said anything about Keith?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 6:28 pm
I'm sure that Tom would just wish him the best.
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Friday, October 20, 2006 - 6:59 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, are the new parents of twins, the couple announced Friday. Michaels gave birth to a boy and girl Tuesday: son Miller Steven and daughter Johnnie Rose. "Tammy and the babies are in excellent health," Etheridge said on her Web site. The babies were conceived using an anonymous donor from a sperm bank. "The creation of life brings about immeasurable love, and pours hope into the future. The joy will help carry us through our upcoming sleepless nights," the couple said in a statement. Etheridge, 45, and Michaels, 31, held a commitment ceremony in 2003. The Grammy-winning singer has two children from her relationship with former partner Julie Cypher: daughter Bailey Jean and son Beckett. Cypher had the children through artificial insemination using a sperm donation from rock legend David Crosby. Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, but is now cancer-free. She last released a greatest hits album titled "The Road Less Traveled." Michaels starred on the 2005 NBC comedy "Committed" and has appeared on Showtime's "The L Word."
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:32 am
lol, seamonkey, i love it! as for keith, all i can say is, poor guy. i sure hope he can beat this for good. i read last night that he is battling his alcohol addiction this time. it is a bit odd that he has been clean for at least 4 years (since i have known who he was) and then he gets married, and 4 months later turns back to the bottle? no, i'm not suggesting it's because of her. i'm wondering if maybe it's got to do with the non-stop paparazzi interference. sheesh. either way, i sure hope he beats it. here's the link for the story i found saying he was battling the bottle: http://extratv.warnerbros.com/v2/news/1006/20/3/text.html of course, it is from extra, so who knows if it's true?
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:37 am
i find it odd that conner and isabelle don't live w/ their mom.......so wonder if that is why kids are still w/ tom in los angeles.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 8:57 am
i think they've always lived with tom, haven't they? even before nicole was linked to keith. i don't know that for sure, but that's what i thought.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 10:11 am
These days it's not so odd for kids to live with their dads.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 10:22 am
Congrats to Melissa & Tammy Lynn!!! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 1:46 pm
Here's a question that might be a little unusual, but does anyone know where Tom & Nicole adopted C&I from? Were they domestic or international or was a surrogate involved?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 5:10 pm
I don't think there was a surrogate, Julie. Don't know about domestic vs international. Custody is shared http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/1097790
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 5:19 pm
But then there is this Nicole Kidman, angry at being marginalised as a mother Sunday May 21st, 2006 at 8:47 pm Nicole Kidman is reportedly angry about being pushed out of her children’s lives. Nicole is annoyed that ex-husband Tom Cruise and his new fiancee Katie Holmes are trying to push her out of the child-rearing picture, according to reports in the National Enquirer. A source revealed: “Tension has been building up for a long time, and now with both of their respective summer weddings inching closer, it’s ready to boil over. I think Nicole is livid with Katie for monopolizing her children.” “She feels like she doesn’t get enough time with Bella and Connor as it is. Nicole is fiercely protective and she loathes the fact that Katie is taking on the role of mother to them. To Nicole it feels like Katie is not so subtly nudging her out of the picture.” from http://fametastic.co.uk/tag/Connor+Cruise
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 6:00 pm
Thanks Seamonkey!!! 
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Saturday, October 21, 2006 - 6:20 pm
Maybe domestic, I did find this snippet: "According to some reports, Cruise actually succeeded in convincing the birth mothers of his two adopted children with Nicole Kidman into keeping their traps shut during labor and delivery."
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Sherbabe
Member
07-28-2002
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 8:45 am
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - A Malawian man who gave up his 13-month-old son to be adopted by Madonna said Sunday he had not realized he was signing away custody "for good." Yohane Banda signed adoption papers earlier this month, clearing the way for a Malawian judge to grant the pop singer and her husband a temporary order to take his son David. "Our understanding was that they would educate and take care of our son just as they were doing at the orphanage," the 32-year-old illiterate peasant farmer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Lipunga, the village where he ekes out a living growing onions and tomatoes. Until now, Banda has said his decision was in the best interests of his motherless son and criticized local charities who have started legal proceedings to challenge the adoption. Banda said his understanding was that "when David grows up he will return back home to his village." He said the director of Child Welfare Services, Penston Kilembe, and the retired pastor who heads the orphanage where David spent most of his life never told him by "adoption" it meant David will cease to be his son. "If we were told that she wants to take the baby as her own we could not have consented, because I see no reason why I should give away my son," he said. Banda's wife died shortly after childbirth - a relatively frequent occurrence in the impoverished African nation which suffers from high rates of maternal and infant mortality - and he left his son with the orphanage. He lost two children in infancy to malaria. Banda said he was illiterate and so had no idea of the significance of the adoption papers he signed in the High Court in the capital, Lilongwe. "Mr. Kilembe and the pastor explained to me that Madonna would take care of my son; I am just realizing now the meaning of adoption," he said, claiming that he has no copies of documents pertaining to the adoption. "All the documents are with Mr. Kilembe," he said. Kilembe refused to comment on Sunday. Madonna's Malawian lawyer Alan Chinula also refused to comment, saying his clients have not given him any fresh instructions, but he insisted the singer followed all the procedures to adopt the child. Critics of the adoption disagree. The Human Rights Consultative Committee, which comprises 67 human rights groups, has challenged the adoption, saying laws concerning the residency of the prospective parents were flouted and that it may set a precedent for human trafficking. Banda's claims were corroborated by his cousin, Wiseman Zimba, and mother, Asineti Mwale. "Our understanding as family is that David is still part and parcel of our clan," Zimba said. "After the good woman nurtures and educates him, he will return back." Mwale said: "I look forward to telling my grandson how destitute he was after losing his mum at the tender age of three weeks, how we surrendered him to the orphanage and how this good woman took him away." However, the family insisted that it did not want David to return to the orphanage. "We are still thankful Madonna has rescued him from poverty and disease; we pray for the good Lord to keep blessing her for her benevolence," Banda said. Madonna, who came to Malawi on Oct. 4 with her husband, the British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, spent eight days visiting six orphanages she is funding through her Raising Malawi charity. She is also establishing her an orphanage for up to 4,000 children in a village outside the capital.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 9:16 am
This last thing is ridiculous! Once David grows up, he will be able to do whatever he wants, including returning to his village if that is his desire.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 12:14 pm
Wouldn't the child be considered "given up" when he left it at the orphanage?
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 12:22 pm
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- The husband of country singer Sara Evans says she filed for divorce the day after he discovered she was having an affair. Craig Schelske did not identify the other man in court documents filed Friday in Williamson County Chancery Court. Evans' publicist Lori Genes declined to comment. In his answer to Evans' petition for divorce filed last week, Schelske denies Evans' allegations that he committed adultery, was verbally and emotionally abusive, drank excessively and frequently watched pornography in their home. Schelske, who ran for Congress as a Republican from Oregon's 5th District in 2002, says he and Evans, 35, were watching pornography together when their oldest child, a 7-year-old daughter whom they believed to be asleep, entered their room unexpectedly. He also denies her claims that he posed for nude photographs of himself -- except a few taken by his wife on their 10th wedding anniversary -- as well as the existence of any sexual photographs of himself with other women, or that he had an affair with their former nanny. The nanny also has denied the allegation. "No other photographs exist and any allegations of such are outrageous, defamatory, malicious and legally actionable," the suit states. Schelske, 43, also says his wife's interest in her "marital roles and responsibilities" declined and she "neglected" their three children after she began appearing on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." link
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 12:23 pm
Maybe Madonna can adopt the dad too. I am actually beginning to feel sorry for her in all this. What is she supposed to do now?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 1:33 pm
I think maybe there is a reason for the rules that are normally followed.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 7:30 pm
Madonna will be on Oprah on Wednesday "Madonna discusses her adoption controversy".
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Snee
Member
06-26-2001
| Sunday, October 22, 2006 - 9:12 pm
have to agree with you on that, sea.
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