| Sussing out the scene at South Coast Plaza
Most American shopping malls do not claim to be the destination. South Coast Plaza -- with nearly 300 stores fanning out over a 128-acre asphalt and concrete ocean -- flashes destination even before the names Sears or Nordstrom rise from the byways of Bristol Street. In fact, there is even a name for it on the freeway: South Coast Metro, where Costa Mesa, Irvine and Santa Ana meet. The mall was actually a progressive item of its time. When it opened in 1967, it put Orange County on the map. Its Viennese-born architect and urban designer, Victor Gruen, was responsible for bringing us places like Kalamazoo, Fresno and even Tehran. Although he did not design Americas first shopping mall (Kansas City architect J.C. Nichols developed Country Club Plaza in 1922), Gruen did create the first fully-enclosed indoor mall.
Third contender for father of Smith's baby
The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor claims he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father.
VIEW VIDEO He is third in the queue of men claiming to have fathered five-month-old Dannielynn with Smith, who died last week aged 39. Prince Frederic von Anhalt's claim comes as Smith's former boyfriend Larry Birkhead launches a legal challenge to her most recent partner Howard K Stern being listed on the infant's birth certificate. A judge has refused to order an emergency DNA test on Smith, but has ordered her body be preserved until a hearing on February 20, lawyers say. Von Anhalt's claim added a further bizarre chapter to the story of the former Playboy bunny who collapsed and died in Florida on Thursday. Her mother, Vergie Arthur, told ABC TV: "I think she had too many drugs, just like Danny (Smith's son)." Danny Smith's death in the Bahamas on December 10 came a few days after his mother gave birth to Dannielynn, who is also reportedly being cared for there.
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: TV Star Compare And Contrast
Hollywood PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are authored by our readers, and rarely spell-checked by our editor; send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let the world know that Rob Reiner still gets excited about his movie posters. In today's typically jam-packed, Grovetastic episode: Maura Tierney and Mischa Barton; Rob Reiner; Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire; Jake Gyllenhaal; Kirsten Dunst, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Chiklis, and Gabrielle Union; Kirsten Dunst, Hilary Duff, and Milo Ventimiglia; Eric Bana, Debi Mazar, and Regis Philbin; Drew Barrymore and John Hensley; Mandy Moore; Keanu Reeves and Pat O'Brien; Dennis Quaid and Patricia Wettig; Eva Mendes, Ron Perlman, and Justin Chambers; Andy Richter; Jason Lee and Danny Masterson; Erika Christensen; Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale; Kevin Smith and kd lang; Kimberly Stewart; Nicole Richie and DJ AM; David Spade; Mila Kunis; Keri Russell; Anderson Cooper; Anderson Cooper, Mary Steenburgen, and Ted Danson; Timothy Olyphant, Gulager!, and Steve Valentine; Rebecca DeMornay and David Hasselhoff'; Richard Kind, Donald Faison, and David Deluise; Bob Saget; Andy Dick; Larry Miller, John Tesh, and Connie Sellecca; Brian Austin Green, David Arquette, and Joely Richardson; Eddie Cibrian and Tracee Ellis Ross; Charles Shaughnessy and Edward James Olmos; Kevin Richardson; Ted Casablanca.
Lawyers for Anna Nicole Smith and developer who dated her feud over Bahamas mansion
NASSAU, Bahamas - The locks at the Bahamas mansion where Anna Nicole Smith had been living were changed twice Saturday as an ownership dispute heated up between her estate and a U.S. developer who had a brief relationship with her.Outside the gated mansion in Nassau, Smith's attorney Wayne Munroe told reporters he had retaken possession of the estate and filed a robbery complaint with police over computer equipment and other personal effects allegedly taken out.Several hours earlier, the attorney for a U.S. developer who also claims ownership of the waterfront mansion, said he had the locks changed, put a chain on the gate and had taken control of the residence on behalf of his client.The South Carolina developer, G. Ben Thompson, had a brief relationship with Smith and was embroiled in an ownership dispute with the 39-year-old former Playboy playmate before she died Thursday in Florida.Smith had claimed that Thompson bought her the house as a gift.Thompson's attorney, Godfrey Pinder, has said the house was on loan to Smith.
The ballad of Boy and Bong
They arrive from an afternoon excursion, shopping for orchids for their Quezon City home. They call each other Baby, and instinctively change into clothes in the same shade for the photo shoot. One is a celebrity and a few years older, while the other works behind the scenes, but its definitely a relationship of equals. They first met on November 3, 1983both remember the date in a heartbeatand they will mark their 24th year as a couple this year. They dont like stereotypes, but hey, well say it anywayheterosexuals should get so lucky. The couple in question is TV host and mega talent manager Boy Abunda and former Philippine Air Lines (PAL) steward turned talent manager Bong Quintana. We dont really identify ourselves as a gay couple, and we dont role-play, Boy explains. Theres no male or female, papa or mama, top or bottom.
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