Eminem remarried his high school sweetheart, Kim Mathers, Saturday in Rochester, Mich., a month after the superstar rapper announced they were getting back together, his publicist said.
“I can confirm that they were married this evening,” said Dennis Dennehy, a spokesman for Eminem’s label, Interscope Records.
News helicopters hovered overhead and paparazzi congregated outside Meadow Brook Hall as the rapper born Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Kim Mathers arrived by limousine and were whisked inside the 110-room mansion built for auto baron John Dodge’s widow 80 years ago.
The couple’s first marriage ended after two-plus years in October 2001 in an ugly legal fight that included a custody battle over their young daughter.
Eminem, 33, and Kim Mathers, 30, reconciled in late 2004, and he announced in December that the two would get back together.
Kim Mathers applied for a marriage license last week, and Detroit television station WXYZ showed an invitation to “join them as they exchange vows and the celebration of their new life together.”
Where Emma Thompson does her best thinking
Emma Thompson’s husband restored a barn in Scotland that included a place for her to write, but the actress and screenwriter prefers the bathroom.
She also keeps her Oscars there.
“They look far too outre anywhere else,” Thompson, 46, told Time magazine. “They’re great big, gold, shiny things. They’re up there tarnishing quietly along with everything else I own, including my body.”
Thompson stars in and wrote the script for the upcoming film “Nanny McPhee,” the story of an ugly but magical child minder. She compared the movie to a western, with a stranger who rides in to a chaotic situation and uses unorthodox methods to sort things out before leaving.
“People say, ‘Is it like “Mary Poppins?”’ Actually, it’s like ‘Shane.’”
Don’t wait up; Mom’s going to be out late
Gail Sheehy, who tackles the sexuality of older women in her new book “Sex and the Seasoned Woman,” says adult children can be shocked at the idea of their mothers dating.
“There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom’s-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date,” she told Time magazine. “But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won’t be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas.”
Sheehy, 68, has been examining human behavior for three decades, including her breakthrough book “Passages.” She says she’s healthy, energetic, has a lively libido and a loving husband.
“So I hope I’ll live to 100. But if I don’t, I’ll die trying,” she said.
Simmons trades Detroit Rock City for Indy
Don’t be surprised to find a checkered flag soon amid the black-and-white Kiss face paint of tongue-wagging bassist Gene Simmons.
Simmons and marketing partner Richard Abramson have signed a deal to promote the Indy Racing League, the open-wheeled circuit announced.
The promotion campaign features a 91-second anthem called “I Am Indy” sung by Simmons, backed by the band Bag.
The lyrics, which repeat the song’s title “I Am Indy,” preach about individuality and top-speed performance: “I am everything I want/ I have everything I need/ I know exactly what to do/ ‘cuz I am Indy.”
“It’s a personal statement that’s a sort of personal allegiance to the United States of Indy,” Simmons said.
The Indianapolis-based IRL posted the song on its Web site, www.indycar.com.
Details of the rest of the campaign were being kept under wraps – a spokesman declined to release the length and cost of the contract – but Simmons said it would include an Indy-related clothing line.
The IRL’s flagship race is the Indianapolis 500, held every year on Memorial Day weekend.
Associated Press
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