Actress Matarazzo plans to wed longtime girlfriend!

NEW YORK — Heather Matarazzo has played some tough parts in her career – from Dawn Weiner in “Welcome to the Dollhouse” to Sadie Atkins in the upcoming “Manson Girls.” But the 28-year-old actress sees her next role as the most important.

With New York becoming the sixth, and largest, state to legalize same-sex marriage, Matarazzo plans to wed longtime girlfriend Caroline Murphy.

“My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with,” Matarazzo says of Murphy.

But the couple had no desire to make history last Sunday by getting married on the first day the law took effect.

“I always wanted a wedding,” Murphy says. “Not a trip to City Hall.”

Wanting to share their union with their closest friends and family, the couple opted to plan their dream wedding. Though plans are still in the making, both seem to favor a bucolic setting in the fall or spring for the ceremony and reception. And with large families on both sides, Murphy expects the wedding list to top 200 guests.

For the ceremony, Matarazzo envisions wearing a simple, off-white dress, but has yet to find the right one.

“When I see it I will just know,” she says

Murphy, a recording artist currently working on her first album, says she’ll likely wear a white pants suit, “but a sexy one,” when she walks down the aisle.

Engaged for three years, the couple originally planned to marry in California two years ago. But their plans were nixed when Proposition 8 eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Now they hope that impending court challenges do not reverse New York’s law before they can say, “I do.”

The couple experienced another bump when they returned to New York and met with then-governor David Patterson.

“He led us to believe gay marriage would be legal last September, and he even agreed to marry us,” Murphy said. “We started planning on that, and that went away.”

They’re both anxious to start a family.

“We’ve always talked that Caroline would have a child first, and then I will go,” Matarazzo says.

After that, they plan to adopt.

Matarazzo says she sees herself and Murphy as complete beings that came together to help one another grow.

“I don’t believe that I’ve found my other half,” she says. “That would mean I was thinking of myself as incomplete.”

Murphy agrees and remembers calling her mother the day she met Matarazzo and telling her: “Mom, I just met my wife.”

Mary J. Blige Talks Troubled Past on VH1: Singer Opens Up About Addiction

Mary J. Blige

In an episode of “Behind the Music” that aired Sunday night on VH1, singer Mary J. Blige opened up about the problems in her past and her struggles with childhood molestation, addiction and alcoholism.

“When I was five years old I was molested,” she said in one of the most revealing interviews of her career. “I remember feeling, literally, right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault. It led me to believe I wasn’t worth anything.”

In addition to talking about her past sexual abuse, the “Rock of Ages” star also opened up about her struggle with alcoholism. “It was bigger than me. And it was definitely going to kill me. So I was like, this is it and let’s go. And I remember sitting on my bed. I swear, I don’t know what death feels like, but I felt like my spirit was trying to leave my body,” she said.

At the height of her success, her casual cocaine use became a full-blown addiction as her romance with Jodeci star K-Ci Hailey began to unravel in the mid-1990s.

“I really didn’t care about myself,” said the singer. “I was borderline suicidal…I was like the walking dead; just smoking and drinking and hanging.”

In a moment of desperation, alone in a hotel bedroom, she prayed: “I remember saying a prayer: ‘Send me someone to help me.'”

And Blige admitted that it was her current husband, Kendu Isaacs, who helped her get her life back on track.

“I stopped drinking,” she said. “It was will power. It was prayer. It was really hard. But, I cared so much about him, I didn’t want to be just this alcoholic burden on him. He doesn’t deserve for me to be some, you know, slum-bucket alcoholic, and so I took responsibility and I cleaned up, as much as I could. But it was hard.”

Fran Drescher Talks Ex-Gay-Husband

Fran Drescher

If Fran Drescher’s real life story (marry high school sweetheart, divorce high school sweetheart, discover that he’s gay, become best friends) sounds like a sitcom well, that’s because it is. The high-talking, fast-walking persona that is Drescher has made TV sitcoms (“The Nanny”) her life but now, her life is what’s driving her latest project — in “Happily Divorced,” Drescher plays a Los Angeles florist who is gingerly entering the singles scene after discovering that her realtor husband of 18 years is gay.

But unlike her on-screen counterpart, Drescher’s marriage didn’t end because of her husband and now co-producer, Peter Jacobson’s sexual orientation (she reveals they had great sex!), but rather because of his “controlling and svengali-ish” behavior — the whole gay thing, that was just the cherry on top.

So this show is pretty much ripped from the headlines for you. Well I usually write about what I know. When TV Land, the network that makes the show, wanted to meet with me and talk about possible TV shows for me to write and produce, they had a couple of ideas. The first question they asked me was, ‘What show would it be if I were to star in it?’ and I said, ‘That would be easy. It would be about my relationship with my ex-husband.’ I asked them if they wanted to hear other ideas and they said, ‘We just bought that one.’ I left the meeting and I called Peter and I told him, ‘I’ve just sold an idea to TV Land and I want you to come in and be my partner.’ America has really embraced us, we’re very grateful for its reception.

I know it’s a sitcom and the situation is played for laughs but when it happened it must have been
devastating. I have to say I left him not the way it’s portrayed in the show. I hit a midlife crisis and needed to find my way outside of the marriage. He begged me not to leave him and cried and was very angry with me. He didn’t talk to me. When ‘The Nanny’ ended he moved to New York. When my manager called him to tell him I had cancer he was in tears and the anger and hurt melted away and all that was left was the love. He was very supportive and he wanted to be allowed in even more but I was
involved with somebody and in love with him. When I wrote the New York Times bestseller, ‘Cancer
Schmancer,’ that was when he came out. He told me that he had been dating men and I said, ‘Okay
well whatever makes you happy.’ For me it relieved a little bit of the guilt for having left him.

Did you sense at all during the marriage that he was gay?
I thought he was metrosexual. He was very controlling and svengali-ish, that was really the thing that
bothered me about him. But that has nothing to do with him being gay.

That’s my point! I left him for altogether different reasons. That wasn’t our issue. We had good
sex, we had a very normal marriage. He ended up exploring his true orientation. There was nothing
keeping him straight.

 

Is it strange working together again?
We’re in a much healthier relationship now. It’s light-years from our old relationship. We’ve done
therapy. We understand each other. We’re no longer reacting to each other, we’re functioning from
ourselves.

Beyonce Knowles’ 4 Takes #1 For Second Week

Beyonce

Beyoncé has spent another week at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart.

The 29-year-old’s fourth solo studio album 4 remains in pole position on the chart for a second week, managing to shift a further 115,000 units, reports Billboard.

Beyoncé’s biggest competition came from Adele’s 21, which remains in second place and is closely followed by When The Sun Goes Down by Selena Gomez and The Scene.

The US chart announcement comes a day after Adele managed to topple Beyoncé on the UK album midweek chart, with the Brit Award-winning singer’s multi-million-selling album returning to number one.

Earlier this week, Beyoncé’s father Mathew Knowles was forced to deny claims that he stole money from his daughter during her last world tour, after a report was published with allegations of theft made by Live Nation Entertainment.

Meanwhile, Adele’s 21 has become the biggest-selling digital album in the US, selling over 1.017 million downloads to date.

Behind The Scenes Of Cassie’s Blank Magazine Shoot!

Cassie

Cassie  covers the August 2011 cover of Blank magazine where she talks about her hair, new album, dream collaboration, working with Carol’s Daughter and what she would be doing if she wasn’t a performer. Here is the behind the scenes footage which features her new song “Make You A Believer” featuring Jadakiss.

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