Actress Maria Maples, 35, whose divorce from real-estate rajah Donald Trump became final earlier this year (and whose settlement was just a tad over a million bucks per an iron-clad prenup), and Michael Mailer, 35, a movie producer and the son of literary lion Norman Mailer, have pledged their intentions but have yet to set a wedding date. The Donald told the New York Post: "I'm very, very happy for them both. He's getting a very nice woman." Says Maples, who met her fiancé on the set of the upcoming film Black and White: "I was so happy to have my freedom and my life back, and there [Michael] was. Such a surprise."
Wed
Stage-and-screen writer Neil Simon, 72, who was divorced from actress Marsha Mason in 1983, married actress Elaine Joyce, 55, on Sept. 11. It is his fifth marriage....
Actress Cathy Moriarty, 38, who nabbed an Oscar nomination in her ingenue days for Raging Bull, announced that she tied the knot with Joseph Gentile, a mid-30ish polo-playing New York City financier, on Aug. 28. Chums who attended the reception at Long Island's Meadowbrook Polo Club included Kathleen Turner, Stephen Baldwin and Annabella Sciorra.
Recuperating
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 66, who until recently was misdiagnosed with acute diverticulitis, underwent surgery for colon cancer on Sept. 17 in Washington, D.C. It is not known if Ginsburg will return to work when the Supreme Court's new term begins on Oct. 4, but she is recovering without complications.
Uncoupled
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, 33, and Kenneth Branagh, 38, have split. The couple, who met in 1993 while filming Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, began a public relationship shortly after Branagh's separation from actress Emma Thompson, his wife of nearly seven years. In a brief statement Bonham Carter said that "no one else was involved" in their breakup....
Media mogul Sumner Redstone, 76, the Viacom chief whose company is in a deal to acquire CBS for $37 billion, has been slapped with a $3 billion divorce suit. His wife of 52 years, Phyllis Redstone, 74, previously filed for divorce in 1993 but withdrew the suit.
Births
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, 48, who, according to columnist Liz Smith, "had been yearning for motherhood for eons," gave birth to a daughter, Lucy Jane, on Sept. 12 in New York City. Wasserstein, who is single, has not disclosed the name of the baby's father.
In the ER
In Washington, D.C, to lobby Congress on an animal rights issue, game-show host Bob Barker, 75, went to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room complaining of fatigue and clumsiness in his right hand. Tests revealed that 85 percent of a carotid artery was blocked, so on Sept. 20 he underwent fairly common surgery to clear the obstruction. Barker's illness has interrupted production of The Price Is Right, which he has helmed since 1972, but CBS has a number of reserve shows and doesn't plan to use reruns.
Deaths
Director Charles Crichton, who oversaw 195l's The Lavender Hill Mob and 1988's A Fish Called Wanda, died on Sept. 14 in London. He was 89.
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