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...Friday night, local boy and Hollywood heartthrob Ben Affleck came home to Cambridge to nurse his wounded heart after his tabloid-fodder breakup with a certain diva. Apparently, there were several female Harvard undergraduates at Brother Jimmy’s who have degrees in nursing the hearts of jilted big-screen heroes, and accepted their payments in the form of drinks and flirtation. The only problem? At the end of the night, Affleck found himself a little strapped for cash, and had to dash to the nearest Fleet. Fortunately, he didn’t have to go hunting for Good...
Today's Domestic Diva...
...Viking helmets, opera seemed to be the last performing art in which talent still mattered more than looks. That was until London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became public...
...Unfortunately the bleep - intended as a fleeting comic throwaway inspired by the famously blue-talking diva - did not happen.? My KCRW engineer - still employed at the station - forgot.? And this moment became what Ruth Seymour, my station manager, would describe to Reuters as my very own "Janet Jackson performance piece...
These devious corporate criminals have certainly lost professional credibility, but we know little—and seem to care little—about the actual people behind the actions. While these perpetrators have all successfully avoided a personality analysis, the vast majority of the public criticism against our domestic diva has been about nothing but her personality...