Posts Tagged ‘Melanie Griffith’
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September 15th, 2008
Couples: Then and Now
July 23rd, 2008 / Author: OK! Staff
Antonio Banderas Shakes His Moneymaker
July 21st, 2008
Antonio Banderas reluctantly dances the salsa during the launch of Blue Seduction For Women held at Cedar Lake in NYC. He has announced $1 from each package purchased will go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
As stars of the Tony-award winning musical In The Heights team up with kids from Broadway Cares, a dancer calls out, “Antonio Banderas is welcome to join us if he would like.”
He sits for awhile, and then summons the courage to hit the stage, leaving wife Melanie Griffith perched at his table in the front row.
Antonio gives a young girl a twirl on the dancefloor, before awkwardly falling into line with the other hoofers. His amateur dance skills only add to his charm.
The father of one is well-aware that his do-gooding may seem disingenuous.
“I went to Somalia before, and some may say ‘you are doing this to raise your image,’” he says. “Just to make yourself better in the eyes of everybody. You know what? It doesn’t matter. Imagine that I do it for that, or that all those people do it for that reason. The kids in Somalia, the kids that I see in the Bronx – they’re not going to ask you why you’re doing it. They’re not going to say ‘oh you’re doing this to make yourself look better in the eyes of the people.’ They don’t care. They take what they need. They take the medicine, they take the education, they take whatever they need. The morality behind that? I have in my heart and I know why I do it. And that is enough. For the ones who don’t believe it, fine. But those kids are going to receive the help. That’s the most important thing.”
What does Melanie love most about Antonio?
“Everything!” she says. “Everything.”
It’s dessert time as mini ice cream cones and chocolate truffles delight. Ooh, gift bag time. We have Blue Seduction For Women and a CD from the musical In The Heights. All right…
Antonio Banderas “Very Happy” for Brad & Angie
July 10th, 2008
With twins on the way — making a total of six kids — life’s going to be a handful for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, but Antonio Banderas has some advice: Try your best.
"Try your best, man, because when the kids come to the house, they become the kids and you are not anymore," the actor tells OK! at the launch of his newest fragrance, Blue Seduction For Women.
The 47-year-old, who’s a dad to Stella, 11, with wife Melanie Griffith, and a stepfather to Alexander, 23, and Dakota, 18, adds that he’s "very happy" for the expectant parents, both of whom are former co-stars. Antonio and Brad starred in Interview with the Vampire while he steamed up the screen with Angelina in Original Sin.
"I know both of them, they are my friends," he says. "They are very happy together and they are going to have kids."
But one coupling he’s in the dark about is the alleged affair between his Evita co-star Madonna and New York Yankee hot shot Alex Rodriguez.
"I don’t know [how Madonna's doing]," Antonio says, adding that he hasn’t spoken to her. "I wish the best for them if they are together."
By Valerie Nome
The Darker Side of Zac Efron
November 27th, 2007
While many people, celebs included, wait until after the New
Year to get a new hairstyle or change their look, OK! has learned that High
School Musical hunk Zac Efron, without on-off-on girlfriend and co-star Vanessa
Hudgens, was at the Neil George Salon in
on Monday, getting a jump on his New Year’s resolution with a cut and color.
Except, from what salon insiders tell OK!, the new hairstyle wasn’t exactly the
Hairspray star’s idea.
“He was getting his hair cut for a production,” one witness reveals
to OK!. “And the producers were making him color it. Someone from the
production was with Zac, guiding the stylists through it.” According to
the witness, they even brought a color sample — a darker brown than fans are
used to seeing on the young star’s adorable head — that they’re trying to
match.
With the addition of a last-minute low-light job, the 20-year-old spent nearly
four hours in the salon getting color happy and, during his time in the chair,
bumped into famous patrons Michelle Trachtenberg, telling her he can’t wait for
the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, and Melanie Griffith, with whom he had a
brief and seemingly vocab-challenged exchange.
“She said, ‘You’re sooo cute.’ and Zac responded, ‘You’re
cute too!’” a witness tells OK!. “And Melanie said, ‘No, but you’re so
entertaining!’ and Zac said, ‘You’re so entertaining too.’ After Melanie walked
away Zac said, ‘Wow! That was so cool!’”
Not cool was the dearth of guy-friendly reads, forcing Zac to ask, “Don’t you
have any magazines for guys to read?” The answer was “no” and the triple threat
passed time thumbing through women magazines, but don’t read too much into
that.
“He was really cute, nice and not pretentious at
all,” the source adds. “I don’t think he’s gay either.”
As of Monday night, Zac hadn’t gone public with the new, darker ‘do, but OK! is just dyeing for a peek!
