Alice Cooper has been married thirty-plus years, totally faithfully as far as anyone knows, and has three kids. NO drama. He’s also been clean and sober for over a quater centuary.
One of his daughters,Calico, is in his show regularly and is beginning a movie career. His wife, Sheryl, first met him as one of his dancers on the Welcome To My Nightmare tour. This summer I had the pleasure of seeing all three of them plus their youngest girl, Sonora, onstage in Vancouver.
Stephen & Tabitha King. She was stood by him through poverty, parenthood, fame, drug & alcohol abuse, and the horrible accident that almost killed him.
Harrison Ford had 2 sons in his first marriage that were born in the late 60s…so if you mean them two this is true probably, I don’t know because I was an infant when they turned 18.
He also had 2 children in his second marriage and they were born in 1987 and 1991, and while it was sort of rare I remember seeing photos of them as children. So partially right, it was definitely no selling kid pics to OK Magazine going on. But I know I’ve seen them in People and maybe Entertainment Weekly back in the late 90s early 00s when I read those mags a lot.
I understand your larger point, and agree with it. I just wanted to point out that Brad Pitt is 45. I was reading a People for the first time in a while, and I’d say the majority of their subjects are over 30, and a whole bunch are over 40.
ETA: I think a lot of the exposure has to do with their proximity to the places where large numbers of Paparazzi tend to hang out. Primarily LA.
Oh, jeez. I’m sitting in for the receptionist during her lunch, and that just made me laugh loud enough to make the accountant come out of her burrow. Now, I don’t have sound on this machine, but who needs sound with hair like that?
Hard to find any celebrity who lives a lower-key life than Kate Bush. She’s not well known in the US, but very well-known in the UK, Europe and most of the rest of the world. She only toured once. Before Princess Diana, she was the most photographed woman in England. Her most recent album came out after a 13 year absence from the public and she did no TV interviews, a handful of interviews for newspapers and magazines and only one live interview, in her home, for BBC radio DJ Mark Radcliffe who had a running “Bush-O-Meter” measuring how long he had been trying to get her to appear on his show. She lives in a house with her son and a man who she may or may not be married to.
You know, when I first opened this thread the other day this was the first thing I thought of, but the more I thought about it… that’s not mundane, that’s way cool!
Alice admits that, even now, he has a very addictive personality. He’s now as addicted to golf as he once was to drugs- the difference being, his current addiction gets him out in the fresh air, and gets him some exercise. Better a somewhat healthy obsession than one that can kill you.
A few years back, a reporter noted to Jon Bon Jovi that he’d been married for 25 years to his high school sweetheart, and suggested Jon must be the only rock star to do that. “No,” he replied, “There’s Bono, too. So you see, I’m not even the only rock star whose name begins with ‘Bon,’ am I?”
> I’ve read that Daniel Day-Lewis spends his long stretches between movies
> working quietly as a shoemaker in some Irish village somewhere.
It was in Florence, Italy, not in Ireland. He didn’t do it in stretches between movies. He did it in one five-year stretch. He gave up acting for a while in the late 1990’s and didn’t come back to it until five years later. During that five-year period, he worked as a shoemaker in Florence. He’s back to acting now.
If you think about, rock star marriages only really come in two flavors. The “it’s over before you know it due to the cheating/drugging/ass hole behavior” or it lasts 20/30/40 years.
Until he decided to share that he cheated on his first wife with Rita Wilson, which puts him in the Paul Newman camp for me.
I went to the Dartmouth tribute to Laura Linney and she was one who remains very out of the spotlight. Of course at the event she was gushing about the wonderful man she is engaged to.
Snoop Dogg has been married to the same woman for like 15 years, and has kids that he seems to do well with from the limited footage I’ve seen. However, I’m sure there’s lots of shenanigans, the wife has to be willing to put up with a lot.
