Entertaining Posts: 03/14/11

Monday, March 14, 2011

Rocker Bryan Adams, assistant are expecting a baby

LOS ANGELES | Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:49pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is about to become a father for the first time at the age of 51, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

The "Summer of '69" musician is expecting the baby in May with his personal assistant, a long-time employee who helps run his charitable efforts.

"Alicia Grimaldi and I are expecting a baby," Adams said in a statement. "She helped me start my foundation years ago and it looks like she'll be running the family now."

His spokeswoman declined to describe the nature of their personal relationship. Adams maintains strict secrecy about his private life. Britain's Sunday Telegraph, which broke the news, quoted an unidentified source as saying many of Adams' friends did not know he was in a relationship.

Grimaldi, a Briton, helped set up the Bryan Adams Foundation in 2004, three years after graduating from Cambridge University, according to Adams' Web site.

Adams, famed for such rock songs as "Summer of '69," "Cuts Like a Knife," and "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)," is in the middle of a U.S. theater tour.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman, editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Steven Soderbergh plans to retire from filmmaking

Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:00am EDT

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Soderbergh says he's done with Hollywood.

The Oscar-winning director -- whose credits include "Traffic," "Erin Brockovich" and "Ocean's Eleven" and its two sequels -- said in an interview with "Studio 360's" Kurt Andersen that after he shoots his next two movies he's planning to retire from filmmaking.

"When you reach the point where you're, like, 'if I have to get into a van to do anther scout I'm just going to shoot myself,' it's time to let somebody else who's still excited about getting in the van, get in the van," Soderbergh, 48, he said in the interview that aired Friday on "Studio 360."

"And so it's just time. For the last three years, I've been turning down everything that comes my way, so you're not going to have Steven Soderbergh to kick around anymore," he quipped.

Soderbergh said he's got two more movies to shoot -- "Liberace," starring Damon and Michael Douglas, and "Man From U.N.C.L.E.," starring George Clooney -- and then he's going to call it quits.

"That's a great way to sort of step off," he said.