Holiday Weekend News Roundup! Portman’s Pregnant; Hef’s Engaged; First Glimpse at February Fashion Week
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December 27, 2010
“HMM… BENJAMIN, JR. IF IT’S A BOY, AND NATALIE, JR. IF IT’S A GIRL? TOO EASY?”
Happy Tuesday! Here’s our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the holiday weekend (and additionalsnow day).
• Natalie Portman announced on Monday that she is both engaged (to choreographer boyfriend Benjamin Millepied, whom she met while working on Black Swan) and pregnant. Mazel tov, Natalie! [People]
• 84-year-old Hugh Hefner is also engaged, to his 24-year-old former-Playmate girlfriend Crystal Harris. Do we smell a double wedding? [NYDN]
• Fashionista obtained an early version of the schedule for February’s New York Fashion Week. Theyskens for Theory shows on Valentine’s Day—how romantic! [Fashionista]
• Little Fockers took the holiday-weekend box office, with $30.8M; True Grit came in just behind at $24.9M. Tron Legacy, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Yogi Bear rounded out the top 5. No word yet on Chinese-food sales figures for Saturday. [Box Office Mojo]
• Jay-Z waited until the last minute to do at least some of his Christmas shopping—he spent lunchtime on Christmas Eve in a private room at Hermès on Madison Avenue, where he dropped $350,000 on Birkin bags and other items. [P6]
• Alanis Morissette gave birth on Christmas Day to a baby named Ever Imre, which we’re told may just be Dutch for “destined to always receive combination gifts.” (Or maybe not.) [Intel/NYM]
• Soul and R&B singer/songwriter Teena Marie died in her sleep at age 54 on Monday. [Pitchfork]
