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Sideshow: Boss breaks 65

Happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen! You're now old enough for Social Security benefits! (Not that you need them.) Baby Bruce was given to the light on Sept. 23, 1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Pre

Happy birthday, Bruce Springsteen! You're now old enough for Social Security benefits! (Not that you need them.) Baby Bruce was given to the light on Sept. 23, 1949, at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J. A new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll confirms the Boss is boss with Jerseyites. Forty-two percent say they're fans, and about a third say they own Bruce tunes. (His popularity declines as the age group gets younger.) He has a negative of only 4 percent! Strangely, about 20 percent of respondents, including 1 in 12 of those who said they were fans, didn't know he was from Jersey. Born in the U.S.A. . . .

'Lion King' roars real loud

How else to say this? The Broadway version of Disney's The Lion King kills everything else to death in the face. On the boards since 1997, it has generated $6.2 billion. Yes: billion. It snuck past Phantom of the Opera's $6 bil sometime this summer to become the indisputable king. It is now the biggest box-office taker of all time, for any entertainment anything anyplace. The circle of cash . . .

Buddies

The Hoff and the Biebster have bonded, superglued at the soul, after working together on a video, reports People mag on its website. Odd couple? Nah. "We had a lot of fun, and he's a cool guy," onetime Baywatch beach dude David Hasselhoff, 62, told People of his collaboration with fun-loving 20-year-old Justin Bieber. As for the video, "You'll hear more about it, but we're just keeping it quiet because it's really a cool video, and we had a blast," Hasselhoff said Sunday at Tony Hawk's 11th Annual Stand Up for Skateparks Benefit in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Biebster's string of indiscretions are no hassle for the Hoff: "We're all young once, but you know what? Live it up, baby! You'll pay the price later, but you're only young once. Live it up, and don't care what anybody says. Live it up!"

Divorce, reality-TV style!!

Kris Jenner has filed for a lawyerless, nice-nice-type divorce from Kardashian rent-a-dad, former Olympian, and bad plastic surgery victim Bruce Jenner, says TMZ. As of this writing, his response is about to be filed in an L.A. court. Evidently, it's been in the works for a while between her guys and his guys. The two have been seps since June 2013. No spousal support is involved, and they'll have joint custody over their one remaining jointly made child, Kylie Jenner. (Their other daughter, Kendall, the one-named model, is over 18.) No word on whether this will change Bruce's role on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

Blunt wedding news

Yet, dear reader, even as such splits take place, new unions accrue. James Blunt got spliced in secret to Sofia Wellesley earlier this month. The two then threw a more "lavish" version on Friday in Majorca. Which is what you do.

Pundits pan gluteal glut

We are forced to note, because we are, that, as of the new Jennifer Lopez/Iggy Azalea video for J-Lo's new tune "Booty," both rearguard- blessed ladies flaunt their bonus. This is prompting some to say that bottoms are now so over. Vanity Fair and the New York Times and other rags have run big investigations of the vogue for behinds, and there was that "Anaconda" vid with Nicki Minaj. Kevin Fallon of The Daily Beast is declaring "booty fatigue." "If I see one more butt . . .," he writes. But the sentence has no ending.