Rod Stewart and Kelly Emberg

Rod Stewart and Kelly Emberg, The rocker left his first wife Alana Hamilton for model Emberg in the 1980s, but the union fell apart while she was pregnant with their daughter, Ruby, who was born in 1987.

Stewart spent years playing the field before deciding he wanted to reconcile with Emberg, and he arranged for a romantic proposal with a banner trailing from a plane.

In his new autobiography, serialised in Britain's Daily Mail, he writes, "I decided to propose to her. That was the obvious solution, only I'd been too foolish to see it. But, if it was going to work, I'd need a big romantic gesture - something she'd find charming and irresistible.

"I knew that little prop planes often buzzed above the... beaches, trailing advertisements. What if Kelly were to look up from her boat and see my marriage proposal written in the sky? Could it get any more sweetly romantic than that?

"I organised a plane and a banner for early Sunday afternoon, which I figured was the best time to be sure of catching Kelly's attention. And I told the company I wanted the banner to say: 'Kelly - will you marry me? Rs.' That would do it, wouldn't it?"

However, Stewart was left trying to cancel his romantic gesture after he met Rachel Hunter, who went on to become his second wife, the night before the proposal.

He recalls, "Feeling far happier, I went out to dinner that Saturday with Sylvester Stallone. Afterwards, we went on to an L.A. nightclub called the Roxbury. And across the floor of the Roxbury, I caught sight of a woman...

"I had to introduce myself to her. And then I had to convene a small party back at my place so that I could invite her along with her friend and get to talk to her properly. Rachel Hunter did come and we did talk; and by the time she went home, it seemed blazingly apparent to me that this was the person I wanted to dedicate the rest of my life to.

"I awoke the next morning glowing with excitement. In the midst of my euphoria, it was at least 10 minutes before I remembered, with a cold feeling abruptly passing across my kidneys, that I'd arranged an airborne marriage proposal for that lunchtime.

"No problem. I'll cancel it. I'll call the advertising company, I thought."
However, the star's efforts to scrap the proposal didn't go smoothly: "The phone rang and rang. I hung up and tried again. It was Sunday: everybody had packed up and gone. This was awkward. I'd hired a plane to carry a banner saying 'Marry me'. I couldn't very well hire a second plane saying: 'Sorry - scratch that. Rs.'

"What was I going to do? Pray for a hurricane? Get out there on a boat with a large gun and shoot the f**ker down? No. What I was going to do was spend Sunday wincing in anticipation, with my fingers crossed. And what do you know? My grand, absurd and doomed marriage proposal went up, fluttered across the sky and came down again, entirely unseen by its intended recipient. Truly, there is a God."

Stewart's 16-year marriage to Hunter ended in divorce in 2006, and he wed third wife Penny Lancaster-Stewart in 2007.

Eve Hewson Enough Said

Eve Hewson Enough Said, Bono’s second eldest daughter Eve Hewson has a co-starring role in one of the year’s best reviewed movies, Enough Said, which opened last week and stars the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The plaudits for the romantic comedy are pretty much universal – The New York Times called it “one of the best written film comedies in recent memory” that will “make you laugh and leave you in tears.”  Eve plays Gandolfini’s bratty daughter who is soon to depart LA for college, and there’s no doubt that the role will elevate her status on the casting radar screen.

The 22-year-old Dublin native and recent NYU grad also has another film in the can, Blood Ties, which stars Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard. Set in Brooklyn in the 1970s, the crime thriller premiered in Cannes earlier this year but doesn’t have a U.S. release date yet.

Eve has also been cast in the upcoming Steven Soderberg 10-part series for Cinemax, The Knick. The drama is set at a New York hospital in 1900, and tells the story of doctors and nurses fighting to save lives in an era when necessities like antibiotics didn’t exist.

So it appears that Eve made a wise choice in choosing an acting career, even though her dad and mom Ali were against it at first.

“Both my parents were against it,” she told the Irish Independent last year. “It’s because they know that world and it’s really hard.  The rejection is awful, the competition is terrifying and you’re constantly up and down.  They were like, ‘No, no, no, please, no!’ I had to really fight for it.”

Bono, meanwhile, will be in New York this week speaking at the annual Clinton Global Initiative gathering alongside the likes of President Obama.  He’s also due to appear at the big Global Poverty Project concert at Central Park on September 28 to present an award to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her work on women’s equality.

Eve Hewson parents

Eve Hewson parents, Can we expect Bono? It’s not every day that the 22-year-old apple of your eye, Eve Hewson, graduates to red carpet-status at the biggest filmfest in the world, after all, now is it?

Starring in the new Nicole Holofcener film that’s in Toronto, Enough Said, she’s been bit by the thing that’s bit many a rich girl — that hankering to take up acting. Extra-socialites such as Lee Radziwill and Gloria Vanderbilt flirted with it in their time, and in more recent years, it’s been a path trod on even by the likes of Paris Hilton. Except … oh, except … Bono’s daughter is apparently doing it for the money.

I don’t get handed money — and I never will,” she’s said. “I have to work!”

Indeed, this apparently doesn’t extend to the reality of any of the U2 spawn. Putting her feet up simply isn’t an option, she admitted to The Irish Independent in a rare interview. It would, Hewson went on, “be impossible for any of us to just sit back, relax and be rich. That’s not who we are.”

Not that she got much support, at first, from either or her dad or her mom, Ali Hewson. “Both my parents were against it,” she says point-blank. Having studied theatre at NYU, she knows why: “It’s because they know that world and it’s really hard. … The rejection is awful, the competition is terrifying and you’re constantly up and down.”

Hewson says: “They were like ‘no, no, no, please, no! I had to really fight for it.”

Yes, yes, yes, yes, please, yes: that’s me on the prospect of a new Holofcener film. Her flicks — in the urbane, talky mode — are always a treat for me, and this one has the benefit of coming with possibly the strangest ensemble at TIFF. It stars, among others, Elaine, (i.e. Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a real-life alt-teen blogger (it’s Tavi Gevinson’s first film) and a dead guy (it was James Gandolfini’s final). Can’t wait.

Scene! Heard!

Hot-out-of-the-oven dish: Taylor Swift will hit Toronto on Monday for the world premiere of One Chance, the documentary about Britain’s Got Talent star Paul Potts. Apparently, says Page Six, Harvey Weinstein has wooed her to even sing at the after-party.

And a very happy birthday to Idris Elba. The hot drink of water is not just front-and-centre at one of the biggest galas at TIFF — the biopic that is Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom — he’s also turning the big 41 this weekend.
What did I tell you? The New York Times, echoing what I told you last week, writes that “Daniel Brühl, who is Spanish and German, will soon have a global moment in Toronto.” The breakout actor, who’s in two big flicks at TIFF — both The Fifth Estate and Rush — is said to be an example of cinema’s new internationalism. Onscreen, at TIFF, he’s playing British and Austrian, respectively.

Well, that’s a first: a party in a former quarry! The Evergreen Brickworks will host its virginal TIFF bash this year with Mongrel Media, the Canadian distributor, throwing its annual bash there Friday night. Its dynamo president, Hussain Amarshi, will there celebrate more than a dozen titles, including Ralph Fiennes’ film, The Invisible Woman, as well as The Lunchbox, starring Indian thesp Irrfan Khan.

A is for amazing effort: Terrence Howard’s impromptu belting-out, that is, of My Girl in the lobby bar of the Shangri-La, on University, Wednesday night. The actor, who’s here for the film Prisoners and has an Aaron Neville-ish voice — he put out an album a few years ago — once claimed in an interview, “I don’t have some incredible voice,” but what he does have is “passion.”

New York nightlife queen Amy Sacco is back to the 416 this year, facilitating a Bungalow 8 pop-up on Saturday night. Together, with Worldview, the film financiers, they will fete a pool of films that collectively star Zoe Saldana, Reese Witherspoon, Clive Owen, etc.

It’s Kate Winslet, on Bay Street, Saturday, vs. Keira Knightley, on King West, as their two film parties at roughly the same time — 200 of ’em actually, that same night! — square off.

Patrick Schwarzenegger Grown Ups 2

Patrick Schwarzenegger Grown Ups 2, Taylor Lautner has gone from Twilight's teen wolf to a secret handshaking frat boy -- and with the help of Patrick Schwarzenegger, he's getting the funny guys of Grown Ups 2 to strip down and hit the water running!

In the newest trailer for the sequel starring Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Adam Sandler, we see Lautner and his pals bullying the older men. After Sandler's "Abercrombie & Fitch" quip, Lautner instructs the guys that there's only one way off the mountain and that's to jump ..."naked."

Patrick Schwarzenegger parents

Patrick Schwarzenegger parents, Patrick Schwarzenegger (born September 18, 1993), the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, is a model and actor. Raise in Los Angeles, California, he is one of four children. He does, however, have a fourth sibling, a half-brother born from an affair his father had with the maid, Mildred ‘Patty’ Baena.

Schwarzenegger’s parents helped Patrick found his company Project360, a philanthropic clothing line, when he was only 15. He’s signed to L.A. Models. As of December 2012, Patrick was enrolled in the University of Southern California. In 2013, Patrick will star in his first major movie, Grown Ups 2.

Patrick Schwarzenegger is best known for being Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s son.Patrick Schwarzenegger has been linked to actress and singer AJ Michalka and Taylor Swift. He also recently flirted with Kristen Stewart.

Sasha Spielberg sitcom writer

Sasha Spielberg sitcom writer,  ABC has put in development the half-hour single-camera sitcom Girls Without Boys from Warner Bros Television. Emily Goldwyn & Sasha Spielberg will write the project, and Caroline Williams will be the showrunner and executive produce along with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Jeff Grosvenor of Jones and McCormack’s Le Train Train will produce. The premise: Three brilliant but socially challenged girls navigate the world outside of single sex education with the help of their eccentric teachers and parents.

The show was hatched by Goldwyn and Spielberg, who are the daughters of John Goldwyn and Steven Spielberg, respectively. They based the concept loosely on their own shared experiences of attending the prestige Marlborough school, located in Los Angeles near a co-ed school. Marlborough may have given them a first-class education, but not about things like being able to talk to boys.

Goldwyn was an assistant to Up All Night co-exec producer Williams, who became her mentor and helped guide this process. Williams just finished Arrested Development on Netflix and this is one of several projects she has percolating. They enlisted Jones — who, speaking of showbiz pedigrees, is the daughter of Quincy Jones and The Mod Squad actress Peggy Lipton. Jones is based at Warner Bros and stars in NBC’s Parks And Recreation and the upcoming indie film Cuban Fury with McCormack, Jones wrote the Sundance romantic comedy Celeste And Jesse Forever, which they both starred in, and they are now writing Frenemy Of The State for Universal and Imagine.

This is the first big deal for Goldwyn & Spielberg as a writing team. They are repped by UTA, Management 360 and Karl Austen, Jones is with UTA and James Adams, McCormack’s reps are UTA and Erik Hyman, and Williams is repped by UTA and Robert Offer.

Steven spielberg and kate capshaw

Steven spielberg and kate capshaw, He has directed 26 films that have amassed over $3.7 billion in box office receipts; he has successfully tackled science fiction, adventure, comedy, drama, and war genres; he has three Academy Awards; Forbes places his personal net worth at around $3 billion; he has been called “the most powerful figure in the motion picture industry”, “one of the 100 most important people of the century”, and “the most influential person of his generation.” In terms of accomplishment and influence, there are very few that can match Steven Spielberg.

Given the relationship warzone that is Hollywood, you would expect someone as successful as Spielberg to have a past littered with the corpses of failed marriages and foolish romances. Around 50% of all marriages in America end in divorce, but you have to believe that number is a bit higher for celebrity marriages that feature personal net worths of $3 billion.

Not so for Steven Spielberg. Although his marriage to actress Kate Capshaw was his second, he tied that knot 26 years ago and hasn’t looked back since. “It’s not a pretty sight,” Spielberg said in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly of his least favorite Indiana Jones film, The Temple of Doom. “The prettiest thing that came out of that film was my future wife. I met Kate, my leading lady. My leading lady is still my leading lady.”

Family has always played a central role in Spielberg’s life and career. Even the absence of family has influenced his directing decisions. In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the main character, played by Richard Dreyfus, becomes so obsessed with UFOs that he abandons his wife and three children. “I’ve always said I wouldn’t do it if I was making the movie from scratch today, because I have seven children. I had no hesitation writing that and directing that then, but I had no dependents in my life at that time.“