“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.” – Mae West.

Greetings, darlings! Can you believe is almost the end of the year? And the chchchchchCHANGES that 2008 has wrought? The break-ups, the shake-ups, the make-ups ( for example, who’d a thunk Jennifer Anniston and John Mayer would get back together). But some things never seem to change.

Like British singer Sir Cliff Richard.

I mean, it’s kind of CREEEEPY, darlings. Apparently he and the likes of Dick Clark , Raquel Welch and a few other 60 somethings have found the anti-aging secret of the millineum ( or really good plastic surgeons. Check out this recent picture of Raquel.. wow!!).
Anyhoo, besides being famous for managing to have a lasting popularity in Europe most of his 69 years, ol’ Cliff is famous for his born again Christian faith and his virtually wrinkle-less face and great bod. Well, now he’s famous for FINALLY coming out of the closet ( not the CLOTHES closet... this time, I’m talking about that other closet). And – get this – his significant other was a Catholic priest before the two got together ( so to speak).

Actually, the forever bachelor hasn’t come out and said he’s gay but , PUHLEAZE, it is pretty obvious. And that’s fine but methinks it a bit silly to be so coy about it. Cliff just told reporters on the BBC's Songs Of Praise that he likes the fact that his sexuality remains a mystery ( uh, to WHOM? Martians??) because it makes him "an enigma" and then went on to enthuse about Richards his "companion", John McElynn, he’s lived with for seven years.

Remember when Morgan Freeman was in that awful wreck but pulled through only to find his marriage was awfully wrecked because he had been IN the wreck with a woman who wasn’t his wife but was his girlfriend? Anyhoo, his wife of decades, Myrna, filed for divorce and the latest figure I heard she’s negotiating for in the settlement is – get this -- $ 150 million dollars!

Morgan was on hand looking fit as a fiddle at the recent Kennedy Center Honors and another much younger woman (and NOT the same girlfriend as the one in the wreck) was seen hovering near him. But they both were careful not to be photographed together and he was telling anyone within earshot the babe in the fur was a “business associate”. Uh-huh.

Speaking of babes, Prince was spotted out alone heading into the Viper Room in L.A. to see The Pussycat Dolls perform. He’s another guy who has never aged a day – at least on the outside. He has had a hip replacement and was seen walking with a rhinestone ( or diamond?) encrusted cane and wearing – I am NOT making this up, sweeties – a see-through black net top under a black jacket and bell-bottom knit leggings. He either didn’t like the show or remembered somewhere else he needed to be because he left the show after a few minutes and took off in his black Cadillac ( yes, darlings, I, too, would have expected him to have a purple one...)

Here’s the latest (peripheral) Madonna drama: turns out her ex, Guy Ritchie, has a half-brother that he only discovered about ten years ago. Guy’s mom, Lady Amber Leighton, named gave her oldest son up for adoption when she was an unwed 17 year old and, when she went public about in the l990s, the older son, Kevin Baynton, was found and came into famous “new” baby brother Guy’s social circle. Got that straight?

Okey dokey, well the Madonna link is that Kevin’s wife, Geraldine, said her 49 year old husband was totally changed by being in the world of Madonna, film director Guy and other celebs. "He changed, totally. It had a massive effect. Some people can keep their feet on the ground and some people can't,” Geraldine blithered on a Brit TV . She said Paul McCartney even sent her hubby an autographed book for Christmas.. how the ex-Beatle got mixed up in this, I have no clue Bottom line: she now has something more in common with her former sister-in-law, Madonna. Geraldine has filed for divorce.

This just in: everything I hear says “Milk” ( starring, come to think of it while we are mentioning Madonna, her other ex, Sean Penn.... who, by the by, a little birdie told me once got so ticked off at her that he tied her to a chair and left Madge there yelling at him.. but I digress...) is a fabulous film. Directed by Gus Van Sant, the bio of San Francisco politician and gay activist Harvey Milk has already been hailed by the New York Film Critics Circle as THE best film of 2008. Also getting raves and more raves – Josh Brolin, who plays Milk's political rival Dan White.

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