Britney Spears Ditches Deposition
Britney Spears Ditches Deposition
Earlier today we told you that Britney Spears was going to be giving a deposition in her custody case with Kevin Federline. But it seems that she was too sick to show up.
The official story is that the “Gimme More” singer was unable to attend the court proceeding due to “an illness.” According to K-Fed’s lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, “I was told of a general [medical] condition, and [Spears] felt she couldn’t attend.”
Brit’s pal Sam Lufti corroborated her story. “She’s sick, both physically and high anxiety. Millions of press outside. It’s too much.”
The court set a new date for the deposition, and Kaplan says he will pursue a sanction to insure that the “Lucky” singer shows up.
The new deposition date has not been released.
Carol Burnett Cohort Harvey Korman Dies
Harvey Korman was always goodif not better than mostfor a laugh.
The Emmy-winning actor, best known for his rib-tickling antics on The Carol Burnett Show and one of Mel Brooks’ favorite go-to funnymen, died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center. He was 81.
According to the hospital, Korman died of complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm that ruptured four months ago.
While his most memorable film role had to be his turn as the overly sensitive Hedley Lamarr in Brooks’ classic Western spoof Blazing Saddles, it was Korman’s work in parody sketches such as “Went With the Wind” and “As the Stomach Turns” during his 10 years on The Carol Burnett Show that made him a top comedian.
Korman, a former Navy man who couldn’t make it on Broadway but had comic timing to spare, won four Emmy Awards while on the show.
“Carol is absolutely devastated,” said Burnett’s personal assistant, AngieHorejsi said. “She loved him very much.”
In the late 1990s, he and Carol Burnett costar Tim Conway teamed for a successful traveling act, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman: Together Again, that lasted until December, with the septuagenarians performing up to 120 dates a year.
“I don’t know whether either one of us was the straight man,” Conway told the Los Angeles Times Thursday. “The most important thing in comedy when you’re working together is for one guy to know when to shut up. And we both knew when to shut up; quiet show, actually.”
In addition to Blazing Saddles, Korman appeared in the Brooks films High Anxiety, History of the World: Part I and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
“A world without Harvey Kormanit’s a more serious world,” Brooks said. “It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we’d crash to floor in comic ecstasy. It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh.”
But aside from his “dazzling” comedic talent, Brooks said, “Harvey was such a good solid actor that he could have done Shakespearean drama just as well and easily as he did comedy.”
Over the years, he made dozens of guest-star appearances in TV series such as ER, Roseanne, The Love Boat, Perry Mason and Burke’s Law, and showed up in a number of films, including two of the Pink Panther sequels and the big-screen adaptation of Gypsy.
Korman is survived by his wife Deborah; daughters Kate, Laura and Maria; son Chris and three grandchildren.
Harvey Korman dead at 81
This seems to be a very active week for celebrity deaths, and it’s sad to report that Carol Burnett Show veteran Harvey Korman has died at age 81. He died of a ruptured abdominal aneurysm at his UCLA Medical Center.
Besides The Carol Burnett Show, where Korman teamed for a ton of great sketches with Tim Conway (often cracking each other up), Korman appeared in many other shows since the early 60s, including ER, Ellen, Perry Mason, Route 66, The Red Skelton Show, Dennis the Menace, Hazel, Jack Benny, Gidget, The Lucy Show, The Munsters, The Wild, Wild West, F Troop, and many others. He was a regular on the sitcom Mama’s Family and did the voice of The Great Gazoo on The Flintstones. Movies that Korman appeared in include History of the World, Part 1, High Anxiety, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Blazing Saddles, Son of Flubber, Gypsy, and others.
Do you ever get the feeling that all of the great classic stars and performers are dying and it’s going to be a very different world in a couple of years? Rather depressing.