Whitney Houston Memorabilia on Sale; Emma Watson Not a Lesbian; a 'Glee'-less Summer
A pair of faux-pearl earrings and a vest that Whitney Houston wore in "The Bodyguard" will be sold at auction next month along with other personal items. Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien said the belongings became available for sale after she died on Feb. 11 and will be included in a sale of Hollywood memorabilia that was planned long before her death.
Charlie Chaplin's cane and Charlton Heston's staff from "The Ten Commandments" will be listed in the same sale.
Asked if it was too soon to profit from her passing, Julien said: "It's a celebration of her life. ... These items are historic now that she passed."
The auction starts March 31.
Hands off!
And then, there is this stuff you'll never see for sale. ...
TMZ's sources say that Whitney's family stripped bare the room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel where she died so that looters, gawkers and lookie-loos couldn't get their hands on things to sell for profit. They reportedly removed everything that wasn't bolted down in Room 434 - sheets, towels, even trash.
Good for them.
Dench's trouble
Dame Judi Dench tells U.K.'s Mirror that she is losing her eyesight. Like her mother, the 77-year-old Oscar winner has been diagnosed with macular degeneration, which damages the retina and can lead to blindness. "I can't read scripts anymore because of the trouble with my eyes," she says. "And so somebody comes in and reads them to me, like telling me a story."
She says she's undergone injection treatments, "and I think it's arrested." Though she can't see faces in front of her, glasses and bright lighting help her eyesight. "The most distressing thing is in a restaurant in the evening, I can't see the person I'm having dinner with," she says.
She appears next in "Skyfall," her seventh James Bond movie. "As long as there is a possibility of working, I'm not going to retire," she says. "If I retire, nothing will work anymore, and i! t's hard enough as it is."
We might watch
Lindsay Lohan will host "Saturday Night Live" on March 3, her first time back on the show since 2006.
And she's obviously excited. "SNL! I love @NBC !!!!!!!!!!!!!" she tweeted.
She was somewhat of a darling of the show back in the mid-2000s, when Tina Fey, her "Mean Girls" co-star, was head writer. But she became more of a punch line as her problems with boozin' and drugs (and taking things from jewelry stores) got out of control.
She sent "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels a letter saying she was upset at the show's digs at her. The letter came after Miley Cyrus hosted the show last year and poked fun at Lindsay in a song: "I never stole a necklace or got a DUI/Never cheated on my wife like that golfer guy/So what if you can see a little boob from the side?/I'm sorry that I'm not perfect."
Jack White will be Lindsay's musical guest.
The Colbert Report: He's back
Stephen Colbert returned to the air Feb. 20 after taking a sudden break the week before to be with his ailing mother. Fans were caught off-guard when Comedy Central substituted repeats of his shows on Wednesday and Thursday that week. The network would only say the cancellations were due to "unforeseen circumstances." Colbert's mother, Lorna Colbert, 91, is ill. Stephen used Twitter to thank those who have offered "thoughts and prayers."