Kelsey Grammer Opens Up About Divorce, Kids On Letterman (Video)

Not yet divorced Kelsey Grammer plans Feb wedding
But his estranged wife Camille isn't so sure, and she has filed court papers opposing a quickie Divorce to their 13-year marriage. The former "Frasier" star, said in July that he was divorcing his wife, a former Playboy model and dancer who at the time was filming Reality TV show "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills". Grammer, 55, was soon seen with new girlfriend, Flight Attendant Kayte Walsh, 29, who in October suffered a miscarriage and lost their baby. In an appearance on "The Late Show wi...

Grammer says he's getting remarried next month
In this photo released by CBS, actor Kelsey Grammer, left, talks with host David Letterman on the set of the "Late Show with David Letterman," Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 in New York. Kelsey Grammer says he's planning to remarry next month. The 55-year-old "Cheers" and "Frazier" star said on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" on Thursday night that he's marrying Kayte Walsh. He says that "Kayte's my new girl" and that they're getting married "in February, we think." His wife of nearly 13 years, C...

Grammer says he will re-marry next month
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. television and stage actor Kelsey Grammer says he plans to wed his girlfriend Kayte Walsh "sometime in February." Grammer, who starred in TV's "Cheers" and "Frasier," as well as the Tony Award-winning musical "La Cage aux Folles," announced last year he was divorcing his wife, Camille, who is one of the stars of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," after 13 years of marriage. A few months later, the 55-year-old actor confirmed he is engaged to marry 29-year-old...

Economic agenda: Friday, Jan. 14, 2011
U.S. Commerce Dept. At some point in the last couple of years--we would place it sometime after Lehman Brothers went down but before the automakers were bailed out--Washington became the financial capital of the world. "Now that we're all used to pre-nups, it's time to start thinking about Divorce Insurance: Ever had that sinking feeling that the person your friend is marrying is perfectly awful? Of course not, because you love everyone. But should it happen, you now can give the perfect weddin...

Divorce and Statistics
A recently released report prepared by The National Marriage Project under the direction of W. Bradford Wilcox is full of very interesting data about sex, marriage, and family life in contemporary America, some of which we’ll be ventilating in a forthcoming issue of First Things. One appendix, however, caught my attention, because it helped me understand why my experience is so out of whack with a commonly reiterated statistic. We’ve all heard that the national Divorce rate is near...

Heading for a Divorce? Determine Your Post-Split Expenses
Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part series that will cover five key financial steps to take before entering Divorce negotiations. Part One covered why a review of your credit report is essential, and Part Two covered tallying your assets and getting them appraised. During Divorce negotiations, calculating living costs, including child care, that were incurred during the marriage and projecting those expenses into the future can have a major impact on who gets how much in the settl...

BP strikes deal with Russian oil company
Scholars weigh in: What should we expect from Hu-Obama meetings? U.S. Commerce Dept. At some point in the last couple of years--we would place it sometime after Lehman Brothers went down but before the automakers were bailed out--Washington became the financial capital of the world. "Now that we're all used to pre-nups, it's time to start thinking about Divorce Insurance: Ever had that sinking feeling that the person your friend is marrying is perfectly awful? Of course not, because you love ev...

Marriage May Not be Sacred, But the Bed Sure Is
Conventions change. A woman no longer earns a scarlet letter for having a child out of wedlock; Divorce is not synonymous with Scandal; and it is no surprise to find, when a marriage comes apart, that a third person was involved. But even in a sexually liberal culture, the home is still usually off-limits, as if protected by an invisible force field. And the marriage bed — a phrase that in itself seems quaintly out of date — remains a sacred object. All but one of 18 marriage counsel...

Judge calms man holding gun to himself
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 14 (UPI) -- A man pointed a gun at himself inside a Fort Lauderale, Fla., Courthouse Friday morning but surrendered without injury, police said. Marin Stroia, 59, of Oakland Park walked into the Broward County Courthouse through an exit at 9:25 a.m., the sheriff's office told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. As deputies approached, he sat on the floor and pointed a gun at his chest and demanded to see a judge. Retired Judge Joel Lazarus, who was filling in at bond cour...

Better Double Check Your Zodiac Sign
If you are married to that zodiac sign of yours, well, this may make you want to consider Divorce. Way back when, the ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was in on the day a person was born. But this was thousands of years ago when the Earth was positioned, in relation to the sun and the stars behind it, in a different place on the rotational axis. The result: The sign you think you are, and the sign you really are in terms of the constellation the sun is in on yo...

Is Your Phones AutocorrectIncorrect?
NEW YORK (WCBS 880) - We’ve all gotten those texts or emails that leave you scratching your head in wonder. We have Smartphones that may be too smart. They anticipate the words you are typing before you’re finished and you get “Divorce” instead of “disney”. Could lead to some confusion, says New York Times’ Ben Zimmer. He talks about the very problem in this week’s ‘On Language’ column for the T Magazine that comes out on Sunday. ...

News alert from the NYT: When you cheat on your spouse, the spouse especially hates it when you do it in "the marital bed."
Well, all right then. So much for the old "I was trying to save money." Hotels are expensive! You'd think she'd appreciate your economizing, but apparently not. Experts say! I mean, a few Divorce lawyers anecdotalize. ...

Three in 10 Americans commit financial infidelity?
The Harris Interactive online poll of 2,019 adults released on Thursday showed 31 percent of American couples who have combined finances were not truthful about issues such as hiding cash or a Bank Account or about Debt or earnings. "Financial Infidelity may be the new normal," said Forbes.com, which commissioned the survey with the National Endowment for Financial Education. One-third of respondents also say they have been deceived, and both sexes lie to their partners about money in equal num...

Cox-Roush/Bitner Against the Field
A joint statement by Deborah Cox-Roush and Dave Bitner -- Candidates for state Republican Party chairman -- suggests that the two have more in common than their professed distaste for political mudslinging. Both Cox-Roush and Bitner have been targets of back-channel attacks: Cox-Roush for her 2004 DUI arrest and Bitner for a 1999 domestic-abuse complaint. Though the news tips surfaced anonymously and belatedly, neither Cox-Roush nor Bitner has denied them. And while Bitner's wife, Wendy, said s...

Fendi Heir Bags Buyer for Bloomberg Building Apartment
Uptown really has lost its luster, at least to one fashionable apartment owner. Luca Formilli Fendi has just sold his 33rd floor two-bedroom at One Beacon Court, a.k.a. the Bloomberg Building, according to The Journal. The heir to the Italian handbag house made less than the $7.75 million he was initially after two years ago but still saw a 38 percent return from when he first purchased the apartment in 2005 for $4.4 million, according to StreetEasy. The final price, which was cut and raised a...

More on Marriage
Drawing on The National Marriage Project’s 2010 Report, “When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America,” I’ve mused a little about Divorce and the larger relations between changed social mores and increased inequalities in America, suggesting that the sexual revolution has allowed the bourgeois to live like bohemians at the expense of fraying the delicate and more vulnerable social fabric of Working Class and poor Americans. More evidence: the economic benefits of ma...

Spike in global food prices contributes to Tunisian violence
Economic agenda: Friday, Jan. 14, 2011 U.S. Commerce Dept. At some point in the last couple of years--we would place it sometime after Lehman Brothers went down but before the automakers were bailed out--Washington became the financial capital of the world. "Now that we're all used to pre-nups, it's time to start thinking about Divorce Insurance: Ever had that sinking feeling that the person your friend is marrying is perfectly awful? Of course not, because you love everyone. But should it happ...

Despite snowfall on Broadway, the shows go on
NEW YORK (AP) — A winter blast dumping snow as it makes its way up the East Coast hasn’t shuttered Broadway theaters. The Broadway League says it doesn’t expect any closings Wednesday despite several inches of snow in New York City. Some shows are even trying to lure theatergoers with special offers. “The Importance of Being Earnest,” ”La Cage aux Folles,” ”Mamma Mia!”, “The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore” and “M...

Despite snowfall on Broadway, the shows go on
Snow plows drive through during a Snow Storm in Times Square Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 in New York. A winter blast dumping snow as it makes its way up the East Coast hasn't shuttered Broadway theaters. The Broadway League says it doesn't expect any closings Wednesday despite several inches of snow in New York City. Some shows are even trying to lure theatergoers with special offers. "The Importance of Being Earnest," ''La Cage aux Folles," ''Mamma Mia!", "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" ...

Nicole Kidman Buys at 200 Eleventh, But Not Where You Think
Speculating on star buys before they happen is, as they say, risky business. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban were rumored to have bought one of the penthouses at 200 Eleventh Avenue , but it's now back on the market. A source alerted us that this morning that the three-bedroom penthouse in Annabelle Seldorf's West Chelsea creation has been re-listed with Douglas Elliman 's Herve Senequier and Leonard Steinberg for $12.5 million. The Kidman-Urban clan will be parking in a lower floor of the "Sky...

'The Game' breaks BET ratings, gets 2nd chance
Actors Pooch Hall, left, and Tia Mowry pose for a portrait Monday, Jan. 10, 2011 in New York. After nearly two years off the air and in limbo "The Game" has returned to TV, giving BET a big Ratings boost and fans another chance to share the highs and lows of a football wife and her athlete husband. The show premiered its fourth season Tuesday night on BET after a three season run on The CW that was canceled in 2009. "The Game" set a Ratings record for BET, which said 7.7 million viewers tuned i...

The Post 1/12/2011
Haley is our state’s first female Governor, first minority governor and, at 38, is the youngest governor in America. To read our coverage of her inauguration (including thoughts on the road she traveled to get here and the challenges she’ll face now that she’s arrived), click here . In national news, U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Arizona to address the nation regarding the tragic Tucson shooting - while Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood Libel” ...

Gay acceptance: GOP's Black Swan
In Black Swan, Natalie Portman, a pristine and proper ballerina, must figure out how to go beyond her ability to dance the white swan in "Swan Lake." She must find the passion, a darker side if you will, to convincingly portray the seductress that is the black swan. Of course, as she takes this leap, Portman's character is drawn deeper and deeper into a hallucinatory psychosis, unable to distinguish between reality and delusion. In the film, Portman must become the Black Swan to play it, ther...

Howard Stern On Sarah Palin: You Want To Vomit From Her (And Thats The Nicest Part)
Yesterday, Howard Stern had some harsh words for Sarah Palin about the tone of her video Speech from Wednesday morning. Like many of Palin’s detractors, Stern felt that the former Governor focussed too much on herself and not enough on the actual Victims. However, unlike most of the other criticisms of the video we’ve heard, Stern’s aforementioned words weren’t just harsh; a couple of them were those that one doesn’t use in polite company. A quote from a more SFW se...

Stuff Rich People Deserve
Greg Mankiw has produced a provocative paper on economic theory: Let me propose the following principle: People should get what they deserve. A person who contributes more to society deserves a higher income that reflects those greater contributions. Society permits him that higher income not just to incentivize him, as it does according to utilitarian theory, but because that income is rightfully his. This perspective is, I believe, what Robert Nozick, Milton Friedman, and other classically l...