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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/40300/full/40300/horror-and-romance-making-beautiful-music-gosselin-and-glassman/ <br /><br /> <b>Horror and romance, Making beautiful music, Gosselin and Glassman</b> <br /> Thursday, October 22, 2009 | by nate bloom <br /><br /><p><strong>Horror and romance</strong></p> <p>Opening Friday, Oct. 23, is “Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” a sophisticated horror thriller. Darren (Chris Massoglia), a 14-year-old suburban boy, stumbles on a traveling freak show and learns that a member of the show, played by John C. Reilly, is a real-life vampire. Darren joins the show and is drawn into the vampire universe. Salma Hayek co-stars as the show’s bearded lady. “Cirque” is directed and co-written by Paul Weitz, the son of the late fashion designer John Weitz and actress Susan Kohner, 72. Paul Weitz, 44, directed the hit films “About a Boy,” “In Good Company” and the first “American Pie.”</p> <p>“Always and Forever” is an original Hallmark Channel film that premieres Saturday, Oct. 24 at 9 p.m. Rena Sofer, 40, plays Grace, who had a high school romance with Michael (played by Dean McDermott, the real-life husband of actress Tori Spelling). The couple meets up again at their 20-year high school reunion and wonder if they can recapture their old magic. “Barney Miller” co-star Max Gail Jr., 66, plays Grace’s father. San Francisco native Barbara Eden (“I Dream of Jeannie”), 76, plays Grace’s mother.</p> <p>Sofer, a strikingly beautiful woman, has been steadily working in TV for about 15 years — but she has never found a star breakthough role. Her father is an Orthodox rabbi and he presided over Sofer’s wedding to her husband, TV director Sandy Bookstaver.</p> <p><br /><strong>Making beautiful music</strong></p> <p>People magazine is reporting that actress-singer Emmy Rossum, 23 (“Phantom of the Opera,” “The Day After”) and Bay Area–raised rock star Adam Duritz, 45, the lead singer of Counting Crows, are a hot-and-heavy romantic couple.</p> <p>Duritz, a very average looking guy, is known as a great ladies’ man and he has dated such A-listers as Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Mary Louise Parker, and Winona Ryder. Duritz’s rather spectacular love life is the subject of a lot of Internet chatter, including some unkind remarks about his looks. But a lot of “average guys” on the Internet simply write that he is an “inspiration” to average guys everywhere.</p> <p>People magazine caught up with the couple coming out of a Lincoln Center ballet performance. Duritz said, “She [Rossum] can sing her tush off … She toured with us onstage, so I knew how she could sing. I sing with her all the time. I actually think she sings better onstage with us … I like to make music with her.”</p> <p><br /><strong>Gosselin and Glassman</strong></p> <p>Jon Gosselin, 32, is the TLC channel reality show star of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” whose private life is the subject of almost daily gossip news headlines. He is now involved in a very messy divorce with his wife, Kate, who is the mother of his eight young children. Earlier this year, Jon moved out of his Pennsylvania home and stayed with a doctor friend, a plastic surgeon who did Kate’s tummy tuck. Shortly thereafter, he began a romantic relationship with Hailey Glassman, 22, the doctor’s daughter.</p> <p>Last week, the Web site Parentdish.com asked Jon about his interest in Judaism since he began dating Hailey. He said: “I just went through Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and learned about the New Year and every Friday is the Shabbat dinner. I love challah bread … My mom came to [New York City] on Yom Kippur and asked where all the traffic was. I got from the West Side to Midtown in five minutes. She wants to come to the city every year on Yom Kippur … I talked to Rabbi Shmuley [Boteach] a couple of times [about converting to Judaism]. He has nine kids. I was really nervous dating a Jewish girl. She’s like the best girl ever. She’s the rock of my life.”</p>

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