Crosby? He’s a long time gone
Melissa Etheridge is about to become a parent again – and this time, David Crosby isn’t involved.
Etheridge’s partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, is pregnant with twins, the couple announced on the singer’s Web site.
“We are thrilled to announce that Tammy is pregnant, and expecting our twins sometime around this fall,” they said in a statement.
“To answer the obvious question: we used an anonymous donor from a (sperm) bank.”
Grammy winner Etheridge has two children from her relationship with former partner Julie Cypher: daughter Bailey Jean and son Beckett. Cypher had the children through artificial insemination using a sperm donation from rock legend Crosby.
Etheridge, 44, and Michaels, 31, held a commitment ceremony in 2003. Michaels starred in the NBC sitcom “Committed” and has appeared on Showtime’s “The L Word.”
To boldly go …
Mr. Sulu beamed down to lend support to gay student activists who tried to visit a private Christian university in downtown Minneapolis.
George Takei, who played the “Star Trek” helmsman, made a surprise appearance Monday at a rally by a busload of Soulforce Equality Riders, who are traveling to 19 U.S. colleges that have religion-based policies opposed to homosexuality.
They were locked out of school buildings at Minneapolis’ North Central University, which is owned by the Assemblies of God.
The openly gay Takei, 68, who was in town to speak at the University of Minnesota, praised the activists’ “equality trek,” saying it showed the spirit of the starship Enterprise.
Oh, those old bags
Jane Fonda says she would like to tour the country and speak out against U.S. involvement in Iraq, but her controversial history of Vietnam War protests is a problem.
“I wanted to do a tour like I did during the Vietnam War, a tour of the country,” the 68-year-old actress said Monday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“But then Cindy Sheehan filled in the gap, and she is better at this than I am. I carry too much baggage.”
Fonda’s activities protesting the Vietnam War, including a trip to North Vietnam in 1972, have long made her a target of veterans.
His wisdom of Pearl
The much-ballyhooed Brad Pitt movie about slain journalist Daniel Pearl is a go.
According to the New York Times, Pitt and Angelina Jolie will adapt “A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl,” Marianne Pearl‘s book about her husband, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan.
Marianne Pearl said five studios bid for the story, but she gave it to Pitt because out of all the Ivy League-educated execs clamoring for it, he “was the only one who had read the book.”
The birthday bunch
Actor Hugh O’Brian is 81. Actress Elinor Donahue (“Father Knows Best”) is 69. Actor Tim Curry is 60. Hip-hop mogul Suge Knight is 41. Actress Ashley Judd is 38. Actor James Franco (“Spider-Man,” “Freaks and Geeks”) is 28. Actress Kate Hudson is 27. Actor Hayden Christensen (“Star Wars Episodes II and III”) is 25. Actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (“Maria Full of Grace”) is 25.