Showing posts with label Olivia Newton-John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olivia Newton-John. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2012

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Olivia Newton-John's daughter calls off wedding




James Driskill and Chloe Lattanzi
Chloe Lattanzi has called off her wedding to fiancé James Driskill, after she found out that he is already married. The 25-year old singer and daughter of Grease actress Olivia Newton-John was set to marry the martial arts expert later this year.

Chloe found out that James had married Nina, a Swiss national, in 2005 and they never divorced. Furthermore, it is said that he was still living under the same roof with Nina, albeit already separated, when he met Chloe in 2009. Australian New Idea magazine quotes a friend of L.A.-based Chloe as saying, "Chloe is devastated and so is her mum. She's had to deal with so much emotional turmoil already in her life, and everyone was thrilled that she finally seemed to find happiness." Olivia is said to do everything in her power to help her daughter overcome her heartache.

James, who met Chloe at an L.A. club where he worked as a bouncer, said to friends that he didn't divorce Nina due to a "combination of lack of money and lack of experience." He now wants to postpone the wedding to early next year. However, Chloe is in no rush to get to the altar. New Idea quotes her friend as saying, "Olivia is very protective of her daughter and wants to make sure that she does not get hurt [more] then she already is."




Olivia Newton-John
I wonder why James hadn't dropped this bombshell before they got engaged and started wedding planning. After all, being married already severely cuts you chances - read: there's 0 percent chance- of getting married again, to someone else.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Born On THis Day- September 26th... The Lovely Olivia Newton-John



I first heard her in 1971 with the Bob Dylan penned If Not For You. I thought nothing of her until 1974 & the country tinged If You Love Me Let Me Know & Peter Allen’s I Honestly Love You & 1975’s Have You Never Been Mellow when she became an object of my derision. I would make fun of her breathy singing, including a duet with John Denver- Fly Away, in which I did an uncanny & unnerving imitation of both their vocals, which I thought of as pure drek.


Olivia Newton-John won me over a bit with her performance in the film version of Grease. Her presence was loved by the camera & she seems to simply glow on film. I appreciated her physical & vocal transformations from good Sandy to bad girl Sandy & she had real chemistry with John Travolta. Even though I got through plenty of aerobics classes to the ubiquitous Physical, I have never owned an album by her (not even the soundtrack to Grease, the best selling soundtrack of all time). Olivia Newton John won me over in 2000, when she appeared in a dramatically different role as Bitsy Mae Harling, a lesbian ex-con country singer, in Del Shores' Sordid Lives, an all time favorite of the Husband & me. Newton-John reprised her role for Sordid Lives: The Series which aired 1 season on the LOGO TV network. The series featured five original songs written by Newton-John specifically for the show. I found her to be more beautiful in her 50s & her heavier & newly husky voice was surprising & expressive, & her acting was impressive & often touching. So… it took me nearly 30 years to appreciate her good looks & talent. Maybe I need to go back & reexamine Xanadu? I hear that she has a gay & lesbian following...