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Connecticut May Soon Shout, 'Jerry! Jerry!'

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 16, 2009

Connecticut's Gold Coast, a bastion of suburban perfection including Martha Stewart and the Stepford Wives, is about to become home to Jerry Springer's bawdy TV show, which features wife swappers, strippers and skinheads.

Subject to negotiations, Springer's show will move from Chicago this summer into the new production studio at the Rich Forum Theater in Stamford, about 30 miles from New York City and next to one of the region's largest and oldest Catholic churches. The pastor says he plans to talk to church lawyers to see if they can stop the plan after hearing complaints from parishioners, including one who called the show "low-brow."

"They didn't think this was the right place for it," said the Rev. Stephen DiGiovanni of St. John's Catholic Church. "I'm not very thrilled about it."

The deal would also bring two other shows with similar formats. "Maury," hosted by Maury Povich, would move from New York, and "The Steve Wilkos Show," hosted by the former security director of "Springer," would move from Chicago.

Martin To Finance Play Production

Steve Martin has offered to pay for an off-campus production of his play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which was banned from a La Grande, Ore., high school because parents objected to what they called adult content.

The actor and comedian said in a letter to a newspaper that he wants to keep the play, conducted in other high schools without controversy, "from acquiring a reputation it does not deserve."

The 1993 play imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of great achievements in painting and physics.

Since the school board halted rehearsals last month, plans have been afoot for the students to present the play at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande.

Sheen, Wife Welcome Twin Boys

"Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen and his wife, Brooke Mueller Sheen, are the proud parents of twin boys.

Publicist Stan Rosenfield says the babies, Bob and Max, were born Saturday night in Los Angeles.

The twins are the first children for the couple, who married in May. Charlie Sheen shares custody of two young daughters with ex-wife Denise Richards and also has an older daughter with a former girlfriend.

Today's Birthdays

Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 83. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 68. Actor Erik Estrada is 60. Actor Victor Garber is 60. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 55. Rapper-actor Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 50. Actress Lauren Graham is 42. R&B singer Blu Cantrell is 33. Actress Brooke Burns is 31.

Source: The Associated Press

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