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| Ron Jeremy resting after aneurysm surgery Posted: 30 Jan 2013 09:48 PM PST  Jeremy drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles yesterday after suffering from chest pains. – Reuters pic LOS ANGELES, Jan 31 – Veteran pornography actor Ron Jeremy, one of the industry's biggest stars, was resting after undergoing surgery in Los Angeles yesterday for an aneurysm near his heart, his manager said. Jeremy, 59, who appeared in more than 2,000 adult films, drove himself to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles earlier after suffering from chest pains. "He just felt chest pains, like a very heavy weight," Jeremy's manager Mike Esterman said. "He is being worked on for an aneurysm near his heart." Esterman said that the surgery "went smoothly," adding that Jeremy "is now resting with complete privacy and no visitors." Jeremy, nicknamed the "Hedgehog" for his short and hirsute body and known for his large mustache, parlayed his porn star fame into mainstream celebrity status by appearing on the American reality television series "The Surreal Life" in 2004, and by being featured in an advertisement by animal-rights advocates PETA. In a Twitter posting yesterday on his official account, Jeremy's management said, "Please keep Ron in your thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery." His memoir, The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz, was published in 2007 by HarperCollins, a division of News Corp . – Reuters |
| ‘Gomer Pyle’ actor Jim Nabors weds longtime partner Posted: 30 Jan 2013 09:31 PM PST  Nabors said the ceremony in his hotel room was very touching. – Reuters pic SEATTLE, Jan 31 – American actor Jim Nabors, the star of 1960s television comedy "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," married his longtime male partner at a Seattle hotel this month. Nabors, 82, also a singer, wed 64-year-old Stan Cadwallader, his partner of some 38 years, in a ceremony before a judge on Jan 15 at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, where the couple traveled after same sex marriage became legal in Washington state last month. "I was just trying to solidify all of our years together," Nabors told Reuters on Wednesday from Hawaii, where the two live. "When you find a good friend in this life, you hang on to him." Nabors said the ceremony in his hotel room was "very touching" but laughed off any suggestion of feeling different afterward. "Oh please, nothing's changed," Nabors said. "Most of the things you promise, we got through that 38 years ago." Nabors, an Alabama native, played goofy gas-station attendant Gomer Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" and in the spin-off "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," among many other television and musical appearances. Nabors said he met Cadwallader, a former firefighter in Honolulu, in 1975, and Cadwallader eventually went to work for him. Nabors said he was open with his colleagues and friends about his sexuality, but that his marriage was a private affair not intended as a public statement in the national debate over gay marriage. "I am not an activist, particularly. But I think every single human being has the right to choose the person they want to spend their life with," Nabors said. "That's not even an argument, it's just a God-given right." Nine of the 50 US states plus the District of Columbia have legaliaed gay marriage. Another 31 states have passed constitutional amendments restricting marriage to heterosexual couples. Nabors' marriage application and marriage certificate are on file with the Thurston County Auditor in Olympia, according to a clerk in the King County Archives. – Reuters |
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