news.au.com – HUGH Jackman was only eight when his mother left. The day after, Grace Jackman sent a telegram saying she wasn’t returning to the family home, leaving husband Christopher to raise her baby and his four older siblings.
Years later Jackman would acknowledge that undiagnosed post-natal depression had created the crisis that took his mother away.
Grace and her estranged husband would later agree that she would raise daughters Zoe and Sonia in her native England. The three boys, Hugh, Ian and Ralph, would remain in Australia with their father.
“My mother was not well,” Jackman has said. “I always hoped she would come back, but I never blamed her for anything that went wrong. At the time, I was miserable and angry, and my brothers and I used to fight all the time.”
Jackman forgave his mother and yesterday the two were photographed on the streets of New York with Jackman’s daughter Ava.
“Grace has been helping Hugh with the kids while Deborra-Lee (Furness) is in Australia for Adoption Awareness week,” a friend said yesterday.
Furness will be conducting a free seminar on adoption at UNSW tomorrow night. All are welcome.
TMZ – According to a search warrant affidavit released last week, Nick Prugo and his cronies allegedly used TMZ.com to search for information about their victims.
On a computer seized from Prugo by the LAPD — which we obtained — we found a bunch of photos that were jacked from our site, including pics of Christina Milian, Adam Lambert, Hugh Jackman … and Chris Sarandon as the evil “Prince Humperdinck.”
The first three we get … but Humperdinck? Must’ve been a fluke.
Variety – A play was one of the top three earners on Broadway last week. Of course, that play was Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman topliner “A Steady Rain.” It grossed a whopping $1,167,954 for eight perfs in the production’s first full week on the boards. Still, it’s a relatively rare feat for a non-musical to crack the top 10, much less the top three. “Rain” muscled “Jersey Boys” ($1,126,009) out of the No. 3 slot, landing behind “Wicked” ($1,441,683) and “Billy Elliot” ($1,342,233). Average ticket price paid for the play was $136 — which means a lot of people [Wait!Theres Tons More…]
NY Daily News – Making do without their signature retractable claws or outrageous gadgets, Hollywood superheroes Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig battled it out on Broadway Thursday night. The A-list hunks, best-known for their respective big-screen roles as Wolverine of the X-Men and British secret agent James Bond, squared off in the drama “A Steady Rain.” The gritty two-man play about Chicago police officers torn apart by a botched investigation began previews at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre ahead of its opening on Sept. 29.Judging by the hysterical cheers at curtain up and curtain down, the 90-minute performance left the audience both shaken and stirred. Especially the ladies who would love to be handcuffed by this particular brand of cop.
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The project is a broadway show called a Steady Rain. It will be a two and a half month run.
James Bond and the Boy from Oz are coming to Broadway. Daniel Craig, the latest cinematic Bond, and Hugh Jackman, who won a Tony for his role in The Boy From Oz, will star in A Steady Rain, which opens Sept. 29. Previews begin Sept. 10 for a 12-week engagement. A Steady Rain – Keith Huff’s play about a pair of Chicago policemen – was a big hit in Chicago, where it received rave reviews two years ago. It will be Craig’s Broadway debut.
Despite his obviously close relationship with his wife, whispers have persisted since he played Peter Allen that Jackman himself might be gay. “I’d be happy to go and deny it, because I’m not,” he says. “But by denying it, I’m saying there is something shameful about it, and there isn’t anything shameful. The questions about sexuality I find more here in America than anywhere else, because it’s a big hang-up and defines what people think about themselves and others. It’s not a big issue in Australia.”
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Furness was the far bigger star in Australia when she met Jackman in 1995 on her hit television series, Correlli. But he has now surpassed her. How do they deal with this reversal?
“The thing I find hard is that a lot of people won’t even see her, and they’ll obviously be talking to her to get to me,” he says. “I’ve seen Deb literally be knocked out of the way. She just knocks ’em back.”
Jackman’s eyes brighten when he discusses his wife, who is eight years older than he.
“She’s a morning person,” he says. “Deb pops up, and it’s, ‘Come on, baby. Let’s go!’ Yet at night she falls asleep instantly, sometimes in mid-conversation. She’s fallen asleep during every movie I’ve ever done. At one premiere, this big-time producer—he’s known for growling—growled down the row to me, ‘Wake your wife up!’ She’s the most honest person I’ve ever met. The worst liar. Can’t do it. Everything she feels comes out. This is just the long way of saying she’s not jealous of my success, no. It’s not in her DNA. Every person I’ve ever worked with has ended up liking Deb more than they like me. I’m a little behind in the wit department, and she’s always, ‘Come on, Hugh, keep up! Keep up!’ She looks a lot like Kim Novak, but she’s from the Ethel Merman school with her humor.”Since Jackman had decided to evoke old-time stars to describe his wife, I come up with a few myself to describe him. “You’re like a cross between Gary Cooper and Gene Kelly,” I tell him. “With just a soupçon of Rosalind Russell.”
Hugh Jackman is always on his game — and even when he’s a little grouchy and facing “dumb questions” after a long ass flight, he’s more talkative than 99.9% of celebs at the airport.
Meanwhile, Food Glorious Food , Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman knows the best way to a fan’s heart is through his or her stomach — that’s why he dropped $4308.87 to stuff 800 faces in Arizona. TMZ found the reciept.Hugh Jackman Drops $4300 on Breakfast
Hugh Jackman makes an entrance! A parachutes from a helicopter to the surprise of waiting fans and media at a photo call fro his upcoming film X-Men origins, Wolvering. He unveiled the first official footage, and unfinished version was laeked online last week of the action flick. I tried to watch it, but unfortunately, it had been taken down, by the time I got to it…bummer.
