hMarilyn Manson marries his girlfriend in Ireland

hMarilyn Manson marrieshis girlfriend in Ireland
LOS ANGELES -- Shock rocker Marilyn Manson married his longtime girlfriend Saturday in Ireland, People magazine reported on its Web site.
Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner and whose hometown is Canton, married 33-year-old Heather Sweet in front of about 60 guests at Castle Gurteen, the home of a friend in Kilsheelan, County Tipperary, the magazine reported.
Sweet is a burlesque dancer who uses the stage name Dita Von Teese. They have been dating for four years and Manson proposed at their Los Angeles home in March 2004, People reported.
It was the first marriage for both.
Manson, 36, wore a black silk taffeta tuxedo and Von Teese was in royal purple silk taffeta with a corset.
They were married in a nondenominational ceremony conducted by underground filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, a friend of Manson's, the magazine reported.
'Diddy' pays surprise visitto teen cancer patient
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. -- Sean "Diddy" Combs made a surprise visit to Chris Evert's charity tennis tournament to meet a teenage cancer patient.
For Chalon Keen, 17, of Sunrise, who has been fighting for two years a cancer that creates tumors in her muscle cells, Saturday's visit was a dream come true.
Chalon, a patient at the Chris Evert Children's Hospital at Broward General Medical Center, met Combs through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Ava Keen, Chalon's mother, said her daughter cried the whole time. The meeting lifted the teen's spirits as she and her family prepared to travel to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to undergo tests for a possible bone marrow transplant.
"I was just so choked up, she was so excited," Ava Keen said.
Evert's annual event has raised more than $13 million to fight drug abuse and help neglected and abused children in south Florida.
It's familiar territory:Springfield rejoins 'GH'
LOS ANGELES -- For singer Rick Springfield, it's a little strange to be back on his old soap-opera stomping grounds.
"I don't know if there has ever been a character that reoccurred after 23 years," he says.
Springfield is back as Dr. Noah Drake on "General Hospital," a role he first played in the early 1980s, when his hit song "Jessie's Girl" was a radio staple.
The singer-actor was looking for innovative ways to promote his new album, "The Day After Yesterday," and started pursuing guest appearances on several soaps. "General Hospital" liked the idea of his return but asked him to leave the band at home.
"I thought about it," Springfield says, "and it seemed like it was too good an opportunity to miss."
He made his first appearance Friday and is set to be in about a dozen episodes. He'll save the singing for his tour dates in Japan this month and in the United States next year.
Notable deaths
Herbert L. Strock, a pioneer television producer and director who also directed the 1950s' B-movie creature-features "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein," "How to Make a Monster" and "The Crawling Hand," has died. He was 87.
Strock died of heart failure Wednesday at Riverside County Regional Medical Center in Moreno Valley, Calif., following a car accident, said his daughter, Leslie Mitchner.
Mary Hayley Bell, an actress and author who wrote the novel "Whistle Down the Wind" and the mother of actress Hayley Mills, died Thursday, according to a family death notice published Saturday in The Daily Telegraph. She was 94.
Today's birthdays
Singer Little Richard is 73. Author Joan Didion is 71. Author Calvin Trillin is 70. Musician J.J. Cale is 67. Actor Jeroen Krabbe is 61. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 59. Pop singer Jim Messina is 58. Actress Morgan Brittany is 54. Actor Brian Backer is 49. Country singer Ty England is 42. Rock singer-musician John Rzeznik (The Goo Goo Dolls) is 40. Country singer Gary Allan is 38. Comedian-actress Margaret Cho is 37. Writer-director Morgan J. Freeman is 36. Actress Amy Acker is 29. Actor Nick Stahl is 26. Actor Frankie Muniz ("Malcolm in the Middle") is 20. Actor Ross Bagley is 17.