Jessica Simpson isn’t back on the market quite yet.
The “Dukes of Hazzard” star reportedly broke up with boyfriend John Mayer — but the split isn’t working out so well, according to In Touch.
Mayer was spotted leaving Simpson’s New York hotel room at the Soho Grand yesterday, reports the mag. He was said to be smiling.
“They definitely went on a date last night,” a “pal” of Simpson told In Touch. But now, apparently, Simpson is cautious about getting back with Mayer — who had told her when they briefly split that he needed space.
“She still loves him, but he’s not stable,” the friend said. “He’s scared of commitment. He breaks up with her and then regrets it and then begs her to get back together.”
Readin', writin' and ScientologyIs Scientology being taught in public schools?
With the help of John Travolta, educational techniques developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard are being used in a Louisiana public school, according to Florida’s St. Petersburg Times.
In the mayhem that followed Hurricane Katrina, Celebrity Scientologists, including Travolta and Isaac Hayes, “played key roles” in persuading Prescott Middle School in Louisiana to adopt a Hubbard program called Applied Scholastics, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
Defenders of the program say that students’ scores have improved since it has been put in use — and insist that Applied Scholastics has nothing to do with Scientology, other than the man who created it.
Critics, however, disagree. Teaching the studying technique is “covert religious instruction” Dave Touretsky, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told the Times, and he said that using it in schools could be unconstitutional.
Notes from all overA 63-year-old minister who called in a false bomb threat to a Madonna concert in Amsterdam has been convicted by a court there. The clergyman — who found the Material Girl’s concert blasphemous — will have to serve 150 hours of community service. ... Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown stopped by hip L.A. baby boutique Bel Bambini over the weekend, reports a source, and dropped a couple of hundred dollars on monogrammed burp cloths. She also picked up some baby bling: three sparking pacifiers at $63 each. ... Darth Vader wants to make nice with George Lucas. Dave Prowse, who played the black-cloaked villain in the original Star Wars films (he was only the body of Vader; James Earl Jones’ voice was dubbed over his), says that the movies’ creator, George Lucas, hasn’t spoken to him since 1983, when they made “Return of the Jedi.” “He believed I had revealed to the press that Darth Vader was going to die in the film,” the 71-year-old actor told the London Sun. “But I didn’t even know my character was going to be killed off. And I didn’t know they were going to get someone else to play the unmasked Darth Vader. He hasn’t spoken to me since. I was ostracized on the movie and wasn’t invited to the premiere.” Prose says he’s hoping to end the 24-year standoff at a Star Wars convention in the U.S. later this year. “I would like to speak to him again,” he said. I certainly don’t hold any grudges.”
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