Rick Egusquiza

2 weeks ago | closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza

As she fled her home during February’s California wildfires, Anjelica Huston’s phone rang. “[Jack Nicholson] called and asked if I was all right, and if I had someplace I was staying,” she told The Guardian. “That’s the bottom line with he and I — when the chips are down, he’s there.”From 1973 until 1990, Anjelica, 73, and Jack, 87, carried on one of Hollywood’s most legendary on-off love affairs despite his inability to remain true.

1 month ago | closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza

Prince Harry doesn’t appear until the final episode of his wife Meghan Markle’s new Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, when he attends a celebratory brunch she throws. “You did a really good job,” gushes the ever-supportive Duke of Sussex. In the last moments of the show, the couple share a hug. “To love,” Meghan says.

1 month ago | closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza

In 2022, Dolly Parton announced that she was retiring from touring to spend more time at home with her husband, Carl Dean. “They were in love until the very end,” says a friend of the couple. “They gave each other exactly what the other needed.”On March 3, the country music queen announced that Carl, 82, her spouse of 59 years, had passed away. Although Carl wasn’t a part of Dolly’s public life, she called him her rock, through good times and bad.

Oct 22, 2024 | closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza

When Sandra Bullock and her Speed costar Keanu Reeves took the stage at Los Angeles’ Egyptian Theatre on October 8, they received a standing ovation from the audience. Thirty years  after Speed roared into theaters, becoming one of the top-grossing films of 1994, the stars reunited with its director for a Q&A. Onstage, Sandra smiled for the cameras during her first public appearance since the death of her partner, photographer Bryan Randall, in August 2023.

Sep 18, 2024 | closerweekly.com | Louise A. Barile |Rick Egusquiza

Sophia Loren admits she’s done a lot with her 90 years, but she hasn’t achieved absolutely everything she ever wanted. “I’ve been trying to have a British accent all my life,” jokes the Italian-born international star, who will be celebrating her birthday with a select group of family and friends on September 20. British accent aside, Sophia has lived a life way beyond the dreams she harbored as a child growing up in Naples during World War II. “I really experienced the war,” she says.