– Donald Trump Jr. and model Vanessa Haydon, both 27, tied the knot Saturday at the groom’s father’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., People magazine reports on its Web site. The guests included Joan Collins, model Sophie Dahl and reality TV’s Brittny Gastineau.
– Shakira, who has a hit with her Spanish-language album “Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1” is back with an English sequel, “Oral Fixation, Vol. 2,” due out Nov. 29, Rolling Stone reports on its Web site. Featured will be a guest performance by Carlos Santana. “The Spanish album is strictly romantic,” the Colombian pop star told the magazine, “but the English album embraces more social-oriented topics. I always talk about my opinions in Spanish, but this time something told me to do it in English.”
– Mariah Carey will perform two songs at halftime at the Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and the Atlanta Falcons. Toni Braxton will sing the national anthem. The Lions’ 66th Thanksgiving Day Classic will air on Fox.
– More than 2,000 people attended the burial in Syria on Monday of Moustapha Akkad, the producer of the “Halloween” films. He was injured in last week’s Jordan hotel bombings, dying two days later.
– Tommy Lee will return to the scene of his TV reality show–and he’s bringing his band mates with him. Motley Crue will perform March 31 at Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln, Neb., on its “Carnival of Sins” tour. The 43-year-old rocker shot NBC’s “Tommy Lee Goes to College” on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus last fall. “I know he had a good time there,” said Crue bassist Nikki Sixx.
– Union representatives for Radio City’s musicians accepted New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s offer of a mediator, arriving at Gracie Mansion on Monday hoping to resolve a labor dispute that has replaced a live orchestra with canned music at the Christmas Spectacular. Musicians for the 35-member orchestra have been on strike since Nov. 2.
– “Walesa: A Cheerful Story Hence a Very Sad One,” a play about the life of Lech Walesa, the shipyard worker and labor leader who helped to topple communism in Poland, has premiered in Walesa’s home city of Gdansk.
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The Personals page was compiled by Cristi Kempf from Tribune news services and staff reports.
