People
In the biggest renown union since California legalized same-sex spousal relationship in May, talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, 50, and actress Portia de Rossi, 35, get married Saturday night in an intimate ceremony at their Beverly Hills home, People and Us Magazine reported. The ceremony was accompanied by 19 guests, including DeGeneres' ma, Betty, and de Rossi's mother, Margaret Rogers, world Health Organization had flown in from Australia.
The tradition continues
Chevy Chase provided a crucial run, and Alec Baldwin helped ensure that everyone did the right thing. Chase blasted a line take that helped turn the tide in favor of the Artists team when it was down 20 in a star-studded Hamptons charity-softball game against the Writers. The Artists went on to win 42. Baldwin was an umpire for Saturday's contest at the far east end of Long Island. It was the 60th installment of the annual Artists and Writers Game, a tradition started by artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Saturday's game elevated more than $60,000 for hospice, day attention and drug-rehabilitation services.
Attitudes
Unions do count
A new study says "women start adult life-time happier than men only end up less happy" in by and by years � a change largely based on unfirm feelings roughly family life and money. Early on, says the study, "women are more likely than men to be in unions, and this makes for greater fulfillment of both menage life and material" goals. But it doesn't detain that way; as they age, "women are less likely to be in unions" and their sense of happiness declines. Women tend to experience this turnabout in their late 40s, when men are achieving more of their financial goals, says the study by University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin and University of Cambridge sociologist Anke Plagnol.
Passages
Brazilian composer and singer Dorival Caymmi, 94, who catapulted to fame when Carmen Miranda performed one of his songs in 1938, died Saturday of kidney cancer and multiple organ failure in his Rio de Janeiro home.
Johnny Moore, 70, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae stripe The Skatalites, died of cancer Saturday in Kingston, Jamaica.
Leroy Sievers, 53, a National Public Radio reviewer who turned his struggle with cancer into a popular and touching radio and online series, died from his disease Friday at his home in Maryland.
Today in History
1587: Virginia Dare became the low child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.
1920: The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of all American women to vote, was ratified as Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to approve it.
1963: James Meredith became the number one black scholarly person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
Today's Birthdays
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, 81. Movie director Roman Polanski, 75. Actor Robert Redford, 71. Actor Denis Leary, 51. Actress Madeleine Stowe, 50. Newsman Bob Woodruff, 47. Actor Christian Slater, 39. Actor Edward Norton, 39.
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