My Publicist Note Book

When it comes to the relationship between his late father and mother, Marvin Gaye III has long felt the world really didn't know what was going on. That's why the adopted son of Motown's legendary Marvin Gaye and Anna Gordy Gaye wanted to tell what he calls the "100 percent true" story of the couple on stage in "Pride & Joy: The Marvin Gaye Musical" — which opened in Washington, D.C., earlier this month and comes to Motown this week at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre. Marvin Gaye with his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye, and their son in an undated photo.  "I always wanted to change the tide on the perception of their relationship," the Detroit-born Gaye says by phone. "My dad and mom loved very deeply and intensely, but at the same time, they were two individuals that were headstrong in their own ways. My mom was a real go-getter and businesswoman, and my dad was a real artist. And then when you mix that with outside forces l...

In a weekday in March, less than two months before his three-year sentence in federal prison was set to begin, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, decided to spend one of his final afternoons of freedom having lunch with Joy Behar, the veteran co-host of ABC’s “The View.” The show had approached Cohen about giving her an exclusive TV interview before going to prison, and Cohen had suggested that they meet at Freds, the tony restaurant on the top floor of Barneys, where some of Manhattan’s wealthiest wives have standing reservations. “All the people were coming up to him saying, ‘Michael, keep strong, blah blah blah,’ ” Behar recalls. “It was like he was the pope.” She had heard that at least two other media personalities, Don Lemon and Donny Deutsch, were also trying to woo Cohen, and she made her pitch for why the daytime all-women panel show invented by Barbara Walters 22 years ago was the best place for him to go. “I said to him, ‘You’ve made this complete ro...

Oprah Winfrey Made Everyone Cry by Walking One of Her Students Down the Aisle We already know that Oprah Winfrey is the queen of thoughtful gifts and gestures, and she upheld her title back in April when she treated one of her students from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa to the ultimate bridal fantasy: She reportedly shut down an entire Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills so that bride-to-be, Lizhuwani Gloria Rapalalani, could search for the perfect wedding dress with her crew.  However, Winfrey's wedding involvement didn't stop there. Rapalalani walked down the aisle in Atlanta this weekend, and it was none other than Winfrey who was by her side and gave her away. Both Winfrey and Elizabeth Burns, a mentor of Rapalalani's from the Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD), stood next to the bride at the beginning of the ceremony. When they announced that they were giving her in marriage, the groom, Austin Ne...