Between his two weekly live shows on QVC and his broad digital platform, Mr. Venable last year sold more than $250 million worth of egg poachers, frozen crab cakes and backyard smokers. When he posted a recipe for Philadelphia cheesesteak dip, it reached 5.5 million people on Facebook.
This appeared in The Star-January 7, 1997. Country star Marty Stuart has set up home with Nashville legend Connie Smith--who is 17 years older than him. Marty, whose string of hits include Tempted and The Whiskey Ain't Workin', was only 6 when Connie had her No. 1 country hit Once A Day. Now he's 38--and she's 55.
Gloria Stuart, Titanic's Old Rose, Dies at 100. Gloria Stuart fans upset that she was underused by Hollywood needed only to bide their time. For about five decades. Stuart, the 1930s star, who achieved her greatest fame as the elder version of Kate Winslets Rose in Titanic, died Sunday. She had marked her 100th birthday on the Fourth of July. I would say I don't notice the difference between 100 and, say, 90, a frisky-sounding Stuart said this past summer. Career-wise, Stuart hit her peek at 87. As Old Rose, Titanic's signature survivor and storyteller, she rated an Oscar nomination, becoming the oldest acting nominee ever.