Sideshow: Questions remain on Scott's suicide

Posted: August 25, 2012

The Los Angeles County coroner's office Friday said it had yet to establish the reason for director Tony Scott's suicide.

Scott, 68, left two notes before jumping off L.A.'s Vincent Thomas Bridge on Sunday, but they contain no clues. One lists emergency contact numbers. The other is a brief farewell to Scott's wife, Donna, and their 12-year-old twins, Max and Frank, says TMZ.

Rufus Wainwright weds

Quebecois baroque popster Rufus Wainwright on Thursday wed his long-term beau, Jorn Weisbrodt, in his fave town, the Long Island beach community of Montauk, People says.

Randy Travis & the law

Randy Travis, who was naked as a newborn during his last alcohol-related arrest, was sober and clothed on Thursday when he was cited for misdemeanor assault in Plano, Texas, when he got into a fight with his gf's estranged hub.

Tidbits 'n' pieces

New York police tell TMZ they stopped Stephen Baldwin Thursday for driving with a suspended license. Baldwin was initially pulled over for making an illegal U-turn in Harlem. . . . Tom Cruise walked into the hipster London club Chinawhite on Thursday night, strode over to where his son, Connor Cruise, 17, stood, gave him a big, warm hug, then watched the budding DJ spin. . . . Usher has won sole custody of his two sons, Usher Raymond V and Naviyd Ely Raymond, with ex Tameka Raymond. . . . Steve Earle, 57, who once vowed he'd never write a memoir, is. The "Goodbye's All We've Got Left" singer also has signed to write a novel about "a runaway slave who survived the battle of the Alamo," says USA Today.

Harry, more Harry!

Britain's royal family succeeded in bullying newspapers in the realm to not publish nude photos of Prince Harry frolicking in a room full of naked men and women. Except one. Rupert Murdoch's The Sun had 'em on its front page. The pics are of national interest, the tab says.

Meanwhile, well-connected publicist Max Clifford says two American women are offering to sell him more photos and even a video of the party. Clifford said no, citing Harry's right to privacy.


This article contains information from Inquirer wire services. Contact "SideShow"

at sideshow@phillynews.com.

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