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Published: July 9, 2008
■ Christie Brinkley should get custody of her two youngest children -- but she and her husband both need therapy, a court-appointed psychiatrist said yesterday at their divorce trial in Central Islip, N.Y. Dr. Stephen Herman, questioned by the children's attorney, said that Brinkley needs therapy as "an outlet for her anger and feeling of betrayal" by her unfaithful husband. He said that Brinkley, who has been married four times, also "needs to start working on deeper issues" -- including "her choice of male figures." Herman met 11 times with the parents, their 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter. He said that architect husband Peter Cook is a "narcissist" who constantly needs to have his ego fed. Cook "needs constant reassurance that he is a terrific guy," Herman said in a psychological report.
■ Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have ended their romance, Long's publicist said yesterday. Carrie Gordon said that the two remain friends but gave no other details. Barrymore, 33, and Long, 30, co-star in the movie adaptation of the self-help best-seller He's Just Not That Into You, scheduled for release next February. The split comes as a surprise, given their public displays of affection since they began dating last year. Long's movie credits include Accepted and Dodgeball, and he is the "Mac guy" in Apple's TV commercials. Barrymore's credits include Fever Pitch, 50 First Dates and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
■ Former Village People lead singer Victor Willis is recovering from vocal-cord surgery and has postponed his tour. Willis, the band's original policeman, is resting in a San Diego hospital after surgery Monday to remove nodules from his vocal cords, spokeswoman Linda Smith said yesterday. Willis sang lead and co-wrote lyrics to such Village People hits as "Y-M-C-A" and "Macho Man." Willis left the group in 1980. In 2006, San Francisco police found cocaine in his car; he pleaded no contest to drug possession and served three years' probation.
■ Conductor James Levine will have a kidney removed in surgery this week, and he will miss the remainder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood season. Levine, 65, is the music director of the BSO and the Metropolitan Opera. He will need six weeks of recovery time, the BSO said in a statement yesterday. He is expected to be back on the podium for the start of the Met and BSO seasons in September. Levine's kidney is being removed because of a cyst. No other treatment will be necessary, the BSO said.
Deaths
■ Sir John M. Templeton, 95, of pneumonia, at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, the Bahamas. He was a Tennessee-born investor and philanthropist who amassed a fortune and gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to foster understanding of what he called "spiritual realities."
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