The Tribe Has Spoken: Kiss Hershey Goodbye

February 9, 2001

Last night on CBS' Survivor: The Australian Outback:

Voted Off: Maralyn Hershey, retired cop from Wakefield, Va.

Reward Challenge (Runoff): A race to load the most buckets of water on the opposing tribe's "water bearer" in a five-minute period. Okagor wins by heaping more on Kucha's Michael.

Immunity Challenge: Rigorous obstacle course, made all the more tricky since each tribe is tethered together. Kucha triumphs.

Quote: Maralyn tells the Tribal Council, "I'm conjoined with Tina. She is a constellation." Moments later, Tina joins in voting Maralyn off.

The house is kosher; she's another matter

Just because her husband keeps kosher doesn't mean Ellen Barkin does, too.

"It's not a requirement that I be kosher," the actress, who was raised Jewish in the Bronx, says in the March issue of W magazine. "The house is kosher. It limits what you can eat on, not what you can eat."

Barkin, 46, married billionaire Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman in June. She says Perelman, 57, approached her at the Vanity Fair post-Oscar party in 1999 and asked, "Are you single or married or what?"

She admits, "I had secretly -- which my best friends will attest to -- had a crush on him. For years," she says. "He still doesn't believe me."

Barkin testified last year in Perelman's custody fight with ex-wife Patricia Duff over the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Caleigh.

She co-stars with Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear in the romantic comedy Someone Like You, due in theaters this spring.

Faith not a factor in Cruise-Kidman split


Cruise filed for divorce Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences.

The Los Angeles Superior Court petition filed by attorney Dennis Wasser said the couple will share custody of their two children.

"Scientology had nothing to do with this," Pat Kingsley said in the Feb. 19 issue of People magazine. "They are not being controlled. They are not being counseled."

Cruise, 38, is a devout Scientologist. Kidman, 33, was raised Catholic but has referred to her beliefs as a "mishmash" that includes some Scientology.

Berry, Benet nups a hush-hush affair

Halle Berry has secretly married her longtime boyfriend Eric Benet.

The actress married the singer "sometime in January" in the Los Angeles area and no details were being released, Berry's manager Vince Cirrincione said.

Berry, 34, and Benet, 33, met while celebrating the premiere of Berry's HBO movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Berry won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the title role. Her other movie credits include X-men, Bullworth, Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Boomerang.

Benet's first album, True to Myself, was released in 1996. His hits include Spend My Life.


It's the 40th day of the year; 325 days are left in 2001. On this date:

In 1773, William Henry Harrison, the ninth president, was born in Charles City County, Va.

In 1825, the U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

In 1950, in a speech in Wheeling, W.Va., Sen. Joseph McCarthy charged the State Department was riddled with communists.

In 1964, the Beatles made their first live American TV appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

In 1984, Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at 69, less than 15 months after succeeding Leonid Brezhnev.

In 1996, a former member of the Fort Lauderdale beach detail shot and killed five former co-workers before killing himself.

Thought for today: "Modesty is the conscience of the body." -- French author and dramatist Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Today's birthdays: Actress Kathryn Grayson, 79; singer-songwriter Carole King, 59; actor Joe Pesci, 58; actress Mia Farrow, 56; country singer Travis Tritt, 38.

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