Selma Blair calls it quits on marriage with Zappa

Los Angeles – Selma Blair has filed for divorce from actor-writer Ahmet Zappa after two years of marriage.

Blair, 34, filed her petition Wednesday in Superior Court. The couple have no children.

Her screen credits include roles in “Cruel Intentions,” “Legally Blonde” and “The Sweetest Thing.” She stars in the upcoming “Purple Violets,” directed by Ed Burns.

Zappa, 32, is the son of the late musician Frank Zappa.

Museum partners thrilled with Presley memorabilia

Memphis, Tenn. – Owners of a small museum wanted a piece of Elvis Presley’s favorite amusement park ride but ended up instead with the whole thing – a roller coaster called the Zippin Pippin.

The Pippin was bought by the city’s park commission in 1947. Most of the superstructure for its 2,800 feet of track was replaced over the years but it’s still billed as one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the country.

The ride was a top attraction at Libertyland, a 30-year-old amusement park Presley often rented for private parties. Libertyland is closing and its rides and concession stands were sold at auction Wednesday.

Robert Reynolds and Stephen Shutts, partners in a traveling museum called the Honky Tonk Hall of Fame & Rock-N-Roll Roadshow, showed up planning to bid on one of the roller coaster cars.

Instead, they bought the whole Pippin for $2,500.

‘Diddy,’ Walters among 23 to get Hollywood stars

Los Angeles – Sean “Diddy” Combs, rock disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer and Barbara Walters have something in common: They will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Recipients for 2007 were announced Friday by Walk of Fame committee chairman Johnny Grant. “It’s a privilege to honor these performers,” he said.

The committee said it had reviewed more than 200 nominations to select next year’s 23 honorees.

The list of recipients, as ratified by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce board of directors, also includes Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Lauren Shuler Donner, Jamie Foxx, John Goodman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Altman, Erik Estrada, Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry Stiller, Dick Wolf, Mariah Carey, The Doors, Crystal Gayle, Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, Tim Rice, Lily Tomlin and Stu Nahan.

‘Idol’ runner-up says show helper her face bulimia

Los Angeles – “American Idol” runner-up Katharine McPhee struggled for years with bulimia before seeking help, the singer said in a published interview.

At her worst, she would throw up as many as seven times a day, putting her singing career in jeopardy.

It was like “putting a sledgehammer to your vocal cords,” McPhee told People magazine in an interview published Thursday on its Web site.

McPhee, 22, told the magazine she sought help last fall after successfully auditioning for “American Idol.” She enrolled in an eating disorder center in Los Angeles and spent three months in therapy.

“Growing up in Los Angeles and spending all those years in dance class, I’d been conscious of body image at a young age, and I went through phases of exercising compulsively and starving myself,” she said.

Now McPhee said she’s healthier thanks to the “intuitive eating” approach she learned in therapy.

Son of oil tycoon who feuded with Anna Nicole Smith dies

Dallas – E. Pierce Marshall, who feuded for years with former Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith over his father’s oil fortune, has died, his spokesman said Friday. He was 67.

Marshall died unexpectedly Tuesday evening in the Dallas area from a brief and aggressive infection, the family said in a written statement released through spokesman David Margulies. He declined to provide additional details.

Smith married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year. Since then, E. Pierce Marshall has been locked in a legal battle over her entitlement to the estate.