Tom Hanks apologizes and Dame Edna retires

 Australians will have one last chance to see Dame Edna Everage on stage, with creator Barry Humphries revealing his new show will be his last live tour.

At the age of 78, Humphries has told News Ltd it's time to move on.
"Look, the fact of the matter is that I'm beginning to feel a bit senior," Humphries has told the Sunday Telegraph.
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"It's the best aerobics you could do, leaping around on stage, but it's gruelling when there are other things to do," he says.
For fans this means Dame Edna, Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone will be retired from the stage for good, but not before one final goodbye tour.
Humphries says his Australian tour Eat Pray Laugh!, which kicks off in Canberra in June, will be his "fond farewell".


After 57 years, Australian actor Barry Humphries is hanging up the purple hair and oversized rhinestone glasses of his Tony Award-winning drag character, Dame Edna Everage.
He’ll take Australia’s self-proclaimed housewife-superstar on a farewell tour — “Eat Pray Laugh!” — over the next two years. “She’s a little weary of touring and strange hotels,” the 78-year-old actor said.
Marie Osmond: Wet and wild
So what made Marie Osmond laugh so hard recently on stage that she actually peed her pants and wiped up the mess with a towel?
She and brother Donny were on the last night of their Donny & Marie Cruise when “there was a video that they put together of the entire cruise, and it was the worst thing I have ever seen in my life,” Donny says.
“At the very end of it, Marie and I looked at each other like, ‘What are we gonna say?’ So we were trying to be very polite, saying that it was sweet, and I said, ‘I wonder who put that together?’ And Marie said, ‘Well, whoever did it is not going to do it next year!’ And that just started the process.”
Marie started laughing, “then I lost it, and finally she just peed her pants! She tried to cover it up, but there’s no way to cover it up,” says Donny. “It just got worse and worse and funnier and funnier.”
An ‘SNL’ reunion
Good news for anyone missing the good ol’ days magic of “Saturday Night Live.” Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase are collaborating on an upcoming script.
“Chevy (Chase) and I are about to start work on a script concept for a comedy movie,” Dan wrote recently on his Facebook page. “Cannot say too much about the concept, but the joy of working with him again is one that I am extremely excited about. Chevy is one of my favorite people, and one of the great anarchistic and physically committed comedians in the business.”