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Breakfast w/Greg: Kim Clisters’ win makes up for Serena’s mouth; Elton’s adoption dreams dashed?
Happy Monday all!
What a wacko weekend with people just losing their minds in public. It all started with that rude Congressman Joe “You Lie!” Wilson then there was the completely bizarro scene of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift’s speech at the Video Music Awards to tell the world that she didn’t deserve to win.
Seriously? I think he will face some serious repercussions like possibly a drop in record sales and, at the very least, not being invited to any kind of awards show until he can prove he’s been sober for like three years straight!
And then there was Saturday night at the US Open. Serena Williams, the best player of her generation poised to win another big title, is the recipient of one of the worst foot fault calls in history. Anybody would be furious but Serena turned it into a catastrophe for herself when she went off on the lineswoman telling her she was going to shove “this fucking ball down your fucking throat.”
I’d want to cuss the woman out too but I believe it was the threatening nature of it all that cost Serena a penalty point which happened to be match point. Serena was fined $10,000 but will play for the doubles title today with her sister Venus.
That leads me to the woman standing across the net during Serena’s tirade: Kim Cliasters.
Kim really saved the woman’s tournament by going on to take the final over Caroline Wozniacki and making all kinds of history in the process. She is the first unseeded, wild card entrant to ever win the tournament and the first mom to win any grand slam tournament since Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon in 1980.
It’s an amazing victory because Kim, also the 2005 US Open champ, had been off the woman’s tour for more than two years during which time she got married and gave birth to a daughter, now 18 months old. This was only the third tournament in her comeback and she beat both Serena and Venus Williams on her way to the title.
Kim, always one of the most likable players in the game, told reporters that when she came back, she was “starting from zero” and the work to get back in shape was not pretty: “No swear words like Serena yesterday, but a lot of swearing at home.”
ELTON WANTS TO BE A DADDY: This kid is so adorable! Who could blame Elton John for wanting to adopt him?Elton said over the weekend that he wants to adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian child named Lev who he met while touring a hospital for HIV-infected children in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as part of a charity project.
“I don’t know how we do that, but he has stolen my heart. And he has stolen David’s heart and it would be wonderful if we can have a home,” Elton said.
But earlier today, Ukraine’s minister for family affairs said the 62-year-old Elton is too old and isn’t traditionally married to partner David Furnish. Apparently David, at 46, is too old as well.
Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told The Associated Press that adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage. Ukrainian law also requires a parent to be no more than 45 years older than an adopted child.
“Foreign citizens who are single have no right to adopt children … and the age difference between the adopter and the child cannot be more than 45 years,” Pavlenko said. “The law is the same for everybody: for a president, for a minister, for Elton John.”
Well, I hope the attention will help Lev find a loving family that meets the country’s criteria which I disagree on on both counts.
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