Robert Wagner and Jill St. John are among Colorado’s most celebrated couplesand hands down the most cordial.
I’ve met Wagner on several occasions — and you aren’t gonna find a more generous guy in Aspen, where he’s lived with St. John since 1995, full time since 2007.
Wagner’s autobiography comes out next week. “Pieces of My Heart” traces a remarkable public and private life with enough triumph and tragedy for a movie of the week, and Wagner’s made plenty of those.
His life has included films (good and bad), a lot of TV (most recently “Two and a Half Men”) and a parade of women, including Barbara Stan wyck (he was 22, she was 45, and I bet she chewed nails for breakfast), and Liz Taylor. (“She’s so beautiful, so sweet, just a wonderful person,” he tells the N.Y. Times in a recent interview. “It just scrambles your brains up — in a good way.”)
He married Natalie Wood twice and hooked up with St. John after Wood’s death.
Since then, Aspen and Colorado have been focal points in his life. It’s where he finally found his peace.
Wagner and St. John live on 7 1/2 acres — in a house they built, with a view of mountains and trees, but not other houses. He writes that it is here that he is at home — forever.
“When my time comes, I will be buried in Aspen, in an old cemetery that was originally laid out in the nineteenth century,” he writes at the end of his book. “A lot of children are buried there, and it’s in the middle of a glade of aspen and birch trees — very wild and overgrown. As soon as someone is laid to rest, the land is allowed to return to its natural state. . . . It’s absolutely pure and totally peaceful.”
Take a hike.
The lineup at Morton’s DTC Broncos party Monday night was pretty solid — raising money for Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center.
The party roster included hosts Champ Bailey and John Lynch; former teammate Rod Smith; teammates Brandon Marshall, Boss Bailey, Mike Leach, Nate Jackson; and Nugget pals Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith.Party talk.
People in town are talking about the way-over-the-top California wedding of Jimmy and Debbie Lustig’s daughter, Jennifer Lustig, last weekend.
Entertainment included Babyface and “American Idol’s” Katharine McPhee singing “Over the Rainbow” and the theme to “Ice Castles.” Bold names in the crowd included Barbara Davis, Ed McMahon, Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna, and Paris’ parents, Kathy and Rick Hilton.
I hear it was even more extravagant than her engagement party in Vegas, a February blast @ Mix@Mandalay Bay for 450 with entertainment from Boyz II Men, DJ AM and the Spinners.
City spirit.
Cheech & Chong have added a second show to their Dec. 21 gig at the Paramount. . . . Go see “Fox Games” at the Denver Art Museum, Sandy Skoglund’s wonderful installation of gray foxes romping in a totally red room. . . . Sez who: “I wasn’t exactly a catch.” Robert Wagner
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