The Finalisation Of Nicolas Cage's Divorce Clears The Way Fo A New Union With Lisa Marie Presley 30 AUGUST 2001 Now that Nicolas Cage's divorce from Patricia Arquette has been finalised after a year of legal wrangling, the way is clear for a union with Lisa Marie Presley, whose love life is as intriguing as his. The 37-year-old Captain Corelli痴 Mandolin star is currently dating the daughter of the legendary rocker, and speculation is rife that they may tie the knot within a couple of months. Nicolas and Patricia's relationship was an on-off affair stretching back to 1987. They met in a Los Angeles deli where Cage proposed on the spot. Patricia accepted on the condition that he fulfil certain conditions, including obtaining the autograph of Catcher In The Rye author JD Salinger and tracking down a black orchid. He cheated, dyeing a purple orchid black, and they married in April 1995. Nine months later they separated. Last February, Nicolas filed for divorce only to have a change of heart and attempt to win Patricia back. But by November the split was final. Lisa Marie, 33, has a similarly unconventional marital history, having been hitched for two years to eccentric singer Michael Jackson. Last year she announced plans to marry a Hawaiian musician seven years her junior, but by March that union was also off. Lisa Marie and Nicolas first appeared together at the premiere of Captain Corelli's Mandolin - effectively squashing rumours of a romance between him and Spanish co-star Penelope Cruz - and Elvis' girl was at the Con Air actor痴 side when he was recently inaugurated into Hollywood's Walk Of Stars. If the pair do eventually make it down the aisle, it will be a particularly sweet moment for Nicolas, who has made no secret of the fact that he is a huge Elvis fan. Marrying the King's daughter would bring him even closer to his idol.

From US weekly, September 3 , 2001 A SHOW OF HANDS Nicolas Cage Makes A Mark on Hollywood THE DAY AFTER DEBUTING HIS NEW MOVIE, CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, Nicolas Cage plunged his hands and feet into fresh cement on the Forecourt of the Stars at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Some 2,000 people, including Cage's girlfriend, Lisa Marie Presley, Jim Carrey (who starred opposite Cage in 1986's Peggy Sue Got Married) and Jay Leno, gathered on August 14 to witness the ceremony. "Nic is my idol," Leno said, "not only because he's a brilliant actor but also because he keeps a car and a motorcycle in his living room." Cage's uncle Frances Ford Coppola couldn't attend the event, but Cage's family was still well represented by his mother and grandmother, his cousins Sofia Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, and Sofia's husband, Spike Jonze, who directed Cage in the upcoming comedy Adaptation. CARRIE BELL

With Nic Cage outside the Ivy restaurant. (from UK's OK magazine)

Lisa in Hawaii last week

From US Weekly magazine. COUPLES They have three failed marriages and three children between them, but NICOLAS CAGE and LISA MARIE PRESLEY are giving love another chance By SarahSaffian ELVIS MAY HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING 24 years ago, but the King's spirit was surely n the air on July 10 in Memphis, Tennessee. His 33-year-old daughter (and only child), Lisa Marie Presley, and Nicolas Cage, her boyfriend since April, were on hand at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Presley Place for the homeless. The 12-unit, rent-free apartment complex was fully funded by Elvis Prelsey Enterprises (EPE) -- which regulates the licensing and marketing of everything bearing Elvis's name and image -- with 1.3 million raised at a 1999 auction of Elvis memorabilia in Las Vegas. More than 300 spectators stood by in the 100-degree heat waiting for the star couple to arrive. STARTING OVER Soon Cage, 37, emerged from a black stretch limousine and greeted the crowd with a small smile and a friendly wave. The star of Moonstruck, Face/Off, Con Air and The Family Man was there to support Presley, the owner and chairwoman of EPE, who emerged from behind a curtain to cut the ribbon with the same gold-toned scissors that her mother - Elvis's ex-wife - Priscilla Presley used to open Graceland, the former Presley home, to the public in 1982. Dressed in a midriff-baring print blouse and low-riding black leather pants, Presley gave a short, gracious speech, concluding with a quote by her father, which is also printed on a plaque at the Presley Place entrance: "All any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world." The ceremony was deeply significant for Presley, for not only did she demonstrate her continuing commitment to her father's legacy, but she also showed that she was serious about Cage. Both stars are exceedingly private, even by Hollywood standards, and this was one of the few public appearances they have made sine they quietly began dating two months after meeting Presley's thirty-third birthday party in Los Angeles on February 2. Both were otherwise involved at the time - she with fiance John Oszajca, 26, a Hawiian-born rock musician, he reportedly with Penelope Cruz, his costar in Captain Crelli's Mandolin, which opens on August 17. But by spring, Cage and Cruz had parted ways, as his divorce from Patricia Arquette became final (Cruz has since moved on to Tom Cruise), and Presley had given the ring back to Oszajca. By May 25, Presley was accompanying Cage and his brother Christopher Coppola, a director, to California State University at Fullerton, where Cage received an honorary doctorate. It was an emotional moment for the actor: "My father is a professor, and I've always wanted to be able to achieve something like this," Cage said, "This has really been one of the best days of my life." For her part, Presley declared the degree "fantastic." A few weeks later, in early June, the couple reportedly were surprised when they attended a Tom Jones concert in Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel and the singer - a close friend of Cage's - saluted them from the stage. Soon, rumors about the couple were in full swing. One had it that Cage and Presley - who had assumed control of her $100 million inheritance at age 30 - planned to escape from the glare of Hollywood by turning Graceland back into a private residence for themselves. Presley spent her first five years at Graceland and stayed there regularly after Elvis and Priscilla split in 1973 and mother and daughter moved to Los Angeles. Presley's 56-year-old mother was said to be "horrified" that the mansion, to which more than 600,000 visitors flock each year, would be closed to the public. That story was soon discredited. Insiders pointed out that Presley had recently augmented the official tour of Graceland with a 45-minute audio narration of recollections about her father -- "Whenever he would come down the steps, you could always tell," she says. "He would have on many jewels or something, and he rattled down the steps" -- as well as home movies, including footage from her first Christmas at the mansion. "Closing or selling Graceland has never been considered, nor are there any plans at all for Lisa to reside at Graceland," a spokesperson for EPE told US weekly. Still, Cage probably wouldn't mind spending a night or two at the place where Elvis ate his famous peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches, shot at television screens with one of his many guns whenever a program displeased him, and died of a heart attack in 1977 at age 42. A rabid Elvis admirer from way back Cage, like his idol, has a penchant for wearing black leather and riding motorcycles, and he reportedly imitates the King in the outgoing message on his answering machine. His obsession even prevades his acting: He sang "Love Me Tender" and "Love Me" as an ex-convict in Wild at Heart (1990) and was a sky-diving Elvis impersonator in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992). In Captain Corelli's Mandolin, based on a best-selling 1994 novel by Louis de Bernieres, Cage moves far beyond Elvis-y-shtick, playing an Italian Army commander who falls in love with a woman (Cruz) on the Greek island of Cephalonia during World War II. But according to the film's director, John Madden, Cage is never simply a leading man or simply ANYTHING. "In this role, he travels from being an off-center Romeo to a self-lacerating, introspective Hamlet," Madden says. "Nic works without a safety net." Like his girlfriend, Cage has talent in his genes. The youngest of three brothers, he was born Nicolas Kim Coppola in Long Beach, California, on January 7, 1964. His father, August Coppola, was a professor of comparative literature; his mother, Joy Vogelsang, was a dancer and choreographer. Cage studied theater at Beverly Hills High but dropped out at age 17 (like Lisa) to make his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) though most of his performance ended up on the cutting-room floor. He changed his name early n his career -- inspired by Luke Cage, a 1960's comic-book superhero with bulletproof skin-so as not to ride the coattails of his uncle director Francis Ford Coppola or his grandfather composer Carmine Coppola. For a while after Fast Times, he sold popcorn at the Fairfax Theater in Los Angeles until a job reading with actors auditioning for Coppola's 1983 movie Rumble Fish led to a role in the film. Uncle Francis wasn't trying to do him a favor. Cage's restless talent was too striking to ignore. "To be a good actor, you have to be something like a criminal," said the man who would later eat a live roach in Vampire's Kiss (1989). "[You have] to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new." In his personal life, Cage has been equally eager to defy convention. He owns a red Lamborghini that used to belong to the Shah of Iran and lives in a fake castle, complete with turrets, high in the Hollywood Hills, saying by way of explanation, "I got a really good price on it. Nobody wants to live in a castle." Elvis would be proud. But Cage is never more his own man than when it comes to affairs of the heart. The day that he met Patricia Arquette, at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, he asked her to marry him. Taken aback, she jokingly concocted a scavenger hunt o fhard-to-find objects that he would have to collect in order to win her over a black orchid, a J.D. Salinger signature, a tribal wedding dress from Tibet- but when Cage actually started making his way through the list, Arquette became nervous and broke off their relationship. Cage was then romantically linked to actors Jenny Wright and Uma Thurman and model Kristina Fulton, with whom he has a 10-year-old son, Weston Coppola Cage (Arquette also has a son, Enzo, now 12, with rock musician Paul Rossi). After Cage split amicably from Fulton in 1994, Arquette called him out of the blue and proposed to HIM; they were married in April 1995. "If a woman asks you to marry her, you must say yes and stay with her forever." Cage said at the time. "I married a woman who is my friend and also the person I would want to be if I were a woman." But by 1999, the marriage had turned rocky, and Cage filed for divorce in February 2000, claiming that the pair had separated after the first nine months of their almost 5-year marriage. Despite years of appearances at premieres and parties as a happy couple, Cage reportedly lived by himself in his castle while Arquette, 33, kept a Studio City apartment in L.A. But another twist followed: Five days after filing for divorce, Cage withdrew his suit, and the couple reconciled. However, the reunion didsn't stick, and in November of 2000, Arquette, amid rumors that Cage and Cruz had become involved offscreen during the filming of Corelli's, filed her own suit. Their divorce became final on May 18. "My little-girl idea of being married is quite different than [marriage] really is," Arquette has said. "I think marriage is harder than being a parent." And so, at that birthday party in February, Cage-though arm in arm with Cruz-was nursing a broken heart, as perhaps was Presley, feeling the strain in her relationship with Oszajca. Though only 33, she was already a twice-divorced mother of two. At age 20, Lisa Marie married musician Danny Keough, and they had two children, Danielle, now 12, and Benjamin, 8. A month after their divorce in April 1994, she shocked the world by marrying Michael Jackson in a secret ceremony in the Dominican Republic; their unlikely union was scrutinized and mocked during its 20-month span. Then, in May 1999, mutual friends introduced Presley to Oszajca, and by that Christmas, with Priscilla's blessing, they became engaged. Since their breakup, according to Presley's publicist, they have remained "very good friends." Professionally, the devout Scientologist is following in her father's footsteps - HER FIRST ALBUM OF GUITAR-DRIVEN, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL original ROCK songs is being released early next year. Billy Corgan, the former lead singer of the now-disbanded Smashing Pumpkins, cowrote one of its songs. "The first thing I was struck by when I heard Lisa Marie's demos more than two years ago was her voice-she has her father's pipes," Corgan has said. "She's crafted an album of her own personality, and people will be surprised by how good it is." Meanwhile, the Elvis heir and the Elvis aficiondo appear blissful in their budding relationship. On July 25, the pair arrived via private jet in Washington, D.C. and dined at the Palm, where Cage devoured the surf-and-turf special for two. The next day, they attended a ceremony at which President Bush awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to four of the five surviving Navajo code-talkers from World War II (Cage stars in Windtalkers, a film about the Native Americans who conveyed messages for the U.S. military that will be released later this year). According to his represntatives, Cage has no plans to join the Church of Scientology, but a friend of Presley's has said "I don't think that matters to her."

Glen Ballard will be moving his Java Records label to Island/Def Jam and Lisa Marie's debut album will remain at Capitol Records where earlier this year Andrew Slater was named President. Lisa Marie and Andy Slater recently took some time to review Lisa's record and they have decided to make some small changes to it. Lisa is back in the studio with producer Eric Rosse and her favorite musicians giving a few of the songs some minor face lifts as well as doing a bit of remixing. As soon as a firm release date is set, it will be posted here!

Nicolas Cage, Lisa Marie Presley and Jay Leno after Cage placed his handprints and footprints in cement in the forecourt at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on August 14, 2001.

Nicolas Cage and Lisa Marie Presley at the films premiere of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" in Beverly Hills on August 13, 2001. There are so many photos from the premiere. Go to: Zuma Press or Wire Image

Scientology Glam It's prom weekend at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood. This year, the center, commonly associated with Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley, Kirstie Alley and Isaac Hayes, is celebrating its 32nd anniversary with a nod to young Hollywood. Expected among the 1,500 guests at the black-tie gala Saturday(Aug.4) are TV's Jenna Elfman of "Dharma & Greg"; Leah Remini of "The King of Queens"; Catherine Bell of "JAG"; Danny Masterson of "That '70s Show"; his brother, Christopher, of "Malcolm in the Middle"; and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson. - LA Times

A Calm Hand at the Controls How did Glen Ballard get to be an in-demand record producer? By ROBERT HILBURN (LA Times) (excerpt) Before leaving in four days on a Paris vacation, he'll also help close his Java Records office at the Capitol Tower (he is moving the joint-venture label to the Island/Def Jam family of labels) and he's scheduled to talk to Aguilera about working together. He also needs to check with Capitol Records about the status of the Lisa Marie Presley album, which will stay with Capitol. After flirting with a singing career for years, Elvis' daughter hooked up with Ballard three years ago. "I was impressed right off by her voice, but I wanted to know the old question - did she want to be an artist or just make a record?" Ballard says. "She said she wanted to be an artist and that meant she had to work on her writing. There were times when she got frustrated because she felt the process was taking too long. I'm sure she wanted the record out right away. "But she had to find out just who she is and put that into the songs, and she did. This is a record about Lisa, not Elvis Presley's daughter, and I think people are going to be knocked out. She's fierce and uncompromising, and she has a real gift of expression." Ballard was hoping the album would be released late this year. But a Capitol spokesman says the collection has been pushed back to next year, and that Presley is continuing to work on it, this time with producer Eric Rosse, whose credits include Tori Amos. (Full Story)

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