Faces & Names: Tiger Woods, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ray Charles

Tamed Tiger tries to mend marriage

Tiger Woods reportedly endured an uneventful week where all his troubles began: his Florida home.

The world’s greatest golfer has returned to his family’s Florida estate, spending the last eight nights there with wife Elin Nordegren and their two children, TMZ.com reported Saturday. The pricey home is where Woods wrecked his Cadillac SUV in the early morning hours after Thanksgiving, leading to stunning revelations about his incessant womanizing. Things were much calmer last week when Woods, trying to save his marriage, returned as a live-in father and husband less than a month after his internationally televised Feb. 18 apology for infidelity. According to TMZ, his wife of five years appeared rejuvenated by the reunion.

Love (Hewitt) is lost

Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy are kaput.

The pair, who starred together on TV’s “Ghost Whisperer,” have ended their romance after more than a year, a rep told People.com

Hewitt took up with the actor-comedian in 2008 after ending her engagement to Ross McCall.

Though the couple were known for their public displays of affection, she was recently seen celebrating her 31st birthday with Kennedy nowhere in sight.

Ray Charles musical set for Broadway

A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway this fall.

“Unchain My Heart” will open Nov. 7 with preview performances beginning Oct. 8.

Producer Stuart Benjamin said the show would feature a book by Suzan-Lori Parks and direction by Sheldon Epps. Casting will be announced.

Benjamin worked with the late singer for 15 years and produced “Ray,” the hit movie about his life starring Jamie Foxx. Parks won a Pulitzer Prize for her play “Topdog/Underdog.”

An earlier version of the musical called “Ray Charles Live” was produced at California’s Pasadena Playhouse in 2007.

HBO brings WWII vets to memorial in DC

Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Elizabeth Dole joined 250 veterans at the World War II memorial in Washington to honor their service.

HBO brought the veterans to the memorial Thursday to mark the premiere of a 10-part series called “The Pacific.” The series focuses on the lives of U.S. Marines fighting the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor begins tonight.

After the “Band of Brothers” project, which focused on the war in Europe, Spielberg says he and Hanks wanted to tell the story of the Pacific theater too. Spielberg tells the veterans they did it because they are “the greatest stories ever told.”

Eighty-seven-year-old Fred Rose of Barberton, Ohio, served in an amphibious tank battalion in the Marshall Islands and Saipan. Rose says he nearly cried hearing accolades from Spielberg, Hanks and others.

Ex-Secretary of State Kissinger hospitalized

A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains.

Severance Hospital spokesman Lee Sung-man said Saturday that Kissinger would be released on Sunday. He did not give any further details.

The 86-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate arrived in Seoul earlier in the week to attend a security forum. He also met with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

Kissinger served as secretary of state for presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Will it be Bridger’s finale?

Bridger Zadina, a 15-year-old actor from Poplar, will be a guest star on tonight’s season finale of “Numb3rs” on CBS (that’s KDLH here … 9 p.m.).

He’ll be playing Jim Mazzola Jr. in the episode, according to his father, Simon Zadina.

Bridger, who lives in Los Angeles, has been on prime-time TV before: Last year he played a transgender teen in an episode of “Law & Order: SVU.”

His dad said Bridger would rather be living in Wisconsin or Minnesota than L.A., “but you have to do what you have to do to be available for auditions.”

Between acting jobs Bridger does Civil War re-enactments as a soldier in the New York 69th Irish Brigade. He turns 16 on March 23, but his dad says he will not be driving in L.A.

“Maybe we will let him drive when he is 28.”

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