Subject: Archives: BB Article: Ladies Home Journal, August 1990 v107 n8 p118(5)
Ladies Home Journal, August 1990 v107 n8 p118(5)
Backyards of the rich and famous. Lauren Payne.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Ladies Home Journal 1990 Admit--wouldn't you love to know where all those celebrities you see on TV every week spend their spare time? Well, we were curious. And after a bit of sleuthing, we found out: Believe it or not, some of the most popular stars of the small screen don't party-hop or shop till they drop after work--they seek solitude from the stress of the set in their own backyards. In these pretty California hideaways with their gorgeous private gardens, they truly enjoy their place in the sun. Won't you join us for a visit?
BRUCE BOXLEITNER's backyard is truly splendor in the grass--the expansive lawn behind his Southwest-style San Fernando Valley home is ideal for playing with his two sons. The former star of Scarecrow and Mrs. King has a hectic schedule modeling for Estee Lauder and working on TV-movie projects. Whenever he can take a break, he invites lots of friends over for fun and games.
Entertainment Weekly, Sept 24, 1993 n189 p81(1)
Sound bites. (quotations of Kim Basinger on Charlie Gibson's nasal hygiene, Bruce Boxleitner on Melissa Gilbert, and Burt Reynolds on summer) (Brief Article)
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Entertainment Weekly Inc. 1993 "WELL, I ASK her once in a while to wear the pigtails." --Bruce Boxleitner, boyfriend of Melissa Gilbert, when asked if he thinks about "being in the sack with the girl from Little House," on The Howard Stern Interview
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Subject: Archives: BB Article: People Weekly, August 30, 1993 v40 n9 p6(2)
People Weekly, August 30, 1993 v40 n9 p6(2)
Star tracks. (Bruce Boxleitner and others) (Column) (Brief Article)
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1993 CAPTION: Bruce Boxleitner played the field at the annual Hollywood Stars Game, cheered on by girlfriend Melissa Gilbert and his sons, Sam (left), 13, and Lee, 7. Gilbert, married for five years to writer-actor Bo Brinkman, filed for divorce earlier this month after a year's official separation. Gilbert and Brinkman plan to share custody of their son, Dakota, 4.
Subject: Archives: BB Article: People Weekly, Nov 1, 1993 v40 n18 p59(2)
People Weekly, Nov 1, 1993 v40 n18 p59(2)
Remade for each other: Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner are laughing all the way to a marriage. (actors) Michael A. Lipton.
Brief Summary: Boxleitner and Gilbert became engaged in Sep 1993. Both actors primarily act in television movies and recently filmed 'House of Secrets' together. They met more than 10 years ago, when Gilbert was a fan of Boxleitner's, but began dating in Sep 1992. Their lives are briefly discussed.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1993 FOR MELISSA GILBERT, DROWNING Bruce Boxleitner in a bathtub was a draining experience. Gilbert, 29, and Boxleitner, 43, were costarring in House of Secrets, a gothic thriller filmed last July in New Orleans (and airing Nov. 1 on NBC) in which she plays the frail owner of a Southern sanatorium and he the evil husband she has drugged, then lugged to the tub.
At one point petite, 5 ft. 3 in., TV-movie mainstay Gilbert tried to lift the 6 ft. 3 in., 200-pound "corpse" -- only to throw her back out. Meanwhile, the waterlogged Boxleitner (Scarecrow and Mrs. King) came down with an ear infection and sinus problems.
"He was in absolute agony," says Gilbert. But there was a more compelling reason why the sequence was murder to shoot: How do you convincingly kill, on-camera, the man you're in love with in real life?
"Everyone [on the set] thought we were going to fight and break up," Gilbert recalls, laughing now, as she relaxes with Boxleitner in her fiance's Tucson hotel suite, near the set of his latest TV movie, Gunsmoke V. But Secrets director Mimi Leder had a different kind of worry: directing their love scene. "I felt awkward watching because it was very intimate," she says.
That intimacy budded on their very first date in the fall of '92. Boxleitner, amicably divorced from actress Kathryn (Kitty) Holcomb Ogilvy since 1987, was persuaded by her and another friend to go out with Gilbert, who was then four months separated from her husband, actor-writer Bo Brinkman. "Those first few dates," Boxleitner says, "we both laughed hysterically."
She and Boxleitner could even chuckle about an earlier encounter -- as participants on Battle of the Network Stars, when Melissa, then 17 and a fan of Bruce's since junior high (where she taped his photo inside her locker), gawked at her idol -- and got a paternal pat on the head. Not this time. On Sept. 22, the anniversary of their first date, Boxleitner solemnly proposed. Gilbert, whose divorce from Brinkman becomes final in February, readily accepted and now wears his pear-shaped diamond engagement ring. Notes children's book author Sandy Peckinpah, a friend of both: "They have the same likes: family, animals, a simple life out in the country."
The country, in this case, is an affluent, wooded suburb of L.A., where Boxleitner and Gilbert live just a mile apart. Gilbert will soon give up her four-bedroom home to move into Boxleitner's five-bedroom western-style house. There they'll be joined, at least half of each week, by the children whose custody they share with their ex-spouses: Melissa and Bo's son, Dakota (nicknamed Cody), 4, and Bruce and Kitty's boys, Sam, 13, and Lee, 7. But eventually the Boxberts, as they playfully call their blended family (including three horses, two dogs, two cats and two bunnies), "want to start on our own turf," says Gilbert. "His house has so much history."
Boxleitner agrees. He and Kitty moved in there 13 years ago, as his TV star was rising. While she gave up acting to raise a family, "my head was in the clouds somewhere, off being Mr. Star," admits Boxleitner. With Scarecrow's cancellation in 1987, he came back down to earth. "Ironically," he says, "that's when my wife decided she'd had enough."
Gilbert and Brinkman's union was similarly strained. In 1990 the couple had weathered a three-month separation over Bo's drinking that ended when he entered rehab. But then, says Gilbert, "we started to get lazy about working on the marriage. I let it die long before he even knew about it." Their divorce, aided by family therapists, has been friendly.
Even the kids are all right. At Gilbert's house, Sam and Lee come and go freely. Cody, whose dad lives in Malibu, 30 minutes away, visits several days a week. "Cody feels a little guilty for liking Bruce," says Melissa. "But Bo tells him, `You can like Bruce. It's okay with Daddy.' "
CAPTION: "It's so wonderful to be with someone I don't fight with," says Boxleitner (snuggling with Gilbert in a Tucson hotel).
CAPTION: "I was never home," Bruce says of his breakup with Kathryn (in '78 with Schnitz).
CAPTION: Melissa (with Bruce's sons Sam, left, and Lee) rooted for Dad at a recent L.A. ball game.
CAPTION: Brinkman (with Gilbert and Montana) moved out two months after this '92 photo.
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Subject: Arichives: BB Article: People Weekly, March 28, 1994 v41 n11 p 37(1)
People Weekly, March 28, 1994 v41 n11 p 37(1)
Their separate ways. (Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner break engagement) (The Insider) (Column) (Brief Article) Mitchell Fink.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1994 On the other end of the romance spectrum: Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner have broken off their six-month engagement -- and, contrary to published reports, Gilbert, 29, is not devastated. In fact, we hear, the split was her idea. According to a source close to her, "She wanted kids, and he didn't. She didn't want to marry someone who didn't want kids." Gilbert already has a son, Cody, 4, from her marriage to actor Bo Brinkman. Boxleitner, 43, has sons Sam, 13, and Lee, 7, from his marriage to actress Kathryn Holcomb.
Gilbert has already moved out of Boxleitner's L.A. house and bought her own place, but the two remain friends. Boxleitner seems philosophic about the split. "I still love her very much," he says, "and regret that our relationship did not work out. We just grew in different directions."
CAPTION: Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner: Game over
Subject: Archives: BB Article: People Weekly, May 15, 1995 v43 n19 p51(1)
People Weekly, May 15, 1995 v43 n19 p51(1)
Gilbert and Boxleitner are doing some family planning. (Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner expecting; other celebrity news)(The Insider)(Column) Craig Tomashoff.
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1995 GILBERT AND BOXLEITNER ARE DOING SOME FAMILY PLANNING Melissa Gilbert and her husband of four months, Bruce Boxleitner, are expecting their first child in December. "They wanted a baby, but they weren't planning on having it right now," says a friend. "However, they're both thrilled." Gilbert has a son, Dakota, 6, and Boxleitner has two sons, Sam, 14, and Lee, 9, from previous marriages. No word yet on whether the pregnancy will be written into Gilbert's current TV series, Sweet Justice, which NBC has yet to renew for next season. .
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People Weekly, Jan 16, 1995 v43 n2 p44(2)
Little spouse on the prairie: after two false starts, Melissa Gilbert and Bruce Boxleitner just "I do" it. (Cover Story)
Brief Summary: The couple, who met in 1992, survived two broken engagements and were wed on New Year's Day 1995. They will not honeymoon immediately, because Gilbert, age 30, is a regular on the TV series 'Sweet Justice' and Boxleitner, age 44, stars on the syndicated program 'Babylon 5.'
Full Text: COPYRIGHT Time Inc. 1995 HER MOTHER'S HOUSE OVERlowed with fresh flowers, and candles seemed to flicker anxiously in every room. Then, just after the sun set over L.A., the bride, wearing an off-the-shoulder English cream-satin gown with a full-length veil, made her entrance. "The first time I got married, I eloped," Melissa Gilbert, 30, would say later, explaining the elegance of her New Year's Day marriage to actor Bruce Boxleitner, 44. "This time I wanted to have a real wedding."
Mission accomplished. The actress, who played Laura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1983, was preceded down the aisle by a 5-year-old flower girl in a classic green-velvet dress. The bride's maid of honor was her sister Sara, 19, a regular on Roseanne. And in a twist on tradition, Gilbert, whose father, comedian Paul Gilbert, died when she was 11, was given away by her mother, Barbara Yudko, a talent manager, and grandfather screenwriter Harry Crane. By the end of the 25-minute Jewish ceremony, attended by 40 guests including Gilbert's son Dakota, 5, and Boxleitner's boys Sam, 14, and Lee, 9, the newlyweds were nearly overcome with emotion. "They just kept staring at each other," says a friend of the couple's. "She'd start tearing up, then he'd tear up. It was very romantic."
Not to mention very surprising. The two met in late 1992, five years after Boxleitner, best known for starring in Scarecrow and Mrs. King, was divorced from actress Kathryn Holcomb Ogilvy, and four months after Gilbert separated from actor-writer Bo Brinkman. But the relationship seemed rocky, especially after their second broken engagement last October. Once, they argued "over nothing," Gilbert has said, and the other time "he got scared." What most people didn't know, she says, is that "we never stopped seeing each other. We reached the point where we had to date others or stay together forever."
In a few months, says Gilbert, she and her husband may honeymoon in Bora Bora. For now, though, it's work, work -- she on NBC's Sweet Justice and he on the syndicated series Babylon 5. Still, her long days seem easier since she and Boxleitner made things official. "I feel so safe and secure when he's around," says Gilbert. "Now I can finally relax."
CAPTION: EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Gilbert's surprise wedding With groom Bruce Boxleitner
CAPTION: "The whole ceremony was very family oriented," says Gilbert (with her sister and maid of honor Sara). "Everything was a piece of tradition."
CAPTION: "He's the best friend I have," Gilbert says of Boxleitner. "We take pride in each other -- we were meant to be together."
CAPTION: "We want more kids," says Gilbert (with, from left, stepfather Manny Yudko, mother Barbara, Boxleitner, and his parents, Diane and Cliff).
CAPTION: "My nervousness was more connected to the wedding than the marriage," says Gilbert (dressing at her mother's L.A. home).
CAPTION: "After all we've been through, we knew what we were doing getting married," says the bride, who made herself picture-perfect.
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