Martha Ross, San Jose Mercury News

Martha Ross

San Jose Mercury News

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States

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Past articles by Martha:

Makeup-free Selena Gomez upstages glam ‘mean girl’ Hailey Bieber

The model wife of pop star Justin Bieber has emerged as the mean girl in her bizarre social media drama with his ex-girlfriend. → Read More

Makeup-free Selena Gomez upstages glam ‘mean girl’ Hailey Bieber

The model wife of pop star Justin Bieber has emerged as the mean girl in her bizarre social media drama with his ex-girlfriend. → Read More

‘Melania Trump knew’: Why Trump’s Stormy Daniels defense could be flawed

As Donald Trump faces possible indictment in the 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, his lawyers have said how Melania Trump could be involved in her husband’s case. → Read More

‘Melania Trump knew’: Why Trump’s Stormy Daniels defense could be flawed

As Donald Trump faces possible indictment in the 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, his lawyers have said how Melania Trump could be involved in her husband’s case. → Read More

‘No!’ Hugh Grant rebuffs further questions about his surly Oscars interview

Grant was just as non-communicative at the Vanity Fair Oscar party Sunday night as he was earlier in the evening with Ashley Graham. → Read More

‘No!’ Hugh Grant rebuffs further questions about his surly Oscars interview

Grant was just as non-communicative at the Vanity Fair Oscar party Sunday night as he was earlier in the evening with Ashley Graham. → Read More

Paul Sorvino got the same Oscars tribute as Sacheen Littlefeather

Mira Sorvino and her mother have expressed dismay that the late, great character actor wasn't included in Sunday night's In Memoriam segment at the Oscars but relegated to an online tribute page. → Read More

Tom Cruise shaded at Oscars with Scientology joke and Nicole Kidman being there instead of him

Did Cruise, a producer for best picture nominee ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ skip the Academy Awards out of concern he’d be the butt of jokes about Scientology or his messy personal life? → Read More

Aleksei Navalny’s Stanford daughter honors dad on Oscars stage

While navigating exams and term papers at Stanford, junior Dasha Navalnaya continued to promote 'Navalny," the documentary about her father's campaign against the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin. → Read More

Tony La Russa says he’s blocked from personal sports memorabilia by the Animal Rescue Foundation

Amid the La Russa family's bitter split from the Animal Rescue Foundation, the baseball legend said his sports and entertainment memorabilia is being held 'hostage' at the nonprofit's Walnut Creek facility. → Read More

Rupert Murdoch: Fox News fired Kimberly Guilfoyle for ‘inappropriate behavior’

Murdoch’s complaints about his former Fox News host were revealed in a trove of texts and emails that were recently leaked in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against the network. → Read More

John Travolta at Sunday night’s Oscars could mean one thing

After ‘Adele Dazeem’ in 2014, whose name might John Travolta get wrong this year? → Read More

Was Marlon Brando’s house shot up after the 1973 Oscars? Sacheen Littlefeather says she was nearly killed

Here’s what Marlon Brando did and didn’t say about his friendship with the late Bay Area activist and her famous moment on the Oscars stage 50 years ago. → Read More

Bay Area Picnic: A Petaluma creamery and pond offer an idyllic setting

Head to the rolling hills west of Novato for this picnic eden, where a creamery store carries all the picnic fare you could ever want, and ducks paddle in the pond. → Read More

Harry and Meghan invoke princess title for Lilibet amid royal feud

The issue of royal titles for Meghan Markle's children became a sticking point for the American duchess and a source of her concern about racism in the royal family, as she told Oprah Winfrey in 2021. → Read More

Tony La Russa and family finalize their separation from the Animal Rescue Foundation

Tony and Elaine La Russa co-founded ARF when he was the manager of the Oakland As in the early 1990s to help find loving and permanent homes for stray and abandoned pets. → Read More

Harry and Meghan face coronation dilemma amid never-ending royal drama

Now that they Sussexes have been invited to Charles’ coronation, they are confronting a difficult situation, both in terms of their personal relationships with Harry’s family and in the… → Read More

Harry and Meghan face coronation dilemma amid never-ending royal drama

Now that they Sussexes have been invited to Charles’ coronation, they are confronting a difficult situation, both in terms of their personal relationships with Harry’s family and in the… → Read More

Oscars’ other scandal: The Academy really doesn’t want to talk about Sacheen Littlefeather – Daily Democrat

The Oscars organization refuses to answer questions about the ethnic fraud allegations against Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist it celebrated as a Native American icon in September… → Read More

Oscars other scandal: The Academy really doesn’t want to talk about Sacheen Littlefeather

The Oscars organization refuses to answer questions about the ethnic fraud allegations against Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist it celebrated as a Native American icon in September. → Read More