Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi exchanged vows Sunday in a small ceremony in their L.A. home attended by 19 guests, including Ellen's mom, Betty, and Portia's momma, Margaret, who flew in from Australia, reports People.

Family members, friends and fellow comedians gave Bernie Mac a grand going-home ceremony Saturday in his hometown of Chicago.

More than 6,000 turned out to pay their respects to the 50-year-old funnyman who died last week from complications with pneumonia.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley spoke, as did Bernie's fellow "Original Kings of Comedy" D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Steve Harvey.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama sent a letter.

John Mayer is looking none too gallant in the aftermath of his breakup with Jennifer Aniston.

He's talking plenty, telling a reporter for OK! magazine that he broke up with Jen "to be alone, because I don't want to waste somebody's time if something's not right."

While Jen's not saying a mumbling word, her friends are letting it be known that she was the one who broke it off with the playboy singer.

"[Mayer's] childish behavior only confirms she was right to dump him. Now he's acting like a spoiled child. Expect Jen to behave like a lady," a source tells our girl Courtney Hazlett of MSNBC.com.

Her friends say John would tip off certain paparazzi and bloggers, plus they say Jen got tired of paying for everything.

Ouch!

Wonder how many dates he'll get now!

What's wrong with Roseanne Barr? Wait a minute, we don't have that much space.

Anyway, she went ballistic on her blog, slamming Angelina Jolie and her man, Brad Pitt, as "evil" and "vacuous," respectively.

She had a bunch more stuff to say, but we can only take so much hateration in one day.

GBB wants to send a shout-out to the African American Institute Boys Choir, which performed this past weekend at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Dr. James Johnson and his lovely wife, Pam, really don't get enough credit for the work they do with these talented young men.

Our darling nephew, Dorian Gooden, who is a wonderful pianist and drummer, is also a member of this fabulous choir.

You go, boy!

Quick, what was Laurence Fishburne's first movie gig?

If you said it was a 1972 television film called "If Give a Dance You Gotta Pay the Band," you're right.

Now, do you know who wrote it?

Believe it or not, it was Homewood native Stanley Gray, who lives in San Gabriel, Calif.

We watched that movie back in the day, LOVED it and always wanted to see it again.

Recently, we got a chance to talk to Mr. Gray, who was back in town to participate in the U.S. Transplant Games. The 71-year-old amateur athlete underwent a liver transplant last year but won a gold and two silver medals during the games. He participated in basketball, long jump, the 100-meter dash and the 200- and 400-meter relays.

His is a fascinating story of addiction, recovery, perseverance and love.

"I left here when I was 21, and when I left here I was a drug addict," he said.

Stanley went to jail in the early '70s and quit drugs.

"But like so many ex-drug addicts I just switched from drugs to alcohol, and then I became an alcoholic."

Before being incarcerated, Stanley had participated in a special two-year UCLA program, prompted by the 1968 Watts riots, to help troubled African Americans get into the film industry.

A friend Stanley met in the UCLA program had sold a screenplay called "The Dealer," starring Kris Kristofferson, and when he got out of jail, the friend got him a job with the film's producer.

"It was a film about drugs, and he talked the producer into hiring me as a consultant," said Stanley, who was in a work-release program at the time.

"I would leave every day, go to Hollywood, work on the movie and return at night."

Once the movie wrapped up, he was kept on for a while as a reader. "I read about 25 screenplays, all of which were crap," he said. "So I sat down and wrote 'Dance' in about three months."

He sold the screenplay without an agent for $37,500.

Set in Pittsburgh, it was the story of an African-American teenage girl growing up in a neighborhood much like Stanley's with an 11-year-old Fishburne, playing her neighbor and confidant.

It aired on ABC and was nominated by the Writers Guild of America for Outstanding Screenplay of 1972.

"I got these rave reviews and I thought I was William Shakespeare," he said. "That success is hard to handle.

Being an alcoholic makes it even more difficult.

"I had the most money I ever had in my life," Stanley said. "I didn't buy a new car or anything. I put it all in the bank and drank it up."

They nearly had to call SWAT, he said, when he went to the bank and was informed there was no more money in his account.

But pending fatherhood prompted Stanley to turn his life around.

When he learned that his longtime girlfriend and future wife was expecting their first child, "I checked into the drunk hospital and have been sober ever since," he said.

Stanley had his own business for about 25 years, selling sports shirts and novelty items.

He has been married for 30 years and has one daughter and two grandchildren.

"I didn't know you love your grandchildren more than you love your original children," he said.

Stanley credits his grandchildren with providing the motivation he needed to deal with his liver transplant ordeal.

"Once I had a grandbaby I had to stick around, see how this turns out," he said. "They have been so inspirational to me"

Unlike many of those in need of a transplant, Stanley only waited three months for his organ.

"In my situation everything that could go right did. I was out of the hospital in eight days and back to playing basketball in two months."

"I never thought about donating organs until I needed a liver."

Now, he's a strong advocate for organ donation, which includes talking to young people about being donors.

"I tell people if I was working the pearly gates and you showed up missing some organs, I'd move you to the front of the line."