Husband's Celebrity Mistake Provokes Tears From Wife At Labor Day Party

In a twenty-two-year marriage, every husband will inevitably slip up, leaving the milk out on the breakfast table, not unplugging the iron before heading off to work, and the perenially popular faux pas of not putting the seat down on the toilet bowl. These are offenses for which most husbands are forgiven as the spouses learn to deal with their male counterparts' forgetfulness.

Mindy Brazier was no different than most women, constantly reminding her husband Charles early in the couple's marriage not to forget to "do this" or "do that," but she eventually turned a blind eye to Charles's mistakes, chalking them up as an inherent ineptness that was due to his "maleness." However, Charles, for the past two years, has routinely embarrased Mindy at backyard barbeques, dinner parties, and various other functions, confusing celebrities with one another when in mixed conversation with friends and family.

During a Labor Day party at the Braziers' friends' Cape Cod home, Charles's latest mistake was "the straw that broke the camel's back!" declared Mrs. Brazier to the partiers in attendance. "It's over!" she added, drying her tears with a paper napkin as she stormed inside to the bathroom.
* Mindy and Charles Brazier in happier times at their wedding in 1985.

At 7:55 p.m., as the sounds of Michael Buble played from outdoor speakers and the glow of tiki torches ensconced the guests on the Alderman's (the Brazier's friends') mahogany deck, one partygoer, Eric Nelson, a Cape Cod veterinarian and neighbor of the Alderman's, mentioned a film he and his wife Suzy recently saw: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Nelson lightly elbowed Mr. Brazier and said, "It was pretty funny. But God, that Jessica Biel is something else. She's got a body that just won't quit! Man, she's hot!" Fred Alderman, the party's host, agreed, telling Nelson and Brazier that he saw the commercial for the film a few months ago and still couldn't forget the image he saw of Biel in her bra and panties. All the while, Brazier was dumbfounded. He bit his tongue for almost a minute, sipping on his Jim Beam and lemonade cocktail, but eventuallly blurted out, "You guys are WAY OFF! She hasn't been hot since Flashdance when that water poured down on her. She's gotta be an old woman now. Let me guess, you guys are into granny porn," Brazier playfully added as he let out a loud laugh.

That's right: Mr. Charles Brazier confused Jessica Biel, the former Seventh Heaven actress and current Hollywood hottie, with Jennifer Beals, the star of the '80's classic Flashdance.
* The Biel-Beals mix-up wasn't the first time Charles Brazier confused two celebrities, but this latest mistake has put a strain on his marriage.

When Mindy heard the news of her husband's latest faux pas, which occurred approximately 10 yards from where she and a group of ladies were sitting at a table, holding glasses that were filled with various white and red wine varietals, she soflty said, "Not again," over and over until her friend, May Alderman, put her arm around Mindy and whispered, "It's okay. Just enjoy the night. Don't you go and cry."
* May Alderman tried to calm down her irate friend.

The scene, with Eric Nelson repeatedly shouting, "Hey guys, Charles confused Jessica Biel with Jennifer Beals! Do you believe that?" was too much for Mindy to take, despite her friend's efforts. "Mindy pulled from me and fled inside in tears," recalled Alderman. "I knew it was bad. Much worse than the last time." According to Mindy's gal pal, Charles embarrassed his wife not too long ago at a Fourth of July barbecue that the Braziers were hosting, when he
misinterpreted a conversation that his brother-in-law Peter Martin was having with one of the Brazier's neighbors.

The mistake was "laughable," said Martin. "Here I am talking to a guy who lives across the street from Charles and my sister; it turns out this guy is a college friend of Ron Perelman's, the billionaire, and Charles chimes in, saying, 'That guy's no billionaire! You can't make that kind of scratch acting! Don't listen to him, Pete. He's a liar with a capital L!' Well, I was embarrased, but at least I'm not married to Charles. My poor sister."
* Charles called his neighbor "a liar with a capital L" for saying that the television and film actor Ron Pearlman is a billionaire. As it turned out, Charles's neighbor was referring to the CEO of Revlon, Ron Perelman.

That's the tough road Mrs. Brazier has had to tread down for the past few years as her husband has publicly confused baseball great Reggie Jackson with Jesse Jackson, legendary music producer Clive Davis with jazz icon Miles Davis, and dozens of other pairings. As of now, the Braziers are separated, but the couple is talking about entering counseling.