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Mixing Fact With Fiction Is Truly A Novel Notion

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Loose talk

Pauly Shore on meeting Kato Kaelin at a party last fall (in Entertainment Weekly): “We looked at each other and started laughing because we’re both jokes, you know?”

Tom Clancy has built a career on writing action novels that feature Boy Scout-type protagonists.

He told one interviewer that he never wrote sex scenes because, he said, “I’m a married Catholic and I don’t do that…. I can’t admire anyone who plays around on his wife.”

Welcome to real life. Clancy’s wife of 25 years, Wanda Clancy, has filed for divorce. According to court papers, she accuses Clancy of desertion and adultery “with one Katherine Huang, a.k.a. ‘Bin Bin,’ a.k.a. ‘Ping Ping.”’

According to the New York Daily News, Clancy met Huang - a 26-year-old assistant district attorney - through a computer network. As for Clancy, neither he nor his attorney are talking.

Scout’s honor.

Give or take a few years, that is

Anthony Quinn turns 80 today.

As early as two years ago, Kato took a stab at fame

You don’t know Janet Cooper. But she deserves her 15 minutes. Cooper works for the Singing Store, a Los Angeles business that is selling a twoyear-old karaoke music video featuring Kato Kaelin as a knife-wielding killer. “It’s kind of in bad taste, I guess,” says Cooper, “but we knew it would be a hit.”

Even in his day, he was no Edith Head

In his forthcoming autobiography, the fashion designer Mr. Blackwell - yes, of the infamous annual worst-dressed list - admits to having had love affairs with Cary Grant and Tyrone Power. But he remains discreet. “This isn’t a porno book!” he told Vanity Fair magazine. He’s titled it “From Rags to Bitches.”

Isn’t that where you have to eat in slow motion?

“David Hasselhoff is talking about opening a chain of restaurants based on the TV show ‘Baywatch,”’ said Jay Leno the other night. “They already have this, don’t they? It’s called Hooters.”

But they both put their pants on one leg at a time

According to YM magazine, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis spend $3,000 a month on Arkansas mountain water that they use for drinking, cooking and bathing. The couple’s household and business staff consists of 28 members.

Yes, these days he’s bearing the weight of the world

There are different accounts being given as to why Marlon Brando did not attend the funeral of daughter Cheyenne, who committed suicide last week. He says it was because the paparazzi would disrupt the services. Ex-wife Anna Kashfi told Inside Edition that it was because a contract has been taken out on his life “Marlon’s paying for what he has done. He must be held accountable,” she said.

The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster