Phil’s Just Thrilled With Life After Saturday Night
How bad did things get on the “Saturday Night Live” set?
Unbearably bad, says Phil Hartman, who made his escape after eight years of “SNL” and is now happily part of the ensemble on NBC’s “NewsRadio” sitcom.
“I was emotionally stressed the whole time,” Hartman, probably best-known for his Bill Clinton impersonation, told People magazine.
“The backstabbing could be painful, but the hardest thing was competing against your friends for airtime.
“People would say things like, ‘You’re not going to put that on the air, are you?”’
By the end, he said, “It was becoming sophomoric and silly. The job served me well. It just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.”
Loose talk
Kato Kaelin, on his reaction to a recent Discovery Channel special about sharks (in Entertainment Weekly): “After watching it, I can tell you, I do have a fear: I couldn’t go swimming, I couldn’t go in the bathtub. But I did wash my hair!”
Perhaps you know his friend, Phil Harmonic
Zubin Mehta turns 59 today.
He has a weakness for those long shots
Leonardo DiCaprio (“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”, “This Boy’s Life”) just couldn’t resist the role of rocker/poet/former junkie Jim Carroll in “The Basketball Diaries.” Says DiCaprio of his idiosyncratic career: “I don’t know how to choose a film that people want to see.”
A real man would have stuck to his guns
Spin magazine publisher Bob Guccione Jr. says Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses “wimped out” when he tried to accept the challenge to a fight that Rose recorded in the song, “Get in the Ring.” Said Guccione: “He didn’t know that I studied full-contact karate for 10 years … He’s a pathetic person … and I think his talent was exaggerated.”
It’s the only way he can get out and jam
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder showed up in dark glasses and a wig Wednesday in Philadephia to sit in on drums with wife Beth Liebling’s artnoise band, Hovercraft, but doffed the disguise during a second set after fans recognized him.
We guess that falls under Phair comment
Rising star Liz Phair’s Monday night show in the Big Apple was deemed “abysmal” by the New York Post. While Phair criticized the crowd for staying in ther seats (“Do you think it’s easy being up here?”), the reviewer wrote: “What Liz didn’t realize was that if anybody actually stood up they’d probably have kept going.”
Sounds like the place was full of holes
After her audience started throwing things Tuesday in Amsterdam, Hole’s Courtney Love scurried around screaming obscenities at fans, one of whom told her: “You killed Kurt Cobain!” Said a spokesman for Geffen Records: “Sounds like a typical Courtney Love show.”
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