Take The Bid, Take The Bid, Take The Bid In Back
Loose talk
Michelle Pfeiffer, on how she handles media intrusions: “I don’t run from the paparazzi anymore. I have too much weighing me down now. I have two kids and diaper bags and strollers, so I had to cop a new attitude.”
It’s been almost 11 years since Elton John posed the podiatric musical question: “Who wears these shoes?”
The answer, apparently, is whoever comes up with the cash.
Some of the flamboyant rock star’s old platform shoes, shirts and ties, provided by his former housekeepers, go on the block at Bonham’s auction house in London today along with similar items from John Lennon and Mick Jagger.
John’s agent said most of the collection “can only be described as everyday household goods and bric-a-brac,” calling the items “discarded rubbish” and “gifts” that were never intended for sale.
Replied auction house spokesman Ted Owens: “One person’s bric-a-brac is another person’s memento.”
Just so you’ll know how long she’s been living
Martha Stewart turns 54 today.
An important quality when it comes to radio
Mick Jagger’s model wife, Jerry Hall, has landed the role of Betty Grable in a British Broadcasting Corp. radio biography. Said the show’s director: “Like the character she plays, she is blonde, sexy, has a sharp sense of humor - and the legs to carry it off.”
When he got there, they were already gone
Desperado and Best of My Love, two eaglets named after aging Eagle Don Henley, have died at Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park. Two other baby eagles will be given the names to honor Henley, who donated $10,000 to the National Foundation to Protect America’s Eagles.
From his standpoint, he has nothing to hide
Mark Harris, the seventh and final husband of the late Martha Raye - who willed part of her estate to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - is opening a fur salon. “As an American, I have the right to wear fur,” Harris told the Los Angeles Times. And if PETA doesn’t like it, he added: “Let them eat steak.”
But the ants, apparently, get short shrift
Spokane’s own Scott O’Grady, on his new book deal to tell the story of his rescue from the Serbs: “I want to let people know about the three things that got me through my ordeal: my faith in God, my family and friends, and my patriotic confidence that the U.S., U.N. and NATO forces would do everything they could to bring me home.”
Freedom from the facts can be a real Rush
Real celebrities like Sting and Liza Minelli turn up in cameo roles in “Shameless,” a new novel about the rock biz by folk singer Judy Collins. Said Collins, who previously penned an autobiography: “It was nice to be sprung from the facts and be able to sail into the fiction and make it up as I went along instead of being anchored to the truth.”
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