Guess She’s Gone For A Dip In The Gene Pool
Loose talk
Joan Hickman, on her husband, Dwayne (aka “Dobie Gillis”): “I could make it interesting and say he beats me and chainsaws the furniture, but he’s the most fair, loving, caring individual I’ve ever known. He’s Dobie, I swear.”
The New York tabloids are all abuzz with reports that “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee got married in Mexico over the weekend.
The Daily News quoted a Cancun judge as saying, “The bride wore a very tiny - an extremely tiny - white bikini.” Lee was in white Bermuda shorts, sans shoes or shirt.
Anderson’s mother, Carol, told the New York Post from her home in British Columbia that the family was surprised at the wedding. “We’re still in shock,” she said.
And producer Jon Peters, whom Anderson had been dating lately, was described as “slightly stunned” by New York Newsday columnist Liz Smith.
Blonde bad girls are old hat for Lee, who was previously married to Heather Locklear.
We suppose she’s somewhere on Tommy’s list
Drew Barrymore turns 20 today.
It does get kind of crowded on the couch
Don’t go getting ideas about Lauren Holly (“Picket Fences”) and her “Dumb and Dumber” co-star, Jim Carrey. “We’re not even close to thinking about marriage,” she says. “We’re just attempting to keep this relationship going, and we’re going through the normal things any relationship goes through. I’m just not used to having millions of people go through them with me.”
Wouldn’t it be easier to make her disappear?
Magician David Copperfield, who’s engaged to model Claudia Schiffer, conjured up a rather unusual pre-nuptial agreement. According to People magazine, Copperfield made his future mother-in-law sign a promise not to reveal how he performs his tricks.
He’s not about to kowtow to any woman
Singer Ray Charles, who fathered nine children by seven different women (including two wives), on marriage: “Milk is a great drink but not everybody can drink it. It’s the same with marriage. Marriage is a great institution. I have tried it but I cannot handle it.”
As it turns out, she ended up with both jobs
U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tex., got off to a slow start with his future wife, Wendy Lee, reports the New York Times Magazine. After she interviewed for a professorship at Texas A&M, where he was teaching, Gramm told her: “As a single member of the faculty, I’d be very interested in having you come to Texas A&M.” Her reply: “Oh, yuck!”
Which is one way to say `kiss off, kemosabe’
Finally, some sad news about the breakup of a longtime couple - the Lone Ranger and Tonto. In a new comic book, the stalwart sidekick declares: “I’m not your Indian … I’m not anyone’s Indian. I’m Tonto.” And then proceeds to floor the masked man with a right uppercut.
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