Her New Credo: Eat, Breathe, Move, Spend
It may sound insane, but burr-headed fitness guru Susan Powter has filed for personal bankruptcy.
Powter, who listed liabilities of $3 million, blames her business partners, saying they “have a stranglehold on my career.”
“I may have made a bazillion dollars this year, but the corporation got the money,” said Powter, star of infomercials, books, videos, talk shows and a syndicated column (carried by The Spokesman-Review).
One of those partners, Gerald Frankel, contends Powter and personal manager Rusty Robertson received $4 million over the past two years - “hardly slave labor.”
Looking on the bright side, Robertson says: “Susan is alive and well. She is not going to be holding a cup on the side of the street.”
Loose talk
Rocker David Crosby, on his personal philosophy: “I’m not a total pacifist, you know. I’ve shot at people. I missed, but I shot at them. I’m sort of glad I missed.”
Sunshine on his shoulders still makes him … oops, wrong dweeb
Bob Denver turns 60 today.
Anyone who’s ever dated Shannen Doherty could tell them that
Actress Kim Basinger is threatening to sue the New York Times over a story about how her bankruptcy has hurt Braselton, Ga., the tiny town she bought for $20 million. “Instead of becoming a tourist attraction tied tightly to Ms. Basinger’s name, Braselton is now just another asset in her bankruptcy,” the Times said, adding townspeople have learned that “getting too involved with an actress can be dangerous.”
Question: What do the people of Braselton know that he doesn’t?
Don’t believe those break-up rumors about him and Julia Roberts, hubby Lyle Lovett insists. “I’m married to this girl, and I am in love with her,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “What you hear about is a fictionalized version.”
Perk up, dude, she’s always had a thing for animated cats
Paula Abdul and Emilio Estevez, who split seven months ago, are rekindling their romance, according to spies who’ve seen them making mushy-face at the ski slopes and other public places in Telluride, Colo.
Now we’ll see if those Serbs can resist American advances
Old smoothie Merv Griffin apparently has replaced regular on-call date Eva Gabor with some real royalty: Princess Elizabeth of what was once Yugoslavia.
It’s guys like that who give the rest of the gender a bad name
Cybill Shepherd has no intentions of letting go of musician Robert Martin. “I’ve kept him a secret for a long time,” she told TV Guide. “He’s very available on an emotional level. He really doesn’t mind talking things to death; he doesn’t mind being in the process. He wants to grow in love. That, to me, is a wonderful thing to be around. I worked real hard in five or six years of therapy to have this.”
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino