Yummy, Yummy, She’s Got Love In Her Tummy

Loose talk

Actress Winona Ryder on rumors that she’s had breast augmentation surgery: “I’m way too chicken to go under the knife. The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most - it’s so - I mean it’s horrifying to even think about.”

To eat or not to eat - that is the question we ask when love goes wrong. We know this through quick-fix books and talk-show hosts.

But these days call for gimmick fixes. And what better fix is there than to put a gender spin on the topic? Author Susie Orbach did and apparently was able to use such generalized pronouncements to attract a high-profile client.

Orbach’s book “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” claims that men make women fat. They do so, she claims, by causing emotional stress.

So it should be no surprise to learn that Britain’s Princess Diana was spotted by The Sun leaving Orbach’s London office on Monday. The princess has admitted having problems with bulimia.

Orbach was coy. “My patient list is not something I can discuss,” she said. “I am not saying she is a patient or is not a patient.”

And he still displays so much comic grace

George Burns turns 99 today.

Looking ahead, Brooke hopes others will, too

In an upcoming issue of Details magazine, Brooke Shields plans to do a seminude photo spread. In one shot, she’s clad only in unzipped jeans with dobs of whipped cream subbing for her Miracle Bra.

Bright lights, big city, unabashed exploitation

Author J.M. McDonnell has written a new novel based on the life of his friend, Marla Hanson. Hanson, you’ll recall, is the model whose face was slashed. McDonnell’s book portrays how Hanson’s ex-boyfriend, novelist Jay McInerney, exploited her situation for his own ends.

Like being caught in your almost clean underwear

Billy Joel, having ridden out the Japanese earthquake in an Osaka hotel room, takes such events in stride. “I’ve had a number of neardeath experiences, and what usually happens is this incredible sense of fatalism comes over you,” he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “You accept the idea that this could be your last second, and almost funny thoughts come into your head.”

Can you hum that in the key of G, Barry?

“I learned that when you fall in love, you’ve lost contact with reality,” soul crooner Barry White told Rolling Stone magazine. Giving up power, said White, “That’s where possessiveness, jealousy comes from… So all I do is love, I don’t fall in love. Love as honest as you can, as strong as you can, but never, ever fall in love.”

Question is, does HE know he has a problem?

Lou Brown, father of murdered Nicole Brown Simpson, is helping to raise his grandchildren, Sydney, 9, and Justin, 6. And, according to what he told Newsweek magazine, he’s frank about their father, O.J. Simpson, who calls them weekly from jail. “They know where their dad is,” Brown said, “And they know he has a problem.”

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