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These New Deadheads Are Truckin’ For Trouble

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Loose talk

Keanu Reeves on on rumors that he’s gay (in Vanity Fair magazine): “Well, I mean there’s nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment.”

The term Deadhead used to mean something peaceful. You could even say it was the musical equivalent of couch potato.

But not anymore. With its tour threatened by a few atypical incidents, the Grateful Dead is telling its followers - the Deadheads - to chill or they may have to cancel the remainder of the band’s summer dates.

“Your reputation is on the line,” Dead leader Jerry Garcia and his band-mates told fans in a internet communique. “A few more scenes like last night and we’ll quite simply be unable to play.”

The statement was referring to a July 2 concert in Noblesville, Ind., in which thousand of gatecrashers battled police. Veteran Deadheads blame the troubles on a new generation of hard-drinking college students.

In the last election, the Big Apple took a bite out of him

Mario Cuomo turns 63 today.

It was ‘Another World’ filled with Big Macs

Linda Dano, the 52-year-old actress who plays Felicia Gallant on the soap opera “Another World,” is a veteran of the food wars. When her father began suffering from Alzheimer’s a few years ago, she went on “drive-by binges.” “I’d leave the ‘Another World’ studio and pull into McDonald’s on my way home. Then I would make dinner for my mother, my husband and myself.” She finally broke the cycle a year ago.

Later that night, she dressed in her party duds

It was just another day at the office for Anne Rice. Holding a book signing Wednesday in New Orleans for her latest book “Memnoch the Devil,” Rice wrapped herself in a wedding gown, perched atop a coffin and had herself driven to the site in a mule-drawn hearse accompanied by a brass band.

And 20 years from now, it will read ‘Spock is who again?’

In 1975, Leonard Nimoy saw publication of his autobiography titled “I Am Not Spock.” His updated memoir is titled “I Am Spock.”

How about letting us vote on the whole deal?

Here’s a clever marketing technique: The Miss America contest will continue to hold its swimsuit competition, but it will let viewers decide whether the competition should be aired. The show’s producers will hold an on-the-air viewer vote during the Sept. 16 show. “Let the American people decide,” said Miss America CEO Leonard Horn.

And if anyone should know, she is the one

The quote: “There are a lot of men who like the danger, the dirtiness and the forbidden aspect of doing something like what actor Hugh Grant did. There’s nothing a woman can do about that.” The speaker: ExMayflower Madam Sydney Biddle Barrows.

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