Even A True Lovett Does Not Conquer All
Loose talk
Garry Shandling, coming to terms with his frenetic follicles (in USA Weekend): “It’s not the hair on your head that matters. It’s the kind of hair you have inside.”
Julia Roberts may no longer wear Lyle Lovett’s wedding ring, but it sounds like he’s still her cowboy man.
“We’re the closest of friends,” Roberts told Oprah Winfrey on Monday. “There’s a very intense bond there that’s unshakable.”
As for their failed marriage, she said: “We tried to make more out of it; we tried to parlay it into something that it wasn’t.”
Roberts said she grew up believing marriage is “what you’re supposed to do,” so when along came Lovett, “the nicest man you’ve ever met … I got pretty swept away. He put some voodoo spell on me.”
As for whether she’d try it again, here’s how Roberts put it on David Letterman’s “Late Show” Friday night: “I think the world’s a safer place if I’m not married.”
Bring more champagne and put it on his Bill
Roger Clinton turns 38 today.
But we suppose he was smiling when he said it
Letterman told the Television Critics Association over the weekend that he expects to bounce back from his first-ever ratings loss to “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, who had the first crack at a humbled Hugh Grant. When asked if his humor was more mean-spirited than Leno’s, Letterman replied: “Oh, shut up.”
You’ve got to be careful on those country roads
John Denver, fresh from wowing the crowd in Spokane’s Riverfront Park on Sunday, still could face a week in jail for drunken driving after crashing his Porsche into a tree last August. The charge had been dropped but was reinstated by a Colorado judge last week. Denver’s attorney vows to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It must be all kinds of fun at family reunions
A man who claimed to have fathered two children by Whitney Houston has been permanently barred by a New Jersey judge from contacting her. A couple of weeks ago, a similar order was issued against another man who claimed to be the singer’s brother.
The clock ran out, and now they’re history
A Los Angeles court has thrown out a lawsuit by four former bodyguards who claim Michael Jackson fired them because they knew about his sexual dalliances with young boys. Sniffed an attorney for Jackson, who previously settled a sex-abuse claim out of court: “This was their way of getting their 15 minutes in the limelight.”
And there’s really nothing more to say about it
Bert Convy, who was reported in this column to have turned 61 on Sunday, actually died of cancer in 1991.
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