If You’re Feeling Blue, Don’t Go On Television

Loose talk

Linda Ronstadt on aging: “I’m 48 years old. I don’t look like I did when I was 38; I don’t look like I did when I was 28. It’s got to be OK somehow. You’ve got to look in the mirror and go, ‘This is reality, and it’s all right.”’

Romantic breakups are hard to endure. What’s worse, though, are the many stupid things you do after they occur.

For example, following his breakup with his girlfriend of three years, singer Chris Isaak wrote a letter to her that he never sent.

So far so good. But then he included the letter in the liner notes of his latest album, “Forever Blue.” In the letters he asks, “Do you sleep with somebody else now? I tell myself not to think about that stuff but I do.”

“A lot of things seem like a good idea,” the 33-year-old Isaak told Canadian Press, “when you’re at your house and it’s four o’clock and you go: ‘This would be a good thing to put there.’ Then when they ask you about it on television it’s like later on you think, ‘Well, maybe this wasn’t a good idea.”’

This ex-Mama still doesn’t trust Monday, Monday

Michelle Phillips turns 50 today.

Even so, Henry always could play ball with the big boys

Actor Paul Sorvino will have to work hard to capture the essence of Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state under Richard Nixon whom Sorvino will portray in Oliver Stone’s upcoming Nixon bio-flick. Not that Kissinger is more advanced intellectually. It’s more that Sorvino, at 6-feet-3, is nearly half a foot taller than the ex-diplomat.

How many different ways can you say the word beige?

Buzz magazine reports that Barbra Streisand, who recently viewed “French Kiss” and lunched in Washington, D.C., with U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright, may buy a beachfront house in the Hamptons section of Long Island, N.Y. In preparation, Streisand hired experts to evaluate the color of the sand.

They always have their photo albums to keep them company

In Clint Eastwood’s version of “The Bridges of Madison County,” Eastwood stars as a National Geographic photographer who has a brief affair with a housewife (Meryl Streep). NG editor William Allen, begs to differ. “The real story is often bad hotels, bad food, bad airline flights, cases of malaria, broken bones, hepatitis and helicopter crashes,” he told the Washington Post. “A few have found spouses, but more have lost them because they’re away so much.”

Like Rodney Dangerfield, Kato gets no respect

Kato Kaelin was scheduled to open for comedian Louis Anderson when he appeared in Las Vegas June 8-21. But Anderson, citing schedule conflicts, canceled out. And that canceled Kaelin.

Of course, hubris usually begins at the top

Asked why there is no masthead in The New Yorker, the magazine’s editor, Tina Brown, blamed the fact on hubris. “You can’t believe the tangled web of egos,” she told Advertising Age.

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