‘History’ Set To Go, But ‘Theirstory’ Is Hotter
Loose talk
Paul Reiser on his tendency for selfabsorption (in Elle magazine): “I think if I were a woman, I’d go out with myself. I’d go out with me as a guy, so that I could just really defend my case and go: ‘I don’t know - he seems like a pretty good guy to me.”’
We’re a week away from the release of Michael Jackson’s new LP, “HIStory, Past, Present & Future - Book I.” But the rumor factory is running at full shift.
Among the juicier tidbits:
Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson is pregnant.
“I won’t say yes, I won’t say no,” says Jackson publicist Lee Solters about this item passed on by the London Daily Mirror.
Jackson did party with little boys.
Four of the pop star’s ex-guards have sued him for unlawful discharge because, they charge, they knew of his late-night fiestas.
Leroy A. Thomas, Donald Starks, Fred Hammond and Aaron White “were fired because they were percipient witnesses to Michael Jackson coming and going in the middle of the night along with young boys,” said their lawyer, Charles Mathews.
Think he ever needed to ice down his knees?
Eric Heiden turns 37 today.
Would he settle for a basket of ‘Love Mel’ buttons?
The quote: “As a celebrity, Mel has had to defend himself against many frivolous claims.” The speaker: Rose Palermo, the lawyer of country singer Mel Tillis. The occasion: Palermo was referring to the suit filed against Tillis by his brother, Richard, who was fired from his job of selling souvenirs in Tillis’ Ozark Theatre in Forsyth, Mo. Richard Tillis wants $750,000 in damages.
Get used to it kid, the guy’s a movie-star dad
As Joanne Whalley-Kilmer gave birth to her new son, father Val Kilmer was at the Hollywood premiere of his new film “Batman Forever.” “I’ve missed half my baby’s life because of doing press,” Kilmer joked.
No, but he had a few moments during ‘Bachelor Party’
As sportscaster Bob Costas knows, it pays in broadcasting to be as irreverent as you are clever. Take the question that he asked two-time Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks during halftime of the NBA championship game on Sunday. Referring to Hanks’ forthcoming role in the film “Apollo 13,” Costas asked, “Had you ever experienced weightlessness before - I mean, other than when they handed you that first ‘Bosom Buddies’ script?”
Next thing you know they’ll be losing their religion
This just in: R.E.M. is set to make a rare television appearance on June 23 when it plays the David Letterman show.
She stole that line directly from Bill Buckner
Here’s one for the Ooops! dept.: Susan Luery unveiled her 800-pound statue of Babe Ruth last month outside Baltimore’s Camden Yards ballpark, only to be told that she had posed the left-handed Ruth with a right-handed baseball glove. “It was nine feet tall and in the foundry and ready to go,” Leury said, “and I looked at it and said, ‘Oh, well.”’
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