This Singing Star Is A Country Martha Stewart
Loose talk
British heartthrob Hugh Grant on American movie star Sharon Stone: “Oh, I think she’s sex on a stick.”
When you think of country-singin’ types and picnics, you tend to picture bologna sandwiches on white bread, chips, a pickle or two, a pack of Twinkies and generic beer.
OK, so that’s a stereotype. Maybe they’d prefer Ding Dongs.
But at least one country star is a stereotypebuster. When asked by Bon Appetit magazine to describe her “ideal country picnic,” Mary-Chapin Carpenter was specific:
Inside would be “crusty bread spread with a little Dijon mustard and topped with tomatoes, arugula, a bit of hot sauce and smoked trout mousse,” she said. “Cold radiatore pasta salad with diced tomatoes, red onions, basil and olive oil; a bottle of wine from one of the local wineries; and fresh raspberry sorbet for dessert…. We’d have a portable espresso maker and finish things off with lattes.”
He’s partying with Mandy out in the cabana
Barry Manilow turns 49 today.
We’re wondering now just who is the real enemy
If you’re wondering whether Sinead O’Connor has cooled her act of late, wonder no more. She hasn’t. In a fracas with two photographers in Jerusalem on Thursday, O’Connor tore the shirt of one photog, then broke his and another’s cameras before being escorted away by her bodyguards.
Now when she says she’s hip, we have to believe her
Elizabeth Taylor, who 15 months ago had her left hip replaced, will undergo surgery on Monday to replace the right one. The 63-year-old actress reportedly hurt herself doing aerobics in her swimming pool.
Hollywood bean counters just get dumber and dumber
It’s official: By signing to do the movie “Cable Guy,” Jim Carrey now reigns as the highest paid comic actor in Hollywood history. His reported salary: $20 million.
But, really, is that more happy than a shrimp in a basket?
When asked about the movie deal he made with Paramount Pictures involving his “Forrest Gump” sequel, which this time will earn him a piece of the movie’s earning before expenses, novelist Winston Groom told the Mobile Register, “I’m happy as a pig in sunshine.”
Seems Dave won’t be moving his headquarters to London
Another of those British viewers, who the BBC reports was less than ecstatic about late-night host David Letterman’s recent broadcast from London, called Letterman “a xenophobic, irritating, crass little man.” Overall, a BBC source told New York magazine, “It was a remarkable response. It went well beyond our usual random callers griping about inappropriate language. This was real venom.”
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