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Do You Believe In Magic In A Young Pair’s Heart?

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

A few months before they split up, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford published a newspaper ad proclaiming, one, their undying love and, two, their avowed heterosexuality.

One out of two ain’t bad.

Now it appears that David Copperfield and Claudia Schiffer are fighting the same battle. The celebrity lovebirds have released a news release in Britain that denies, one, rumors of trouble in their relationship and, two, rumors of his homosexuality.

Says Schiffer, 25, “First of all, David and I are not seeing anyone else. Second of all, David is and always has been 100 percent heterosexual - very heterosexual. Trust me, I know.”

Says Copperfield, 38: “Trust me… we are soul mates.”

Loose talk

Rocker Ted Nugent has a sign posted on his estate that informs trespassers of the following (from Guitar World magazine): “Warning! You are on private property! Turn around and leave immediately or face being stalked, strung and stuffed!!”

That map on his head now looks like Florida

Mikhail Gorbachev turns 64 today.

As they sing, ‘Love, love is strange’

Other odd romantic notes: Look for Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi to go their separate ways soon. Conservative commentator Mary Matalin, 41, whose husband is the liberal political consultant James Carville, 50, is pregnant. Ellen Barkin, 39, is said to have dropped David Arquette, 23, because - this comes as a shock - he is “just too young.”

He should have chanted and rubbed his crystal

By now most of us have heard that Jimmy Carter prayed for Newt Gingrich to lose his last congressional election. Actually, Carter says that he prayed that “people like Newt Gingrich would be defeated.” Whatever, the New Republic says that Carter “has provided another argument against prayer in schools: It doesn’t work.”

He’s inna pickle ‘cuz of ridin’ on his motorcycle

Pop singer Lyle Lovett isn’t feeling too well after a motorcycle accident. He broke his collarbone in Vancouver last weekend. He’s already canceled three shows and is on the probable list for some beyond that.

Maybe you can’t, but we’d sure like to try

Jim Nabors, having regained 50 pounds following his liver transplant, is anxious to get back out on the road and perform. “You want to feel like a viable person,” Nabors said from Honolulu. “You can’t sit looking at the ocean all day.” Nabors’ liver was incapacitated because of hepatitis.

Just between us, Ms. Gingrich, how do you really feel?

Kathleen Gingrich, mother of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, has mixed feelings about her lesbian daughter. “I accept Candy… But I do wish that Candy would be - how should I say it? - natural.”

The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster