Scare Up New Plots? Not A Ghost Of A Chance
It’s been his lifeblood, but Clive Barker is simply horrified about where the horror business is headed.
Barker, author of such novels as “Candyman” and “Hellraisers,” says he was sickened by the scene in “Interview With the Vampire” where Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt crack jokes while a prostitute bleeds to death.
“It revolted the hell out of me,” Barker said during a panel discussion at the annual World Horror Convention.
He called on fellow fright writers to come up with stories in which good guys outshine the monsters.
Barker pens his own macabre tales in a room decorated with an ornate 7-foot crucifix, which he calls “an image of the most horrible death. Most Christians forget that.”
Loose talk
Gillian Anderson, on being cast as agent Dana Scully in “The X-Files” (in People magazine): “They wanted someone taller, leggier and bustier. I guess they were going to make this ‘The XXX-Files.”’
We’ve always admired the fabric of her career
Shannon Tweed turns 38 today.
That’s the beauty of the whole business
After Pitt was picked as People’s “sexiest man alive,” his parents back in Springfield, Mo., got an unlisted phone number. “We’ve really tried to stay out of it,” Bill Pitt said of the media barrage. “They make stuff up … that happens a lot.”
It’s obvious that she wasn’t using her PC
What did Sharon Stone do when Time magazine asked whether she wore fur? She explained in Esquire: “I called my publicist back and told her that I was Consuela, the black, underpaid, abused illegal-alien maid … I said Sharon couldn’t come to the phone because she had a mouthful of veal and was drinking a Diet Coke out of a Styrofoam cup on a zebra rug in front of a fireplace burning Duraflame logs and that the cellular phone I was using was giving me a brain tumor as we spoke.”
Shannon Tweed can still be had for a song
Emboldened by Demi Moore’s $12.5 million movie deal for “Strip Tease,” Entertainment Weekly says Stone has upped her price to $7 million, Jodie Foster and Meg Ryan are asking $8 million and Julia Roberts is holding out for a cool $13 mill - still a far cry from the $20 million male stars such as Sylvester Stallone pull down per picture.
By the looks of things, she’s got some left
Susan Sarandon’s outspoken style dates back to third grade. “When the nuns explained how you had to be married in the Catholic Church or you weren’t married, I asked, ‘Well, how could Joseph and Mary be married, since Jesus didn’t come up with it until later?”’ she said in Buzz magazine. “They sent me out to stand in the hall. I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.”
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino