Watch It When Sean Has A Need To Be Sa-Mokkkin!
Even Machiavelli had no clue about the absolute power that celebrities wield. Take, for example, the case of Sean Penn.
During the making of the Brian De Palma film “Carlito’s Way,” Penn was called to shoot a scene in New York’s East River. He was to be be filmed alone in a small boat.
Only problem was, movies being what they are, Penn sat in that boat for a long time - without his cigarettes. So he motioned to his personal assistant to get him one.
The assistant jumped in the river and swam toward Penn’s boat. The currents, though, carried him past Penn’s outstretched hands. A rescue boat picked the assistant up and, at his insistence, delivered the smokes.
Penn lit up, took a few puffs and then tossed the butt in the water.
Loose talk
Bob Dylan on demands that he play his classic songs during concerts (in Newsweek magazine): “People are mainlining nostalgia like it was morphine. I don’t want to be a drug dealer.”
We hear he’s now living in San Simeon
J. Fred Muggs turns 42 today.
It would have hurt less had she been Cindy Crawford?
He’s cheated on her, humiliated her publicly by impregnating his mistress and, Iolanda Quinn charges, even hit her at times. But Anthony Quinn’s relationship with his new cutie, with whom he lives in Paris, bothers his estranged wife mostly for another reason. “She’s ugly,” Iolanda Quinn says. “Ugly! That’s what’s upsetting me.”
Yeah, perhaps when fish start riding bicycles
It’s a syndrome that many gay performers must endure: receiving fan letters from the, uh, opposite sex. And rocker Melissa Etheridge is no different. “The men go crazy,” she told People magazine. “They write me letters saying, ‘Gee, I love you. I think you’re sexy. I know you’re not into guys, but maybe someday you’ll change your mind.”’
No doubt Cody agrees with her every word
Poor Kathie Lee Gifford. It’s so hard to be a celebrity. Sure, you’re rich and famous. But there’s always the down side, you know, like having to deal with the very fans that you worked so hard to seduce in the first place. “Performing is wonderful,” she told Ladies’ Home Journal. “Being ‘a star’ pretty much stinks.”
When they said, ‘Betcha can’t eat just one… .’
A biography proposal for Aretha Franklin includes the following anecdote: When the soul singer complained about a persistent hum in her piano, a tuner “came upon a mountain of golden flecks deep inside the piano.” It was, says New York magazine, “Frito dust.”
But can he sing, ‘Hey, mambo, mambo Italiano’?
The quote: “After 50 years in the business, I’m suddenly being referred to as George Clooney’s aunt.” The speaker: Actress/singer Rosemary Clooney. The occasion: Clooney was telling TV Guide about her nephew’s growing fame as a star on the medical series “ER.”
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Dan Webster