Hill’s Resort To Criticism Is To Head For The Beach

Some people still can’t say the name Anita Hill without an involuntary response. Sometimes that response is a smile. Sometimes it’s a smirk.

Whatever, there’s already been a reaction to the news that Hill is resigning her post as a University of Oklahoma law professor.

The university is dodging blame. “The University has in no way requested or encouraged the resignation,” Josh Galper, spokesman for university President David Boren, said Thursday.

An Okie pol is proclaiming victory. State Rep. Leonard Sullivan is ecstatic about getting “the cancerous growth off the OU campus.”

Hill herself, a Laguna Beach, Calif., resident on leave to write two books, has so far been silent.

Which is, in itself, a response.

Zsa Zsa Gabor on her favorite movie villainess (in Movieline magazine): “Oh that’s easy, honey - Barbara Stanwyck in ‘Double Indemnity’ because her eyes were so cold and calculating. Imagine arranging to have your husband killed for his money - that’s so terrible. You have to marry for love and when it’s over you get rid of him, but you don’t kill him!”

This may sound cold, but she is an ice princess

Bonnie Blair turns 31 today.

Actually, only his hairdresser knows for sure

Thanks to a couple of capable readers, we now know that Jerry Lewis turned 69 on Wednesday - and not 70 as reported in this column.

Allen calls his hit program ‘Show Improvement’

Remember the report about Tim Allen replacing Roseanne as TV’s most powerful star, power being defined as the ability “to flex the most creative muscle”? Well, yes, the list, compiled by the staffs of TV Guide and “Entertainment Tonight,” does begin with Allen of “Home Improvement” fame. And it continues, in declining order, thusly: David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Roseanne, Jerry Seinfeld, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, David Hasselhoff, Angela Lansbury and Bill Cosby.

Did you know that Parisians put mayonnaise on french fries?

“Next year, come hell or high water, we’ll go to the Oscars,” John Travolta told his wife, Kelly Preston, during the 1994 Oscar telecast. “Little did I know that I would be a nominee.” Travolta, who spoke at a pre-Oscar luncheon, is a Best Actor nominee for “Pulp Fiction.”

Maybe if they brought back, say, the Land Shark?

Janeane Garofalo quit “Saturday Night Live.” Wretched scripts is why. “The material just wasn’t there and I had to leave,” Garofalo said. “I have loved this show for 20 years, and I always dreamed of being on it. I looked forward to a long stay there, but I think I failed miserably.”

Apparently, he never heard of Kinky Friedman

“Outbreak” may have led the week in box-office receipts, but it almost didn’t snare star Dustin Hoffman. When approached by Arnold Kopelson, the film’s producer told Premiere magazine, Hoffman said, “There’s no such thing as a Jewish action-adventure hero.”

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