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Loose talk
Susan Olsen, on life after the “Brady Bunch” TV series: “It seemed all I could get was a warmed-over ‘Love Boat’ career or some version of Cindy as a grownup. I would have loved to have shot Cindy with an Uzi.”
After all those years on the concert scene, it comes as no great surprise that Sting is getting hard of hearing at age 43.
But it’s nothing a little Mozart can’t cure.
The former Police frontman told Mojo magazine that a Paris doctor is using classical tunes to treat his loss of hearing range in the mid-ear, a problem that afflicts many musicians.
“He plays you filtered Mozart through headphones,” said Sting (aka Gordon Sumner). “Certain frequencies are filtered out so your brain has to re-train to hear them.”
While the condition isn’t considered serious, Sting said, it makes for some strange moments: “I have very interesting conversations where I think people have said one thing but they’ve actually said something else.”
She was into O.J. before it was fashionable
Anita Bryant turns 55 today.
Another get-rich scheme down the drain
At a recent auction in Manhattan, a bathroom sink from John Lennon’s apartment in the Dakota fetched only $450, reports Musician magazine. Organizers had hoped bids would approach $3,000.
But no one should be counting on Kevin Coe
Don’t look for any Mike Tyson memorabilia on the market following his release from prison in Indiana today. While officials “don’t think it’s proper,” one dealer declared: “The state could have auctioned off items Tyson signed in prison and balanced the budget.”
Wonder if he left any prints in the sidewalk?
New Jersey Gov. Christine Whitman has made good on a campaign promise by proclaiming “The Howard Stern Rest Stop” along I-295, complete with a plaque picturing the radio shock jock peeking from an outhouse. Said Stern’s agent: “I have a couple of clients who have plaques on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but this is the first client to have a symbol on a bathroom.”
Maybe the biggest surprise is the infidelity
“The Motorcycle Diaries,” a formerly secret journal by Che Guevara, will hit the shelves in May. The book describes a year in the Cuban revolutionary’s life where he “falls in and out of love, drinks a ton of red wine, seduces the wife of a good friend and, during a brief stint as a fireman, oversleeps and a house burns down as a result.”
And here’s a message for you: ‘!efil a teG’
Michael Anderson, the backwards-talking dancing dwarf of “Twin Peaks” fame, has a new career. Anderson posted a notice in the Usenet computer network offering, for a fee, to record answering machine messages for fans - in reverse, of course.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino