She’s Quite Willing To Let That Part Of Her Past Die
Attention, all you Princess Diana fans: You’d better read up while you can, because she might not be making the gossip columns quite so often in the future.
“The princess does not have a lover, and more to the point, she doesn’t need one,” reports The Daily Mirror in London, quoting a confidante of Di’s. “She says she can survive very nicely on her own.”
Every time she gets involved with a male member of the species, the paper went on to say, “it ends in sin, tears and innuendo” - most recently, her ill-fated friendship with rugby star Will Carling, whose marriage subsequently fell apart.
Concluded the Mirror: “She’s mentally better than she has been for some time and is looking to the future much more positively.”
Loose talk
Author Kurt Vonnegut, dispensing some fatherly advice (in Entertainment Weekly): “If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have enough nerve to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.”
But his heart is still young and … gay?
Kurt Vonnegut turns 73 today.
That’s the wrong way to liquidate your estate
Dame Barbara Cartland, the 94-year-old British romance writer who happens to be Di’s stepgrandmother, knows where she wants to be planted when she dies - in her own garden. In fact, she’s already checked out the regulations: “You have to be 50 yards from the house and not near water. In other words, they don’t want to drink you.”
Must be taking after his late father-in-law
Michael Jackson, denying rampant rumors that he’s strapped for cash, insists that $95 million deal with Sony for the Beatles music catalog he owns is a “merger,” not a sale. As he told USA Today: “It’s smart business. It’s about growth. Everything in life to me is about growth.”
Guess you could call it pockets of resistance
Paul McCartney, who once considering naming his post-Beatles band Lumpy Trousers, still has britches on the brain. According to Inside Media, McCartney held up delivery of that upcoming six-hour Beatles TV anthology to ABC because he was “unhappy with the trousers he’s sporting in some of his interview segments, and has demanded retakes and forced the documentary to remain in production.”
Authentic? They had the papers to prove it
A marijuana pot belonging to the late John Lennon - a small barrel, with handles made of crossed hookah pipes, where he stored his stash - recently fetched $8,370 in an auction at Christie’s in London.
As for the menu, we’ve heard the No. 9 is good
Lennon’s older son, Julian Lennon, plans to open an art- and music-themed restaurant and bar in San Francisco called The Revolution, which will include some Beatles memorabilia. Said Lennon: “It’s all about the past, present and future of revolution and change, turning things around for a better purpose.”
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