Then There Was The Time She Buttered Her Twinkie
Brett Butler, who parlayed her own version of Roseanne’s trailer-park sensibilities to prime-time television success, is not shy about talking about her difficult days of yore.
“By the time I was 19, I was poorer than ever,” she writes in her new autobiography, “Knee Deep in Paradise.”
So how poor where you, Brett? , “One day I came home to nothing but oatmeal in the pantry,” Butler writes. “Relish was the only condiment I had, so I put some along with salt and pepper in a bowl with the oatmeal. It was as bad as you’d think. I started sobbing. Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, the radio started playing ‘You Light Up My Life’ by Debby Boone. It made me want to die, but since I also wanted to stick around and see how things turned out, I got up and threw the radio out the window.”
Loose talk
Dennis Quaid on his wife, Meg Ryan (in Premiere magazine): “She’s a lot sexier than she comes off to be. She wears clothes that really hide her body. She’s got the most incredible body.”
Montana: The stars aren’t only in the Big Sky
Andie MacDowell turns 38 today
Number of Love songs you’ve likely heard on the radio (0)
Melissa Rossi’s biography “Courtney Love: Queen of Noise,” does Kurt Cobain’s widow by the numbers: She first entered therapy at age 2, has done 14 legal and illegal drugs, has physically assaulted someone 17 times, has been in or started 4 fires and employed 50 nannies for her daughter between August 1992 and March 1994.
Actually there are two chances: mighty slim and none at all
When asked by the London Daily Mirror whether Brit-royals Princess Diana or the Duchess of York would be attending today’s observance of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th birthday party, an unidentified member of the royal family answered, “You’re joking. There’s no chance.”
Instead of wetting, this doll threw up on cue
David Schwimmer admits he liked the doll that had been designed for his “Friends” character. But he decided against marketing the dolls. “It’s the bigger issue of commercialization,” he said. “There’s a danger of being known as one character for the rest of your life.”
He’s now living yonduh, in the castle of his foddah
Tony Curtis says he wouldn’t accept an honorary Oscar even if one were offered. As he explained to GQ magazine, “I’d say, ‘You didn’t give me one for “Sweet Smell of Success,” you didn’t give me one for “Some Like It Hot.” You think that just because you decided to recognize the little Jewboy he’s going to come running?”’
Montana: The last best place - to avoid paying taxes
Maybe Woody Harrelson should move to Montana. He underpaid the IRS by $10,000, he says, to protest the taxes used “to desecrate nature.” Specifically, he’s referring to Congress’ overturning of a logging ban. He admits that bucking the IRS might not be the smartest thing to do. “Maybe I should have thought it through more,” he said.
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