Who’d Think That Bacon Would Be A Ham On Wry?
If you’re Kevin Bacon, life is a gas. First of all, you’re married to Kyra Sedgwick. Second of all, you’re a movie star. Third, you have a movie-trivia game named after you.
(The game is a degrees-of-separation test that links Bacon to virtually every actor who ever appeared on the big screen - but more on that another time.)
There is a down side, however. It involves the song “Footloose” and what happens whenever Bacon walks onto a dance floor. A DJ typically puts the song on and, Bacon says, fans “form a circle around me and start to clap in unison, expecting me to start flipping and performing tricks like a trained monkey. I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll go up to the guy and I’ll say, ‘Here’s 20 bucks, please don’t play that song.”’
Loose talk
Janeane Garofalo on her self image (in Swing magazine): “I don’t hate myself as a general rule. I’d say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals. It coincides with employment cycles.”
He finds the whole occasion a mindbending experience
Wayne Fontana turns 51 today.
They do carry the Marion Davies book on sex therapy
Don’t look for a copy of Patricia Hearst’s mystery “Murder at San Simeon” at Hearst Castle. “It’s a purely fictitious book,” said a castle staffer, “and we don’t sell fiction.” Sniffed the author, a granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, “They sell beaded belts and shot glasses, the most fabulously tacky merchandise in the world. You’d think they could handle a novel by a family member.”
Who best to sing at his inauguration? The Bobs, natch
Bob Dole campaigned the other day at Grand Blanc High School in Michigan, home of the Bobcats. “Obviously, I’d be proud to be in the home of the Bobcats,” said Dole, reports the New York Times. “Bobcat. Keep that in mind. We’ve never had a Bob in the White House. Don’t you think it’s time? Yeah, right. We do have a cat in the White House. Socks. But we don’t have a Bob in the White House.”
Tori Spelling and Kelsey Grammer deserve stiff sentences
The supermarket tabloid Globe ran a photo of “Beverly Hills 90210” star Tori Spelling, dressed in white undies and doing a “steamy bump and grind.” The story goes that the 23-year-old “actress” performed for four men and a woman friend at the friend’s apartment.
Well, if WE were pregnant it would be a medical miracle
So, did the Kennedys Jr. get married because she was with child? “I have no comment on that,” said Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. “You can call John’s office.” Said John F. Kennedy Jr.: “I don’t comment on our personal life. Would you say if you were pregnant?”
Actually, we mean they’ve bottomed out this week
It’s now official: The dregs of the O.J. Simpson murder trial have bottomed out. Nicole Brown Simpson’s friend, Faye Resnick, has posed for Playboy. Her fee: Reportedly $300,000. Look for the shots in March.
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