No Matter The Charge, The Sheen’s On His Image
In a story about Hollywood types who get caught in bad situations, Los Angeles Times writers Robert W. Welkos and Claudia Puig studied the way in which bad publicity affects - or in some cases doesn’t affect - the respective star’s popularity.
Charlie Sheen, for example. The movie actor has been in rehab, been arrested for assault on a girlfriend and has admitted to using Heidi Fleiss’ prostitution service at least 27 times. And yet we merely laugh at his antics.
When Sheen backed out of a scheduled appearance on the “Tonight” show, host Jay Leno asked comic Rob Schneider to step in.
“Can you be Charlie Sheen tonight?” Leno asked Schmidt. “Charlie Sheen?” Schneider replied. “Jay, I’m on a show called ‘Men Behaving Badly.’ I think I can play Charlie Sheen.”
Loose talk
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on whether the group’s upcoming tour will be its last (as reported by the Associated Press): “Yeah, this and the next five.”
That many candles would torch a stairway to heaven
Robert Plant turns 49 today.
New York? Ever check out Riverside on a hot day?
Barry Sonnenfeld, director of summer blockbuster “Men in Black,” wants us to know something. “‘Men in Black’ is NOT a documentary,” he said during an America Online cyberchat. “Please do NOT come to my house seeking information. But I am starting to think (aliens) do exist… because the summer in New York brings them out.”
Then again, she’s attracted to David Lynch films
Think therapy is a crock? Listen to Natasha Gregson Wagner, 26-year-old daughter of the late Natalie Wood. “If anybody is a poster child for the fact that therapy works, it’s me,” she told Movieline magazine, “because I’ve been in therapy since I was 11 and my mom died.”
Afterward, they shared a nice chianti and some fava beans
Nancy Glass, the choice of the Miss America pageant to question the five finalists, once interviewed convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Apparently he doesn’t appreciate the power of flowers
More dirt on Dodi al-Fayed, the London millionaire whom Princess Diana now says she barely knows. Model Kelly Fisher charges that he’s a lousy lover. “He doesn’t know how to pleasure a woman,” Fisher says.
He wants them a whiter shade of very, very pale
The English National Ballet posted an unusual edict for 60 dancers from next month’s planned production of “Swan Lake”: no sunbathing. Apparently, a number of them returned from vacation with tans and burns. “I’m just a little worried that the lighting effects for this Swan Lake will wreak havoc with the dancers, making them look purple and puce,” said company artistic director Derek Deane. , DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: 2 Photos
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