We Can Just Imagine His Mother-In-Law Problems
More of the scoop on that surprise Tuesday wedding between Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his former flame Mia Farrow:
The Paris newspaper Le Monde called the honeymooning couple’s choice of Venice as a wedding site a message to the world - especially America - that it’s time “to go back … to 18th Century Europe, to liberty and seduction, to Voltaire and Casanova.”
Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari, who performed the ceremony, said it was informal and added that Previn “wore her hair down.”
Allen’s spokeswoman said reports he insisted that Previn sign a prenuptial agreement were “absolutely false.”
A spokesman for Farrow, currently in Ireland, told The New York Daily News: “I doubt very much she’d want to comment on this.”
Loose talk
Pam Grier, comeback star of Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” on her image (in The New York Times): “I haven’t had cosmetic surgery or caps. In fact, I have chipped teeth and a scar on my knee from an old gunshot wound.”
And to him, we offer a French toast
Gerard Depardieu turns 49 today.
Mark Fuhrman must have helped with the script
Spike Lee is none too pleased with fellow filmmaker Quentin Tarantino for using the racially charged “N-word” 38 times in his new film, “Jackie Brown.” As Lee told Daily Variety: “I’m not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. And some people speak that way. But Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made - an honorary black man?”
It was almost a close encounter of the kinky kind
An obsessed fan who reportedly planned to rape director Steven Spielberg was arrested and charged with stalking. Items police confiscated from Jonathan Norman included eye masks, handcuffs, chloroform and dog collars.
What, he thought Bill would get bent out of shape?
Dustin Hoffman hemmed and hawed when President Clinton asked about his new political satire “Wag the Dog,” in which Hoffman plays a producer who helps White House spin doctors manufacture a war to distract people from a presidential sex scandal. “He looked at (co-star Robert) De Niro and said, ‘So what’s this movie about?”’ Hoffman tells People magazine. “And De Niro looks at (director) Barry (Levinson), who looked at me. And there was no one else for me to turn to. So I just started to tap dance. I can’t even remember what I said.”
Well, he’s certainly no expert on domestic relations
Actor Anthony Quinn - best known lately for a nasty divorce trial - has been invited to a film festival in Tehran, which would make him the first U.S. celebrity to visit Iran since the 1979 revolution. Said a State Department official: “We certainly think that these kinds of people-to-people ties between the two nations are a positive development.”
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