When Talking Lifestyle, Alley Sure Is Street Smart

Kirstie Alley insists that she cares about how she looks. But, she says, just not that much.

“I love to eat,” she told US magazine. “A perfect day for me is a lot of food, a lot of sex, a lot of children, a lot of everything.”

That makes it difficult to keep her celebrity image.

“The hardest thing for me is to not get fat,” she said. “I would be easy for me to weigh 150 pounds and just stay there. Anyplace else on the planet, I might look fine at 150 pounds, but you don’t in movies, and you don’t on TV.”

So what about cosmetic surgery? “I haven’t had anything done, but I’m always talking about it,” she said. “When I’m 80, I know I’ll still want legs like a 20-year-old. What, I’m going to want 80-year-old legs (and) they’re going to be prettier to me? That’s stupid.”

Loose talk

Ben Stiller on being named one of the “50 Funniest People Alive” (No. 44) by Entertainment Weekly magazine: “I don’t understand those lists. I find it kind of embarrassing to be on it with people like Alan King, who has a whole lifetime of work.”

They’ll both celebrate in the Monkee house

Mike Nesmith turns 55 and Davy Jones turns 52 today.

It takes more than a dozen croissants to ‘Cheers’ her up

Kirstie Alley (see item at left) doesn’t equate grief with good. “I’m just the opposite,” Alley told the New York Daily News. “I binge when I’m happy. And when everything is going really well, every day is like I’m having a birthday party. Christmas lasts for me from Thanksgiving to Jan. 2. I’m Martha Stewart’s dream come true.”

This was his chance to plug Pierce Brosnan

Desmond Llewelyn, the British actor who has played the gimmicks expert Q in 16 James Bond films, is rather a dweeb about technology in real life. “I can’t work them at all,” he says. While on a promotional tour of the new Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Llewelyn couldn’t get his hotel room’s television to work. “I pressed every known button,” he says. “Nothing happened. So I had to go down and ask them. And it wasn’t plugged in.”

And we got a $25 gift certificate to Fred Meyer

Here’s a quote from a recent Hollywood Reporter story: “Walt Disney Co. chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner earned a $9.9 million bonus on top of his usual $750,000 salary in fiscal 1997.”

She knows how things will go long before sunrise

French actress Julie Delpy, 28, isn’t likely to go the Elizabeth Taylor route. “Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity,” Delpy told the New York Post. “I won’t do that.”

Just keep her out of a speeding Mercedes

Voted “Swede of the Year,” Crown Princess Victoria, 20, is described by the Swedish newspaper Expressen as “a lively schoolgirl in a ponytail transformed into a crown jewel with the luster of a queen.”

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