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She Now Worships At The Church Of Tom Snooze

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Whatever you do, don’t ask Mimi Rogers about either her religion or her marriage to Tom Cruise. You’re liable to put her to sleep.

While doing publicity for “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” the Barbra Streisand film in which she co-stars with Streisand, Jeff Bridges and Lauren Bacall, she has been asked about both. Repeatedly.

“You do get to the point where certain questions just cause your eyes to glaze over,” Rogers told US magazine. “It’s the sort of thing that makes you dread being interviewed, only because talking about yourself in a certain way is just unbearably boring.”

She said the whole religion issue is “sort of silly for me to talk about.” As for her marriage to Cruise, she answered with a snoring noise.

Loose talk

Woody Allen’s take on why Drew Barrymore allowed him to dub her voice in his musical “Everyone Says I love You” (in Buzz Weekly): “She felt that her voice was beneath the legal limit of human sound.”

These days, she still takes things one day at a time

Bonnie Franklin turns 53 today.

He’d rather do crisis-of-the-week weepers

James Garner, 66, who once loathed doing television, actually prefers TV over movies these days. Most movies studios “don’t make pictures about the human condition much anymore,” he says. “It’s hard to get money for those, because they’re not big blockbusters.”

For this mother, labor day came eight months early

When a very pregnant Paula Zahn needed a cab, she had competition: millions of New Year’s revelers. “The first surprise was labor,” the CBS correspondent said Thursday. “The next surprise was competing for a cab at 1:30 a.m. with hundreds of revelers spilling out of New Year’s festivities in Central Park - all trying to escape the 20-degree weather.” Zahn’s son, 6-pound Austin, was born two week early.

He’s not a resident of the land of 1,000 dances

Longtime “American Bandstand” host Dick Clark doesn’t dance. “I’m very intimidated because I’m afraid that people who grew up watching me conduct a dance show will say, ‘Well, how can you be so bad (on the dance floor)? You just didn’t learn a thing.’ Which is true.”

Actually, they did have to cry for her, in Argentina

“Evita” director Alan Parker saw both sides of Madonna during the film’s shooting. “She is a fantastically hard worker,” he said. “But,” he added, “she does complain a lot, because she is Madonna. She moans about how cold it is, how early she has to get up.”

Celine’s fan called in again and again and again and…

If you haven’t yet heard, more than a million callers elected Celine Dion as VH1’s Artist of the Year. She won over the likes of Joan Osborne, Don Henley, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, Hootie & the Blowfish, Gloria Estefan, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Toni Braxton and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.

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