If She Turns Him Down, It’s Hasta La Vista, Baby
OK, guys, so how did you propose? At an expensive candle-light dinner? On an isolated beach of a South Sea island? At dawn over coffee on a balcony overlooking Central Park?
In your den at halftime of the Super Bowl?
Well, just listen to how Mr. Macho, Arnold Schwarzenegger, proposed to his once and future wife, Maria Shriver.
“We went out on a lake in a rowboat and I popped the question,” Schwarzenegger told Ladies’ Home Journal.
Pretty tame for the big guy, right? Think again. He didn’t pick the site merely because of its beauty.
“Later, I told her I did this on water so in case she said no, I could throw her in,” Schwarzenegger said.
Loose talk
Larry Hagman on his liver operation (in TV Guide): “I realized my memory had improved about two weeks after the transplant surgery when, all of a sudden, the phone number of an old girlfriend popped into my head. I hadn’t thought of her for 40 years.”
Quien es mas macho, el o Ricardo Montalban?
Lloyd Bridges turns 84 today.
The challenge was blushing at Fonzie’s idle compliments
Marion Ross has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for playing Shirley MacLaine’s housekeeper in “Evening Star.” But, she told Entertainment Weekly magazine, it didn’t take any great thespian to play the role for which she’s best known: Mrs. Cunningham on “Happy Days.” “It was ‘Oh, Howard’ or ‘Richie, you’re not eating!”’ said Ross.
After this score years, a movie wrecker, he is not
So what does George Lucas say to critics who claim that his “Star Wars” trilogy ruined the movies because it caused studio executives to concentrate on big-budget blockbusters? “The studio executives are their own worst enemy and are the ones making $100 million movies,” Lucas said. “They’ve been trying to do blockbusters since ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Bad movies have been around since the beginning of time. The notion that I’m responsible for them is totally unfair.”
When it comes to brickbats, Cindy’s always fair game
If you see two Cindys during Super Bowl Sunday, don’t call the eye doctor. Overexposed Cindy Crawford will appear in two different commercials during the football extravaganza. She’ll be drinking Pepsi with Shaquille O’Neal and posing for Cadillac by her lonesome.
It just depends on what you consider material, girl
The publisher Hyperion has offered gossip-monger Liz Smith a cool $1 million to write her memoirs. Laughs Smith, “I’ve thought about calling it ‘Blind Item.’ Maybe, ‘Sex.’ That did very well for Madonna.”
It’s advantage Sampras after this love-match impasse
Note for all you Pete Sampras fans out there: The tennis star is available. Sampras, 25, broke up with Delaina Mulcahy, a 33-year-old South African law student, reportedly because she wanted to get married. He, the story goes, did not.
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