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A $1 Million Sleepover? Sounds Like A Bad Movie

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Oh, to live in France where life is such fun.

Take, for example, the latest celebrity controversy involving a French magazine. La Voici, it seems, reported that has-been actress Brigitte Nielsen, 33, earned herself a cool $1 million by agreeing to sleep with an Arab prince.

The mag also claimed that the prince made pretty much the same offer to “Baywatch” babes Pamela Anderson Lee and Gena Lee Nolin (though it included mention of a “12-hour sex romp”). Both, it appears, told him to take a quick dip in a cold bath.

Nielsen, who was once married to Sylvester Stallone, says that she did, too. The nerve, she is telling anyone who’ll listen, to believe that she would sleep with anyone for $1 million.

She wouldn’t consider it for anything less than $10 million.

Loose talk

Sandra Bullock on Winona Ryder’s ability to play an action hero in “Alien: The Resurrection”: “Winona’s a beautiful little twig of a girl, but I know she can go in there and kick butt like the rest of them.”

He’d say 41, but he doesn’t want to seem too sly about it

Sylvester Stallone turns 51 today.

How many don’t want the movie made?

The ayes have it The National Federation of the Blind is protesting the Disney studio’s decision to resurrect Mr. Magoo for a movie makeover. “Disney people have dragged Mr. Magoo back from richly deserved obscurity in the hope that Americans will think it’s funny to watch an ill-tempered and incompetent blind man stumble into things and misunderstand his surroundings,” said Marc Maurer, the organization’s president.

Yeah, give it to Mikey; he’ll eat anything

Things got violent in the Las Vegas arena after Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting defending champion Evander Holyfield. So the stars in attendance, which included the likes of Madonna, Sylvester Stallone, Tiger Woods, Val Kilmer, Courtney Love, Michael Douglas, Shaquille O’Neal, Michael Keaton and Roseanne, were hustled into the VIP lounge. When several booed Tyson, Madonna issued the following rebuke: “Hey, leave Mikey alone!” she cried. “He’s my friend.”

If Out reports it, then it must be the latest in thing

According to Out magazine, the term “doing an Anne Heche” has become part of the language. It means, apparently, “taking to the gay life with a convert’s zeal.”

Sssshhhh, we wouldn’t want to upset anyone

According columnist Leah Garchik, the San Francisco Chronicle is particularly sensitive to special-interest groups. A Chronicle news story about Robert Mitchum quoted him as once saying. “I don’t care what I play… women, midgets, anything.” Then an editorial quoted him as saying, “I don’t care what I play. I’ll play Polish guys, women, midgets, anything.” But what Mitchum really said was this: “I don’t care what I play. I’ll play Polish gays, women, midgets, anything.”

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