These Days, Costner Is Dancing With Lawyers
Kevin Costner is taking the magazine Hello! to court. Seems he didn’t like a story that the publication ran in which he was quoted saying harsh things about the woman he admits impregnating.
According to Costner, the interview never happened.
Hello!, which got the story from an unnamed source, quotes Costner accusing Bridget Rooney of getting pregnant by subterfuge. He charges that Rooney, who delivered a son, Liam, “tricked me into thinking she was using contraception when she wasn’t.”
The magazine also quotes Costner as saying the boy “has been forced on me. I’ll try to help this child. But I’m afraid that he’ll never mean the same to me as the others.”
Loose talk
Brad Pitt on reports of dissension on the set of “The Devil’s Own” (in Rolling Stone magazine): “Look, it was tough. It was the hardest film I’ve ever been on. But as for reports about out-of-control egos and people hiding out in trailers, that just wasn’t the case.”
Did he ever work the circus? Was his name ever Clyde?
Warren Beatty turns 60 today.
People used to call him the first wiseguy, too
Turns out, there would have been no godfather without Mario Puzo. Literally. “Nobody used the word ‘godfather,’ not even the Mafia, before I used it,” the novelist said. “In Italian neighborhoods, you would call a close friend of your parents ‘compare,’ or ‘godfather.’ That just impressed me when I was a kid.”
In other words, he’s still among the unforgiven
Sondra Locke settled her fraud lawsuit with former squeeze Clint Eastwood. But she hasn’t uttered her last on the subject of her ex-lover. She’s sold her autobiography to Morrow, and it’s due later this year. The title? “The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly.”
And never, ever, try to grow your own beard
That great source of advice for the lovelorn, Fidel Castro, had this to say about rules for women. “Women should never show a man that she loves him too much,” he told the Cuban newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, “because he’ll become puffed up with self-importance. Indifference is the great stimulus of love.”
Sounds like a bunch of baloney to us
Hormel, the meat-packing conglomerate, is miffed at Allure magazine for headlining a story on Oscar fashions “Glam vs. SPAM.” Hormel’s lawyers say that it is “derogatory” to compare the luncheon meat with badly dressed actresses (can you say Winona Ryder?).
With friends like this…
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas recalls his hometown with affection. “I’m glad that I can give something back to the people and the town that treated me with great feeling and affection when I was growing up here,” he said. The gift: a movie titled “Male Pattern Baldness.”
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