You Won’t See That Foster Home For The Holidays
Jodie Foster is none too happy about a new book by her big brother that suggests she’s gay.
In “Foster Child,” Buddy Foster, a 39-year old former child actor (“Mayberry, RFD”) who now runs a construction business, says their mother had a lesbian affair.
As for his sis, he writes: “I have always assumed Jodie was gay or bisexual, but I wouldn’t dare bring it up and risk incurring Mom’s wrath.”
In USA Today, Jodie, 34, called the book a “cheap cry for attention and money” from “a distant acquaintance motivated solely by greed and sour grapes” - not to mention “his on-againoff-again severe dependence on drugs.”
“Mostly I feel sad for my 69-year-old mother, who has spent her life struggling to raise four children on her own with dignity and strength of character. Buddy has done nothing but break her heart his whole life.”
Loose talk
Michael Richards (“Seinfeld”), on his new pay increase (in TV Guide): “That’s always been the icing on the cake. Still, this is a lot of icing.”
No cake, but there’ll be lots of ice cream
Wavy Gravy turns 61 today.
Fathers should be serene, and not Heard
John Heard (“Home Alone”) has been placed on probation and ordered to complete a treatment program for abusive men after harassing former girlfriend Melissa Leo (“Homicide: Life on the Street”) with more than 100 phone calls in a dispute over visitation rights to their 9-year-old son. Said Heard: “Why this country hates fathers, I have no idea.”
Said he: ‘You’ll get coffee, not Tea or me!’
David Duchovny (“The X-Files”), emerging from a Manhattan hotel with new bride Tea Leoni (“The Naked Truth”), was so upset about encountering three photographers that he threw a cup of coffee on one of them - a 5-foot-2 woman. Noting that Leoni used to play a tabloid photographer on her sitcom, the New York Daily News asked: “Don’t the two realize that a total lack of irony is a crime in New York City?”
Gee, why didn’t Hugh Grant think of that?
Still wondering what Eddie Murphy was doing with a transvestite hooker in his car? He explains all in the Star: “I’ve always felt bad for people in these situations, homeless, working the streets. I have given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to help out those who need the help most … I see it as an act of kindness to someone on the bottom of the ladder and I thank God that I can afford to do it because I have been so successful.”
There’s a sentiment we can all embrace
Two years after a horseback riding accident left him paralyzed, Christopher Reeve says he’s regained feeling “all the way down to the base of my spine … about six months ago, I couldn’t feel down there.” Still, he tells “48 Hours” tonight, “In the morning, I need 20 minutes to cry, to wake up and make that shift, you know, and to just say, ‘This really sucks.”’ His ultimate goal is to hug his son, Will: “That’s what he’s entitled to. And I believe that day is coming.”
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