Maybe He Should Try Pumping A Seven Iron
We’ve always suspected that “golf is good exercise” talk is just a bunch of hooey.
Take Bryant Gumbel, who confesses that chasing around the little white ball is what keeps him “fat and soft.”
“When golf season comes around, I get like the piano player who doesn’t shake hands with anybody for fear of hurting himself,” the former “Today” show co-host tells Men’s Journal magazine.
“What if I’m weight lifting and I drop a weight on my hands? What if I throw my shoulder out? Then I would be miserable. Just absolutely miserable. I haven’t reached an accommodation with that phobia, so here I sit, fat and soft.”
Gumbel, who will host Sunday’s Emmy awards broadcast, has a new prime-time show coming on CBS, “Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel.”
Loose talk
Rather reserved newswoman Jane Pauley, on her future (in the Washington Post): “I’m going to be fascinating in my later years, as the inhibitions fall away.”
As we recall, his drive had a nasty hooker
Hugh Grant turns 37 today.
So what’s she shooting? Her mouth off
When they ran into each other at a New York restaurant, Gumbel’s former “Today” partner, Jane Pauley, told him she’d taken up golf - which sent his eyebrows shooting skyward. “I just knew he would behave that way,” crowed Pauley. “I love it. I’m playing golf! Golf! Golf!”
As a politician, he’s still well below par
Avid duffer Dan Quayle, who called “The Golf Channel Academy Live” TV show the other day to chat, was asked whether he’s planning a political comeback or a career as a pro golfer. “I’ll be following my political dream,” the former vice president said. “The Senior Tour, I’m simply not good enough to even be thinking about it.”
But when you read his lips, no new faxes
Former president George Bush, meanwhile, is trying his hand at journalism, penning a piece on fishing for arctic char in rural Canada for the tiny Deh Cho Drum newspaper in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. “I couldn’t believe it when I saw it on the fax machine,” Drum editor Arthur Milnes said.
Just another one of those formula movies
Sylvester Stallone spent Sunday hanging out in the pits at the Italian Grand Prix, part of his research for an film on Formula One racing. Said Stallone: “It will be a delicate investigation on different aspects and emotions of this sport, one of the most exciting in the world.”
Usually, he plays his concerts out front
Bonnie Wayne of Tinley Park, Ill., won not only a motorcycle in a contest sponsored by The Nashville Network, but a private performance by Travis Tritt. “This doesn’t happen to me every day,” Wayne laughed. “I can’t remember the last time someone delivered a motorcycle to my front yard and Travis Tritt played a concert in the back.”
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