Anyway You Look At It, Cage’s Had A Super Career
Anyone who has ever dealt with a bully can sympathize with Nicolas Cage.
As a fourth-grader, the 33-year-old Oscar-winning actor got tired of being beaten up by a schoolyard bully. So one day he donned his brother’s jeans and cowboy boots, wet down his hair and put up a pair of sunglasses.
Then he introduced himself as Roy Wilkinson, a fictitious cousin, and warned the bully off. It worked.
Now Cage is donning a different type of disguise. The Oscar-winning actor (for “Leaving Las Vegas”) is portraying the comicbook title character in the forthcoming film “Superman Lives.”
“I don’t know if it will work,” Cage says of the role. “But I would like to see that weird, different kid get a break because I was that kid.”
Loose talk
Biography magazine on Sharon Stone: “With that unblinking ice queen beauty, husky growl and take-no-prisoners sexual bravado, Sharon Stone has turned femme fatale into a job description. (It’s) hard to tell at any given moment if she’s going to burst out laughing or grab an ice pick and kill someone.”
Of course, that may be just one of those legends of the fall
Julia Ormond turns 33 today.
Why not just use Alex Karras in drag?
If you look like U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, you could become a television star. David E. Kelley, executive-producer of the Fox sitcom “Ally McBeal,” is looking for a Reno look-alike to play in an upcoming episode. You get to speak three lines, be romanced by sleaze Richard Fish (actor Greg Germann) and even dance.
This time the slap was at Zsa Zsa
Zsa Zsa Gabor, she who slapped a Beverly Hills policeman, says she should have had a bigger part in the film adaptation of “The Beverly Hillbillies.” “I should have had the part of the woman who is wooing Jed because she has a pet farm and I have a pet farm,” she reasons. “Of course, she calls it a stud farm, but I think of it as a pet farm. I could have rode in with a horse. That’s the part I should have had.”
Without Diana, of course, we could care less
Seems there has been one good thing to come out of Princess Diana’s death. The British press has been less determined to get pictures of the late princess’ sons, Prince William, 15, and Prince Harry, 13, during their Swiss ski holiday with father Prince Charles.
You have to be Lena to fit into their jeans
At 80, Lena Horne is a Gap Girl. The singer, who appeared in Gap ads over the holidays, says the company approached her. “I was tickled,” she told USA Today. “I think it is a young store, and yet I see old ladies in there like me. They appeal to a large age group, thank God.”
Question: Did the men wear black?
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett will have an easy time remembering their anniversary. The two movie stars got married in a private ceremony on New Year’s Eve. Reports are that Pinkett is pregnant.
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