Just For Dave’s Birthday, Drew Grins And Bares It

Mon., April 17, 1995

Compiled By Staff Writer Dan Web

Loose talk

Australian actress Toni Collette, on gaining 42 pounds to play title character in the film “Muriel’s Wedding”: “I used to fluctuate from feeling really lethargic and gross to feeling really sexy and curvaceous.”

They say life is tough for a late-night television talk-show host. The battle for ratings, coming up with good jokes, handling guests who boast mollusk-level IQs.

Truth is, nothing could be more rewarding. Especially is you’re David Letterman and your guest is named Drew Barrymore.

On the occasion of Letterman’s 48th birthday, the nymph-like actress showed up on Wednesday’s show ready to rock. Clambering up onto Letterman’s desk, Barrymore danced in celebration of the host - and then with her back to the studio audience, she pulled up her T-shirt and bared her breasts.

“You know,” Letterman stammered, “I can’t thank you enough.” He added, “I wish more of our guests would consider that sort of thing.”

And she made such a sweet, 17-year-old Juliet

Olivia Hussey turns 44 today.

And besides, it’s Dogbert who draws the strip anyway

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” spoke at a recent computer engineering conference in Salt Lake City. Addressing the demands of a two-career life, the full-time engineer for Pacific Bell explained that he decided to pursue cartooning because it was one of the “really good careers you can do in your pajamas.”

That’s why we need the Kato Kaelin shopping network

According to a poll of 1,200 consumers conducted by Advertising Age magazine, some 1.1 percent “do not have time to shop because of time spent watching” the O.J. Simpson trial.

Break out the Moses robes from cold storage

The quote: “Are you going to make me take off my shirt? Who do you think I am, Brad Pitt? Brad Pitt is the Chuck Heston of the ‘90s.” The speaker: Johnny Depp. The occasion: Depp was posing for the cover story of April’s Esquire magazine.

Some fans contend it was her best performance of all

Still another tidbit from C. David Heymann’s new hollywood bio, “Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor”: Heymann writes that Taylor’s third husband, Michael Todd, secretly taped their lovemaking sessions - complete with “fervid moaning and groaning” - and gave copies to his buddies.

Finally, the real reason why dinosaurs became extinct

The quote: “If men were biologically driven to hunt for their dinner, there wouldn’t be a Domino’s Pizza.” The speaker: “Tonight” host Jay Leno. The source: Glamour magazine.

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