They Must Have Shared About A Thousand Words
It’s been 25 years since Kent State University student John Filo snapped a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of an anguished young woman kneeling over the body of an anti-war demonstrator killed by the National Guard.
It wasn’t until last Sunday that he and Mary Ann Vecchio Gillum finally met at a conference in Boston.
“It was my destiny that I go there, but I had no idea my picture was being taken,” said Vecchio Gillum, then a 14-year-old runaway and currently a cashier at the Sahara Hotel coffee shop in Las Vegas.
“I always worried about this person,” said Filo, now Newsweek’s deputy picture editor. “I placed this child under a microscope for a long, long time and caused her immense difficulty. I am so happy that she is now happy.”
Loose talk
Kato Kaelin on one of his favorite video rentals, the nuclear holocaust tale “Testament” (in Entertainment Weekly): “Very heavy film. Don’t see it with a date! You’ll turn it off and go, ‘Bummer!”’
She’ll always be the queen of our jungle
Sheena Easton turns 36 today.
We’re sure she’s happy we pointed that out
Contrary to prior reports, further research reveals that Carol Burnett actually turned 62 on Wednesday.
This horn took more blows than most of them
Late jazz great Dizzy Gillespie’s original twisted trumpet fetched $63,000 in an auction Tuesday at Christie’s. The bell was bent 45 degrees when a dancer tripped while performing at a birthday party for Gillespie’s wife in the early 1950s; there are also two small dents made by a snake charmer’s cobra during a trip to India.
Can Kato’s bleach bottle be far behind?
Scheduled to go on the block at Christie’s come June 28: John Travolta’s white disco suit from “Saturday Night Fever,” the tablets from the Charlton Heston classic “The Ten Commandments” and the 1940 Buick Phaeton that Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman took to the airport in “Casablanca.”
Just another of Jay’s brilliant deductions
Taxing O.J. joke, take one: Jay Leno told his “Tonight Show” audience that Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran “have finally done something nice for Simpson. Thanks to them, O.J.’s now in a 30 percent lower tax bracket than he was last year.”
His parents wrote him off a long time ago
Taxing O.J. joke, take two: “Late Night” host Conan O’Brien offered this not-so-shocking statistic: “According to the IRS, 7 percent of American households listed Kato Kaelin as a dependent.”
Then again, maybe his briefs were too tight
Finally, this response from CNBC’s Bob Berkowitz to a “Talk Back America III” caller who said her husband had lost interest in sex because of the Simpson trial: “It’s called courtus interruptus.”
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