Dumb And Dumber Means Rich And Richer
In Hollywood, it seems, income is inversely related to intellect.
Among the $15 million-plus-per-film club - which includes the likes of Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger - only Arnold finished college, according to Glamour magazine.
And a few high school dropouts aren’t doing too poorly for themselves, including Whoopi Goldberg, Keanu Reeves and Demi Moore, who’s pulling down $12 million for her latest role in “Striptease.”
By comparison, Meryl Streep, with a master’s from Yale, got $4 million to $5 million for “The Bridges of Madison County.”
Fellow Yalie Jodie Foster is in the same league, as is Tommy Lee Jones - who was Vice President Al Gore’s roommate at Harvard.
Loose talk
“Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone, on who’s truly clueless (in Entertainment Weekly): “Women who are just concerned with their own beauty … I think there’s a million girls in the world way more beautiful than I. But I can carry a film.”
Suppose he still has time to give acting a try?
Sen. Alfonse d’Amato turns 58 today.
Or, in other words: Hasta la vista, Voici
The aforementioned Mr. Schwarzenegger has won undisclosed damages from the French magazine Voici, which identified him as a customer of “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss. Schwarzenegger said the money would be donated to the Special Olympics.
Maybe it’s time to give up the body work
A Sept. 7 hearing has been scheduled to determine whether auto repairman Joey Buttafuoco, who pleaded no contest to soliciting an undercover cop, violated his probation for the statutory rape of “Long Island Lolita” Amy Fisher and should serve the remaining 3-1/2 years of that prison term.
See, he doesn’t hold everyone in contempt
O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance Ito spent his weekend in New Franklin, Ohio, attending his wife’s elementary school reunion. “It’s nice to see he’s not arrogant,” one attendee said. “He’s just a nice guy.”
Like they say, if the glove fits, wear it
With the trial suddenly speeding along, lead O.J. lawyer Johnnie Cochran’s ex-wife, Barbara Berry, will release her tell-all book - titled “Life After Johnnie Cochran: Why I Left the Sweetest Talking, Most Successful Black Lawyer in L.A.” - on Aug. 18, not October, as originally scheduled.
Guess who’s the biggest boob in the bunch
Finally, judge for yourself whether former Simpson sidekick Brian “Kato” Kaelin has gone off the deep end (in GQ magazine): “Last week at a hotel in Detroit, I look up and see about 30 girls coming, fast. They jam me up against the elevator doors, lifting their shirts and asking me to sign their breasts.”
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