Better Fifi Trixabelle Than Too Late For Dinner
So much for tradition. These days, according to “Child” magazine, celebrity parents are opting for names that rival anything ever dreamed up in the 1960s. Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Leticia, for example, named their son Braison Chance.Woody Harrelson and his wife Laura call their daughter Denni Montana.
What do actor/director Spike Lee and his wife Tonya have in common with director/actor Woody Allen and his former love, actress Mia Farrow? Lee’s daughter is named Satchell, as is AllenFarrow’s son.
As for Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, their daughters are named Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle. Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli named their son Wolfgang and Boomtown Rats founder Bob Geldoff named his daughter Fifi Trixibelle.
Loose talk
Singer Annie Lennox on what she would want from an acting career: “My dream would be to be in a remake of ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’ Me in that fright wig. I’d love it!” Even Lou Gehrig is rooting for this durable bird
Cal Ripken Jr. turns 35 today.
There are a few snickers in the rock world over this
Upset at a publicity campaign for its scheduled Sept. 30 concert at HersheyPark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., rock group R.E.M., led by singer Michael Stipe, is suing the chocolate company. Their complaint? A contest refers to the forthcoming show as the “Kit Kat R.E.M. concert.”
Many men spent the best years of their lives there
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is NOT moving out of the Los Angeles Playboy mansion. Hefner, the father of two toddlers, calls the mansion “a wonderful place to grow up.” He admits buying another home but calls it “a hideaway for the family.”
Ask not what your girlfriend can do for you…
Here’s a Kennedy-watcher note: John F. Kennedy Jr., better known as John-John, has reportedly opened his New York loft to girlfriend Carolyn Bessette. She’s an executive for Calvin Klein who took up with Kennedy after his split last year with actress Daryl Hannah.
Better not forget that No. 15 sunblock
“NYPD Blue” co-star Gail O’Grady told Glamour magazine her fantasy day would entail “being on a deserted island with white beaches, clear blue water and a great basket of food - Godiva raspberry starfish, Starbucks coffee, shrimp cocktail. I’d swim, nosh, read something by Anne Rice and lie on the beach nude. Total isolation is the key: I wouldn’t want to have to worry about holding my stomach in.”
They were dissing you, Sandy, while you were sleeping
Sandra Bullock is torn on the celebrities-enjoy-prerogatives question. “Overindulgences occur when assistant directors feel they have to wait on me hand and foot,” she told Playboy magazine. “That makes me so neurotic. I can get my own water, bagel, cream cheese, whatever. On the other hand, having a masseuse on the set is not a bad thing.”
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