Pesky Photogs Better Not Mess With A ‘Desperado’
He wanted it, he courted it and he finally got it. But Antonio Banderas, the actor many people consider the world’s handsomest man, is finding it hard to deal with.
“It” being, of course, the fame that comes with being an international movie star.
Banderas, now starring in the film “Desperado,” took his current squeeze - Melanie Griffith - home to Spain to meet his family. And, he told the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot, “about 40 journalists followed me everywhere. They camped out in front of our house. When I went sailing, they rented a boat and came out too. I can’t really see the point of it. Do they think I will do something really important? Like jump from a building?”
They struck a deal: He asked for Tuesdays and Thursdays off, “And they agreed. Now, a couple of days a week, they do not follow me.”
Loose talk
Actress Halle Berry on her early career as a beautypageant entrant: “Pageants teach you to lose and not be devastated. It was great preparation for Hollywood.” He was friendly with all the president’s men
Ben Bradlee turns 74 today.
And through those Windows 95 we see - an Apple
According to computer writer David Colker, all this Windows 95 hype is purely that. “It used to be that if the performance of a Macintosh platform was that of a Ferrari, then Windows was barely a Yugo,” he wrote for the Los Angeles Times. “It’s moved up a bit now - maybe not all the way to the refinement of a high-performance vehicle, but at least to that of a dependable hatchback that can surprise you with the power it has on hills.
His most notable save, however, was his career
The 2-year-old girl was in trouble when the dog she held on a leash ran after a ball and pulled her into the surf off Malibu, Calif. Lucky for her “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff was doing a photo shoot nearby. He pulled her to safety. “The water wasn’t very deep,” the humble actor said, admitting that, in all, “I’ve saved about four lives.”
We’ll trade you three gallstones for one new spleen
Dr. Leonard Makowka, head of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s liver transplant program in L.A., noted that during Larry Hagman’s liver-transplant on Wednesday, gallstones were harvested - which he wants to give to New York artist Barton Benes for inclusion in a sculpture.
Perhaps the final chapter hasn’t yet been written
Hugh Grant’s date in Los Angeles, sometimes known as Divine Brown, reportedly rejected $300,000 to do a porno film. The ostensible reason? She wouldn’t submit to an AIDS test.
Then someone pulls their strings, and they begin to talk
So what preparations do former marrieds George Hamilton and Alana Stewart need for their new talk show? “It basically can’t be scripted,” Hamilton told USA Today. “She slaps on 500 pounds of makeup, they Armor All me, and we go onstage.”
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