‘Ka-Ri, I’Ve Just Met 14 Girls Named Ka-Ri’

Mon., Dec. 11, 1995

Compiled By Staff Writer Rick Bo

In an interview, Michael Douglas once mentioned that as a teen-ager he met a lovely girl named Kari in Norway and had always wanted to see her again.

Kari replied. So did Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari, Kari and Kari. In all, 14 Norwegian women wrote to Douglas, each claiming to be the Kari he had a crush on 33 years ago.

“I guess I should have answered them, but I was just plain embarrassed,” Douglas told an Oslo newspaper.

Douglas went to Norway in 1962 with his father, Kirk Douglas, who was acting in the movie “Heroes of Telemark.”

“I was 18 years old and got to be in on everything and met a blond, beautiful girl named Kari and was really in love,” he said.

Loose talk

The caption on O.J. Simpson judge Lance Ito’s Christmas card: “Objection overruled, Mr. Cochran. White Christmas does not have racist overtones.”

So far as we know, Douglas hasn’t heard from them

Teamsters boss Ron Carey turns 60 and Sen. John Kerry 52 today.

After all, he’s no spring chicken … or is he?

Bob Hope, who canceled his annual NBC Christmas special for the first time in 45 years, will star in another special on the network this spring. “I had to sign with NBC,” the 92-year-old Hope said in a statement. “I don’t have the legs for a part on ‘Baywatch.”’

During his monologue, the bombing resumes

In a move reminiscent of Hope entertaining the troops during World War II, Jay Leno has agreed to host a Christmas show on Saturday at Aviano Air Base in Italy, a primary Air Force base for U.S. troops in the Bosnian peacekeeping mission.

We can certainly understand the fruity part

Inside Media magazine reports that Anna Nicole Smith has signed on as spokeswoman for a new fragrance, “Life,” which is targeted to “young, price-conscious customers” and will be sold at the Camelot Music store chain. It’s said to be a blend of fruity, woodsy scents, intended for unisex use.

Maybe pets do start to resemble their owners

The Marion, Mass., board of selectmen has issued a restraining order against two shar-peis belonging to talk host Geraldo Rivera, which attacked a golden retriever as it passed by his house. One clamped its jaws around the retriever’s neck, while the other went for its tail.

In other words, it’s sort of like a living won’t

Following media reports about Princess Diana’s secret late-night trips to the bedsides of dying London hospital patients, the satirical magazine Private Eye ran a “Di-No Card” that states: “I, the undersigned, wish to make it clear that in the event of any injury, mental break-down, life-threatening disease or other such personal tragedy I do not wish under any circumstances to be visited by the Princess of Wales.”

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