Jim And His Wife Went From Nasty To Nastier
Now here’s the kind of year-end list we’d like to see more of. The Rosen Law Firm of Raleigh, N.C., has announced its best and worst celebrity divorces of 1995.
The worst: Jim Carrey and his ex, Melissa, whose apres-split sniping earned them the Broken Harp Award (following in the footsteps of Roseanne and Tom Arnold last year).
The best: Olivia Newton-John and Matt Lattanzi, who received the Olive Branch Award for “an example of a ‘good divorce’ because there was an absence of malice and a mutual concern for their child.” (Last year’s winners: Kevin and Cindy Costner.)
The Christie Brinkley-Ricky Taubman divorce was “The Big Surprise of 1995,” Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett were “No Surprise” and Elizabeth Taylor and Larry Fortensky got the “Give It Up for Good Award.”
Loose talk
Photographer Herb Ritts, on the marital split between Buddhist actor Richard Gere and supermodel Cindy Crawford: “He’s spiritual. Cindy gave it a try but she’s not into eating yak butter.”
On New Year’s Eve, he used to make Whoopi
Ted Danson turns 48 today.
To which Hank could only add: ‘Hey, now!’
Garry Shandling’s former live-in lover, Linda Doucett, filed a sexual discrimination and harassment suit against the comedian on Wednesday, saying she was fired from “The Larry Sanders Show” after she stopped sleeping with him. Shandling said he is “saddened by these false and outrageous charges.”
In those skimpy suits, it’s easy to get cold feet
“Baywatch” babe Yasmine Bleeth has backed out of her scheduled New Year’s wedding to Ricky Paull Goldin, who did the “Sleepless in Seattle” number earlier this year by offering her an engagement ring from a Cracker Jack box atop the Empire State Building.
Their marriage got off to a really rocky start
The 40-carat marquis diamond engagement ring that Aristotle Onassis gave the late Jackie Kennedy will go on Sotheby’s Manhattan auction block in late April. Because the quality isn’t that great, it’s expected to fetch a mere half-million or so.
Knowing her, it’s going to be quite a big binge
Still feeling sorry for poor Princess Diana because she spent Christmas Day alone in her apartment in front of the tube, like we told you yesterday? Well, cheer up; on Wednesday, traveling under a false name, Di was the last passenger to board an airplane headed for the sunny Caribbean island of Antigua.
But the way it looks, they haven’t got a prayer
Maybe the British tabloids could take a clue from their country’s clergy. Asked about the possibility of Diana and Prince Charles getting a divorce, as Queen Elizabeth II has urged, Lord Coggan, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, replied: “The less we talk and the more we pray, the better.”
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