Plain Things Do Occur As Mr. Bono Goes To D.C.
Sonny Bono, freshman Congressman from Palm Springs, Calif., is a decent after-dinner speaker. He spoke last week before the Press Club Foundation and charmed the audience with a menu of one-liners.
But the same act didn’t work during a recent work session. Washington Post reporter Lois Romano reports that after a long House Judiciary Committee debate over a crime ball, Bono stood up and said, “Boy, it’s been flying in this room like I can’t believe today. And now certainly everyone has demonstrated their ability in legal knowledge, and wouldn’t it be nice now if we vote on this thing and move on?”
Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, responded: “We’re making laws here, not sausages… We have to talk about the law. That is what we do. If that is too much legalese for the gentleman, so be it.”
Sharon Stone on keeping her private life just that (on “Entertainment Tonight”): “My new policy is this: I have a life of my own. Just a little, tiny one, but it’s mine.”
His next project is titled `Heaven’
James Michener turns 88 today.
She’d left her glass slippers at home
It is tough being a Brit-royal. Sporting a new do, Princess Diana took shots following a Council of Fashion Designers of America event in New York on Monday. “It looks like she has just got out of the shower,” said one observer. “We expected her to look more princessly.”
Actually, sleep was furthest from her mind
Anonymous critics are one thing. But Princess Diana (see above) continues to be a target of celebrity jibes, too. “Oh, please!” comedian Joan Rivers, failing to understand Diana’s hurt feelings, told the New Yorker. “The woman had money, fame, two great-looking kids, and a husband who didn’t want to sleep with her.”
Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud
House Majority Leader Dick Armey is still doing damage control after referring, inadvertantly he says, to Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, as “Barney Fag” in an interview last week. Responding to a New York Times editorial that labeled him a bigot, Armey, a Republican from Texas, wrote the Times to insist that “I would never use the kind of slur that I am being charged with.”
It would be even funnier if she said it nude
Our nomination for Most Clever Putdown of the Week: Writes Knight-Ridder writer Cheryl Levenbrown, “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus and Vladimir Zhirinovsky is from Planet Clueless.”
Gem-dealer goes after Marshall family jewels
Seems J. Howard Marshall, the 89-year-old rich guy who married widebody model Anna Nicole Smith, may not be as well-endowed as previously thought. He’s being sued by a Manhattan gem-seller because a $956,338.75 check that he wrote to purchase jewels for his wife ended up bouncing. Twice.
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